jediyoshi
Member
It's like that because those are literally the only batch of drives that can read them, the functionality hasn't been carried over to newer models since.
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Dolphin - Emulating Wii and Gamecube Games
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It's like that because those are literally the only batch of drives that can read them, the functionality hasn't been carried over to newer models since.
Skel1ingt0n
I can't *believe* these lazy developers keep making file sizes so damn large. Btw, how does technology work?
So good!
Two questions, though.
1) What is the default directory/location for Dolphin Screenshots? I can't seem to find my shots anywhere on my drive.
2) My audio is giving me a lot of problems. Fuzziness sometimes, and just a huge downgrade in quality at random times, and then it bounces right back. While I don't use Dolphin a lot, this is the first time I've experienced it. I tried different audio options, but it said I needed to dump them from my Wii. So... will that fix the problem? And does anyone have a handy guide on how to do that?
Thanks!
nincompoop
Banned
So good!
Two questions, though.
1) What is the default directory/location for Dolphin Screenshots? I can't seem to find my shots anywhere on my drive.
2) My audio is giving me a lot of problems. Fuzziness sometimes, and just a huge downgrade in quality at random times, and then it bounces right back. While I don't use Dolphin a lot, this is the first time I've experienced it. I tried different audio options, but it said I needed to dump them from my Wii. So... will that fix the problem? And does anyone have a handy guide on how to do that?
Thanks!
How to dump DSP: http://forums.dolphin-emulator.com/showthread.php?tid=3823
Alternatively, you should be able to use a patched version of Dolphin that lets you play it with HLE with no issues, I used it for the European version and it worked perfectly. You
can get it here: http://forums.dolphin-emulator.com/showthread.php?tid=14356
Skel1ingt0n
I can't *believe* these lazy developers keep making file sizes so damn large. Btw, how does technology work?
Awesome! Thank you for the thorough (and quick) reply! I'll dabble with this stuff later tonight!
So good!
Two questions, though.
1) What is the default directory/location for Dolphin Screenshots? I can't seem to find my shots anywhere on my drive.
2) My audio is giving me a lot of problems. Fuzziness sometimes, and just a huge downgrade in quality at random times, and then it bounces right back. While I don't use Dolphin a lot, this is the first time I've experienced it. I tried different audio options, but it said I needed to dump them from my Wii. So... will that fix the problem? And does anyone have a handy guide on how to do that?
Thanks!
To answer your question: you need to download a Dolphin build that has the Xenoblade HLE fix, or the audio will be kind of broken.
what's that tiny screen you hhave there?
I love Xenoblade, and I love how beautiful Dolphin makes it, but I think I'll just play The Last Story on my Wii. Having to fiddle around optimising Dolphin and it being a complete fucking mystery as to why it'll randomly crash, taking my last hour of play with it, are just pissing me off. Stability above all else.
jediyoshi
Member
If you find Xenoblade unstable, you should probably stay far away from The Last Story. A million times less stable, more performance issues, effects not rendering correctly, disappearing textures, etc.
darkpaladinmfc
Member
It means you're CPU is the bottleneck.fuck i can only run xenoblade at 15fpschanging the internal resolution doesn't seem to be making the fps better or worse for some reason
Yeah maybe i should upgrade
kinda sucks because my cpu is fine for just about any modern day pc game. Wanted to upgrade my gpu sometime too.Yeah maybe i should upgrade
What CPU have you got? Maybe you can overclock it? I got my E4500 running 50% faster at 3.3GHz and it runs Xenoblade just fine.
vitaminwateryum
corporate swill
Pics have probably already been posted, but man, TvC looks really good running at 60fps.
nincompoop
Banned
Your CPU is probably holding you back, try overclocking
Empty Space
Member
Games locked at 25 unless you get a mod so yes.
OK guys, I am only going to say this once. This is MY opinion and it WILL not change....
When running in the Dolphin emulator, at 1920x1080 resolution, F-ZeroGX, is the...
*MOST. BEAUTIFUL. LOOKING. VIDEOGAME. EVER. MADE.!!!*
No, I am not being sarcastic and no I am not exaggerating in ANY way shape or form! I have played and seen EVERY graphically impressive game out there.....Crysis, Uncharted 3, Skyrim with Mods, Witcher 2, GT5, Battlefield 3, MW3, etc etc etc......none and I mean NONE of those games looks as GORGEOUS as F-ZeroGX running in Dolphin at 1920x1080!
I just bought a new front projector. It is the very first display I have owned that supports 1920x1080. I was previously on a 720p projector and the jump to 1080p was absolutely incredible in this game!!!!!!!!!! MY FREAKIN' GOODNESS!!! F-ZeroGX looks soooooooo fucking good I honestly cannot put it into words! The emulator dolphin unlocks the true resolution of the game's textures, making them look like NEXT GEN graphics!!!
Please everyone, if you get a chance, play F-ZeroGX in Dolphin and set the display resolution at 1920x1080 and make sure you set the *internal* resolution at 4x native(2560x2112). I get FULL ROCK SOLID 60fps pretty much EVERYWHERE.
*sigh*....I just don't know what else to say guys. The game is exceptionally beautiful and the best looking videogame I have ever gazed my eyes on. Period!
When running in the Dolphin emulator, at 1920x1080 resolution, F-ZeroGX, is the...
*MOST. BEAUTIFUL. LOOKING. VIDEOGAME. EVER. MADE.!!!*
No, I am not being sarcastic and no I am not exaggerating in ANY way shape or form! I have played and seen EVERY graphically impressive game out there.....Crysis, Uncharted 3, Skyrim with Mods, Witcher 2, GT5, Battlefield 3, MW3, etc etc etc......none and I mean NONE of those games looks as GORGEOUS as F-ZeroGX running in Dolphin at 1920x1080!
I just bought a new front projector. It is the very first display I have owned that supports 1920x1080. I was previously on a 720p projector and the jump to 1080p was absolutely incredible in this game!!!!!!!!!! MY FREAKIN' GOODNESS!!! F-ZeroGX looks soooooooo fucking good I honestly cannot put it into words! The emulator dolphin unlocks the true resolution of the game's textures, making them look like NEXT GEN graphics!!!
Please everyone, if you get a chance, play F-ZeroGX in Dolphin and set the display resolution at 1920x1080 and make sure you set the *internal* resolution at 4x native(2560x2112). I get FULL ROCK SOLID 60fps pretty much EVERYWHERE.
*sigh*....I just don't know what else to say guys. The game is exceptionally beautiful and the best looking videogame I have ever gazed my eyes on. Period!
Nabs
Member
Really...even the NA version? The FPS counter said 30 after the intro sequence and fluctuated from 24-29 with big (albeit quick) dips when I did a special move.
Weird.
You might be right.
I have a HD 5770 with 4GB RAM as well, the difference being that my CPU is a Phenom X4 955 3.2GB one and my OS is 64 bit.
EDIT: I also figured out how to get the 360 Button Prompts to show up in the US version of the game!
Steady 30fps here with the US version.
Intel 2500k OCd 4.5Ghz
Geforce 480GTX
4Gb DDR3 Ram
Running at 1680x1050, Vsync on, DX9, EFB copy to RAM with cache checked (Which was quite important for me to avoids slowdowns with textures after many different tries with different settings.)
(I know I don't put AA, I do this to be sure there's no slowdowns at all, LLE being more intense for the whole thing and I want it to go smooth.)
Intel 2500k OCd 4.5Ghz
Geforce 480GTX
4Gb DDR3 Ram
Running at 1680x1050, Vsync on, DX9, EFB copy to RAM with cache checked (Which was quite important for me to avoids slowdowns with textures after many different tries with different settings.)
(I know I don't put AA, I do this to be sure there's no slowdowns at all, LLE being more intense for the whole thing and I want it to go smooth.)
I keep getting fluctuating frame rates. When it's at 30 FPS the game runs like it would as if I were to go pop in into the Wii and play it, but when it dips down to 25 and below it runs like it's in slow motion. 25 FPS seems like it's 3/4 speed and 20FPS looks like .5x speed. Is there anyway to hard lock it to 30 FPS and make it so that it never dips below but can still go higher for when I play 60 fps games?
Emulation works like that, you need 100% speed and if you go below you get slow motion its not like playing a proper pc game. You can enable frameskip to get jerkiness instead of slowdown, but its equally as jarring. I wouldnt play a game where i couldnt get 100% speed 99% of the time. Only thing you can do is lower settings or buy a better processor.
Steady 30fps here with the US version.
Intel 2500k OCd 4.5Ghz
Geforce 480GTX
4Gb DDR3 Ram
Running at 1680x1050, Vsync on, DX9, EFB copy to RAM with cache checked (Which was quite important for me to avoids slowdowns with textures after many different tries with different settings.)
(I know I don't put AA, I do this to be sure there's no slowdowns at all, LLE being more intense for the whole thing and I want it to go smooth.)
You dont need lle, just download a xenoblade hle fixed dolphin version.
This is one happy man.
Lord Ghirahim
Member
I'll just pass out if they show a Xenoblade-like MLSI game for Wii U at E3.
I have a Phenom II 970 BE (3.5Ghz) I figured it would be fast enough to handle it. I hear many other gaffers talk about Dolphin being more designed for Intel chips (which I would have gotten a 2500K sandybridge if I had the money at the time) I just don't want to drop $300-400 for a new processor & mobo if the problem can be fixed through settings.
riceandbeans
Member
Settings won't fix your performance problems, but you can improve them slightly through some changes. This'll probably defeat the purpose of using Dolphin, but some of the basic ways to improve performance (I don't know how to tweak the settings specifically to games) is to lower the resolution and turn down/off the AA/AF. You'll see a slight bump. Also, you can try OC'ing your CPU if you haven't already.
jediyoshi
Member
Does the OS recognize the controller? Can you see it selectable in Dolphin?
I could never get it to work using Bluetooth, but it does work wired.
Ok ...
Yeah I'd really like something like that too...
Skel1ingt0n
I can't *believe* these lazy developers keep making file sizes so damn large. Btw, how does technology work?
Hey all!
I've been running Xenoblade fine without issue for the last couple days. Like I said in another thread, I run at 98% speed... about 98% of the time. I'll get the occasional drop for a second or two every fifteen minutes; no big deal, and entirely playable.
But tonight, everything went to hell. I'm in the Tempura(?) caves for the second time - so I know I didn't have problems earlier - and performance is absolutely abysmal. I'm dropping to ~70% speed every ten seconds, and the game is basically unplayable.
So, I go to check things out, and I notice Afterburner is reporting 99% GPU usage, which it never really does when I play on Dolphin. That seems very odd; usually my GPU usage is at ~5-25%, and will bump up to ~50% if I enable 4x AA, and will start bumping 99% usage with 9x (lol) AA. So, I double checked, and sure enough, AA is off. So, for the life of me, I can't figure out what's suddenly triggering this intense GPU usage, that's just destroying my performance.
But what's even more odd, is my GPU temps. I'm hitting a constant ~90+% GPU usage, which would typically put my GPU temps in the high 70s/low 80s C, but yet while playing Xenoblade, at 99% usage, I'm only hitting low 50s. Hmm....
So yeah, any ideas what to do? I'm at a loss. Thank you!
Oh yeah, specs:
i7 930 @ 3.4
GTX570 OC'd
12GB RAM
10K RPM HDD
Running "Abe's HLE-fixed Dolphin Version."
I've been running Xenoblade fine without issue for the last couple days. Like I said in another thread, I run at 98% speed... about 98% of the time. I'll get the occasional drop for a second or two every fifteen minutes; no big deal, and entirely playable.
But tonight, everything went to hell. I'm in the Tempura(?) caves for the second time - so I know I didn't have problems earlier - and performance is absolutely abysmal. I'm dropping to ~70% speed every ten seconds, and the game is basically unplayable.
So, I go to check things out, and I notice Afterburner is reporting 99% GPU usage, which it never really does when I play on Dolphin. That seems very odd; usually my GPU usage is at ~5-25%, and will bump up to ~50% if I enable 4x AA, and will start bumping 99% usage with 9x (lol) AA. So, I double checked, and sure enough, AA is off. So, for the life of me, I can't figure out what's suddenly triggering this intense GPU usage, that's just destroying my performance.
But what's even more odd, is my GPU temps. I'm hitting a constant ~90+% GPU usage, which would typically put my GPU temps in the high 70s/low 80s C, but yet while playing Xenoblade, at 99% usage, I'm only hitting low 50s. Hmm....
So yeah, any ideas what to do? I'm at a loss. Thank you!
Oh yeah, specs:
i7 930 @ 3.4
GTX570 OC'd
12GB RAM
10K RPM HDD
Running "Abe's HLE-fixed Dolphin Version."
I use this version: http://electrodexs.net/Dolphin/manual/?rvsn=3.0-508-gf30aebf
It has all the ICC optimisations (so it's a little faster if you have a modern CPU) and has the Xenoblade HLE hack turned on so the sound if fixed. Just choose the version near the top of the list with "XBHLE31" in the name.
I use the same one and it works great on my desktop (Phenom II x6 3.3Ghz/HD6850).
Fantastical
Death Prophet
Holy shit, was that website made in the late '90's? Comic sans, star patterned backgrounds, neon colors, and music.
EDIT: Not to be rude, it's a great resource, but... damn.
Unless you have a certain DVD drive, you need to mod your Wii to rip the game onto your computer.
Ugh. I was reading through the instructions and I'm missing a SD reader. Guess I'll have to wait till tomorrow.
I completely agree, especially regarding the music. Ugh, it even autoplays. Looks like a Geocities page.
But the author regularly updates Dolphin builds, uses a very efficient compiler and takes requests for patches, like the HLE patch in this build. So he does hard work and shares it for the community, I guess it's in his right to have an obnoxious website if that's what he's into.
Folks I want to hop on the dolphin train.
Installes all the stuff on my Wii according to the wiki from the homebrew threat and started up the USB loader. Everything up to that point works fine.
My problem: I can't seem to install/save my games to my usb drive. It always automatically goes to my SD card. I got the usb selected in the options (it's formatted FAT32) but somehow it doesn't seem to work. Any suggestions?
Installes all the stuff on my Wii according to the wiki from the homebrew threat and started up the USB loader. Everything up to that point works fine.
My problem: I can't seem to install/save my games to my usb drive. It always automatically goes to my SD card. I got the usb selected in the options (it's formatted FAT32) but somehow it doesn't seem to work. Any suggestions?