[Zelda Skyward Sword] Worse performance on newest Dolphin ver. than older ver.

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(11-06-2021, 11:38 AM)Asaftas Ardem Wrote: On the GPU issue, I understand. But the point itself is not about that, but about the difference in performance between both versions of Dolphin that I have used - and, of course, on the same hardware.

A buggy GPU driver definitely can bring performance down, especially when lacking features current Dolphin builds takes advantage of. For reference, I used to have a similar laptop than yours (Core i7-3630QM), but it also had a GeForce GT 650M. When running Dolphin with just the iGPU (same Intel HD 4000 as yours), performance in most games were bad and I also had similar graphical glitches, by switching to the NVIDIA GPU all bugs vanished and performance actually surpassed old versions by a noticeable margin, despite the CPU being very old at this point.

So, yeah. You can use any Dolphin version you want, however we only provide support for the latest stable release (currently 5.0) or newer. If you decide to stick with unsupported versions, you're on your own with any issues you encounter...