(08-04-2020, 12:56 PM)Shonumi Wrote: Older AMD CPUs (before Ryzen) had poor single-threaded performance compared to equivalent Intel products. Dolphin relies heavily on single-threaded performance, so AMD FX CPUs have historically struggled running Dolphin. Newer Ryzen CPUs from AMD have significantly closed the gap to the point where Intel or AMD shouldn't matter (e.g. you pick based on your price/needs now, regardless of the company).

Dolphin 5.0 is somewhat notorious for being old and slow. At this point, development revisions have vastly improved Dolphin's performance compared to 5.0. I'd try using the latest development build (5.0-12380 at the time of this writing) and see how it handles. You might still suffer some performance issues, but you should also notice an increase. Overclocking your CPU may be necessary if you're still getting drops or less than 100% fullspeed.

If that doesn't help (or doesn't help as much as you'd like), it would probably be time to upgrade at least the CPU. Everything else is fine for Dolphin. RAM doesn't matter, as long as you have enough (4GB is sufficient, for example, and you could even go lower) and your GPU should handle most games at high resolutions.

(08-05-2020, 07:57 AM)tShonumi Wrote: We only recommend either the 5.0 stable build (which you're already using) or the latest development revisions. You're free to use other 3rd-party builds, but you'll have to ask the provider for support rather than the Dolphin Forums in general.

You never said which .dll file you're having trouble with. It's typically an easy fix since others have encountered such issues before.

(08-05-2020, 09:26 PM)Shonumi Wrote: Fwiw, I don't really recommend custom builds (3rd party or whatever), just the official builds available from this site. But people are free to use whichever one they want.