So here's my issue. I just bought a new laptop (Not specifically for Dolphin, but I did my research to make sure it could run Dolphin just fine [HP Pavilion DV7-4197CL])
I feel like my specs SHOULD be good enough to get full speed from most if not all of my games, at least at the lowest graphical settings. I've got a Quad core i7-720QM and an ATI Mobility Radeon HD 5650 graphics card, on Windows 7 64-bit. I feel like I've tried everything to get it to run faster: different builds, different configurations, shutting down all unnecessary processes while I play (including Windows Explorer), assigning Dolphin to the two completely unused cores, high priority in task manager, and the most I can get is 42ish FPS on Paper Mario ATTYD, and 25ish on Wind Waker. Roughly 80-85% from all the games I've played. So I have a few questions:
Why is everything running so slow? Is my set-up just not as good as I thought?
What else can I do to speed things up?
Is there any way to undervolt and overclock my laptop just enough to raise clock speed without raising the temperature more than 15F?
Any help is appreciated, thank you in advance
I feel like my specs SHOULD be good enough to get full speed from most if not all of my games, at least at the lowest graphical settings. I've got a Quad core i7-720QM and an ATI Mobility Radeon HD 5650 graphics card, on Windows 7 64-bit. I feel like I've tried everything to get it to run faster: different builds, different configurations, shutting down all unnecessary processes while I play (including Windows Explorer), assigning Dolphin to the two completely unused cores, high priority in task manager, and the most I can get is 42ish FPS on Paper Mario ATTYD, and 25ish on Wind Waker. Roughly 80-85% from all the games I've played. So I have a few questions:
Why is everything running so slow? Is my set-up just not as good as I thought?
What else can I do to speed things up?
Is there any way to undervolt and overclock my laptop just enough to raise clock speed without raising the temperature more than 15F?
Any help is appreciated, thank you in advance