(10-09-2012, 11:50 AM)Axxer Wrote: [ -> ]If Realtemp is to be believed, your CPU isn't leaving idle state (it is running at .9 GHz instead of the standard 2.4). The temps aren't quite high enough for it to be a throttling issue either, so there may be a solution somewhere.
Considering he has those temps while in idle that may be the problem, I don't see why his temps would be so high while idling
(10-09-2012, 10:05 PM)ExtremeDude2 Wrote: [ -> ] (10-09-2012, 11:50 AM)Axxer Wrote: [ -> ]If Realtemp is to be believed, your CPU isn't leaving idle state (it is running at .9 GHz instead of the standard 2.4). The temps aren't quite high enough for it to be a throttling issue either, so there may be a solution somewhere.
Considering he has those temps while in idle that may be the problem, I don't see why his temps would be so high while idling
That could be. I'm not entirely familiar with the way in which thermal throttling works (when it works basically). It didn't overheat at any time during his use of Dolphin, so it definitely wasn't a thermal cap throttling thing.
@OP is power saving mode on? Try high performance (or balanced if that isn't available).
OK, I went int my control panel>Hardware>Power Options>Advanced Power Options and turned my minimum processor state to 100% for high performance. It has caused my laptop to run rather warm, but has resulted in 98-100%speeds on the menus and 90-100% performance in actual gameplay, which is great. It also fixed the low processing power problem Axxer noticed.
Well, nearly. I have taken two contrasting screenshots. As you can see the processor still dips to how it was for no apparent reason and the game drops again to 40%speed. So now I'll get maybe ten seconds of full speed and then 20 seconds of slow speeds with nothing in between.
Since I've ramped the minimum processor right up, surely this shouldn't happen? I'm confused...
EDIT: I don't know if it's of any use, but I have run Project64 emulator before and such before and have had no problems whatsoever. I know Dolphin is harder to run though.
Now your CPU is overheating, which will inevitably slow it down. That can't be fixed (without modding the computer).
Ah I see. Didn't really give that much thought... although now I think about it, makes sense.
Ah well, I'll try and find a happy medium somehow. Thanks to everybody who replied to this thread
Appreciate the help.
If I can just ask one more question... if I upgrade my system in the future, what specs am I looking at to run Dolphin at a high speed consistently?
Look at Axxer's signature, that hardware will do fine.