help!!!!!!! fps so slow

[kas240sx89]

im playing mario sunshine and zelda tp and the frame rates are only 2-6, makes it really hard to play can someone please help.

specs.
amd athon64 3700+ @2.21ghz (can over clock it to 2.5 safly)
ati radion x700 256MB
1GB 533mhz ram
windows xp pro sp1
dolphin 1.0.3.2 also svnx86 522 and svnx86 545 (same speed for all 3)

[cerebus5]

I see you have an ATI card. That might be your problem. Not much we can do about that.

[kas240sx89]

i keep geting a failed to load videodx9.dll message when dolphin loads could that be the problem, i mean the videos run at 30 fps but trying to play the games thay drop to 2-3fps

[cerebus5]

update your directx. but I'm telling you it's your ATI card.

[AntonJ3000]

You need to get some GCOS (it dosen't work with SVN versions :angry: )
And start it with it(Can't remember fully, search it on youtube)

It worked on my
AMD Athlon 3500+
Radeon X700 512MB

And I got like 20fps

[p_025]

That's probably the worst advice I've seen with regards to getting better framerates with SVN versions.

[ChaosCode]

System spects to run games at full speed are as follows.

CPU: C2D E8500 Stock
Video: 8800GT
Mem: 2Gigs
OS: Linux

This is how I run my system. I get fullspeed in any playable game.

[X-Fi6]

Wow. You'd think after all these years, there wouldn't be idiots like these claiming the reason of low FPS is the graphics card.

First of all, there is absolutely nothing wrong with ATI cards. Although he does have a kind of old card, it still has Shader Model 2.0 support and DirectX 9.0c support, which is only what matters regarding the graphics card.

Second, what does the graphics card even have to do with his bad performance? If you were to actually search for "fps slow" under "GC Emulation > Dolphin" via the Search Button (http://emutalk.net/search.php), you would see it is the processor (CPU) that relates to the FPS.

Even if he had two Nvidia 9800s via SLI, it would only increase the performance by about 5fps at the max. If he had an Intel Core 2 Duo E8600 with a Zalman 9700 with Arctic Silver 5 and overclocked accordingly, AND he used 64-bit Windows and 64-bit Dolphin, THEN that would increase his FPS by... let's see, 20fps? 25? I don't use Dolphin much so my estimates are probably off.

So it's basically two reasons why you have bad fps:

1. Your processor is, sorry, bad (no offense :)).
2. You aren't using 64-bit Windows and 64-bit Dolphin.

[Agozer]

3. you have a Dual Core processor but have not enabled (or conversely, disabled by accident) Dual Core support.

[cerebus5]

Wow. You'd think after all these years, there wouldn't be idiots like these claiming the reason of low FPS is the graphics card.

First of all, there is absolutely nothing wrong with ATI cards. Although he does have a kind of old card, it still has Shader Model 2.0 support and DirectX 9.0c support, which is only what matters regarding the graphics card.

Nothing wrong with them per se but there's an ongoing compatibility issue with ATI cards and Opengl plugin, and it's the cause of half these sorts of threads. I dunno if it would affect framerate though, I don't have one.

[Xtreme2damax]

Nothing wrong with them per se but there's an ongoing compatibility issue with ATI cards and Opengl plugin, and it's the cause of half these sorts of threads. I dunno if it would affect framerate though, I don't have one.

Yes the incompatibility between ATI cards and the OpenGL plugin does seem to cause FPS issues as well. Members that have taken a screen shot of ATI+OGL and it's messed up graphics showed games running at a measly 0 - 1 FPS.