I recently got dolphin to play super smash bros. melee on a ladder site. When i first got it, it worked flawlessly. Constant 60 fps, no graphical issues, nothing. Recently it has started running at only 30 fps despite the framelimit being on auto. Is this a common issue? If so, is there a fix? (I'm sorry if I'm doing something wrong, this is my first time on this forum)
Do you have vsync on? Turn that off.
I do not, vsync has been turned off from the start.
Sanity check: Is the Framelimit in the Graphics options set to anything other than Auto?
The framelimit is set to auto.
Just to clarify, when you say it's running at 30FPS, Dolphin reports the emulated game speed as 50% correct? It's not like when it's running 100% but only outputting 30FPS (typical of some VSync issues that helios mentioned) is it? So everything in fact runs in slow-mo rather than just looking like it has choppy animation?
What happens if you disable the framelimiter?
it goes to upwards of 300 fps
do you happen to have the Melee 30 FPS patch/cheat on?