Dolphin, the GameCube and Wii emulator - Forums

It used to run okay and now it runs like crap. In the menu's I get 59-60FPS and in the character selection but once i'm in the actual stages it lags down to like 35FPS (oh and not to mention I get those black boxes on the stage whereas in the old builds I didn't get those)

Any settings I should check? All I want to do is play Melee and Brawl and that's it - nothing else.

here's my specs:
windows 7 ultimate 64 bit
galaxy nvidia geforce 9800GT
Intel core2quad Q9400 @ 2.66Ghz
4 gigs of "gaming" ram

How about updating your video card drivers and Direct X.
Use Direct X plugin...

Nevermind, I fixed it. My CPU heatsink wasn't placed so well and there was barely any thermal grease so I applied some and made sure that sucka of a heatsink stayed tightly. Though, I still see those weird black things on the stages =S