Dolphin, the GameCube and Wii emulator - Forums

Hey, I recently joined this forum and downloaded Dolphin.

I managed to get SSBM working, after a LOT of testing and trying of different methods. At the start I had the yellow screen problem, then I had the contiguous memory problem... All fixed by rolling back drivers (though by changing certain settings around - can't remember which ones do/don't - these messages come and go).

My specs are in my signature. I rolled back from the 9.8 driver to the 9.2, though the version names don't seem to be clear to me as they show different versions in different places.

I have a couple questions as well. Firstly, on the versions of Dolphin I've tried (many of them, including the most recent and the 4253-x86-1GBhack one, my FPS while playing SSBM can go up to about 180 in the menus, so I set the cap at 50 (seemed right, according to the VPS??). However, in some stages the FPS will be naturally faster (Battlefield) and in some it will go slower (larger stages).

However, this is not so much the problem compared to increasing the amount of players. When it's higher than 1v1, the FPS will usually drop to 20-30, and I was wondering if there is an easy way to increase this? I've checked the forums and other pages; I close all programs, many processes, and explorer.exe, but this doesn't seem to change much.

I'm sure it's to do with the graphics, as they also have problems too (some areas are just coloured black, like the f-zero x stages). I can use OpenGL or D3D9, it doesn't seem to change anything. Also my version of SSBM is PAL.

So my questions are:
1) How do I increase FPS to be the standard amount all the time (or most of it), or will it just not run at 100% speed?
2) How do I fix up the graphics, so they're all coloured correctly? I've seen YouTube vids and screenshots and they seem pretty much fine (so is my GPU just not good enough?)
3) Does having PAL or NTSC change anything?

Thanks for any replies

Being Serious but your specs are not the best for dolphin. Take it from a person who use to have a Pent D. It SUCKS. Its a duel core but its not really. Its a really bad Intel mistake and that in itself its hurting you badly. That is probably your most limiting factor. Also dolphin fluctuates in speed depending on game and your PC specs. What works well for some people will not for others. Just something to keep in mind.

Next, I've personally never heard of "4253-x86-1GBhack one."
You should head over to this forum section and pick up a version if you don't want to compile a svn version.
http://forums.dolphin-emu.org/forum-6.html

If you click Orleans build he has some of the suggestions to improve fps a bit for you so read up. (explorer.bat, gamebooster, shutting down extra processes, etc.)
As to your GPU I'm not that knowledgeable on older ATI gpu's but I'm thinking your card is ok. If you wanna fix errors, I would read through the game forum on games you have and see what others have said. That being said, games and options can tend to work fine on one version of dolphin but not on others.

To answer your last question Pal runs at 50 fps while NTSC runs as 60 nominally (couple games actually run at 30 fps like the GC game P.N.03)

Thanks for the reply.

Yeah I've already tried most of those, but all it did was boost the fps during the intro screen to ~170. The actual in-game FPS didn't change, which I found strange. Also I can open tons of other programs and this won't decrease the FPS either, so I guess that's a slight plus...

please just check your graphics card. you should change the your graphics cards that already install in your pc.

the graphics card is fine for dolphin. Dolphin doesn't require anything even remotely new. All you need is a geforce 6 series r better and those were from '04 or '05

How can GF 6 series render such high quality games? Is it being like emulated using alot CPU?

I guess I need to overlock mine. I'm not getting 60 FPS at Wii games, is it because the emulator is being worked on or I lack of CPU?

My specs:
Q6600
8800GT
Vista
4GB RAM

CPU is the main factor in emulation. Even i7's get maxed out when trying to emulate these games. Gpu plays almost no factor as long as your using native res. If you wanna go hd then yea you need something more powerful

Hmm, is my Q6600 enough to handle Wii games? Or overclocking seems better? I don't want low fps :/