#DOLPHIN VR SETTINGS SLOW GAMES HOW TO#
This may help variable frame rate games run faster and lowering it may cause the game to frame skip which may improve performance or the smoothness of the game but is also likely to cause glitches etc as it is not how the game was intended to run! How to get Better fps on Dolphin EmulatorĬheck out How do I Speed up Dolphin Emulator? The other side of this is that you may want to increase the fps of the dolphin emulator. You can also set the emulated CPU to be faster or slower than the Wii would run at. How to Lock fps in Dolphin Emulator – You can fine this in the config section off the main window., This will make the game essentially unplayable though unless you set up frame skipping as it will be playing at 50% of the intended speed. So for a game intended to be played at 60fs and locked at 50%, it will output 30fps. This will have the same effect as locking the fps because the emulatr will play the game at the specified fraction of the intended fps. More likely, you will be asking how do i speed up dolphin emulator which is a topic covered in another post.Ībout the only thing that you can do if you really do want to limit the fps below what the game is intended to be played at would be to linit the spreed of the game. Given this, there isn’t really much reason to limit the fps in dolphin emulator. Some were at 30 fps and some were at 60fps (there may have even been some in between. Dolphin will play the game as fat as it can but will limit the output to the intended fps of that specific game.
Once I did what I mentioned above, things returned to normal.In the more modern versions of the Dolphin Emulator, you don’t need to concern yourself with this. Ordon Village became incredibly laggy with massive stutter and slowdown. This worked for me when I was playing Twilight Princess Wii. Note: The cache and shader files are safe to delete and won't cause any issues or conflicts if you delete them. Do this every time before you load up Dolphin VR and the game you are going to play. Next, go into the Shaders folder and delete all of the files there. Now look for the Cache folder and go inside here. Mine is found at "This PC"/"Documents"/Dolphin Emulator. What you can do is this:įind where your main Dolphin directory folder is. Like mentioned above, this can also happen if you keep frequently loading save states.
Things might seem normal for a while then one time, on day, you load up the game and it is almost in slow motion! When the cache and shader files build up from subsequent playtime, slowdown can occur. Temporary Solution to slowdown/stutter (deleting the cache and shader files, no framerate glitches) Second Method:Īs you might all know even if you have a powerful PC, certain games in Dolphin VR can have massive stutter and slowdown at times. But, sadly Dolphin VR doesn't have this option, so you'll have to stick with frame skipping to 2 or read below for method 2, where you can learn how to manually delete the cache and shader files. Something with internal game Shaders and the emulator not storing the operational processes of any one game you're playing within your own computers ram.Some dev builds of the regular Dolphin emulator had an option called "Ubershaders" This allowed for the game processes to be stored in your computers ram if it could handle it. Note: I learned these sound/lag issues aren't do to computer issues as my computer is pretty powerful and I have plenty of ram.
So, I guess to avoid this it is advisable to load from the in game save whenever you can. One last thing I noticed is: If you make a save state and keep loading that save state while playing a game, over and over again, the game might slow down a bit or have lag issues as well. Then proceed to put Frame Skipping back on to 2. If there is ever a time when you still have this selected and reload a game from a save state and things start looking all blurry and the game slows down, set frame skipping back to 0, close out Dolphin and restart the game fresh from the games menu and load a real save you made within the in-game save system. This method might not work for everyone though. Not a big deal if you want to improve the sound/lag. Although, you might lose a couple FPS making your character look slightly glitchy. If you are having sound lag/framerate slowdown go to "Emulation" at the top and select "Frame Skipping". And it might not work for everyone:Ĭorrecting Sound Stutter/lag Issues (might cause framerate glitches) First Method: This is the only trick I found to fix some slow down and framerate issues.