Hello there(first post so hi!), im trying to make dolphin to work but games seems to be running really slowly, even at 25 FPS (which is also really bad).
Currently testing with the game D.O.N. FPS at menus is 60, but in game while fighting it goes down to 25-26 FPS and the game runs in slow motion making it unplayable.
My computer is a HP notebook, with the following specs:
HP pavilion dv6 3050us:
CPU: Amd phenom II 2.0ghz N930 quad core.
RAM: 4GB
Video: Ati mobility radeon HD 5650 1GB
Windows 7 64 bits.
I have seen videos of people running this emulator very smoothly, what am i doing wrong? The computer is not good enough? Friends with a 9800 nvdia and an athlon 64 runs it better than me =/
Also i have tried it on my old desktop computer, which has a Q8200 and Ati radeon HD3450 video card(which is a horrible one, 64 bits and 512mb of memory i cant run nearly any game with it), yet the same game runs with 10 more FPS in that one.
Your cpu is way too weak to run most games well with dolphin.
Quote:Also i have tried it on my old desktop computer, which has a Q8200 and Ati radeon HD3450 video card(which is a horrible one, 64 bits and 512mb of memory i cant run nearly any game with it), yet the same game runs with 10 more FPS in that one.
That system has a much better cpu than your laptop.
How can the CPU be worse, even windows evaluation is higher. It makes me sad that this notebook can run BF3 nearly maxed out but it cant run a simple emulator, the other computer dies with modern warfare 1 at 800x600....
So, nothing can be done about the CPU being the bottle neck? I have checked with the task manager and cpu usage gets stuck at 75% ( thats 3 cores at 100%) why doesn't it take the remaining core?
(01-24-2012, 01:54 PM)hharry Wrote: [ -> ]How can the CPU be worse, even windows evaluation is higher. It makes me sad that this notebook can run BF3 nearly maxed out but it cant run a simple emulator, the other computer dies with modern warfare 1 at 800x600....
So, nothing can be done about the CPU being the bottle neck? I have checked with the task manager and cpu usage gets stuck at 75% ( thats 3 cores at 100%) why doesn't it take the remaining core?
Dolphin only uses 2 cores. Overclock if you can, just make sure you have decent cooling and watch the temperature.
Also, running PC games on a PC is obviously going to be easier for the system to run than a GC/Wii game which were NOT intended to be play on the PC.
Quote:PC games : GPU
Dolphin : CPU
He's not going to be able to figure out what that means. Elaborate a bit more next time.
What he means to say is that framerate in PC games is more heavily influenced by GPU performance since the GPU is usually the bottleneck. But in emulators framerate is usually more heavily influenced by CPU performance since the CPU is usually the bottleneck.
Quote:So, nothing can be done about the CPU being the bottle neck? I have checked with the task manager and cpu usage gets stuck at 75% ( thats 3 cores at 100%) why doesn't it take the remaining core?
It should not be using three cores unless you are using LLE audio with LLE on thread (which is very slow). Please post your settings.
(01-25-2012, 09:52 AM)NaturalViolence Wrote: [ -> ]Quote:So ya cpu being bottleneck, any way to use it use 100% of the CPU?
No.
NaturalViolence Wrote:He's not going to be able to figure out what that means. Elaborate a bit more next time.
No. Dolphin NEEDs "PURE" CPU POWER a BEAST of a CPU with min 135 TDP...
not your 10 TDP notebook system
"i know... he won't get it..."
Quote:No. Dolphin NEEDs "PURE" CPU POWER a BEAST of a CPU
That's true
Quote:with min 135 TDP...
not your 10 TDP notebook system
This is so wrong in many way . You know ivy bridge will have much lower TDP
To @hharry
You need i5/i7 that can turbo up to 3.0ghz (without overheating)