[UNOFFICIAL] SPEED BOOST TUT:

fiercedeity316 · (This post was last modified: 02-07-2015, 10:05 PM by fiercedeity316.)

Im sure many of you have heard of ways to speed up dolphin like closing extra tasks, or fiddling with your dolphin settings, and speed hacks. Also updating your drivers.( Update all drivers free with this: http://download.cnet.com/Driver-Booster-2/3000-18513_4-75992725.html no bull!#@$ this is free.) But today I am going to provide with you some ways you may have not tried yet.

STEP 1: Open start and click on computer. there you can see your hard drive. (:C) and how much space is being used. If its about 85% + full it can make your computer run slow. You could clear some space and maybe you can get a speed boost out of that.

STEP 2: Open up your computer while its turned off to see if the fans are dusty on your graphics card and cpu.(youtube your computer tower if you dont know how to open it) If so, you can take a Q tip and wipe the inside of your fans. Dust can get inside your cpus heat sink(that large metal square thing under the fan) as well so you can remove it carefully from the motherboard and blow on it. If you dont know how, you can look up a tutorial on youtube. I need to do this at least once a weak.

STEP 3: You have closed all extra tasks but its still laggy? what I need to do to fix this is simply unplugging the Ethernet cable, or disabling Wifi on your computer. that way your internet wont try to search for updates or anything that could take a little bit of your cpu away.

EDIT: STEP 4: open start menu and look for power options. un hide additional plans by clicking the arrow and choose high performance.
Hope this helps some people. Smile

**Anti-Ultimate** · 02-05-2015, 04:54 PM #2

(02-05-2015, 04:44 PM)fiercedeity316 Wrote: Im sure many of you have heard of ways to speed up dolphin like closing extra tasks, or fiddling with your dolphin settings, and speed hacks. Also updating your drivers. But today I am going to provide with you some ways you may have not tried yet.

STEP 1: Open start and click on computer. there you can see your hard drive. (:C) and how much space is being used. If its about 85% + full it can make your computer run slow. You could clear some space and maybe you can get a speed boost out of that.

STEP 2: Open up your computer while its turned off to see if the fans are dusty on your graphics card and cpu.(youtube your computer tower if you dont know how to open it) If so, you can take a Q tip and wipe the inside of your fans. Dust can get inside your cpus heat sink(that large metal square thing under the fan) as well so you can remove it carefully from the motherboard and blow on it. If you dont know how, you can look up a tutorial on youtube. I need to do this at least once a weak.

STEP 3: You have closed all extra tasks but its still laggy? what I need to do to fix this is simply unplugging the Ethernet cable, or disabling Wifi on your computer. that way your internet wont try to search for updates or anything that could take a little bit of your cpu away. This step is needed for me when for playing games like LOZ Twilight princess or Monster hunter Tri.

Hope this helps some people.

1: This should only affect loading times, but shouldn't affect general performance in any way.
2: Everyone should do this, it isn't really related to Dolphin.
3: If networking affects your FPS in ANY way, something is seriously wrong with your PC and it should see a doctor.

***Shonumi*** · 02-05-2015, 04:55 PM #3

Obligatory marking as unofficial...

**Anti-Ultimate** · 02-05-2015, 04:57 PM #4

Hold on, you need to clean your PC every week? I don't need to do that in half a year and my PC used to be on the carpet last week, until I put it onto my desk. Pfft, get some dust filters in there, it helps.

fiercedeity316 · 02-05-2015, 05:05 PM #5

(02-05-2015, 04:57 PM)Anti-Ultimate Wrote: Hold on, you need to clean your PC every week? I don't need to do that in half a year and my PC used to be on the carpet last week, until I put it onto my desk. Pfft, get some dust filters in there, it helps.

I have a dirty home lol.

fiercedeity316 · 02-05-2015, 05:09 PM #6

(02-05-2015, 04:54 PM)Anti-Ultimate Wrote:
(02-05-2015, 04:44 PM)fiercedeity316 Wrote: Im sure many of you have heard of ways to speed up dolphin like closing extra tasks, or fiddling with your dolphin settings, and speed hacks. Also updating your drivers. But today I am going to provide with you some ways you may have not tried yet.

STEP 1: Open start and click on computer. there you can see your hard drive. (:C) and how much space is being used. If its about 85% + full it can make your computer run slow. You could clear some space and maybe you can get a speed boost out of that.

STEP 2: Open up your computer while its turned off to see if the fans are dusty on your graphics card and cpu.(youtube your computer tower if you dont know how to open it) If so, you can take a Q tip and wipe the inside of your fans. Dust can get inside your cpus heat sink(that large metal square thing under the fan) as well so you can remove it carefully from the motherboard and blow on it. If you dont know how, you can look up a tutorial on youtube. I need to do this at least once a weak.

STEP 3: You have closed all extra tasks but its still laggy? what I need to do to fix this is simply unplugging the Ethernet cable, or disabling Wifi on your computer. that way your internet wont try to search for updates or anything that could take a little bit of your cpu away. This step is needed for me when for playing games like LOZ Twilight princess or Monster hunter Tri.

Hope this helps some people.
1: This should only affect loading times, but shouldn't affect general performance in any way.
2: Everyone should do this, it isn't really related to Dolphin.
3: If networking affects your FPS in ANY way, something is seriously wrong with your PC and it should see a doctor.

2: Its still a good thing to suggest
3: having internet lets your computer check for updates which uses your cpu.

***Shonumi*** · 02-05-2015, 05:20 PM #7

Generally though, you can manually disable auto-updates via settings on most OSes. Disconnecting yourself from the internet is the nuclear option. And on systems with more than two cores, Dolphin should be able to run fine while updates are being processed in most cases.

kirbypuff · (This post was last modified: 02-06-2015, 03:19 AM by kirbypuff.)

Here's a better guide that will boost your speed a lot:

1. Overclock that Regor CPU to 4.0+ GHz.
2. Reboot your PC (~5% speed boost if your 'Free RAM' is low in the Task Manager)
3. Follow the instructions in the AMD/ATI GPU Performance Guide. Some of the tips and tricks are useful even if you have an NVIDIA/Intel GPU.
4. Use Dolphin-Ishiiruka

themanuel · 02-06-2015, 03:31 AM #9

(02-06-2015, 03:03 AM)kirbypuff Wrote: 4. Use Dolphin-Ishiiruka

I've tried that build twice over the past few months and only see slowdowns. I have an Intel CPU and AMD GPU and tried both D3D and OGL and the async shader hack but everything I tried was just slower than the latest official builds.

kirbypuff · (This post was last modified: 02-06-2015, 03:40 AM by kirbypuff.)

(02-06-2015, 03:31 AM)themanuel Wrote: I've tried that build twice over the past few months and only see slowdowns. I have an Intel CPU and AMD GPU and tried both D3D and OGL and the async shader hack but everything I tried was just slower than the latest official builds.

Just wait for the next release [> v250]
More merges from master + fast texture cache will finally close that performance gap and make it faster than dev/master.