and 16GHz vRAM has some drops every now and then. But it is well known that Baldur's Gate is notoriously hard to emulate, and even my rig, with a i9 9900k 5.1GHz, 3400MHz CL16 Dual Channel DDR4 and a RTX2080TI that is heavily overclocked to 2010MHz Core avg. As always keep in mind that messing with the emulated clockspeed can severely mess up your game to the point that stuff doesn't work, glitches out or completely breaks the game.

The thing is if you downclock the CPU too much, it will start missing frames even though it might run at 60FPS ingame, you will see stuttering (a.k.a. Despite the stutters and desyncs, some serious Melee players saw the potential and kept with the project. Melee, hacks to LLE audio to make it slow down less during attacks, and much more. (interp & recomp) this helped a bit as it made the beeping stop but the sound then began dieing off. Early netplayers would hack up Dolphin to reduce requirements with 30 FPS hacks to Super Smash Bros. so after some googling etc i changed to DSP LLE. At first it was like a frequent, loud beeping flicker that was beyond annoying. It very much possible that the game doesn't actually use the full GameCube CPU speed to be able to run the game at 60FPS and by making it easier to emulate the GameCube CPU you are able to hit the 60FPS. So eh, i only just got Dolphin and decided to play Paper Mario but sadly the sound is pretty bad.

So because you are doing that it becomes easier to emulate the CPU in the GameCube with your physical CPU. What you are actually doing is downclocking the GameCube CPU speed from 485MHz to the percentage of what you are specifying (e.g. also the visual speed and fps seems more fluid with dropped cpu, it doesnt seem slowed down, rather more smooth. Ive recently started running into some audio stuttering errors while playing (specifically) Wii games on Dolphin. As in somewhere it shows 35fps on 100% cpu - but for example baldur's gate shows only drop to 55fps on those problem parts with 80% cpu (been tweaking around). Time-stretched audio will 'stretch' the currently output audio over the gaps, allowing the game to sound more natural at the cost of some audio latency. Audio stuttering can be avoided by running Dolphin full-speed, or, in the latest development builds, activating time-stretched audio. (04-09-2020, 05:52 PM)Pheidian Wrote: Ok, why does it show 60fps on emulator even though I lower the cpu? I might wanna do comparison recording for this, since to me it seems when I lower the clock, the stuttering goes away and framerate seems to be better even in the problematic places. This is not actually an audio issue, but a performance issue.

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