Dolphin Emulator - Ubershaders: A Ridiculous Solution to an Impossible Problem

When you’re playing your favorite game on Dolphin with a powerful computer, things should run fairly well. The game is running full speed, there are no graphical glitches, and you can use your favorite controller if you want. Yet, every time you go to a new area, or load a new effect, there’s a very slight but noticeable “stutter.” You turn off the framelimiter to check and your computer can run the game at well over full speed. What’s going on? The slowdown when loading new areas, effects, models, and more is commonly referred to as “Shader Compilation Stuttering,” by users and developers alike. This problem has been a part of Dolphin since the very beginning, but has only recently become more of a focus.