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Dolphin is a very demanding program, so configuring Dolphin the right way is very important to run games smoothly. This '''performance guide''' will show a "quick and dirty" example of how to speed up Dolphin. Only options that improve performance are shown here. | Dolphin is a very demanding program, so configuring Dolphin the right way is very important to run games smoothly. This '''performance guide''' will show a "quick and dirty" example of how to speed up Dolphin. Only options that improve performance are shown here. | ||
Dolphin has three configuration related buttons: Config, Graphics, and | Dolphin has three configuration related buttons: Config, Graphics, and controllers; which will open the options described below. And also game properties. | ||
== Config == | == Config == | ||
=== General === | |||
==== Enable Dual Core ==== | |||
Provides a significant speedup on modern systems. Recommended on most games, though may cause issues like crashing or graphic issues on some games. Refer [https://wiki.dolphin-emu.org/index.php?title=Category:Config_Required this page]for a list of games that need to disable Dual Core. | |||
==== CPU Emulator Engine ==== | |||
There are currently four CPU Emulator Engines: | |||
* '''JIT Recompiler''' : The fastest engine and the recommended on almost all games. | |||
* '''JITIL Recompiler''' : Slower than JIT, required only for Poképark series. | |||
* '''Cached Interpreter''' : Very slow and only required for [[Guinness World Records: The Videogame]]. | |||
* '''Interpreter''' : Slowest engine, it runs slow doesn't matter how powerful is your PC, required only for [[1080° Snowboarding]]. | |||
== Graphics == | == Graphics == | ||
* '''Backend''' - Which graphics backend is the fastest generally varies depending on the game that you are playing. Experiment to find what works for you. Note: OpenGL is the only backend available on Linux and Mac OSX. | * '''Backend''' - Which graphics backend is the fastest generally varies depending on the game that you are playing. Experiment to find what works for you. Note: OpenGL is the only backend available on Linux and Mac OSX. | ||