Dolphin crashes upon game launch

[TheOperator3712]

Yesterday it was working fine, today the application crashes immediately upon trying to launch a game.  I've already tried clearing the log, and turning on the log file.  The crash happens before the application has a chance to begin logging anything.  Dolphin version is 5.0-10829.  The Windows notification of the crash churns out the following information:

Problem signature:
 Problem Event Name: APPCRASH
 Application Name: Dolphin.exe
 Application Version: 0.0.0.0
 Application Timestamp: 5d4df2e4
 Fault Module Name: atig6txx.dll
 Fault Module Version: 8.14.1.6463
 Fault Module Timestamp: 56569fdb
 Exception Code: c0000005
 Exception Offset: 0000000000016def
 OS Version: 6.1.7601.2.1.0.768.3
 Locale ID: 1033
 Additional Information 1: 344a
 Additional Information 2: 344a3b5bf509ec177ded998253ef12d8
 Additional Information 3: 1e34
 Additional Information 4: 1e34331f640db6f447d19343198984f6

EDIT: I tried loading up a game in the most recent stable version, and it appears to be working fine there.

[JonnyH]

" Fault Module Name: atig6txx.dll"

That looks like a GPU driver - have you got the latest drivers (from the vendor website - not just windows update) installed? Did you update them since it was working? Or updated windows itself?

Maybe trying a clean install of them would help? I've had a number of times my GPU drivers have done something weird and killed themselves with seemingly "no reason" that was fixed by reinstalling them.

[TheOperator3712]

" Fault Module Name: atig6txx.dll"

That looks like a GPU driver - have you got the latest drivers (from the vendor website - not just windows update) installed? Did you update them since it was working? Or updated windows itself?

Maybe trying a clean install of them would help? I've had a number of times my GPU drivers have done something weird and killed themselves with seemingly "no reason" that was fixed by reinstalling them.

I tried a clean install of Dolphin.  I haven't had any GPU driver updates or Windows updates.  My GPU vendor almost certainly hasn't released new compatible drivers for my card in years.  It's old.  Really old.