Hi, I hope someone here can help me. I have spent hours messing with Dolphin with no fix. The game I'm trying to play is Mario Galaxy 2. The problem I'm having is with the sound. It stutters and clips in and out.
It doesn't stutter at all if I set Dolphin to DSP HLE, but the music disappears after about two minutes and doesn't come back. Set to DSP LLE the music never completely disappears, but the sound stutters like crazy. The frames per second never drop below 45 though.
First I set Dolphin settings up for good graphics. And then I thought setting Dolphin settings up "For Best Game Speed" would fix things. Here's the website of the settings I used. http://dolphin-emu.org/docs/guides/settings/
Even with the most basic settings there is sound problems. I have an external sound card and an internal one, using neither one makes a difference. I have tried other games and there are sound problems on those also.
I have tried the game in full screen and in windowed mode. In windowed mode I'm able to look at how much drain there is for each of the cores on the cpu using a program I have. The drain doesn't go above 90%. There is one major thing I noticed, If I go to the processes in windows task manager and right click on the Dolphin program and pick set affinity, it let's me choose how many cores Dolphin is allowed to use. If I set it to one core the sound problem completely goes away. However the game is unplayable because it runs at only 20 frames per second and moves so slow since one core isn't enough for smooth game playing. If I set Dolphin to use two or more cores the sound problem comes back again.
Does anyone have a solution. Dolphin graphics look so much better than playing through my wii. My computer is definitely powerful enough for Dolphin so things should work. Computer specs are Radeon hd 7870 overclocked edition, i5-2500k, g.skill 8gb pc3-14900, Windows 7 64bit, motherboard Asrock Extreme4 gen3. Please up if you can, I'm sure there's smarter people out there that know more about this stuff.
It doesn't stutter at all if I set Dolphin to DSP HLE, but the music disappears after about two minutes and doesn't come back. Set to DSP LLE the music never completely disappears, but the sound stutters like crazy. The frames per second never drop below 45 though.
First I set Dolphin settings up for good graphics. And then I thought setting Dolphin settings up "For Best Game Speed" would fix things. Here's the website of the settings I used. http://dolphin-emu.org/docs/guides/settings/
Even with the most basic settings there is sound problems. I have an external sound card and an internal one, using neither one makes a difference. I have tried other games and there are sound problems on those also.
I have tried the game in full screen and in windowed mode. In windowed mode I'm able to look at how much drain there is for each of the cores on the cpu using a program I have. The drain doesn't go above 90%. There is one major thing I noticed, If I go to the processes in windows task manager and right click on the Dolphin program and pick set affinity, it let's me choose how many cores Dolphin is allowed to use. If I set it to one core the sound problem completely goes away. However the game is unplayable because it runs at only 20 frames per second and moves so slow since one core isn't enough for smooth game playing. If I set Dolphin to use two or more cores the sound problem comes back again.
Does anyone have a solution. Dolphin graphics look so much better than playing through my wii. My computer is definitely powerful enough for Dolphin so things should work. Computer specs are Radeon hd 7870 overclocked edition, i5-2500k, g.skill 8gb pc3-14900, Windows 7 64bit, motherboard Asrock Extreme4 gen3. Please up if you can, I'm sure there's smarter people out there that know more about this stuff.