Dolphin, the GameCube and Wii emulator - Forums

I'm not sure if it's related, but it seems like ever since I started using a Ryzen 5 2600, whenever a game (seems to be mostly GameCube games?) needs to load something, I get a noticeable pause and FPS drop. I don't think it's because of the shaders since I'm using Asynchronous Ubershaders, and it happens in the same spots in games. For example, in Tales of Symphonia, whenever a battle starts, (after the glass shatter animation is done) the emulator speed drops to around 90%. The Metroid Prime games also stutter whenever I get near a door.

I've tried different backends, Synchronous Ubershaders and no Ubershaders, turning cheats off, switching my games to a different HDD, and frequently updating Dolphin to the newest dev build, and nothing seems to make a difference.

For reference I was on an i5 4590 3.3GHz CPU 3 weeks ago and didn't notice these issues. Though I am noticing other people with similar problems, so could it be Dolphin itself? Any help would be appreciated!

This is my current build https://pcpartpicker.com/list/MrGWKB

Enable "Compile Shaders Before Starting" and try again.

If Barry's suggestion doesn't help, switch the graphics backend to Direct3D 11 and make sure the same Ubershader settings are set.

nvidia has some issues with ubers and GL/Vulkan due to non-trivial driver design.

Sadly neither suggestion made a difference. Thank you though!

It could be jitcache flushing.

Could be.

Do you happen to have the global Cheats option enabled in Config? Disabling that will help

(09-28-2018, 05:44 AM)Helios Wrote: [ -> ]Could be.

Do you happen to have the global Cheats option enabled in Config? Disabling that will help

I've tried that before and it never seemed to make any difference. I tried it again now to be safe and I have the same issue in ToS. Prime 2 may be...SLIGHTLY better? Hard to tell.

Have you tried making a portable.txt file to reset Dolphin settings?

(09-28-2018, 07:32 AM)Shadorino Wrote: [ -> ]Have you tried making a portable.txt file to reset Dolphin settings?

Didn't seem to make any difference

You can reinstall the NVIDIA drivers, at least we will rule this out.

The best way to do it is to clean remove them first using DDU. It's very easy and quick to do.

- When opening DDU the first time go to "Options" and tick "Enable Safe Mode dialog".
- Close DDU and reopen it.
- In the "Launch option" select "Safe Mode" and click "Reboot to Safe Mode".
- Once in Safe Mode, your password will be asked, not the pin code. DDU will open automatically.
- On the right, in "Select device type", select "GPU"
- Click on "Clean and restart (Highly recommended)".
- Once rebooted, install the drivers.
- Once they're installed, reboot one last time and try Dolphin again.

DDU:
https://www.wagnardsoft.com/forums/viewtopic.php?f=5&t=1240&sid=8551c86b002db6ee09da910fdd572efb