Dolphin keeps crashing on me and I'm not sure why

[SFrob]

I recently started using Dolphin, with little success. The only game I've been trying to play is The Legend Of Zelda : Wind Waker, but either the game itself freezes with a black or gray screen, or Dolphin itself crashes. I have tried multiple settings configurations from this forum and other sources with no luck. I'm running it on Windows 8 and my PC hardware includes a i7-4770k, GTX770 and 32Gb of RAM. I've also tried Dolphin 3.5, 4.0, and 4.0.2, but I keep getting these same issues. Any help would be great.

[Shonumi]

The problem you describe is well-known. Try some of the solutions described here: https://wiki.dolphin-emu.org/index.php?title=The_Legend_of_Zelda:_The_Wind_Waker#Black.2FGray_Screens If you still get issues, could you post screenshots of your Dolphin settings?

[SFrob]

(12-06-2013, 05:43 PM)Shonumi Wrote: The problem you describe is well-known. Try some of the solutions described here: https://wiki.dolphin-emu.org/index.php?title=The_Legend_of_Zelda:_The_Wind_Waker#Black.2FGray_Screens If you still get issues, could you post screenshots of your Dolphin settings?

Thanks for the quick reply! I'm not really having issues with the black/gray screens since I started using 4.0, I probably should have mentioned that, but I Dolphin is still randomly crashing on me.

                       

[LordVador]

(12-06-2013, 06:01 PM)SFrob Wrote: Dolphin is still randomly crashing on me.

Try to disable OpenMP. Set Texture Cache to "Fast". And enable EFB Access. Basically don't use any hack .
If it still crashing I suggest to try to redump your game

[KHg8m3r]

Any reason you're sticking with D3D9? Try one of the newest dev builds, and use the OpenGL backend with Vertex streaming hack

[drhycodan]

Why would you have disable EFB access to CPU and ignore format changes checked? That will break a lot of games.

[DJBarry004]

(12-07-2013, 09:40 AM)drhycodan Wrote: Why would you have disable EFB access to CPU and ignore format changes checked? That will break a lot of games.

I have both disabled in 4.0.2 while running Mario Kart DD, Luigi´s Mansion, Mario Party 4, 5 and 6, and Mario Sunshine. And they don´t look like they´re broken...

Now, if you´re referring to Mario Galaxy 1 & 2, then your point is true.

ADD: BTW I was using both D3D9 and D3D11. Haven´t tried OGL yet.

[LordVador]

I agree with EFB Access but very few games need EFB Format Changes so this option should be checked for most games

[SFrob]

I started using OpenGL and haven't experienced a crash yet. Thanks for the advice everyone!