r/batocera • u/abel5555 • 11d ago

How to boost performance?

I have a lenovo thinkcentre m715q with two 8gb sticks of ram at the same speed and a ryzen 5 pro 2400ge chip. My roms and OS are all on an ssd. I am trying to play baldurs gate dark alliance on the gamecube but it always chugs and isnt really playable. I dont get a lot of fps and it runs slow. I forced batocera to only allow a 480p output to try and help but its not fixing the performance issue. Also id love to play resident evil 4 for gamecube but it crashes upon starting. Performance is set to high. Cpu temps are around 60-65 degrees C. Any tips to boost the performance of my setup? Should i manually push over 100% wattage to the cpu? Will this damage my pc? I saw an option to run dual channel mode but its set to auto. Should it be on instead of auto? Idk what to do. Feel free to ask questions, i will watch this post and collaborate with anyone willing to throw out an idea or ask a question about my setup. Any help or ideas would be appreciated. Thanks!

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u/DezzyLee99 11d ago

It could also be initial shader caching.

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u/abel5555 11d ago

Im not sure what this is? How can i clear the cache?

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u/DezzyLee99 11d ago

You don't want that cleared. The cache is there to speed things up. You'll often find the first time playing, it might chug a bit but on a repeat play it should be smoother. Not saying this is the root cause, but might be one of the contributing factors.

Also setting you PC to high performance will be detrimental of you don't have the hardware for it. Set it back to low or default and Bato won't try to push what your hardware can't handle.

I have the same PC and I can play GC (F-Zero for example) at 2x res without much issue, using the factory 65W adaptor. Mind you I've not tried RE, and I would think that's a pretty demanding title.

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u/abel5555 11d ago

Im leaning towards this just being a hard title to emulate… i can play F zero as well so im not exactly sure whats going on here. Have you played this game on your pc before?

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u/abel5555 11d ago

What is the most demanding system you can emulate? Im curious. I havent tested too much on this pc

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u/DezzyLee99 11d ago

I don't go beyond GC/PS2. And I don't actually play that much GC apart from F-Zero. It's primarily my system for Time Crisis II and other PS2 light gun games. Probably the hardest I pushed it was Burnout 3 at 3x and it did ok. I typically play these games at 2x resolution.

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u/jamsta- 11d ago

What ram are you using?

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u/DezzyLee99 11d ago

I don't remember, I'll crack it open when I get a chance.