Fire emblem emulation (GC)

wbacyc · December 12th, 2008

Was just trying my fire emblem: path of radiance on my computer using Dolphin, and I found that the battle scenes are not emulated to full speed (I chose the 50Hz option but it's emulated at 46).

I know it's perfectly playable at that speed but I just wanted to know whether it is possible to increase the speed further.
Currently I'm using R1449 using the OpenGL graphics plugin (the DX9 gives wierd shadows), I don't know if the plugin is outdated or not since I can't seem to find a link to download them seperately.

Anyway, the I have everything checked under core (unchecking "lock threads to core" causes erratic FPS and doesn't speed up the game where needed).

My resolution is 1280x960, everything else unchecked, AS and AA are 1x.

My comp is fairly powerful I'm using a E8500 3.2GHz CPU, Radeon 4850 gfx card, 4 GB ram and using Vista Ultimate (XP is probably faster...).

Thanks for any help. Hope I didn't miss anything.

EDIT: My graphic card driver was updated 2 month ago, I probably should update it but I doubt it will make a difference.
EDIT2: Tried setting the priority of the emulator to high on the task manager, the FPS boosted by 0.5 (I think...). There is still no lag if I alt tab to do something else, I wonder what the bottleneck is...

Last edited by wbacyc; December 12th, 2008 at 11:09..

Geomancer · December 12th, 2008

The best way to improve fps, is overclocking... Setting the cpu at 3.6 ghz, probably gives you fullspeed..

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wbacyc · December 13th, 2008

So it is a CPU issue. I thought it might not be considering only 60% of my CPU is used at any time....

December 12th, 2008	#1 (permalink)
wbacyc Registered User Join Date: Mar 2008 Location: dfdfdfd Posts: 17	Fire emblem emulation (GC) Was just trying my fire emblem: path of radiance on my computer using Dolphin, and I found that the battle scenes are not emulated to full speed (I chose the 50Hz option but it's emulated at 46). I know it's perfectly playable at that speed but I just wanted to know whether it is possible to increase the speed further. Currently I'm using R1449 using the OpenGL graphics plugin (the DX9 gives wierd shadows), I don't know if the plugin is outdated or not since I can't seem to find a link to download them seperately. Anyway, the I have everything checked under core (unchecking "lock threads to core" causes erratic FPS and doesn't speed up the game where needed). My resolution is 1280x960, everything else unchecked, AS and AA are 1x. My comp is fairly powerful I'm using a E8500 3.2GHz CPU, Radeon 4850 gfx card, 4 GB ram and using Vista Ultimate (XP is probably faster...). Thanks for any help. Hope I didn't miss anything. EDIT: My graphic card driver was updated 2 month ago, I probably should update it but I doubt it will make a difference. EDIT2: Tried setting the priority of the emulator to high on the task manager, the FPS boosted by 0.5 (I think...). There is still no lag if I alt tab to do something else, I wonder what the bottleneck is... Last edited by wbacyc; December 12th, 2008 at 11:09..

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December 12th, 2008	#2 (permalink)
Geomancer Registered User Join Date: Nov 2007 Location: Argentina Posts: 183	The best way to improve fps, is overclocking... Setting the cpu at 3.6 ghz, probably gives you fullspeed.. __________________ Intel® Core™2 Duo E8400 @ 3.60GHz «-» Thermalright Ultra 120 eXtreme «-» Gigabyte™ GA-P35-DS4 «-» Corsair™ XMS2 DHX 2X2GB DDR2-800 4-4-4-12 «-» Sapphire HD 4850 Toxic 512 mb «-» Cooler Master Silent Pro 600 W «-» Samsung SyncMaster 2232GW «-» Edifier C2 2.1 «-» Windows 7 RC1 x64

December 13th, 2008	#3 (permalink)
wbacyc Registered User Join Date: Mar 2008 Location: dfdfdfd Posts: 17	So it is a CPU issue. I thought it might not be considering only 60% of my CPU is used at any time....