I've only been using Dolphin (version 5.0 with recommended settings) for a couple weeks now and am only playing GameCube games.
I'm playing on a laptop - a Lenovo IdeaPad Y700, and I can only get through about a half hour of gameplay before my computer freezes.
When the freeze occurs, the game will usually continue playing as usual - idle animations aren't effected, cutscenes will play until a new scene would load, but then it will stay at a blank screen.
The rest of my computer, however, becomes completely unresponsive. Videos playing in the background freeze with the last sound held forever, my mouse, keyboard, and power button go completely unresponsive, and the only way to end the freeze is to take apart my computer and remove the battery (or let it wear itself down)
I haven't had any previous issues with my laptop with modern games, and have tried clearing caches, keeping other programs closed while playing, and other recommendations on similar threads, but haven't seen any threads with my specific issue.
Is this just par for the course for emulation, or should there be some way to fix this?
I'm playing on a laptop - a Lenovo IdeaPad Y700, and I can only get through about a half hour of gameplay before my computer freezes.
When the freeze occurs, the game will usually continue playing as usual - idle animations aren't effected, cutscenes will play until a new scene would load, but then it will stay at a blank screen.
The rest of my computer, however, becomes completely unresponsive. Videos playing in the background freeze with the last sound held forever, my mouse, keyboard, and power button go completely unresponsive, and the only way to end the freeze is to take apart my computer and remove the battery (or let it wear itself down)
I haven't had any previous issues with my laptop with modern games, and have tried clearing caches, keeping other programs closed while playing, and other recommendations on similar threads, but haven't seen any threads with my specific issue.
Is this just par for the course for emulation, or should there be some way to fix this?