Recently, I've been having issues with my gaming laptop thats resulted in me having to do a system restore, unfortunately, I haven't been able to play the games I used to without all of them lagging/stuttering. Before the issue, I could run all of my games at a consistent 60 FPS, now I can't play games without lag being a major issue. Is there any fix to this solution? (Note: I've used default dolphin settings before and after the reset)
[color=#000000]Operating System: Windows 10[/color]
[color=#000000]Processor/CPU: Intel Core I7 7700 @2.8GHZ[/color]
[color=#000000]Video Card/GPU: Nvidia GTX 1050[/color]
[color=#000000]Memory/RAM: 16 GB DDR4[/color]
[color=#000000]Dolphin Revision Currently Using: Dolphin 5.0 x64[/color]
Try reinstalling your nvidia drivers.
Then check that Dolphin is actually being run on the nvidia GPU.
And use latest dev build.
I've reinstalled the drivers, as well as got the latest gameready driver. theres still instances of frame drops on dolphin as well as other emulators. Any other solutions?
(05-29-2018, 07:19 AM)jarryal Wrote: [ -> ]I've reinstalled the drivers, as well as got the latest gameready driver. theres still instances of frame drops on dolphin as well as other emulators. Any other solutions?
Are you sure that your Windows power plan still is on High Performance and your nVidia Control panel still is set up to "Prefer Highest performance" and also make sure that you are plugged in to the power?
(05-29-2018, 04:08 PM)mstreurman Wrote: [ -> ]Are you sure that your Windows power plan still is on High Performance and your nVidia Control panel still is set up to "Prefer Highest performance" and also make sure that you are plugged in to the power?
I had to make a custom plan, but yes, its high performance. And i recently set the nvidia control panel to prefer highest performance. Its actually a feature that i didn't need to use awhile back since it came with a recent update, but now that I know of it, I'm using it. And yes, I'm plugged in to the power lol. Everything you've mentioned so far I've done, and it's also helped tremendously, but at the same time, i still notice the occasional frame drops with certain games. I'm starting to believe that it may be my computer itself, but I'm not entirely sure.
(05-30-2018, 02:30 AM)jarryal Wrote: [ -> ]I had to make a custom plan, but yes, its high performance. And i recently set the nvidia control panel to prefer highest performance. Its actually a feature that i didn't need to use awhile back since it came with a recent update, but now that I know of it, I'm using it. And yes, I'm plugged in to the power lol. Everything you've mentioned so far I've done, and it's also helped tremendously, but at the same time, i still notice the occasional frame drops with certain games. I'm starting to believe that it may be my computer itself, but I'm not entirely sure.
Also keep an eye on your CPU and GPU temperatures, if it hits a certain threshold (Usually around 80degrees Celsius for CPU and 90 degrees Celsius for GPU) it will also lower its clock speeds until it's cooled down again (can be a matter of just a single second) which would of course also cause a stutter. If that is the case, you can try something like Throttlestop, but keep in mind, you can damage your hardware by doing so if it stays too hot for too long.
(05-30-2018, 04:13 PM)mstreurman Wrote: [ -> ]Also keep an eye on your CPU and GPU temperatures, if it hits a certain threshold (Usually around 80degrees Celsius for CPU and 90 degrees Celsius for GPU) it will also lower its clock speeds until it's cooled down again (can be a matter of just a single second) which would of course also cause a stutter. If that is the case, you can try something like Throttlestop, but keep in mind, you can damage your hardware by doing so if it stays too hot for too long.
I'm glad you bought that up. It made me look into my ASUS ROG gaming center. While my cpu temp is pretty normal, i did notice that my GPU memory was contantly maxed out (aka. in the red) Would this be the issue thats making my games stutter?
(05-31-2018, 07:14 AM)jarryal Wrote: [ -> ]I'm glad you bought that up. It made me look into my ASUS ROG gaming center. While my cpu temp is pretty normal, i did notice that my GPU memory was contantly maxed out (aka. in the red) Would this be the issue thats making my games stutter?
Maybe? But it really depends on what "in the red" actually means. Remember, the sw was written by a company with a vested interest in selling you overpriced, overspecced cooling solutions
A 1050 is quoted as having a max operating temperature of 97 degrees - though it's likely it will stop boosting at lower temperatures, I don't know what that is. But unless you're running a very high IR or exclusive ubershaders or something else weird, even at base clocks a 1050 should be more than fast enough to keep up with dolphin.
(05-31-2018, 08:06 AM)JonnyH Wrote: [ -> ]Maybe? But it really depends on what "in the red" actually means. Remember, the sw was written by a company with a vested interest in selling you overpriced, overspecced cooling solutions
A 1050 is quoted as having a max operating temperature of 97 degrees - though it's likely it will stop boosting at lower temperatures, I don't know what that is. But unless you're running a very high IR or exclusive ubershaders or something else weird, even at base clocks a 1050 should be more than fast enough to keep up with dolphin.
True, but the speed boost switching will take a few miliseconds, and that might actually give the stutters the user is talking about.
But we do need numbers on your temps "in the red" doesn't mean anything to us... I like the application HWINFO (
https://www.fosshub.com/HWiNFO.html/hwi_584.exe) to monitor my temps because it also gives the reason why it throttles (Which can be power consumption, temps or whatever)