Dolphin Speed Issue

[plasticandrage]

Does anyone know of a good way to speed this emulator up a bit? I'm trying to play wind waker, about 75% of the time it works fine, the other 25% of the time its running between 45% and 55% speed. I tried screwing around with the settings a little bit and the only thing I managed to do to make it faster is change the frame rate to above 100 when the game slows down. But then it goes really really fast when it starts operating the way it should again. Its not a very efficient solution. Anyone know of a better way for me to be doing this?

[Kouen Hasuki]

Does anyone know of a good way to speed this emulator up a bit? I'm trying to play wind waker, about 75% of the time it works fine, the other 25% of the time its running between 45% and 55% speed. I tried screwing around with the settings a little bit and the only thing I managed to do to make it faster is change the frame rate to above 100 when the game slows down. But then it goes really really fast when it starts operating the way it should again. Its not a very efficient solution. Anyone know of a better way for me to be doing this?

Tried DirectX 10? That can help alot in my findings. also maybe turn on OpenCL

[plasticandrage]

how do I do that? You mean just having directX 10? Because Im almost positive that I already do. I meant how do I do the other thing?

[Kouen Hasuki]

how do I do that? You mean just having directX 10? Because Im almost positive that I already do. I meant how do I do the other thing?

its in Dolphins Graphics settings change the Graphics front end to DirectX 10 and see if the performance improves

[plasticandrage]

I'm not seeing what you're talking about. I went through a couple of graphics related menus and the closest thing I'm seeing is graphics backend

[Kouen Hasuki]

Ya thats the one try changing that to DirectX 11

(Sorry ive not opened Dolphin in a long time)

[plasticandrage]

My options under that menu are:

Direct3D9
Direct3D11
Open GL
I assumed you meant Direct3D11
I tried to run the game after changing to that and got this error message:
Failed to load d3d11.dll
Then the emulator crashed

[Kouen Hasuki]

My options under that menu are:

Direct3D9
Direct3D11
Open GL
I assumed you meant Direct3D11
I tried to run the game after changing to that and got this error message:
Failed to load d3d11.dll

are you on Windows XP? also whats your Graphics Card?

[plasticandrage]

nah Vista 64 bt
my graphics card is an NVIDIA GeForce 9600

[Kouen Hasuki]

nah Vista 64 bt
my graphics card is an NVIDIA GeForce 9600

ok try running this

http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/e...displaylang=en

just incase its a case of your DirectX being a lil outta date.

[plasticandrage]

When I tried to install it said I already had either an equivalent or newer version to no installation was necessary. So I'm guessing as far as that goes I'm where I should be

[Kouen Hasuki]

Hrm maybe your Graphics card cant take DX11

Looking at this (Compaired to mine)
http://www.gpureview.com/show_cards....=557&card2=564

You could try turning off as many background stuff as possible, Dolphin chomps hard on your CPU, also ive found you can get a healthy speed boost by running at 720p res (1280x720) or similar

[plasticandrage]

Hey that last thing. The 720 res is working pretty well. Went from around 40% to around 60%. Which is at least playable without getting frustrating. It only really happens when theres a ton going on onscreen. I can live with this. Thanks for the help dude

[Kouen Hasuki]

no worries! glad i could help ya out

[Gare]

If you're using the latest version, there should be a "Copy" option among the video plugin settings, right above Texture Cache. Setting it to Texture instead of RAM usually gives a decent speed boost. It's set to RAM by default, so many people forget to change it.