What is the problem here? Struggling to consistently run Twilight princess.

[tymann23]

Title says it all. Yea, I do have a lower end system, but still I thought I'd be able to run games like maybe Wind Waker and Twilight princess. So is it my specs? (specs are in sig I believe) Sorry, I'm not that savvy with this kind of stuff. I've tried to do as much research as possible and it doesn't seem that I can find a direct answer without posting my own question.

So far what I've gotten, is that you could have a quad core clocking out at over 3ghz and Dolphin could run horribly. And you could have a dual core around the same clock rate, but it'd run ten times better.

I understand that PC games and emulators are not the same, but given the fact I've been able to run Fallout 3 on medium settings at a consistent 35FPS, that I'd be able to ATLEAST run most earlier GC games. I'm really not all that interested in running Wii games, it's just my GC broke and I never got around to playing ZTP, so I really wanted to play it. And figured this would be a good idea.

Basically what happens is, I'll start out at about 34FPS when I first start running around and stuff, and it's running smooth. Then after about 10 minutes, frames just start plummeting. Now, in the start menus and other menu areas I get a full 60FPS and when I'm indoors (even with people and alot of things going on in the background) FPS jumps up. Basically the problem is I can't find a happy medium at all. I'm not looking for supreme quality graphics with 60FPS, just want to play at an at least somewhat consistent 25-30FPS. I it possible? Sorry to be a bother, I just need some help. As of right now my configuration on Dolphin looks EXACTLY like this video describes. http://youtu.be/Si03H2AlDfE (sorry don't know how to make screen shots.) Thanks in advance guys.

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Nevermind, my specs AREN'T in my signature, they're on my profile, my apologies.

[admin89]

http://forums.dolphin-emu.org/showthread.php?tid=18414
The minimum requirement in Nvidia 9000 series is Nvidia 9400GT . Your GPU is too weak for dolphin
Athlon CPU won't cut it . Either overclock that CPU or upgrade to Phenom II 965

[Zee530]

Yeah, i'm afraid your CPU wont cut it, also ZTP is a 30fps game so 60fps is actually 200% speed

[tymann23]

Too weak? That's funny considering I'm able to run Super Mario Sunshine at a steady 30FPS, along with Wind Waker. Are these guaranteed official requirements? OR, just estimations? From what it seems they're rough guesstimates.

At any rate, TP is still behaving erratically. Yet, Windwaker and SMS run consistently, and smoothly. So I'm beginning to think it's not spec related at all considering Wind Waker is a pretty demanding game, along with SMS. Also, while I was searching for help on this topic, I could of sworn I came across a thread with a guy who needed help with connecting his ps3 controller to Dolphin, and he had the EXACT specs as I, and he seemed to be having no problems running the emulator.

Also, don't know how much this means, if it means anything but in the middle of running Dolphin I opened task manager, and it said only 47% of my CPU was being used, so it's not like CPU is choking itself to death to run this emulator. I'm going to use a different copy of TP and see if that works. At first I thought my specs were to blame, but after seeing SMS and WW run very smoothly at all times (tons of NPC's on screen, swimming, fighting etc) leads me to believe, it's either TP itself or Dolphin, or both.

[Zee530]

An AMD Athlon is weak for more demanding games in dolphin, windwaker and SMS are considered easy games to emulate, twilight princess is not, upgrade to a phenom or get an intel sandybridge/ivybridge + mobo for better results

[rpglord]

I am not even sure if the problem is your cpu because your gpu is horible. For 30$ you can get video card which will be a lot faster for example
http://www.ebay.com/itm/ZOTAC-ZT-96TES3P-FDL-GeForce-9600-GT-512MB-128-bit-GDDR3-PCI-Express-2-0-x16-NEW-/170775601219?pt=PCC_Video_TV_Cards&hash=item27c304e043
So why don't you do that first and then try to play zelda again. You will also get a huge boost in pc games

[shiblum]

I think it's an optimization problem with the emulator and I have the athon II x2 250 3.0 and is equal in hyrule field after leaving the goron mine my fps drop to 20 fps and it's not because I have a bad graphic because i have a hd 5770 is not the maximum but I can play at 1080p and in high crisys up.
I'm thinking about buying a phenom but not the emulator that would be an added value,
I am not a programmer or anything like that and do not know if it is difficult but is time dolphin begins to use more the vga and advantages of OpenCL in the computation are, god wants that already working in a version for emuador in gpcpu since a ridiculous game of GC can not be demanding both a CPU

[Starscream]

5th post. http://forums.dolphin-emu.org/showthread.php?tid=18377

Read it.

[shiblum]

I know that and therefore I said that is an optimization problem, I understand that an emulator is different, it was the same with Project64 after several years was that better as much as you can use Pentium III
I say that the combined use of both resources both gpu to cpu as it is called gpcpu the following standard (as they say)
since two heads work better than 1

[NaturalViolence]

Quote:I am not a programmer or anything like that

Quote:but is time dolphin begins to use more the vga and advantages of OpenCL in the computation are, god wants that already working in a version for emuador in gpcpu since a ridiculous game of GC can not be demanding both a CPU

Quote:I know that and therefore I said that is an optimization problem, I understand that an emulator is different, it was the same with Project64 after several years was that better as much as you can use Pentium III
I say that the combined use of both resources both gpu to cpu as it is called gpcpu the following standard (as they say)
since two heads work better than 1

Oh god another one of these people. Your sentences are barely readable, your assumptions are false, and your complete lack of gpgpu understanding is astounding.