Dolphin Crashing

[ScarletFox]

Hello everybody. This is my first post and I am relatively new to emulation so this is probably going to be very stupid. However, I am trying to run the Dolphin 4.0 x64 and it crashes frequently during games. Usually it crashes every 30 minutes. I am running Dolphin on the default settings and I got it off of this website. The computer I am using is a pre-built laptop. I am using Windows 8 as my operating system and it is 64 bit. My processor is an Intel i7 3630QM and my video card is an nvidia geforce gt 635M. I have approximately 8GB of RAM but I do not know what the RAM brand is or how to find it. If you have read this far then thank you very much. I can take screencaps if necessary.

[DJBarry004]

Does this happens with any specific game(s) or with all the games supported by the emu?

Tip: to get detailed info about your laptop use CPU-Z and GPU-Z.

[ulao]

It can be very helpful to read the crash report, in many times it point to a consistent dll. Post the info in that report. I think dolphin also has a debug you can turn on.

[ScarletFox]

(10-05-2013, 11:31 PM)DJBarry004 Wrote: Does this happens with any specific game(s) or with all the games supported by the emu?

Tip: to get detailed info about your laptop use CPU-Z and GPU-Z.

It has happened with all the games I have tried. So far it has been Metroid Prime, Metroid Prime 2 and TLoZ: Wind Waker.

Also thank you very much for teaching about the wonders of CPU-Z and GPU-Z. This will come in handy!

(10-05-2013, 11:50 PM)ulao Wrote: It can be very helpful to read the crash report, in many times it point to a consistent dll. Post the info in that report. I think dolphin also has a debug you can turn on.

Unfortunately when it crashes a crash report does not appear. If it exists within the emulator then I do not know how to access it sorry. I would open up the log and post what happens but sadly the entire program crashes and I cannot get to it. Should I post the folder of the dll files in here?

[DJBarry004]

Probably, what ulao means is that if you can post here a file called exceptioninfo.txt, which has the code(s) of the crash.

[ScarletFox]

Sorry about the double post. I am a little new to online forums. Thank you DJBarry. I will do that.


EDIT: I do not have this file in my dolphin folder. Sorry, but where do I find this file?

[ulao]

I think you just need to check view->show log config->under logger out puts->log to file. Then run a game and let it crash and show us what the log wrote. Again, I'm not a dev on dolphin here but I think it may lend a clue.

[ScarletFox]

Well I found a file called dolphin.txt in the log folder and this is what it had to say: (Unfortunately my computer directory is named after me. I really didn't have a choice because windows 8 does that.)
18:07:372 Src\NANDContentLoader.cpp:217 W[DIO]: CreateFromDirectory: error opening C:/Users/Alex_2/Documents/Dolphin Emulator/Wii/title/00000001/00000002/content/title.tmd
18:07:382 Src\NANDContentLoader.cpp:217 W[DIO]: CreateFromDirectory: error opening C:/Users/Alex_2/Documents/Dolphin Emulator/Wii/title/00000001/00000002/content/title.tmd
39:56:686 Src\NANDContentLoader.cpp:217 W[DIO]: CreateFromDirectory: error opening C:/Users/Alex_2/Documents/Dolphin Emulator/Wii/title/00000001/00000002/content/title.tmd
39:56:701 Src\NANDContentLoader.cpp:217 W[DIO]: CreateFromDirectory: error opening C:/Users/Alex_2/Documents/Dolphin Emulator/Wii/title/00000001/00000002/content/title.tmd
28:57:896 Src\NANDContentLoader.cpp:217 W[DIO]: CreateFromDirectory: error opening C:/Users/Alex_2/Documents/Dolphin Emulator/Wii/title/00000001/00000002/content/title.tmd
28:57:913 Src\NANDContentLoader.cpp:217 W[DIO]: CreateFromDirectory: error opening C:/Users/Alex_2/Documents/Dolphin Emulator/Wii/title/00000001/00000002/content/title.tmd
48:23:933 Src\NANDContentLoader.cpp:217 W[DIO]: CreateFromDirectory: error opening C:/Users/Alex_2/Documents/Dolphin Emulator/Wii/title/00000001/00000002/content/title.tmd
48:23:942 Src\NANDContentLoader.cpp:217 W[DIO]: CreateFromDirectory: error opening C:/Users/Alex_2/Documents/Dolphin Emulator/Wii/title/00000001/00000002/content/title.tmd
03:35:243 Src\NANDContentLoader.cpp:217 W[DIO]: CreateFromDirectory: error opening C:/Users/Alex_2/Documents/Dolphin Emulator/Wii/title/00000001/00000002/content/title.tmd
03:35:252 Src\NANDContentLoader.cpp:217 W[DIO]: CreateFromDirectory: error opening C:/Users/Alex_2/Documents/Dolphin Emulator/Wii/title/00000001/00000002/content/title.tmd
06:07:431 Src\NANDContentLoader.cpp:217 W[DIO]: CreateFromDirectory: error opening C:/Users/Alex_2/Documents/Dolphin Emulator/Wii/title/00000001/00000002/content/title.tmd
06:07:441 Src\NANDContentLoader.cpp:217 W[DIO]: CreateFromDirectory: error opening C:/Users/Alex_2/Documents/Dolphin Emulator/Wii/title/00000001/00000002/content/title.tmd
51:54:922 Src\NANDContentLoader.cpp:217 W[DIO]: CreateFromDirectory: error opening C:/Users/Alex_2/Documents/Dolphin Emulator/Wii/title/00000001/00000002/content/title.tmd
51:54:938 Src\NANDContentLoader.cpp:217 W[DIO]: CreateFromDirectory: error opening C:/Users/Alex_2/Documents/Dolphin Emulator/Wii/title/00000001/00000002/content/title.tmd
07:28:688 Src\NANDContentLoader.cpp:217 W[DIO]: CreateFromDirectory: error opening C:/Users/Alex_2/Documents/Dolphin Emulator/Wii/title/00000001/00000002/content/title.tmd
07:28:697 Src\NANDContentLoader.cpp:217 W[DIO]: CreateFromDirectory: error opening C:/Users/Alex_2/Documents/Dolphin Emulator/Wii/title/00000001/00000002/content/title.tmd
24:36:075 Src\NANDContentLoader.cpp:217 W[DIO]: CreateFromDirectory: error opening C:/Users/Alex_2/Documents/Dolphin Emulator/Wii/title/00000001/00000002/content/title.tmd
24:36:083 Src\NANDContentLoader.cpp:217 W[DIO]: CreateFromDirectory: error opening C:/Users/Alex_2/Documents/Dolphin Emulator/Wii/title/00000001/00000002/content/title.tmd
40:06:955 Src\NANDContentLoader.cpp:217 W[DIO]: CreateFromDirectory: error opening C:/Users/Alex_2/Documents/Dolphin Emulator/Wii/title/00000001/00000002/content/title.tmd
40:06:964 Src\NANDContentLoader.cpp:217 W[DIO]: CreateFromDirectory: error opening C:/Users/Alex_2/Documents/Dolphin Emulator/Wii/title/00000001/00000002/content/title.tmd
40:27:987 Src\NANDContentLoader.cpp:217 W[DIO]: CreateFromDirectory: error opening C:/Users/Alex_2/Documents/Dolphin Emulator/Wii/title/00000001/00000002/content/title.tmd
40:28:056 Src\NANDContentLoader.cpp:217 W[DIO]: CreateFromDirectory: error opening C:/Users/Alex_2/Documents/Dolphin Emulator/Wii/title/00000001/00000002/content/title.tmd
41:30:153 Src\NANDContentLoader.cpp:217 W[DIO]: CreateFromDirectory: error opening C:/Users/Alex_2/Documents/Dolphin Emulator/Wii/title/00000001/00000002/content/title.tmd
41:30:222 Src\NANDContentLoader.cpp:217 W[DIO]: CreateFromDirectory: error opening C:/Users/Alex_2/Documents/Dolphin Emulator/Wii/title/00000001/00000002/content/title.tmd
55:19:452 Src\NANDContentLoader.cpp:217 W[DIO]: CreateFromDirectory: error opening C:/Users/Alex_2/Documents/Dolphin Emulator/Wii/title/00000001/00000002/content/title.tmd
55:19:464 Src\NANDContentLoader.cpp:217 W[DIO]: CreateFromDirectory: error opening C:/Users/Alex_2/Documents/Dolphin Emulator/Wii/title/00000001/00000002/content/title.tmd
55:25:335 Src\NANDContentLoader.cpp:217 W[DIO]: CreateFromDirectory: error opening C:/Users/Alex_2/Documents/Dolphin Emulator/Wii/title/00000001/00000002/content/title.tmd
55:25:342 Src\NANDContentLoader.cpp:217 W[DIO]: CreateFromDirectory: error opening C:/Users/Alex_2/Documents/Dolphin Emulator/Wii/title/00000001/00000002/content/title.tmd
09:45:955 Src\NANDContentLoader.cpp:217 W[DIO]: CreateFromDirectory: error opening C:/Users/Alex_2/Documents/Dolphin Emulator/Wii/title/00000001/00000002/content/title.tmd
09:45:964 Src\NANDContentLoader.cpp:217 W[DIO]: CreateFromDirectory: error opening C:/Users/Alex_2/Documents/Dolphin Emulator/Wii/title/00000001/00000002/content/title.tmd
45:36:926 Src\NANDContentLoader.cpp:217 W[DIO]: CreateFromDirectory: error opening C:/Users/Alex_2/Documents/Dolphin Emulator/Wii/title/00000001/00000002/content/title.tmd
45:36:941 Src\NANDContentLoader.cpp:217 W[DIO]: CreateFromDirectory: error opening C:/Users/Alex_2/Documents/Dolphin Emulator/Wii/title/00000001/00000002/content/title.tmd
56:33:843 Src\NANDContentLoader.cpp:217 W[DIO]: CreateFromDirectory: error opening C:/Users/Alex_2/Documents/Dolphin Emulator/Wii/title/00000001/00000002/content/title.tmd
56:33:843 Src\NANDContentLoader.cpp:217 W[DIO]: CreateFromDirectory: error opening C:/Users/Alex_2/Documents/Dolphin Emulator/Wii/title/00000001/00000002/content/title.tmd
03:47:907 Src\NANDContentLoader.cpp:217 W[DIO]: CreateFromDirectory: error opening C:/Users/Alex_2/Documents/Dolphin Emulator/Wii/title/00000001/00000002/content/title.tmd
03:47:916 Src\NANDContentLoader.cpp:217 W[DIO]: CreateFromDirectory: error opening C:/Users/Alex_2/Documents/Dolphin Emulator/Wii/title/00000001/00000002/content/title.tmd
29:26:576 Src\NANDContentLoader.cpp:217 W[DIO]: CreateFromDirectory: error opening C:/Users/Alex_2/Documents/Dolphin Emulator/Wii/title/00000001/00000002/content/title.tmd
29:26:584 Src\NANDContentLoader.cpp:217 W[DIO]: CreateFromDirectory: error opening C:/Users/Alex_2/Documents/Dolphin Emulator/Wii/title/00000001/00000002/content/title.tmd
14:35:832 Src\NANDContentLoader.cpp:217 W[DIO]: CreateFromDirectory: error opening C:/Users/Alex_2/Documents/Dolphin Emulator/Wii/title/00000001/00000002/content/title.tmd
14:35:841 Src\NANDContentLoader.cpp:217 W[DIO]: CreateFromDirectory: error opening C:/Users/Alex_2/Documents/Dolphin Emulator/Wii/title/00000001/00000002/content/title.tmd
40:33:200 Src\NANDContentLoader.cpp:217 W[DIO]: CreateFromDirectory: error opening C:/Users/Alex_2/Documents/Dolphin Emulator/Wii/title/00000001/00000002/content/title.tmd
40:33:211 Src\NANDContentLoader.cpp:217 W[DIO]: CreateFromDirectory: error opening C:/Users/Alex_2/Documents/Dolphin Emulator/Wii/title/00000001/00000002/content/title.tmd
41:24:523 Src\ConfigManager.cpp:140 N[BOOT]: Saving settings to C:/Users/Alex_2/Documents/Dolphin Emulator/Config/Dolphin.ini
42:04:635 Src\NANDContentLoader.cpp:217 W[DIO]: CreateFromDirectory: error opening C:/Users/Alex_2/Documents/Dolphin Emulator/Wii/title/00000001/00000002/content/title.tmd
42:04:643 Src\NANDContentLoader.cpp:217 W[DIO]: CreateFromDirectory: error opening C:/Users/Alex_2/Documents/Dolphin Emulator/Wii/title/00000001/00000002/content/title.tmd
42:10:729 Src\ConfigManager.cpp:140 N[BOOT]: Saving settings to C:/Users/Alex_2/Documents/Dolphin Emulator/Config/Dolphin.ini
42:10:889 Src\Boot\Boot.cpp:199 N[BOOT]: Booting C:\Users\Alex_2\Desktop\Gamecube ISOs\Metroid Prime (v1.02).iso
42:10:905 Src\HLE\HLE_OS.cpp:43 N[OSREPORT]: 81200500->81300000| Apploader Initialized. $Revision: 31 $.
42:10:905 Src\HLE\HLE_OS.cpp:43 N[OSREPORT]: 8120051c->81300000| This Apploader built Sep 5 2002 05:58:53
42:12:379 Src\HW\EXI_DeviceIPL.cpp:284 N[OSREPORT]: << Dolphin SDK - EXI release build: Nov 11 2002 05:21:45 (0x2301) >>

42:12:379 Src\HW\EXI_DeviceIPL.cpp:284 N[OSREPORT]: << Dolphin SDK - SI release build: Sep 5 2002 05:33:08 (0x2301) >>

42:12:555 Src\HW\EXI_DeviceIPL.cpp:284 N[OSREPORT]:

42:12:555 Src\HW\EXI_DeviceIPL.cpp:284 N[OSREPORT]: Dolphin OS $Revision: 60 $.

42:12:555 Src\HW\EXI_DeviceIPL.cpp:284 N[OSREPORT]: Kernel built : Nov 5 2002 12:52:29

42:12:555 Src\HW\EXI_DeviceIPL.cpp:284 N[OSREPORT]: Console Type : Development HW3 (10000006)

42:12:555 Src\HW\EXI_DeviceIPL.cpp:284 N[OSREPORT]: Memory 24 MB

42:12:555 Src\HW\EXI_DeviceIPL.cpp:284 N[OSREPORT]: Arena : 0x805c11c0 - 0x817feb60

42:12:555 Src\HW\EXI_DeviceIPL.cpp:284 N[OSREPORT]: << Dolphin SDK - OS release build: Nov 5 2002 12:52:29 (0x2301) >>

42:12:564 Src\HW\EXI_DeviceIPL.cpp:284 N[OSREPORT]: << Dolphin SDK - DVD release build: Oct 29 2002 09:56:49 (0x2301) >>

42:12:569 Src\HW\EXI_DeviceIPL.cpp:284 N[OSREPORT]: << Dolphin SDK - VI release build: Sep 5 2002 05:33:13 (0x2301) >>

42:12:571 Src\HW\EXI_DeviceIPL.cpp:284 N[OSREPORT]: << Dolphin SDK - CARD release build: Sep 5 2002 05:35:20 (0x2301) >>

42:12:571 Src\HW\EXI_DeviceIPL.cpp:284 N[OSREPORT]: << Dolphin SDK - DSP release build: Sep 5 2002 05:35:13 (0x2301) >>

42:12:572 Src\HW\EXI_DeviceIPL.cpp:284 N[OSREPORT]: << Dolphin SDK - GX release build: Feb 7 2003 04:01:13 (0x2301) >>

42:12:612 Src\HW\EXI_DeviceIPL.cpp:284 N[OSREPORT]: << Dolphin SDK - AR release build: Sep 5 2002 05:34:27 (0x2301) >>

42:12:613 Src\HW\EXI_DeviceIPL.cpp:284 N[OSREPORT]: << Dolphin SDK - ARQ release build: Sep 5 2002 05:34:29 (0x2301) >>

42:12:613 Src\HW\EXI_DeviceIPL.cpp:284 N[OSREPORT]: Protecting stack... Stack: 0x805c11a8 down to 0x805b05a8

42:12:615 Src\HW\EXI_DeviceIPL.cpp:284 N[OSREPORT]: << Dolphin SDK - PAD release build: Sep 5 2002 05:34:02 (0x2301) >>

42:12:657 Src\HW\EXI_DeviceIPL.cpp:284 N[OSREPORT]: Initializing renderer...

42:12:676 Src\HW\EXI_DeviceIPL.cpp:284 N[OSREPORT]: << Dolphin SDK - AI release build: Sep 5 2002 05:34:25 (0x2301) >>

42:21:052 Src\HW\EXI_DeviceIPL.cpp:284 N[OSREPORT]: << Dolphin SDK - THP release build: Aug 27 2002 20:42:01 >>

43:13:124 Src\D3DBase.cpp:414 N[Video]: Successfully released all device references!
43:24:803 Src\ConfigManager.cpp:140 N[BOOT]: Saving settings to C:/Users/Alex_2/Documents/Dolphin Emulator/Config/Dolphin.ini
43:25:109 Src\Boot\Boot.cpp:199 N[BOOT]: Booting C:\Users\Alex_2\Desktop\Gamecube ISOs\Metroid Prime (v1.02).iso
43:25:161 Src\HLE\HLE_OS.cpp:43 N[OSREPORT]: 81200500->81300000| Apploader Initialized. $Revision: 31 $.

Hopefully this is the right place.


EDIT:

So I am running Metroid Prime with the log open. I chose Metroid Prime because it works really well. I have no idea what the log means but I am getting some interesting things. One of them is this message

54:58:830 Src\PowerPC\PowerPC.cpp:489 E[PowerPC]: Unknown EXTERNAL INTERRUPT exception: Exceptions == 00000000

Another is this one:

42:39:512 Src\PowerPC\SignatureDB.cpp:120 E[HLE]: Wrong size! Found Reset at 80384154 (size: 000000b8 instead of 00000070)!

In the second one the interger values are usually different every time and the second one only starts at the beginning of the emulation. I have also noticed that it will always crash after roughly 15-20 minutes.

[ScarletFox]

Well I really hate to bump my own thread like this but I tried using version 3.5 and I have not had a problem. I think for now I will stick to version 3.5. Thank you everyone for your help and I look forward to using 4.0 in the future! It is an amazing and beautiful emulator. Sorry if I wasted anybody's time with this thread.

[ulao]

I'm very surprised no one is willing to help you on the error log? Though consider making a bug report.