wii audio

[jossc]

hi

when trying to play wii games, the audio plays very poor and lags the game into slow motion, I have tried using direct 3d and opengl, with openal and xaudio but still cant solve it. the only thing that helps is altering the wii cpu clock override and lowering to 76% but this still lags on a pretty good rig. the game was Mario kart wii.

I am using the latest release candidate.

windows 10 64 bit
2gb radeon r9 270x
fx 6300 six core cpu 3.7ghz
8gb ram

[JosJuice]

The audio lags because the game lags, not the other way around.

[jossc]

(09-08-2015, 06:59 AM)JosJuice Wrote: The audio lags because the game lags, not the other way around.

I'm sorry I don't follow

[JosJuice]

Game lag causes audio lag.

[jossc]

(09-08-2015, 07:10 AM)JosJuice Wrote: Game lag causes audio lag.

what could be causing the game lag?

[Shonumi]

(09-08-2015, 07:19 AM)jossc Wrote: what could be causing the game lag?

Your hardware. If a game is slowing down in Dolphin like that (creating audio issues) it's because your hardware isn't fast enough to keep pace with the emulator. Mario Kart Wii can be a fairly demanding game on the CPU and GPU.

However, you're using an old version of Dolphin. 4.0.2 was known to be really slow in comparison to the recent development builds. Dolphin as an emulator has gotten much faster, and now you should have little to no trouble running MK Wii. So in short, ditch 4.0.2, grab yourself one of these builds (like 4.0-7636).

[jossc]

(09-08-2015, 08:25 AM)Shonumi Wrote:

(09-08-2015, 07:19 AM)jossc Wrote: what could be causing the game lag?

Your hardware. If a game is slowing down in Dolphin like that (creating audio issues) it's because your hardware isn't fast enough to keep pace with the emulator. Mario Kart Wii can be a fairly demanding game on the CPU and GPU.

However, you're using an old version of Dolphin. 4.0.2 was known to be really slow in comparison to the recent development builds. Dolphin as an emulator has gotten much faster, and now you should have little to no trouble running MK Wii. So in short, ditch 4.0.2, grab yourself one of these builds (like 4.0-7636).

thanks for the reply, I thought my pc would have been more than powerful enough to play it lol

I have tried the latest dev builds too, it helps a little but doest fix it. the only thing that does help is by overriding the cpu and turning the MHz down which I cant understand.

[Shonumi]

Overriding the CPU clock in Dolphin essentially means you're asking Dolphin to artificially emulate less in the same amount of time (slowing down the emulated PowerPC-based CPU, in effect requiring your system to do less work, thereby helping your speed). Some games don't mind if the emulated CPU is a little slower, probably because they were programmed to make sure they had time to idle.

The only thing I would suggest to you at this point is to overclock your CPU. Something in the 4GHz range should help, though AMD FX CPUs aren't really known to be great performers with Dolphin (compared to other equivalent CPUs from Intel, that is).

[jossc]

my psu wont allow me to overclock to 4ghz the pc just shuts itself down and restarts

[Zee530]

I'm guessing a new PSU is not in your agenda then? it's a shame though, cause your CPU should overclock well and easy.