Tips and Tricks for Speedups (D3D9 users welcome!) [UNOFFICIAL + NOT RECOMMENDED]

[kinkinkijkin]

There's a thread about it somewhere on the forums, I think it's either in site development or whatever that section is called.

EDIT: Actually, here.

[TheMLGProGamer123]

Gee, I'm really sorry guys. I posted the unofficial link for Dolphin. I never knew that that site was run by a jerk named mamario. I apologize. I will fix this as soon as possible.

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These tips may help. MAY help. It won't help 100%. This guide still remains unofficial and not recommended. Leave it that way. In fact, close this thread if necessary.

[tuanming]

First of all, I'm not trying to disrespect your guide but let me add my 2 cents.

So exactly how much fps was gained or can be gain by doing this? Intel's iGPU sucks at any kind of emulations and no matter how hard you try to make it faster with the booster, it still won't be as good as a "decent" discrete GPU.

1. "use older version...". Bad idea. There's a good reason why it was dropped. Really, the only reason(s) why anyone would want to use an older is if they're desperate, don't have the money to do a proper upgrade, and clueless.
2. "GMA Booster". You can only make a turtle run so fast...
3. "Gamebooster". I think that's a gimmick because it's that hardware that drives the emulator performance!
4. "Run as Admin" Doubtful. Got proof?
5. "kill Explorer.exe" If anyone have to resort to this kind of methodology then you must accept the fact that you have a crappy computer....
6. "Update graphics driver". This is a logically thing to do even if people don't use an emulator. But don't think it will be leap and bound with a driver update. A crappy computer will always be a crappy computer. Period.
7. "Empty temp folder". Re-read the last sentence on #5 and #6.
8. "Defrag your HDD". Re-read the last sentence on #5 and #6.

Trust me, I used come from a Pentium 4 setup then moved on to Core 2 Duo, Core 2 Quad (QX9770), and currently Haswell setup. Each upgrade iteration was well worth it! Upgrading to Haswell is the best thing I did since Haswell's CPUs are 30 percents faster than Sandy Bridge or Ivy Bridge CPUs. That's an extra bonus I'd say!

[TheMLGProGamer123]

Ya, I know, I was kind of rushing through the guide. After this I realized this guide would NOT help with Dolphin since it's an emulator. A demanding one at that. However I swear administrator helped when using 3.5. Setting Dolphin to high priority wouldn't help because it maxed out both of my cores. I'll try to send some proof of admin technique working. Thanks for the criticism. After looking at this guide, it was baloney.

[NaturalViolence]

4, 7, and 8 literally could not possibly impact dolphins performance at all. It's technically impossible.

6 could give a noticable speedup in some instances but it's something that everyone should already be doing anyways (and these days is mostly automated).

3 and 5 MIGHT have a measurable speedup (1-2%) but nothing that could be noticeable in any way unless your computer is VERY slow. So slow that it could never possibly run dolphin at tolerable speeds anyways.

2 is just a program that overclocks the IGP. But it only works with extremely old IGPs that are not supported by dolphin at all anyways.

And 1, well yeah that could produce a speedup. But at the cost of dealing with more issues/bugs. This is really the only semi-reasonably suggestion here other than maybe updating drivers.