What is stopping Dolphin from running at full speeds?

02-15-2014, 11:54 PM #1

Hi, i'd like to know what is stopping Dolphin from running at full speeds? Do we not have enough power in mobile cpu's or is it something else? Thanks in advance!

**DJBarry004** · (This post was last modified: 02-16-2014, 12:17 AM by DJBarry004.)

1- Dolphin for Android is still not pretty stable.

2- Yes, most phones and tablets lacks of enough processing power to run the emulator afaik (as you pointed).

**ExtremeDude2** · 02-16-2014, 12:14 AM #3

Its mostly the GPU that are holding it back afaik

**pauldacheez** · 02-16-2014, 01:02 AM #4

It's mostly the GPU *drivers*, actually. The CPU and GPU are definitely holding things back too, but the ludicrous amounts of driver overhead and general incompetence and brokenness within the drivers is just as much of a problem as the hardware.

**neobrain** · (This post was last modified: 02-16-2014, 01:22 AM by neobrain.)

(02-16-2014, 01:02 AM)pauldacheez Wrote: It's mostly the GPU *drivers*, actually. The CPU and GPU are definitely holding things back too, but the ludicrous amounts of driver overhead and general incompetence and brokenness within the drivers is just as much of a problem as the hardware.

Funnily enough, I haven't ever really felt hold back by GPU drivers, so speak for yourself, please. Just because drivers don't optimize every stupid application behavior doesn't mean it's actually their fault.