My computer lags when I run gamecube emulator. Are my specs good enough?

[nicholaslovell]

ASRock Z97m Anniversary
Intel G3258 3.2Ghz
2x4 GB G. Skill Ram
120 GB Kingston SSD
PNY Geforce GT 730 GDDR5 - 1GB - 64bit
Windows 8.1 64bit

I thought my system would be plenty to run the emulator but the games lag significantly. Are there any settings I need to set?

 

[Dunlop0078]

No i dont think your computer is strong enough your cpu and gpu are both a bit weak for an emulator.

 

[Michael Clancy]

Your specs are perfectly fine for gamecube, maybe you just need a different emulator. Yor gpu is overkill and u only need 2gb of ram. Dolphin tuns on dual core, not sure what emulator your using.

 

[nicholaslovell]

Your specs are perfectly fine for gamecube, maybe you just need a different emulator. Yor gpu is overkill and u only need 2gb of ram. Dolphin tuns on dual core, not sure what emulator your using.

I am using dolphin. I'll have to try a different emulator and see what happens, thanks.

 

[Dunlop0078]

Your specs are perfectly fine for gamecube, maybe you just need a different emulator. Yor gpu is overkill and u only need 2gb of ram. Dolphin tuns on dual core, not sure what emulator your using.

He does not meet the recommended specs, an emulator takes a lot of power to run it doesn't matter if its just a GameCube game and the amount of ram he has doesn't matter because the gpu and cpu are not powerful enough.

https://dolphin-emu.org/docs/faq/

 

[Michael Clancy]

Like i said his gpu is overkill , they even say a gtx430 plays nearly every game and even say that intel integrated graphics 3000 and 4000 will work. The only spec that is lacking at all is his cpu and if a Core 2 Duo E4500 can run it his g2358 will smoke that... different games lag even on the best cpu on that emulator and its possible something else like drivers or settings is slowing you down.

 

[Dunlop0078]

Like i said his gpu is overkill , they even say a gtx430 plays nearly every game and even say that intel integrated graphics 3000 and 4000 will work. The only spec that is lacking at all is his cpu and if a Core 2 Duo E4500 can run it his g2358 will smoke that... different games lag even on the best cpu on that emulator and its possible something else like drivers or settings is slowing you down.

Im just going by what it says the recommended specs are. It recommends a gtx 460, the gt 730 is not as powerful as a 460. For cpu it recommends a 4th gen i5 or i7, not a duel core, not hyperthreded Pentium. I would imagine that it would work on this system especially if a core 2 duo can run it but you are well below the recommended specs so i doubt it would be a smooth experience with a decent framerate. Unless that recommended specs sheet i posted is way off.

 

[nicholaslovell]

Like i said his gpu is overkill , they even say a gtx430 plays nearly every game and even say that intel integrated graphics 3000 and 4000 will work. The only spec that is lacking at all is his cpu and if a Core 2 Duo E4500 can run it his g2358 will smoke that... different games lag even on the best cpu on that emulator and its possible something else like drivers or settings is slowing you down.

I've seen this problem elsewhere and I'm beginning to think it is drivers or even windows 8 for some reason.

 

[Ellis_D]

What settings are you using by the way? It's possible you're trying to get too much out of your system. I'd first start by trying to emulate the games at native resolution with zero enhancements, just to see if it's even possible for your system to run them and once that's established, then start enabling the upscalers and filtering.

 

[Michael Clancy]

After more research i suspect something other than hardware, another guy with your exact build except for gpu is 6670 which is about the same as yours runs perfectly, check settings.

 

[nicholaslovell]

Thanks for your help guys. I just followed the directions here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aULOW2JQKbo and it works perfectly now!