Emulator

• Resolves frame pacing issues for non-60 hertz titles.
• Resolves presentation issues and our bad frame pacing on non-60hz panels.
• Improves frame time consistency.

Might it be possible to achieve the above 3 items by forcing a certain number of prerendered frames through the graphics API? eg. 1, 2 or 3 prerendered frames. Increasing it would result in input latency, but at least should provide smooth frame pacing if there are always some prerendered frames in the queue.

Nvidia used to have a "max prerendered frames" setting, but I believe that doesn't actually force the value, rather it just allows that many if the application wants it. What I'm suggesting is a forced value to always ensure there are n frames in the queue.

In my experience I can never get smooth frame pacing unless Dolphin is presenting 60fps and the monitor is 60hz. Note that "presenting" isn't what Dolphin reports in its fps meter -- to see "presented" fps requires some third party tool like RTSS. For 30fps titles you can force 60fps presentation by unticking "skip presenting duplicate frames" and "immediately present XFB". Then you should see 60fps in RTSS and have smooth pacing, however input latency will probably be noticeably highter. The NVidia driver has an "ultra low latency" setting in its driver which may help reduce that. Limiting fps to 60 with RTSS may keep latency as low as possible, but I suspect it affects audio quality due to it slowing down the entire emulation pipeline.

Hello, I was just wondering if this issue still exists in current versions in Dolphin?

Yes. Asynchronous presentation hasn't been implemented yet.