CPU use in Dolphin

[neroir2]

Yesterday I tried to run Soul Calibur 2 in Dolphin and, as I expected, the game run with very very low frame rates, so I decided to look at the CPU use and the free memory available in my computer.....and what I saw suprises me a lot.

CPU was always at 50-55% and the computer also has a lot of free memory.
Usually, the bottleneck in emulators is the CPU, but this is not the case in Dolphin...Why Dolphin doesn't use 100% of CPU??

I have a P4 3,2Ghz with 1GB of RAM and a Geforce 5900

 

[arnalion]

Because i don't think that would help, Dolphin is on baby stage and can't emulate the games right so it's very slow

 

[ector]

If you are running your P4 in hyperthreading mode, you will only see 50% usage since Dolphin only uses one virtual "core". Dolphin gobbles up as much single-threaded CPU performance as it can get, so with no hyperthreading or multiple cpus you should see 100% usage.