(05-04-2018, 09:33 AM)Robertium Wrote: [ -> ]Hi everyone, first of all I'm kind of a noob to this so feel free to correct me if I'm doing anything anything wrong. Anyway, I'm having some trouble with Dolphin. I've installed various GameCube and Wii games, and my problem here is that actual gameplay is choppy and the audio is messed up. I've only tested the two GameCube games I have (on the Wii games I can't get past the menus because I don't have a USB sensor bar) but the situation is the same for each: The menus work fine but the gameplay itself is very laggy and the audio seems corrupted. I initially tested Super Mario Sunshine (AR cheats enabled) and the game itself was nearly unplayable. Corrupted textures and music, about 2 FPS and the game itself is slowed down a lot. However, I turned off the AR cheats and gameplay slightly improved. (now I'm going to have to get ALL THOSE SHINES!) Meanwhile, I opened Double Dash (this time I only enabled ONE AR cheat) and once again, menus worked fine but gameplay was the same. The AR cheats seem to be the primary cause of this, but I wondered if there's another way I could keep the AR cheats (GameCube games in general seem to have hard levels and I'd like to have more stuff unlocked, thank you very much) and change some settings so gameplay would improve a little. I can provide a video showing the problem.
Additionally (I don't know if this contributes to the problem) I have Widescreen mods for both games.
AR codes are currently a bit bugged where they slow down games quite some bit. I understand your motives to have more stuff unlocked BUT it is so much more satisfying if you do it yourself!
Another thing that you need to know is: If your gameplay is slow and choppy then the same will happen to the sound.
Unlike PC games, Gamecube and Wii games (and PS2 too) are made to run at a specific framerate (25/50 for PAL region games and 30/60 for NTSC) and everything is tied to that, so if your FPS drop from 60 to 30 the game will effectively run at half the speed and slow down sound and inputs as well...
I checked your specs and it seems that you are using a laptop, so there are a few small things that you can do:
1. Make sure your Windows Power settings are always set up to the High Perfomance plan
2. Always play the games while connected to a powercable.
3. Make sure your GPU drivers are up to date (
https://us.download.nvidia.com/Windows/3...l-whql.exe)
4. Get the latest Dolphin development version from the download page, you can find them at the top. Extract to a new and empty folder and also create an empty portable.txt in the same folder as Dolphin.exe
5. Create a profile for Dolphin.exe in the nVidia control panel and make sure that it has selected your GeForce card as default and also make sure to set the Powermode to Prefer Highest Performance
6. In GeForce experience turn off Batteryboost and Shadowplay
7. In Dolphin set Shader Compilation to Asynchronous (Ubershader) and Tick the box to Compile shaders at startup
8. In Dolphin set Graphics Back-end to Direct3D
9. In Dolphin set Internal Resolution (or IR) to 3x
10. In Dolphin set the Audio Back-end to CubeB and select HLE audio
11. In Dolphin turn off the cheats
Now test if the games are running at full speed, if they are not, you could try to change the IR to 1x and see if that changes anything, if it doesn't then the CPU in your laptop is too slow and there is really not anything we or you can do except advise you the get a computer with a faster CPU.
Please keep in mind that the Laptop you have is using an Ultra Low Power CPU, these are generally quite a lot slower than their non-ULP version. Probably your laptop is also quite thin and thus might have issues getting rid of all its heat, causing the Thermal Throttle to kick in and lower the clock speed of the CPU even further.
You actually do not need a Sensor bar for Wii games if you are using the emulated Wiimotes. You can set it up to have your mouse or a set of keys or a controller to move the IR pointer. Depending on the game you might not even need the pointer.
