| UncleScrooge said: This is probably due to your GPU then. Did you tinker around with the settings a bit? I remember I had to change some settings when I used Dolphin on my last notebook due to having only 256mb of VRam. Disabling fog and anti aliasing might help. My biggest gripe with Dolphin is that some random games still won't run well unless you've got an extremely fast CPU (like 4GHz). I've got a 2.3GHz i7 (Ivy Bridge), 1GB of VRAM and 8GB RAM - some games run perfect even in 1080p with all sorts of effects turned on, others like F-Zero or Viewtiful Joe don't run well at all. When I run F-Zero GX in 720p I get a maximum of 20fps but CPU load is only at 50%. Metroid Prime has serious sound problems that can only be fixed by downloading a sound chip emulator that uses huge amounts of resources. I even have slowdowns in Sonic Adventure 2 (!) but I can play Pikmin 2 with 100 Pikmin on screen in 1080p. It's just not as optimized as PSX / N64 generation emulators yet. |
There are loads of settings that you can change to get better framerates. Some will easily double your current FPS.
Sadly I haven't tested F-Zero and Sonic Adventures 2, but try a combination of these (for the best results one at a time to see what makes a difference):
Optimize Quantizers - OFF
uncheck Enable Audio Throttle
Disable Fog
Enable EFB Copy to Texture (instead of RAM)
I'd like to add that I really haven't been looking at the more recent versions. I bet they made even more progress but even with my version (revision 7459 from April 2011) everything works pretty good even on low end rigs.
