Strange speed decrease

10-04-2011, 06:06 PM #1

Hi, everyone! I've got a weird problem here.
When I first start dolphin and entered this game: 'Fire Emblem: Path of Radiance', it runs great, at full speed. But after a while, especially atfer a fight scene, Dolphin just slows down to half speed. I tried many times and all turn out the same way. And I've also tried different games. Performence is similar. Then I tried change all those settings, nothing helped. So, I'm here and ask for your help.
My laptop is sony VAIO E: Intel i7 620M(2.67GHz), HD5650, 4G memory. Since it can run at full speed at the beginning, I don't think it's a hardware problem.
I'm not a native English speaker, so if I've made any mistakes above concerning the languange, sorry for that.

I've forgotten to add the version of dolphin I tried:
Dolphin 3.0 win64, Dolphin win64 r7719, Dolphin 3.0-139 dirty win64
And my operating system is windows 7 ultimate x86-64.

**dannzen** · (This post was last modified: 10-04-2011, 06:30 PM by dannzen.)

install realtemp or a cpu heat monitoring tool your chooise

@realtemp
1. install it and run it
2. did you see the status bar with "OK" on the bottom?
3. play dolphin if the slow down occurse watch at the status bar
if the status "OK" is gone and changed to sth "RED" ... your cpu just overheated and throttled down

10-04-2011, 06:55 PM #3

(10-04-2011, 06:29 PM)dannzen Wrote: install realtemp or a cpu heat monitoring tool your chooise

@realtemp
1. install it and run it
2. did you see the status bar with "OK" on the bottom?
3. play dolphin if the slow down occurse watch at the status bar
if the status "OK" is gone and changed to sth "RED" ... your cpu just overheated and throttled down

Thank you for your advice. I've tried it and it turns out sth else. Thanks anyway.

bogey_j · 10-11-2011, 09:04 AM #4

try speed hacks

10-12-2011, 01:19 AM #5

(10-11-2011, 09:04 AM)bogey_j Wrote: try speed hacks

I've tried...

**admin89** · 10-12-2011, 02:20 AM #6

Open that laptop and reapply thermal compound (arctic cooling, thermaltake ....)
Ask some tech guy you know to do it

**dannzen** · 10-12-2011, 05:22 AM #7

(10-12-2011, 01:19 AM)Werewolflsp Wrote:
(10-11-2011, 09:04 AM)bogey_j Wrote: try speed hacks

I've tried...

there are no SPEEDHACKS or working gamebooster

dont try it its snake oil

dEnigma · 10-13-2011, 05:57 AM #8

(10-12-2011, 05:22 AM)dannzen Wrote: there are no SPEEDHACKS or working gamebooster

dont try it its snake oil

I think he meant Dolphin's speed hacks

**dannzen** · 10-13-2011, 06:10 AM #9

(10-13-2011, 05:57 AM)dEnigma Wrote:
(10-12-2011, 05:22 AM)dannzen Wrote: there are no SPEEDHACKS or working gamebooster

dont try it its snake oil

I think he meant Dolphin's speed hacks

there are none...

10-13-2011, 06:09 PM **#10**

Thank you all. I've figured it out!
Simply because my laptop has some problem with its fan.
I opened it today and clean it from inside, and it works ok now!
Silly me!