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Removing Stutter and Lag. (last resort fix) - rafaelp - 09-17-2016
I wanted to help out the community. I take no responsibility for any damages. This fix is meant for mid to high end PC's. If your problem is not CPU/GPU related.
This is what I did.
Step 1. Go to device manager and on your disc drives , select properties and then policies, and turn off windows write cache buffer. For every disk. Be careful with this. If you have a battery backup then you are OK!
Step 2. Go to My computer, right click your disks go to properties and uncheck (Allow files on this drive to contents indexed...) it will give you an error on C drive just click ignore all.
Step 3. If you have an SSD copy your game there.
Hope this can help everyone with stutter and lag problems. But I consider this a last resort.
Games Tested.
- Mario Kart GC
- Fzero GC
- Xenoblade Wii
RE: Removing Stutter and Lag. (last resort fix) - JosJuice - 09-17-2016
I don't recommend anyone to follow these steps unless they actually know what the steps do. (The third one is always fine to do, though, but it's not guaranteed to help.)
If moving the game to an SSD actually helps, please check whether you have Speed Up Disk Transfer Rate turned on. It needs to be turned off for better performance. Or is the problem related to disc I/O for Dolphin's config rather than the game? Is there really a point in applying your settings to all disks?
RE: Removing Stutter and Lag. (last resort fix) - Helios - 09-17-2016
Write buffers have nothing to do with anything when Dolphin doesn't write anything to your disc images. All that does is screw up a lot of I/O prioritizing your OS is trying to do for very good reasons. As well as making it very unsafe to actually use your system or keep anything remotely valuable on it. If that actually helped you then you have some severe problems with your system chewing up I/O for reasons unrelated to Dolphin, and you should fix that instead of telling people to gut their OSes write buffers.
step 2 is whatever. Doesn't actually harm anything
step 3 is whatever. Might help if again, something else on your system is really screwing with your I/O, which I'm pretty dang sure is the case here, with the things you recommended.
RE: Removing Stutter and Lag. (last resort fix) - rafaelp - 09-17-2016
(09-17-2016, 05:03 PM)JosJuice Wrote: I don't recommend anyone to follow these steps unless they actually know what the steps do. (The third one is always fine to do, though, but it's not guaranteed to help.)
If moving the game to an SSD actually helps, please check whether you have Speed Up Disk Transfer Rate turned on. It needs to be turned off for better performance. Or is the problem related to disc I/O for Dolphin's config rather than the game? Is there really a point in applying your settings to all disks?
Update: Played Metroid trilogy, almost perfect gameplay.
Ill give you more info I have a laptop, I decided to do this since I had problems with other emulators like PCSX2. Same problems. Decided to improve my read times and get better performance. Is "Speed Up Disk Transfer Rate turned on" in dolphin.ini ? Im using dolphin 5.0 and I could not find it.
RE: Removing Stutter and Lag. (last resort fix) - JosJuice - 09-17-2016
(09-17-2016, 06:13 PM)rafaelp Wrote: Is "Speed Up Disk Transfer Rate turned on" in dolphin.ini ? Im using dolphin 5.0 and I could not find it.
No. It's only in the game properties (accessible by right-clicking a game).
RE: Removing Stutter and Lag. (last resort fix) - rafaelp - 09-17-2016
(09-17-2016, 06:50 PM)JosJuice Wrote: No. It's only in the game properties (accessible by right-clicking a game).
Thank You I will try it, if I ever have any other problems.