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[Kal1985]

I have trouble getting the speed of Dolphin to stay above 70%, can someone help please? I have uninstalled and reinstalled, so everything is at defaults.

Specs:

Windows 8.1 64 bit
AMD-4555M APU with Radeon HD Graphics 1.60 GHz
6.00 GB of RAM

[admin89]

Your processor is terrible for Dolphin . A8 5557M @ 3.1GHz lies at the bottom of Dolphin benchmark and your CPU is even slower than that

[Kal1985]

It's a quad core

[kinkinkijkin]

@admin98: What? I'm not seeing it there. Can you point out to me where it is?

Though, yes, that processor is terrible. Core count doesn't matter for dolphin once you get past two.

[Kal1985]

I am just using it 2 GC Harvest Moon games, nothing else, so bare minimum is fine, any advice at all? Keep in mind that I can't go out and buy another PC.

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The AMD A8-4555M is a mobile ultra-low-voltage (ULV) quad-core processor based on the Trinity architecture. Officially introduced in Q4 2012, it is the direct successor to the Llano A-series of APUs (Accelerated Processing Unit). The processing unit is manufactured in 32nm SOI and integrates a 1.6 GHz CPU (up to 2.4 GHz w/ Turbo Core) with a relatively fast Radeon HD 7600G GPU alongside a dual-channel memory controller, video de- and encoders and a northbridge.

[kinkinkijkin]

There's nothing you can do to raise your speed, other than overclocking. Considering that you have an AMD processor, you're lucky in that you have access to one method of overclocking. Unfortunately, since you're using a laptop, you don't even have access to that.

[Kal1985]

Theoretically, I should be able to pair off the cores that each core shares the workload, as if it were a dual core.

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If there is a way, I will find it.

[kinkinkijkin]

No, that's not how anything works, at all. I'll spare you my incoherent ramblings and let someone else explain it for you, though.

[admin89]

A mobile Llano processor can be overclocked with K10stat . Unfortunate , AMD has locked Trinity and newest APU
A ultra-low-voltage CPU is usually slow for Dolphin even if you had an ULV Core i5 . Ultra-low-voltage CPU performance is unstable , it will underclock itself to reduce the heat output

[NaturalViolence]

Theoretically, I should be able to pair off the cores that each core shares the workload, as if it were a dual core.
If there is a way, I will find it.

I think you have a fundamental misunderstanding of what a core is. I assume you're referring to splitting the workload of one thread between two cores without creating any new threads. By definition this cannot happen. It would undermine the most basic laws of computer science and logic.