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Issues with V-Sync and Performance (Kirby Air Ride) - mpkross - 09-01-2020
Hi all,
I'm pretty new to Dolphin, and I'm trying to emulate Kirby Air Ride, one of my favorite GCN games on a little Ryzen box I built a couple of days ago. I tried pretty much every setting with all of the graphics adapters available to me and found that what works best for my setup is Vulkan, and I can go up to 1440p on a stock clock.
The odd thing I found is that I can only reach a steady 60 FPS if I turn off v-sync. Activating this option seems to throttle the framerate around 30 FPS, even though I can run 60+ FPS without it, even if I lower the resolution. The only resolution that works with v-sync is native, which isn't that great.
I'm just testing out the PC, and like I mentioned, pretty new to Dolphin and GCN emulation. So I'll be testing a few more games to see if it holds up. I get a bit of screen tearing at 1440p rez, but nothing too serious. I would like to run with v-sync on and have a smoother experience overall, though.
Anything I can do to fix this? Maybe force the frame limit through my video driver settings? Something tells me it's already being enforced elsewhere... It doesn't go past 60 FPS even unlocked.
I've attached my system diagnostic file, just in case. Thanks all!
RE: Issues with V-Sync and Performance (Kirby Air Ride) - KatIsntGood - 09-02-2020
Do you have a Nvidia card? There's a setting in their drivers that forces V-sync globally that makes it act super weird with Dolphin
RE: Issues with V-Sync and Performance (Kirby Air Ride) - mpkross - 09-02-2020
(09-02-2020, 01:02 AM)KatIsntGood Wrote: Do you have a Nvidia card? There's a setting in their drivers that forces V-sync globally that makes it act super weird with Dolphin
Nope, at least not on that PC. It's a small retro gaming box I'm still testing out. It has a Ryzen 3200G, and I'm using the built-in Vega 8 Graphics.
RE: Issues with V-Sync and Performance (Kirby Air Ride) - Craftyawesome - 09-04-2020
What is "around 30 fps?" Is it exactly 30 most of the time?
Make sure vsync isn't forced in radeon settings. Maybe try turning off some sort of power saving in there too.
You could also try disabling fullscreen optimization.