[SOLVED] Stutter in roms

foolhardy

New batocera install with the following hardware

HP EliteDesk 800 G1 SFF
CPU i7 4790 3.6GHz
RAM 20GB DDR3
GPU NVidia GTX 1050 TI 4GB GDDR5 RAM
SSD 512GB (OS & data storage)

When running gamecube and wii roms, dolphin stutters badly, has noticeable tearing, and sometimes does not run at full speed. The same issue occurs with the PS2 emulator during the opening of Shadow of the Colossus.

I have not upscaled any resolutions for emulators (I've not yet figured out how to do it), so all my issues are occurring with stock settings.

From what I've read, my hardware should be plenty to run these emus/games at full speed with no issues for hardware limitations.

On the system information screen it shows that I'm using OPENGL version of 4.6.0 NVIDIA 430.40 . I did remove the comment for the nvidia driver in recalbox-boot.conf . Regardless, what I'm seeing sure appears to suggest that the GPU is not being fully utilized.

I generated a support file from the same screen but I cannot find where to retrieve it. If that would be helpful then please tell me where to look for it.

I would very much appreciate any input you may have.

joinski

foolhardy

Which games did you test for Gamecube?

You can get rid of tearing by enabling V-Sync in the dolphin graphics settings (when in Emulation Station just press F1 on a connected Keyboard, then navigate to Applications, dolphin-emu-config and then go to Graphics).
For PS2 to enable V-Sync, open pcsx2-config, then open Config, Video (GS), Window Settings..., and then uncheck Preset (on the lower left corner) and then you can enable "Wait for Vsync on refresh".

The support file is located under /share/saves.

foolhardy

Mario Kart is a game I tested for gamecube. You are right, enabling V-sync does appear to have resolved my issue. Additionally, the dialogue's to which you pointed me also have the up-scale rendering options so now these games run, without tearing, in HD.

Thank you very much, @joinski , you're expertise is praised and appreciated!