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Dolphin 4.0 Released
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EatChildren
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That's better
For the audio, you may want to try switching the backend to OpenAL and slightly increasing the latency
edit: Also, according to the changelog, OpenGL is now the fastest backend on Nvidia cards. It crashes for me for some reason, but if it works you may get slightly better performance.
Tried OpenGL and I had some weird visual errors, but I might play around with it. Changing internal resolution from auto to x3 seems to work better, and fixed Zelda's harp not rendering correctly, plus I think I'm getting a pretty solid (with the rare brief dip) 30fps with 4xSSAA.
For audio I'm using HLE emulation, OpenAL with 5 latency, and I'm still getting some distortion.
Friend of Sonic
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That's genius. I need to do that. Why would they change that for 4.0? That's perfect!
efyu_lemonardo
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create an empty file called portable.txt in the same folder as dolphin.exe
that should allow you to bypass the global settings
Thanks for that! If anyone wants to run Dolphin with the Steam overlay, I can post what I came up with in the other Dolphin thread.
Valkyri von Thanatos
Member
I tried a bit, and it seems to work much better for me. There were some minor dips and texture errors on D3D11. I switched to D3D9 and used the settings on the Dolphin wiki page and then the only issue was that going to codec would not zoom in on Snake properly, which I suspect had to do with changing EFB to ram.
Please, go ahead.
Just follow these steps to get things working with Steam:
http://m.neogaf.com/showpost.php?p=40606113&postcount=8658
Does the bat to exe method still work with the file changes?
Edit Looking at the above post it seems like it's become easier even. Nice one, thanks.
Celestial Mortal
Member
What are the best settings for the emulator to play Xenoblade?
I have a C2D 6600 @ 2.4GHz with 4GB RAM along with 1GB 9500GT
(My hardware is ancient I know I don't play much on PC)
Even during the intro my frame rate drops to < 20
Any help and ideas? (except for the obvious upgrade your PC
)
My settings were: Framelimit set to Audio. Using LLE for Audio along with XAudioX
For graphics: Used Direct3D9 and Fullscreen resolution set to 720p
I have a C2D 6600 @ 2.4GHz with 4GB RAM along with 1GB 9500GT
(My hardware is ancient I know I don't play much on PC)
Even during the intro my frame rate drops to < 20
Any help and ideas? (except for the obvious upgrade your PC
)My settings were: Framelimit set to Audio. Using LLE for Audio along with XAudioX
For graphics: Used Direct3D9 and Fullscreen resolution set to 720p
Valkyri von Thanatos
Member
Hmm, SteamOS. I wonder if the Linux builds will run well on it. Apparently SteamOS is specifically designed for game performance increases at the OS level.
If you have a window around with direct sunlight, that will futz with it...
Pull your shadez yo
You mean Link...
Not the highest quality here but not bad.
Not too bad, but if that's from the start of the game..isn't that a pre-recorded scene?
Nah, it's real-time. It turns into a FMV at the end of the intro.Not too bad, but if that's from the start of the game..isn't that a pre-recorded scene?
You can see the whole intro in a video I've recorded a while back.
Yes.
Only just started. Audio crackling is pretty disappointing. I don't think I can hit 30fps consistent with any SSAA, which is a shame, as it's needed to clean up the jaggies. But otehrwise seems fine.
You should add SweetFx to inject SMAA and just increase the rendering resolution to 4x or 3x. That should clean up a lot of the aliasing.
Thanks! I'll see if I can find better drivers for the DS3 to work with Windows 8.
w1gglyjones
Member
What are the best settings for the emulator to play Xenoblade?
I have a C2D 6600 @ 2.4GHz with 4GB RAM along with 1GB 9500GT
(My hardware is ancient I know I don't play much on PC)
Even during the intro my frame rate drops to < 20
Any help and ideas? (except for the obvious upgrade your PC
My settings were: Framelimit set to Audio. Using LLE for Audio along with XAudioX
For graphics: Used Direct3D9 and Fullscreen resolution set to 720p
You're probably better off playing it on your Wii, TBH.
If you could find a way to make your desktop background a video I could probably work something out for you?
Alternatively, you could try this out.
I just recorded a full day cycle and took one screen out for every "hour" of the cycle. So there's 24 screenshots taken at even intervals during the loading screens cycle.
Fun fact, the titles screens night time is REALLY short!
You could set these up in a wallpaper folder and set it to change the wallpaper once every hour.
Xenoblade full day wallpapers
Here are just four samples from it.
You can do that on mac os I think
Wow, thanks for taking the time to do that alo.
It's possible to have a video as your wallpaper by either using Dreamscenes (hacking it back to Windows 7) or using Deskscapes.
Alright cool! Do you guys know what codecs it'll accept? If I were to do it it would probably be an H264 MP4 file.
Unfortunately it doesn't seem to support H.264. AVI, WMV or MP4 without the H.264 codec should work fine. Try compressing it with the MPEG-2 codec, see if you get good results.
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I should get into the Dolphin scene. My wii sits unused on my bookshelf, and yet I've got games like Monster Hunter Tri to play, and Skyward Sword to finish.
And Red Steel 2, and Metroid Prime 3, and Baroque.
On a scale of 1 to 10, how easy is it to deal with Dolphin and get it set up to make my games all pretty?
And Red Steel 2, and Metroid Prime 3, and Baroque.
On a scale of 1 to 10, how easy is it to deal with Dolphin and get it set up to make my games all pretty?
Someone had asked about F-Zero...runs like a damned charm now.
That was me, or at least I was one of the people asking.
I have the original and a Cube, but will be amazing running it in high res. Maybe better than the real thing? Can't wait for my new PC to arrive.
Easily a 10. Most games are already pre-configured to run with the most compatible settings. The only thing you have to do is raise your internal resolution to what your GPU can handle, add AF and AA if your GPU can handle it, set up your controllers and you're good to go.
I've been thinking about giving my Wii to my niece since her crazy ex-step mother threw hers out a window, so I think it's time for me to back up my games and port them over to Dolphin.
2 Best friends started a Viewtiful Joe playthrough on their channel and it reminded me how much I love that game, and also that I never beat it, so I think that'll be my first experiment.
2 Best friends started a Viewtiful Joe playthrough on their channel and it reminded me how much I love that game, and also that I never beat it, so I think that'll be my first experiment.
Cool. Showing a bit of my lack of knowledge, but is it possible to use the discs, or do you have to download the ISOs? (I would imagine the ISOs run faster, though)
Someone had asked about F-Zero...runs like a damned charm now.
What settings are you using for GX?
Anyone?
You need to dump your ISOs by either using RawDump and having a compatible DVD-drive that the application supports or dump the games from your Wii using software like CleanRip. And yes, ISOs run faster since they're stored on your harddrive.
What exactly is happening? A black screen?
Assuming your Wii is homebrewed, Savegame Manager GX will do the trick. Used it myself and it works great.
Switch from DSP HLE to LLE.
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Yep.
That helped! Shame the framerate is taking a hit now, I should mess around with the settings more. Thanks!
I cant say for sure. Tried Metroid Prime 3 DX9 1080p 2560*2112 no AA, and DSP-HLE. Worked like a charm in the beginning in space with 60fps most of the time. Havent tried yet going down to the planet, so I cant say how the fps is there.
CPU: Intel i5-2500K 4.2GHz
GPU: Nvidia 670 OC
Memory: 8Gb
OS: Windows7
Dolphin 64-bit
BasilZero
Member
How do you get SS to work through the "Please connect motion+ extension" - I dont see anywhere in the menu for it in 4.0 ~_~?
(I know I said I'll get a dongle but it was a response to a older build).
OpenGL, seems to have the best frame-rate all around so far,
Widescreen cause I like me some widescreen, everything else I really haven't had to tinker with at all...this build just runs badass on my machine in general.
2x native is what I use and filtering depends on game and how it's running, had to tweak that down for MK wii online a bit.
BasilZero
Member
I'm having this issue too with the 4.0.
I also have the 3.5 version and it doesnt have that issue.
Along with that, for some reason the FPS on Zelda WW is less than 30 while its a constant 30 on 3.5.
You have a more powerful machine than I do, and SS ran near-perfectly for me. There were no audio problems and the only times frames dipped were at night in Skytown and at a few areas in the late-game time cube dungeon. And that's with like pristine visuals, SSAA and all.Yes.
Only just started. Audio crackling is pretty disappointing. I don't think I can hit 30fps consistent with any SSAA, which is a shame, as it's needed to clean up the jaggies. But otehrwise seems fine.
Play around and I'm sure you'll find a config that flies.
I ran Xenoblade just fine without a custom build. Only thing I changed were resolution settings.