I've read that WiiMotion Plus functionality exists in Dolphin 3.5 but for some reason I cannot get this to work on my PC. Ensuring that you are using 64-bit Windows and a 64-bit build of Dolphin on a 64-bit Mac should help with the performance. However I cannot seem to even be able to get past the 'Connect WiiMotion Plus' screen when loading up Skyward Sword and Dolphin 5.0 doesn't seem to allow me to enable WiiMotion Plus in anyway in the settings. Im not using a texture pack and Im using Vulkan as my backend, as usually its the only one that gives a semi-stable 60fps. Check the properties of My Computer to see if Windows has all the RAM installed on your machine.įinally, this is probably the most important check you can make: Is your Mac a 64 or 32-bit machine? If you have a 64-bit Mac but are running 32-bit Windows you can end up taking a very large performance hit. Ive tried setting dolphins priority to high in task manager, closing a bunch of background processes like Adobe CC, Discord and Spotify, and restarted my laptop and nothing changed. Make sure Windows is using all of your RAM.
I knew Dolphin texture packs existed and I just looked up how to get the. Dolphin may be trying to use the lower end emulator. Development Blog of the Skyward Sword Remaster Project by Ellie (Farontea) and. Many Mac models come with 2 video cards standard, one is a low-end Intel integrated graphics for everyday use and the other is a high-end card for scientific applications, gaming, video/graphics editing and programs where the programmer does't realize they are using a GPU filter instead of a CPU filter.
Make sure you have the video card drivers up to date. There should also be a Boot Camp manager in Windows you can use to see if your drivers are up to date on that end. And is best configuration to play Zelda Skyward Sword on my MacBook Pro 15' late 2011 (december) OS X Lion 10.7.4 & BootCamp Windows 7 Processor/CPU: Quad-Core 2.5 GHz Intel Core i7 Video Card/GPU: AMD Radeon HD 6770M 1024 MB Memory/RAM: 8GB Dolphin Revision Currently Using: 3.
In Mac OS X, you can go to Apple Menu > Software Update… to update your Mac. Make sure Boot Camp and it's drivers are up to date. Also according to a comment by Bombado on the Skyward Sword wiki, '20-30FPS,D3D9, 19201080, Anisotropic Filtering 16x, AA off, 1x native,Skip EFB Access,EFB copies to texture, i have strange issue in some areas i have 30FPS but some time later performance keeps dropping 30-28-26-24FPS in the same area,when i restart emulator FPS back to normal.
There are several things that can impact the performance of your computer under Boot Camp.