Running harvest moon AWL

[supermanbadger]

Hey guys, i just started using dolphin and i have harvest moon running at around 30 fps during the entire intro and first part of the day. However i have noticed that when it starts to render the lights in the city, (between 7:00 pm and like 8:00 am game time) it drops all the way to around 10 fps and i find the game incredibly infuriating to play. I have been looking around for solutions but i cant seem to find one that fits my exact problem. Any help would be appreciated, and (yes i have the dolphin settings at the ones it specifies on the site.) These are my specs (copied from canurunit for far cry 3)

CPUMinimum: Intel Core2 Duo E6700/AMD Athlon64 X2 6000+You Have: AMD A10-4600M APU with Radeon™ HD Graphics

CPU SpeedMinimum: InfoYou Have: 2.3 GHz

RAMMinimum: 2 GBYou Have: 5.6 GB

Video CardMinimum: Nvidia GTX 8800/AMD Radeon HD 2900 or equivalent 512MB DirectX 9c cardYou Have: AMD Radeon HD 7660G
Features: Minimum attributes of your Video CardRequiredYou HavePixel Shader version3.05.0Vertex Shader version3.05.0Dedicated Video RAM512 MB512 MB


Sound CardMinimum: YesYou Have: AMD High Definition Audio Device (If this is too messy PM me and ill edit it)

[Shonumi]

Please post questions about specific games in the appropriate thread in Game Discussion. You can find the thread here: http://forums.dolphin-emu.org/Thread-gc-harvest-moon-a-wonderful-life--26644

This is a known issue, the wiki details how the FPS will drop at night time. You'll probably need to get a better computer if you want to get acceptable speeds. Your CPU is not going to go very far in Dolphin for a lot of games.

[pauldacheez]

Try a build of the Hashless branch, I hear it fixes this particular issue. http://dolphin-emu.org/download/branches/

Your mileage may vary when using Hashless with other games; it can either cause speedups, slowdowns, ridiculously massive slowdowns, or graphical glitches. A notable point of improvement is New Super Mario Bros. Wii when using EFB to RAM - the game went from 5-10% to... well, I forget, but a lot more than that.

[noah]

Try knocking down the resolution at daylight change.