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NapalmFlare

Here are my specs if that helps:

Windows 7 Home Premium
AMD Athlon II X4 645 ~3.1 GHz
8.00 GB Dual-Channel DDR3
1 TB HDD
ATI Radeon HD 4200


Weird thing is that I can run skyrim fine but I struggle with full speed in wind waker and in some parts in paper mario ttyd when there are lots of enemies/sprites on screen(as low as 30% speed)
No. Your hardware is crap. Don't compare PC gaming to emulation.

I'm surprised that you can run skyrim at all with an HD4200 integrated GPU, considered that's wwaaayyy below the minimum requirements for the game.

NapalmFlare

Don't you mean recommended? Pretty sure I'm above the minimum for skyrim.
The only "true" way running Dolphin faster as I see it is upgrading the hardware.
Besides that there isn't any major shortcuts to gaining speed I'm afraid.
Quote:Don't you mean recommended? Pretty sure I'm above the minimum for skyrim.

Not even close. Straight from bethesda:

Quote:Minimum Specs

Windows 7/Vista/XP PC (32 or 64 bit)
Processor: Dual Core 2.0GHz or equivalent processor
2GB System RAM
6GB free HDD Space
Direct X 9.0c compliant video card with 512 MB of RAM
DirectX compatible sound card
Internet access for Steam activation

Recommended Specs

Windows 7/Vista/XP PC (32 or 64 bit)
Processor: Quad-core Intel or AMD CPU
4GB System RAM
6GB free HDD space
DirectX 9.0c compatible NVIDIA or AMD ATI video card with 1GB of RAM (Nvidia GeForce GTX 260 or higher; ATI Radeon 4890 or higher).
DirectX compatible sound card
Internet access for Steam activation

You have an integrated GPU with 128MB of sideport memory. The recommended graphics cards are over 20 times as powerful as yours.

NapalmFlare

Weird. DxDiag says I have 2940 MB.
(11-29-2011, 06:02 AM)NapalmFlare Wrote: [ -> ]Weird. DxDiag says I have 2940 MB.

Don't listen to DxDiag.It probably adds the shared memory along with the actual VRAM.