Dolphin, the GameCube and Wii emulator - Forums

Hello,

I really could use some help, i've been browsing the forum for a while now to find a solution to the problem i've been having.

The game seems to run a bit slow. When i start the game it doesn't seem to have problems at all, but as soon as i continue to the next screen
it start to stutter and run slow. The audio doesnt play correctly and fps drops to 25/27, but stutters allot.
The most annoying thing about it is the stuttering of the sound.
But i think my computer should be able to run this more smoothly.

I've read that you need to remove the 3 lines in the config, and or chance to True, both didnt work, Audio is set to LLE whats seem to come up allot.
Frameskip 0. EFB Copies is set to Texture.

Like I just said, been looking the forum for a while and seen lots of idea's that might help someone else but all of it didn't work.

I'm starting to think i might have to chance some videocard/power settings. But i'm a newbie in that area.

Intel Core i7 @ 950 @ 3,07 Ghz, 4 Core, 8 Threads
DDR3 Kingston 6144MB
AMD Radeon HD 6800, 1024Mb GDDR5

If anymore information is needed to help me fix this problem, let me know.

I suppose you´re on a laptop?

(Serious)

Is TurboBoost and High Performance enabled?

That could help.

Also, if you´re not hitting full speed the sound will stutter.

No, it's a Desktop.

Turbo was allready enabled, high performace wassent but didnt help much.
Game runs between 50% 80% speed, and drops to 22/24 fps on certain points.

If you are willing to accept sound problems and rare freezes, you could bypass the DSP LLE requirement, letting you run it with DSP HLE.

Right click on the game, and click Properties. Look for "DSP HLE emulation (fast)". Make sure that is checked (not filled in). That should give you a nice performance boost. But again, it uses DSP LLE for a reason, so use at your own risk. Save often.

wow, thanks that seems to work.

Luckly I'm someone that saves allot anyway.

Been running around for a bit in the game but doesnt seem to have any sound issues atm, maybe later in the game.

But it does run very smoothly,

Tho if there is some other way that could fix this without these issues let me know!

(10-26-2013, 08:25 AM)Critalysm Wrote: [ -> ]Been running around for a bit in the game but doesnt seem to have any sound issues atm, maybe later in the game.

Without LLE you're more likely to get black screens and such

Been playing for 2.5 hours, and it froze when making a photo

No black screen so far tho.

Is this only with this game btw? or is my computer not powerfull enough to run the emulator smoothly?
Been playing emulators along time, but never got into gamecube before.

This game is not terribly demanding, but the i7 950 is a 1st gen "Core" and is not terribly powerful either. Use CPU-Z to verify your clock speed and something like CoreTemp to check your temps during gameplay. These processors are advanced enough to downclock and shutdown cores if temps get too high, which often goes unnoticed. Assuming that your temps are reasonable and the clock speed is actually 3 GHz, then you're just hitting the limits of this early-gen i7.

The one noticeable DSP-related issue that actually affects the sound itself in HLE is the magic meter sounds (and other sounds which I don't remember) playing back at way too high a pitch. That's not to say it's the only DSP HLE-induced issue in this game – you'll occasionally go through a door or something to find that the next room won't load and you're stuck at a black/white/whatever-color screen. If you want to avoid these hangs, you might want to look into overclocking that fancy CPU of yours so that you get full speed with LLE. I mean, it's forced on for a reason.

Also, don't use savestates in this game. They tend to corrupt your memory card save (!!) in certain situations, and they make the hanging problem worse.

And for the Picto Box thing, you need EFB to RAM for that to work properly.

I've never overclocked before and i have no idea how to do/handle it.
I also have no idea what this CPU can do, up to what Ghz that is.
what you mean by Fancy CPU and Forced on to it, Is it a good CPU to overclock?