Dolphin, the GameCube and Wii emulator - Forums

Hello!

I've been using Dolphin since 2009, but lately I am having all of sorts of problems trying to adjust the right settings to ensure max perfomance.

Mainly, I have problems with the audio lagging and shuttering all the time.

I searched for somebody with my kind of problems and found the Xenoblade hacked client 3.0-72. It did miracles. I was able to play Twilight Princess for both GC and Wii without so much as a shutter in the audio, Mario Galaxy with about 20-30 fps and also Xenoblade was running just fine.

Also I discovered that the newer versions of Dolphin support different audio "system" that required the game to be able to run in full speed, which I can't with the newer revisions, but with the old one I do (Twilight Princess run 50-60 fps in the old one and in the new one drops to 20-30 fps).

My question is with my CPU specs right here:

Operating System: Windows 7 x64
Processor/CPU: AMD A4-6300
Video Card/GPU: Nvidia GeForce GT 440
Memory/RAM: 6 GB

how can I bypass this audio problem in the latest revision, so that I can play "Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets", for example, that I can't run in Dolphin 3.0-72, but I can on the newer versions of Dolphin? Is there some custom made revision for audio? And if it's not too much trouble, can somebody reccomend me any options to ensure max perfomance? Last, but not least - what is the final version of Dolphin before it switched to the newer sound system? (DSP LLE)

Thank you so much in advance!

P.S. I have tried with just about changing all of the settings - still it doesn't seem to be doing anything - DSP LLE to DSP HLE, the settings, when you right-click on the icon of the game in Dolphin, the graphic settings and so on. It's just puzzling to me that an older version can do what a newer one can't. I have also tried a various revisions.

Your CPU is too slow, you'd need a new one to play without stutters.

(05-09-2015, 04:07 AM)dokyto Wrote: [ -> ]how can I bypass this audio problem in the latest revision

You can't.

(05-09-2015, 04:07 AM)dokyto Wrote: [ -> ]Is there some custom made revision for audio?

No.

You can't make the audio stretch again. That's what you are asking, right? It was made this way, because it fixes lots of issues, including game crashes.

If the really old verion ran at almost full speed, with stretched audio, the new versions should be able to run at full speed. A lot of work has been done to make Dolphin run faster, but it won't do miracles. Your cpu is really low end.

Have you tried OpenAL audio backend? Sound will not stutter but will be slowed down if your FPS drops...

(05-09-2015, 04:42 AM)mimimi Wrote: [ -> ]If the really old verion ran at almost full speed, with stretched audio, the new versions should be able to run at full speed. A lot of work has been done to make Dolphin run faster, but it won't do miracles. Your cpu is really low end.

This is what I am saying - sure it's low end processor, but if it can run Twilight Princess with 50-60 fps, when I have set it to 3x native resolution, 1920x1080 and anisotropic filtering to 16, using an old revision, why it runs the same game with 20-30 fps drop AND the audio shutters? And we are talking about waaaay old revision!

I just can't understand. I am able to play Mario Galaxy 1 and 2 and Xenoblade as well. : /

In twilight princess you need to enable the speed hack, it does help a lot with the performance in hyrule field.

my favorite setting is the cpu upgrade setting. It's very taxing, but so worth it! XD

Err, Zelda Twilight Princess should run at 30 FPS. If it's running at 60 FPS then you probably used some hack (VBeam trick, etc). Another fact is that we only support the latest stable version and current development builds, so, upgrade Dolphin or remain in your older version, without support...

(05-09-2015, 05:35 PM)dokyto Wrote: [ -> ]

(05-09-2015, 04:42 AM)mimimi Wrote: [ -> ]If the really old verion ran at almost full speed, with stretched audio, the new versions should be able to run at full speed. A lot of work has been done to make Dolphin run faster, but it won't do miracles. Your cpu is really low end.

This is what I am saying - sure it's low end processor, but if it can run Twilight Princess with 50-60 fps, when I have set it to 3x native resolution, 1920x1080 and anisotropic filtering to 16, using an old revision, why it runs the same game with 20-30 fps drop AND the audio shutters? And we are talking about waaaay old revision!

I just can't understand. I am able to play Mario Galaxy 1 and 2 and Xenoblade as well. : /

Old versions didn't emulate many things and were full of hacks, although the popular games ran somewhat fine, most don't. Current development builds emulate emulate many things correctly and also works with other components that weren't emulated before. If you have a proper system, it should be the same speed or faster than the old ones...

i have i7-3770k, nvidia GT630, windows 8.1 x64

i have sound problems in most of the games. some games are playable but others are not like "planes" or "cars"
i found that my best setings are OpenAL with a latency of 30

is there any other setting i can try to get better results ?

Usually the sound problem is related with some frame glitches in fullscreen