Dolphin crashes when I play Twilight Princess (GC)

TurkSoulja · 08-05-2015, 10:37 PM #1

I start the program and load the rom which is The Legend of Zelda: Twilight Princess Gamecube ISO. I enter the menu and create a new profile, enter my name and the horse name and then I continue. The screen loads and then Dolphin stops working and closes the program. Before this happened, I did manage to play it up to the stage after saving the kid and monkey in the forest so I save the game with the memory card and the save state. The next day I tried to load my saved state and then Dolphin stops working. I tried to make a new game and when the game loads, Dolphin stops working. Can someone please help me with this issue?

**NKF98** · 08-06-2015, 07:35 AM #2

bad checksum?

marscat85 · 08-08-2015, 12:15 AM #3

I had this issue. The new version of dolphin has some new sync code or something. I notice this crashing often. To fix, run single core mode or enable GPU sync in game specific options. I also had luck using opengl with all texture packs off. Enabling them caused a crash.

**NKF98** · 08-08-2015, 11:38 AM #4

can you tell me where this issue arises (what exact version) and some more details, marscat85?

TurkSoulja · 08-08-2015, 07:27 PM #5

(08-08-2015, 12:15 AM)marscat85 Wrote: I had this issue. The new version of dolphin has some new sync code or something. I notice this crashing often. To fix, run single core mode or enable GPU sync in game specific options. I also had luck using opengl with all texture packs off. Enabling them caused a crash.

I downloaded version 5.0-rc-1, however I'm not sure why but at some points in the game, the fps slows down. Could it be because of playing for a long duration, because I was literally playing the game all day and until I reached around the Hyrule Fields, the fps started to slow.

**JMC47** · 08-10-2015, 11:32 AM #6

https://wiki.dolphin-emu.org/index.php?title=The_Legend_of_Zelda:_Twilight_Princess_%28GC%29

marscat85 · 08-10-2015, 09:49 PM #7

I should note I was playing the wii version, but I don't think that would have had a HUGE difference.

(08-08-2015, 11:38 AM)NKF98 Wrote: can you tell me where this issue arises (what exact version) and some more details, marscat85?

I posted a thread here, but since I was the only one who was experiencing it, I assumed it was a problem unique to my machine.
https://forums.dolphin-emu.org/Thread-dolphin-won-t-render-3d-correctly-sometimes
I should note that I built this rig in late march and had lots of problems with the zelda games in every build since then (my old pc could not run a modern dolphin, was running xp32). I think this is about the time the devs redid the gpu syncing according to the progress reports. Some timing eh? I even tried patching the issue myself until my visual studio trial ended, that's when I gave up and tried posting here. It wasn't until I saw the gpu desyncing that I realized it's a dolphin architecture problem and that the only times it worked, it was by PURE CHANCE. That's when I finally just gave up and tried the single core route. Still.. no acknowledgment of the issue that I posted though so maybe it's just my hardware thats the outlier here and everyone else has way better statistical odds than me.