Black screen when emulation begins

[Fried_Orange_Juice]

I have been using the emulator for a few weeks now, and I have been playing Mario Kart fine until recently. Now when I go to play the game as soon as emulation begins their is just a black screen. Anyone know what could be going on?

[KHg8m3r]

Windows is funny if you have fast boot, use the restart command instead of shut down and see if that solves your problem.

If not, see if updating to the latest dev build helps.

Or check if your game dump became corrupted from like a Windows update or something. Right click on the game in Dolphin's game list, go to Properties > Info tab and compute the MD5 sum, then compare it to a website like gametdb.com

[JMC47]

Windows update can also uninstall graphics drivers.

[Fried_Orange_Juice]

(09-11-2018, 09:16 AM)KHg8m3r Wrote: Windows is funny if you have fast boot, use the restart command instead of shut down and see if that solves your problem.

If not, see if updating to the latest dev build helps.

Or check if your game dump became corrupted from like a Windows update or something. Right click on the game in Dolphin's game list, go to Properties > Info tab and compute the MD5 sum, then compare it to a website like gametdb.com

On comparing the md5s are different, what does this mean?

[KHg8m3r]

A couple things:
1. your dump is bad and you need to redump it from your disc to get a correct file
2. you compressed the file using a lossy format, in which case, you should probably check the other things to see if they'll fix your issue, or redump
3. find an old backup from before it was corrupt
4. You didn't specify if this was Mario Kart: DD or Mario Kart Wii. If it's the Wii version, right click on the game, go to Properties > filesystem and right-click on the partition, and check integrity. If it passes, you're good and should check the other ways to fix this