Best Answer: Well firstly, make sure your drivers and windows updates are up to date. Then id suggest going to msconfig.exe and stopping services you know you dont need (google them first), and then also stop things from auto starting when windows does (has to be done in task manager in win8).

Here are a few things you can do, to improve the speed on Dolphin: (Source: ) Config • General • Enable Dual Core checked. Usually enabled by default, improves performance on multi-core systems. • Enable Idle Skipping checked. Usually enabled by default. • JIT Recompiler (enabled by default) or JITIL experimental recompiler. • Audio • DSP HLE emulation • DSP on Dedicated Thread checked. Not recommended, according to the Devs.

Graphics • General • Backend • Direct3D9 (Windows only; ) • OpenGL (as of Dolphin 4.0; 'fastest Dolphin video backend on NVIDIA cards', see: ) • Display • V-Sync unchecked • Enhancements • Internal Resolution 1x Native • Anti-Aliasing None • Anisotropic Filtering 1x • Per-Pixel Lighting unchecked • Hacks • Skip EFB Access from CPU unchecked • Ignore Format Changes checked • EFB Copies Texture • Texture Cache Fast • External Frame Buffer -> Disable checked • OpenMP Texture Decoder checked The bold options may greatly improve performance. Keep in mind, though, that some games require some options to be enabled/disabled, even if this would reduce performance. For example: Skip EFB Access from CPU is an option that greatly reduces emulation speed, but is needed for Super Mario Galaxy. If messing around with these options do not help achieving a fast enough speed, you may always try this: Emulation -> Frame Skipping increase the value This improves the emulation speed, but also results in laggy animations (as a result of skipping frames). The higher the value, the faster the emulation and the laggier the animations will be.

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Setting it to 1 or 2 is usually good enough. If all else fail: Get a faster CPU. According to the Devs, Dolphin does not benefit from more than 2 cores. Also: More GHz == better (Intel and AMD CPUs do not perform the same at the same clock speed, though, so you might want to keep that in mind before purchase). @Turtleweezard I have an i7 3770k and a GTX 680. Monster Hunter Tri runs at 30 FPS and my GPU usage remains between 20% and 50% while my CPU is constantly at 25% (100% for 2 cores, which is the maximum Dolphin can use), so obviously my CPU is bottlenecking my GPU, and they're both high end. Also, Super Mario Galaxy is known to be one of the most CPU intensive games to emulate, as it requires a very CPU intensive feature.

It is said, that you can't expect Galaxy to run at full speed, unless you OC your CPU to over 4GHz; 5GHz for AMD CPUs. – Jun 28 '13 at 23:49 •. @Turtleweezard To back up my claim that a faster CPU is more important than a faster GPU, I've waded through the Dolphin forums and found, where a user says I have a 2010 Macbook Pro 15 inch OS x 10.8. With an i7-620m @ 2.66 and 3.33 Turbo boost. Also I have an Nvidia GeForce 330m with video memory 512mb and 8gb of DDR3 ram and asks if he can play the Metroid series. The answer is your CPU is a bit weak for Metroid Prime 1/2/3 no mention of the (low end) GPU being too slow.

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Emulation requires a lot of CPU power, far more than what the original console has. Your Macbook Air isn't ideal for emulation because it has a slow mobile CPU. The lack of cooling to get the extra thin form factor and light weight also likely isn't helping, as it means you're less likely to get the 2.7GHz turbo clock due to thermal restrictions, and your CPU likely runs at the much slower 1.4GHz base clock.

Do also keep in mind that some games still aren't up to good performance on the Dolphin eg. The Rogue Squadron games still have performance issues in some levels even with a high end desktop PC running the emulator. All you can really do is make sure your laptop is plugged in and running at maximum performance mode when trying to run the emulator, if you can manually increase the fan speed, that might help improve the thermals and help you get better results with the Turbo Boost clocks. First off comparing the raw power of your macbook to the original console isn't a valid comparison. The gamecube is built to run gamecube games and the Mac is built to run x86 applications in a Linux environment. This is why most emulators have problems even on very high end hardware and in some cases having too high end hardware can actually break games by making them run too fast for their engine. This inefficiency can lead to some emulators requiring much much more powerful hardware than the original console did.