I'm sorry that I revived this topic after so many days have passed, but I have noticed something important about the crashes when using Direct3D on Windows 10. I have an Intel Iris 5100 and I totally agree that the drivers have indeed many differences comparing to the ones supporting Windows 7, 8 and 8.1, but I think it's not just that! I happen to use other emulators as well, such as ePSXe and PCSX2 and they don't crash when I use Direct3D. ePSXe is irrelevant to this topic, because it uses older DirectX, but in PCSX2 you can use DirectX 11, just like in Dolphin and it doesn't crash. An other important thing is that my PC games also work fine and they don't even need compatibility options to work. Some of these use DirectX 11.
So, if it were just the drivers, I would expect at least one PC game to crash, just like Dolphin does, or to have graphics or performance issues, since many of them take full advantage of the graphics API they use.
So, what I see is that all the above point to Dolphin doing something wrong.
Time to go to the Dolphin part. Right after the upgrade from Windows 7 to 10, the old drivers were still installed, so Dolphin worked just like on Windows 7. After I installed the new ones, most Dolphin games crash upon starting when I use D3D, in some games however I can get to the menu, but after that they crash (Sonic Colours for example crashes the moment I enter the title screen). But the most important thing I noticed is that not all games crash when I use D3D and this is the reason I replied here after testing using different settings. From what games I have, these are the ones that work fine on D3D:
• Crash Bandicoot - The Wrath of Cortex (So weird... Crash doesn't crash! )
• Sonic Adventure DX - Director's Cut
• Sonic Adventure 2 - Battle
• Sonic the Hedgehog 4 - Episode 1
• JU-ON
As I've noticed, apart from JU-ON, the rest of the games above are multi-platform, so, they might be using fewer graphics features compared to GC or Wii native games (JU-ON is an exception), or generally "different mechanics". I don't know if this gives any clue to the developers about what the source of the crashes might be, but I hope it does. The games that crash, keep doing that, no matter what settings I use.
About Virtual Console games, I don't know if they all work, but at least the ones I own do:
• Super Mario 64 (N64)
• Paper Mario (N64)
• Super Mario RPG (SNES)
• Super Mario Bros and Super Mario Bros: The Lost Levels (NES)
• Sonic the Hedgehog 1, 2 and 3 (Sega Mega Drive)
And that's all, I hope this helps.
So, if it were just the drivers, I would expect at least one PC game to crash, just like Dolphin does, or to have graphics or performance issues, since many of them take full advantage of the graphics API they use.
So, what I see is that all the above point to Dolphin doing something wrong.
Time to go to the Dolphin part. Right after the upgrade from Windows 7 to 10, the old drivers were still installed, so Dolphin worked just like on Windows 7. After I installed the new ones, most Dolphin games crash upon starting when I use D3D, in some games however I can get to the menu, but after that they crash (Sonic Colours for example crashes the moment I enter the title screen). But the most important thing I noticed is that not all games crash when I use D3D and this is the reason I replied here after testing using different settings. From what games I have, these are the ones that work fine on D3D:
• Crash Bandicoot - The Wrath of Cortex (So weird... Crash doesn't crash! )
• Sonic Adventure DX - Director's Cut
• Sonic Adventure 2 - Battle
• Sonic the Hedgehog 4 - Episode 1
• JU-ON
As I've noticed, apart from JU-ON, the rest of the games above are multi-platform, so, they might be using fewer graphics features compared to GC or Wii native games (JU-ON is an exception), or generally "different mechanics". I don't know if this gives any clue to the developers about what the source of the crashes might be, but I hope it does. The games that crash, keep doing that, no matter what settings I use.
About Virtual Console games, I don't know if they all work, but at least the ones I own do:
• Super Mario 64 (N64)
• Paper Mario (N64)
• Super Mario RPG (SNES)
• Super Mario Bros and Super Mario Bros: The Lost Levels (NES)
• Sonic the Hedgehog 1, 2 and 3 (Sega Mega Drive)
And that's all, I hope this helps.
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