WARNING Dual Monitor

10-02-2009, 08:18 PM #1

I made an account just in case anyone else is having the same problem:

Basically what happened is I tried for hours doing everything I possibly could to get Dolphin working and as my absolute last resort I disabled my second monitor and BLAM went from 4-9fps to max for any game.

Here are my specs in case anyone is wondering or has the same:
Processor: AMD Athlon 64 X2 6000+
Memory: 4GB
HDD: Western Digital 1TB 7200 RPM
Video: Geforce 9600 GT 512MB

Plugin: OpenGL

I was terribly frustrated and unable to find this quick solution anywhere else on the forum so I hope that at least one person will read this before they waste as much time as I did.

Perhaps this should be noted in the stickied posts that give advice on how to improve game speed.

**DacoTaco** · (This post was last modified: 10-03-2009, 12:38 AM by DacoTaco.)

use D3D or move dolphin to the other monitor. its a stupid bug with Nvidia afaik

**Diddy Kong** · 10-03-2009, 04:36 AM #3

(10-02-2009, 08:18 PM)Rax Wrote: Perhaps this should be noted in the stickied posts that give advice on how to improve game speed.

Personally that would have been one of the vary First of numerous options that come to mind, but if everyone is that oblivious then Mods Work Your Magic!!

10-03-2009, 08:58 AM #4

(10-03-2009, 04:36 AM)Diddy Kong Wrote:
(10-02-2009, 08:18 PM)Rax Wrote: Perhaps this should be noted in the stickied posts that give advice on how to improve game speed.

Personally that would have been one of the vary First of numerous options that come to mind, but if everyone is that oblivious then Mods Work Your Magic!!

This is the first game I've ever played that gave me such a problem, I am typically running multi (6) box WoW with dual monitor and maintain 30 fps on every box... so this is the only time I've ever had to actually disable second monitor.

@Daco: nah... tried that pretty early on and no improvement unfortunately, thanks though.

**THELUKESTIR** · 10-03-2009, 09:31 AM #5

known problem but no diddy i dont think this is one of the first things i would try when getting low fps