(05-05-2018, 01:08 PM)Shonumi Wrote: Might sound farfetched but what are you CPU temps? In the past, people would play Dolphin, and raise the heat inside their PCs until freezes/crashes happened. Wasn't uncommon with bad cooling (either clutter/dust inside the case or wear and tear on some stuff like the thermal paste used for the CPU).
Try using a development build instead of 5.0 if your temperatures look fine. Using something newer might help. In all honesty, I'd wager some of these "random" times when Dolphin suddenly stops working might be the fault of some automatic software that updates in the background (probably Windows?), so it might be an OS issue as well.
My CPU temperatures are fine, I run this program called ThrottleStop which boosts my performance (by a tad bit), no problems whatsoever. And no, Windows Update isn't doing anything, I "disabled" it by making my connection metered. It's also worth noting that the development version isn't really a good alternative IMO, considering that it stutters/runs slower at higher IRs than the stable version.