Hi everyone.
I recently began using dolphin again after updating my PC to windows 10 and with a new graphics card, however i'm getting major stuttering and slowdown in all of my games, my old PC ran dolphin fine and was weaker then what I've got now so I don't believe it's an issue of hardware power.
I've tried modded smash bros brawl project m, Luigi's mansion and Ribbit King.
Ribbit king works mostly fine aside from severe stuttering and slowdown on zooming into the character, Luigi's Mansion and Smash Bros are both having major slowdown issues in their menu's(barring smash bros stage select screen for some reason) and smash is having a lot of slowdown in game.
Clicking on the graphics tab in dolphin seems to alleviate the issue with the menu's temporarily but not permanent.
I should also say that I was using PCSX2 emulator recently as well, which worked fine until a recent windows update which made the game I was playing nigh unplayable with similar issues, dunno if it'd be relevant here though.
Thanks for any help you can give. all my PC specs and the dolphin revision should be in my profile.
Are you completely sure your old PC was definitely weaker than your current one and definitely ran Dolphin fine? The FX 8350 wasn't good at running Dolphin when it was brand new, and that was eight years ago, so I wouldn't be at all surprised by the issues you're having.
Make sure your windows and nvidia power plan are on high performance. Try switching to the latest dev build. If it still lags, add an empty portable.txt file in the same directory as dolphin. This will create a user folder for your config and saves, so we can test default settings.
thanks for the quick responses guys.
Yeah dolphin used to run pretty well on here and my old pc was def weaker, the old graphics card was pretty lousy.
It has been a long while since I used dolphin though so it's possible my cpu's just gotten weaker or something, I've had it for a while now.
Ok the new dev build fixed some of the issues, fighting in smash bros seems to run at about 57-60 fps so that's fine, albeit there's slowdown before the match during the intro's, the issue with the character select screen has stayed though, oddly enough on booting it ran fine but after the first match began to slow down to about 23-30 fps, it also seems to only be the character select screen, the menu's outside of it and the stage select run completely fine.
Ribbit king's issues have also stayed the same. edit:wait take that back, wasn't on the right resolution, putting it to my monitors makes the battles stutter at about 44 fps.
Also windows is running at high performance, not sure how to check if nvidia is though?..
Dolphin doesn't care all that much about how powerful your graphics card is until you start turning settings up, so it's perfectly possible that if your previous CPU had better single-threaded performance, it's faster from Dolphin's perspective, despite being slower for the other things you use it for.
It's the same CPU though, I only updated the ram, Win7-10 and the graphics card, that being said it had been a very long while since i'd used dolphin even before the upgrade so maybe a combination of things with my PC has happened since then or the CPU's gotten old or something(I def think it's overheated somewhat due to heatwaves we've had in the UK each year).
I have been thinking of replacing my CPU for something stronger soon anyway though, do you have any suggestions for something decently cheap but effective?
(08-02-2020, 12:55 AM)triggerpigking Wrote: [ -> ]I have been thinking of replacing my CPU for something stronger soon anyway though, do you have any suggestions for something decently cheap but effective?
Your AMD FX-8350 has a max speed of 4.2GHz if cooled sufficiently, and it's unlocked so you can overclock it if you have a good cooler.
Perhaps investing in a better cooling for your PC would be more favorable than a new CPU?
(08-02-2020, 01:49 AM)Lylat1an Wrote: [ -> ]Your AMD FX-8350 has a max speed of 4.2GHz if cooled sufficiently, and it's unlocked so you can overclock it if you have a good cooler.
Perhaps investing in a better cooling for your PC would be more favorable than a new CPU?
That CPU is 8 years old and not very good when it came out.
(08-02-2020, 01:53 AM)ExtremeDude2 Wrote: [ -> ]That CPU is 8 years old and not very good when it came out.
True, but he says it did the job in the past. Unless Dolphin has become more CPU-intensive I think replacing his cooler would be less expensive than upgrading the CPU.
The best CPU that might work with his existing motherboard is an FX-9590, which is going for up to $200 used where I'm located and would require high-end cooling anyway.
A FX 8350 should be able to handle Luigi's Mansion and Melee at native res, they're not very heavy games to run