TP: Dolphin Lag Reduction Guide

Dolphin is not a technically demanding program, but it does require a decent PC at the least. I can say most of my PC is 7+ years old at time of writing, and I can run Dolphin 720p with no lag with the below settings.

Having the latest version of Dolphin, or at least one that's 5.x, is ideal.

These settings will work with most games, the only difference being the Hyrule Field speed hack is only for TP

== Config settings ==

= General =
Enable Dual Core
Enable Idle Skipping (if applicable)

== Graphics settings ==

= General =
Backend: Direct3D 11+
Adapter: Your GPU (NOT Microsoft or integrated)
Render to main window

= Enhancements =
Native resolution
Everything else off except for disable fog

= Hacks =
Skip EFB Access from CPU
Store EFB Copies to Texture Only (tick this if your GPU is better than your CPU)
Ignore Format Changes
Defer EFB Copies to RAM (tick this if your RAM is better than GPU)
Disable Bounding Box

== Game settings (right click game -> properties) ==

= General =
Enable Dual Core
Enable Idle Skipping (if applicable)
Synchronize GPU thread
Speed up Disc Transfer Rate (speeds up loads, so disable this if you're doing races or if you want vanilla loads)
DSP HLE Emulation

= Patches =
Hyrule Field Speed Hack

= AR Codes =
Note: If you still lag with the above settings, you can further reduce lag by adding codes to remove particle effects, bloom, post processing effects and more
Note: I am not posting the codes here because the sites they're on are flagged as a trojan, so be warned when looking through codes, you are treading risky territory. But if you insist, Google "twilight princess ar codes reduce bloom" and you should get gc-forever link that shows [ralf] in description. There's a lot of codes in that page that can reduce lag.
Note: Some of those codes may also break the game. iirc the no twilight effect one prevented Fyer's spirit from being in Lake Hylia, so you could never get to Zora's Domain