How can i get my processor NOT to downclock when im playing games on my emulator?

What emulator are you using?
If you are using like Dolphin emulator (NGC/Wii emulator), this just can play them. You need a 3GHz CPU and at least Geforce 8800 GT or equivalent from ATI, and even then the current library of supported games is really small.

 

Just PS1. Chrono Cross/FF7. And I own the titles, btw.

i know the x4500 is not a good GPU, but since it runs the game great 50% of the time, and then this problem occurs the other 50%, i know something is wrong.

 

I havent tried playing anything on the Intel x4500 though i came close to it. What emu are you using and if its epsxe what plugin? I found my GeForce Go 6100 couldnt handle the OpenGL2 plugin but handled the older OpenGL just fine for FF7.

You have to realize that there will be slowdowns in different parts of the game as well even if the cpu stayed at a solid clock rate. Use fraps or the emu's build in to get the frame rate to compare say battle to world map see how its really performing.

Might want to run it in windowed mode so you can keep tabs on clock and usage. Shouldnt have an issue at the processors middle clock of 1600 mhz anyways. If the processor usage is high enough at 800mhz it will bump the clock if its not then that shouldnt be the issue.

 

its definitely NOT the emulator though. its got something to do with the fan/temps or something like that. the game will run amazing, and then all the sudden, it will slowdown so much that it is unplayable. areas that i was playing fine in all the sudden dont work when this happens, so its not area specific.

this is driving me nuts. seems to be some sort of throttling/heat issue...and i cant do anything about it!

 

seems like this is a common problem with no fix:

http://en.community.dell.com/forums/p/19270205/19470560.aspx

http://en.community.dell.com/forums/t/19247293.aspx

 

I can play FF8 on my old desktop using EPSXE. It had a Geforce 2 mx so definitely its not the X4500 unless your emulator doesn't like IGPs.

 

i think it has to do with heating or thermal tables.

 

Have you tried disabling all of the other multipliers using RMClock? Deselect all of the lower multipliers and force the CPU to only use the higest multiplier manually and see what happens (if you've not already done so). This may be a way to isolate if it is a heat vs stepping issue.

 

Kazaam, just curious, what was the temperature around you when your CPU started getting throttled? I think I was able to replicate your problem. I ran 3dmark06 on a 36.5 C environment and once I got to the CPU test, things got pretty slow. RMClock would show the Core Clock at 2.4 Ghz but throttled to 800 Mhz (I was on Performance on Demand with all multipliers checked). Scrolling a webpage became a drag. I repeated the test on a much cooler place (30 C) and I was ablle to finish the entire test without any sluggishness.

I think Dell decided to throttle the CPU once it and the chipset reached a certain temp. though I think they could have set the threshold a little higher. Unfortunately, I wasn't to get the max temp when I experienced the problem

 

YES!

I think the temp is around 65. The highest i have ever seen it was like 71 (or maybe 76?) but even then, thats not that excessive. I really doubt it would have gotten much higher if the speed stayed the same. A lot of people are angry about this, i hope dell changes the heat rules!