Question about whether my laptop can run Dolphin/Games

[bluemoon]

Hi! So at this point in time I have Dolphin 4.0.2, and have already tried to run Twilight Princess. Frames were alright, averaging between 30-40, but the speed was hovering around 50% and downwards. I (stupidly) tinkered around with the settings and ended up making it run much much worse, and ended up uninstalling and reinstalling Dolphin to reset the settings. I now have default settings.

My question is; is there any way I will be able to make my laptop run twilight princess(GC version), skyward sword, and wind waker at at 80%->90%+ speed? (would be satisfied with 70%)

Graphic quality doesn't mean a whole lot to me, I'd just love to play the games. TP is the top priority, the other two I can live without playing. I'm desperately hoping there are some magical setting changes I can make to make everything work nicely.

My computer specs are:

Processor: A6-6310 APU, 1.80 GHz

RAM: 8.00GB, with 6.95GB usable

System type: x64 bit operating system and a x64 based processor

Graphics card: AMD Radeon R4 Graphics

OS: Windows 8

On a side note, if it is at all useful, upon starting up twilight princess, I get some yellow text saying that various settings from the emulator/game preferences (not sure) have been overridden by the game's ini, while I have no knowledge of how everything works, I believe that this may be the cause of my sub-par performance as one of the preferences which it stated was overridden was the speed hack for Zelda.

Also for what it's worth, I played TP up until entering Ordon (?) village with the horse and had the slow speed, so I'm not sure if the speed could be expected to get better/worse/not change.

Thanks in advance for anyone who can lend a hand!

[JosJuice]

4.0.2 is old, so it doesn't have any of the recent speed improvements. Update to the latest development version, enable the Hyrule Field Speed Hack in the game properties, and use DSP HLE if you aren't already.

(11-15-2015, 10:05 PM)bluemoon Wrote: On a side note, if it is at all useful, upon starting up twilight princess, I get some yellow text saying that various settings from the emulator/game preferences (not sure) have been overridden by the game's ini, while I have no knowledge of how everything works, I believe that this may be the cause of my sub-par performance as one of the preferences which it stated was overridden was the speed hack for Zelda.

No, the override makes sure that the speed hack is enabled.

[bluemoon]

(11-15-2015, 10:38 PM)JosJuice Wrote: 4.0.2 is old, so it doesn't have any of the recent speed improvements. Update to the latest development version, enable the Hyrule Field Speed Hack in the game properties, and use DSP HLE if you aren't already.

(11-15-2015, 10:05 PM)bluemoon Wrote: On a side note, if it is at all useful, upon starting up twilight princess, I get some yellow text saying that various settings from the emulator/game preferences (not sure) have been overridden by the game's ini, while I have no knowledge of how everything works, I believe that this may be the cause of my sub-par performance as one of the preferences which it stated was overridden was the speed hack for Zelda.

No, the override makes sure that the speed hack is enabled.

Thanks for the reply! Should this allow me to run the mentioned games at a good speed? And is there anything else I need to do? I really want to get this right

[Helios]

not much will help you there besides running the latest dev release. Your AMD CPU is low end, slow clock speeds, and an AMD CPU, meaning it has lousy IPC, which Dolphin cares about for emulation speed at stock settings.

I really doubt you'll run ZTP well even with the Hyrule speed hack enabled in AR codes. Skyward Sword, also no. Wind Waker... Maybe.

Also, you really won't be satisfied with anything less than 100% speed because we don't have timestretched audio in the official builds, meaning that if you go below 100%, it will VERY noticeably stutter and be miserable to play.

You can try the Ishiiruka build of dolphin which does have timestretched audio for sub 100% emulation speed, but I doubt it'll help your weak hardware much. Also, we won't support it, any questions you have will have to be directed to the Ishiiruka thread.

[bluemoon]

(11-16-2015, 04:41 AM)helios747 Wrote: not much will help you there besides running the latest dev release. Your AMD CPU is low end, slow clock speeds, and an AMD CPU, meaning it has lousy IPC, which Dolphin cares about for emulation speed at stock settings.

I really doubt you'll run ZTP well even with the Hyrule speed hack enabled in AR codes. Skyward Sword, also no. Wind Waker... Maybe.

Also, you really won't be satisfied with anything less than 100% speed because we don't have timestretched audio in the official builds, meaning that if you go below 100%, it will VERY noticeably stutter and be miserable to play.

You can try the Ishiiruka build of dolphin which does have timestretched audio for sub 100% emulation speed, but I doubt it'll help your weak hardware much. Also, we won't support it, any questions you have will have to be directed to the Ishiiruka thread.

strange... I'm getting 100% speed at the moment

[piccolo289]

(11-16-2015, 08:22 AM)bluemoon Wrote:

(11-16-2015, 04:41 AM)helios747 Wrote: not much will help you there besides running the latest dev release. Your AMD CPU is low end, slow clock speeds, and an AMD CPU, meaning it has lousy IPC, which Dolphin cares about for emulation speed at stock settings.

I really doubt you'll run ZTP well even with the Hyrule speed hack enabled in AR codes. Skyward Sword, also no. Wind Waker... Maybe.

Also, you really won't be satisfied with anything less than 100% speed because we don't have timestretched audio in the official builds, meaning that if you go below 100%, it will VERY noticeably stutter and be miserable to play.

You can try the Ishiiruka build of dolphin which does have timestretched audio for sub 100% emulation speed, but I doubt it'll help your weak hardware much. Also, we won't support it, any questions you have will have to be directed to the Ishiiruka thread.

strange... I'm getting 100% speed at the moment

Not rekt [ ] Rekt [X]

[Helios]

They won't be getting 100% for long. ZTP gets more demanding.