Basically, I'm looking for instructions on how to enable bounding box emulation. I'm having some trouble in Chapter 1-3 of Super Paper Mario where, after I go through the magic door (the one you make appear by jumping underneath the red tree ten times), the pixles get stuck. I read in
this thread that I can enable bounding box emulation to fix this. But I have no idea how to do that!
I want to post in the Wii game support forum, but there's no icon for me to start a new thread!
Because the game thread already exists. If your graphics card doesn't support OpenGL4.4, you can't use bounding box though.
Posting new threads in the Game Support forums is not allowed. Either post in the existing Super Paper Mario thread in Game Support, or make a new thread in Support. Since you already made a topic here, I suppose we can just continue using this one.
Are you using Dolphin 4.0.2? If so, there is no bounding box option, and I don't think what JMC said applies. In 4.0.2, things that require bounding box may or may not work correctly. I don't know if your problem is expected to happen on 4.0.2. Using the latest development version will give you a bounding box option that works correctly, but only if your GPU supports it, like JMC says.
(05-03-2016, 07:12 AM)JMC47 Wrote: [ -> ]Because the game thread already exists. If your graphics card doesn't support OpenGL4.4, you can't use bounding box though.
I'm using a Nvidia Geforce GTX 275. I can play Skyrim on default settings without issue. Is that good enough?
(05-03-2016, 07:23 AM)JosJuice Wrote: [ -> ]Are you using Dolphin 4.0.2? If so, there is no bounding box option, and I don't think what JMC said applies. In 4.0.2, things that require bounding box may or may not work correctly. I don't know if your problem is expected to happen on 4.0.2. Using the latest development version will give you a bounding box option that works correctly, but only if your GPU supports it, like JMC says.
The top of the Dolphin window says "Dolphin 4.0-8672." Does that have a bounding box emulation option?
(05-03-2016, 07:36 AM)stebbinsd Wrote: [ -> ]I'm using a Nvidia Geforce GTX 275. I can play Skyrim on default settings without issue. Is that good enough?
A common misconception that being able to lay PC games fluently automatically means you can play Dolphin. Dolphin relies on having a strong CPU with a minimum requirement for GPUs being really low, and strong GPUs only mean you can increase the enhancements really high. This is the opposite of PC games where you can get away with almost any CPU, but need a strong GPU.
(05-03-2016, 07:36 AM)stebbinsd Wrote: [ -> ]The top of the Dolphin window says "Dolphin 4.0-8672." Does that have a bounding box emulation option?
Yes, it has the bounding box enable/disable feature, however, your GPU doesn't support bounding box, which Paper Mario needs to function properly. It's actually one of 5 games in the entire GC/Wii inventory that actually uses bounding box.
Your GPU only supports up to OpenGL 3.3, where it needs 4.3 to support the new bounding box features along with the vertex loader JIT fixes.
Paper Mario will automatically try and turn on bounding box, but since your GPU doesn't support it, your computer cant play the game.
tl;dr:
Your GPU doesn't support bounding box, which is used heavily by the Paper Mario games and very few others.
Good news is that it's time to get that new GPU you wanted.
nvidia's website is outdated. The wiki page is correct.
Anything from 4xx and up should work. So that 570 should work really well.