Dolphin crashing on game startup

01-15-2016, 05:46 PM #1

Whenever I try to load up a game(Fire Emblem-Path of Radiance), it immediately freezes and tells me that Dolphin.exe has stopped working. I've discovered that whenever I delete my 'Global User Directory' in my documents it works once but then stops working when I close it and try a second time. I changed the location of the User directory and used a local User directory but it didn't change anything. The game would only run after I deleted the directory.

I'm using version 4.0-8711 x64. My operating system is windows 8.1 pro x64 and I have 4 GB of RAM. I'm using an integrated graphics card(Intel HD 4000). My specs should probably not be the problem since the game runs smoothly at 60 FPS when I load it up the first time.

Anyone who can help me with this?

**JMC47** · 01-15-2016, 06:45 PM #2

Sounds like the Intel HD graphics crash. Could you try updating your graphics drivers?

01-15-2016, 07:31 PM #3

My drivers are up to date.

**JMC47** · 01-15-2016, 08:15 PM #4

If that's the case, try switching GPU backends, it appears that the shadercache is causing issues with your particular intel card. I thought we finally iced that, but I guess not.

01-15-2016, 08:59 PM #5

Ummm, I don't understand what I have to do. How do you switch backends?
EDIT: Should I switch from my OEM driver to the Intel one?

**DJBarry004** · 01-16-2016, 07:43 AM #6

He means that you change the graphic renderer that Dolphin uses (e.g. from Direct3D to OpenGL).

Ninjuto · (This post was last modified: 01-16-2016, 08:46 AM by Ninjuto.)

I'm also having the same problem with Paper Mario: The Thousand Year Door. It worked once and now it won't open again. I literally just acquired Dolphin beforehand and changed the settings to match what it said on the wiki page so I may have done something wrong there.

**JMC47** · 01-16-2016, 09:17 AM #8

If you're using Intel HD, then it's reacting negatively to our shadercache. could we please get a stack trace or something?

Ninjuto · 01-16-2016, 09:43 AM #9

(01-16-2016, 09:17 AM)JMC47 Wrote: If you're using Intel HD, then it's reacting negatively to our shadercache. could we please get a stack trace or something?

How do I do that? Sorry, pretty new to this emulation thing

01-16-2016, 09:32 PM **#10**

Switching from OpenGL to Direct 3D worked, thanks!
BTW, should I still do the stack trace thing? If so, how do you do it?