Emulator crashing

[pkarlos07]

Hi-

I'm new to Dolphin, yesterday I downloaded dolphin 5.0 and successfully ran SSBM on it. Today it wouldn't work, it would show a bunch of yellow text and gave me a warning and just stopped working. So I uninstalled it and downloaded dolphin 5.0-9155 and there was a similar issue, it would give me yellow text about my video card and crash immediately after the words disappeared, I would like to play SSBM. Help!

[ExtremeDude2]

Have you tried updating your graphics drivers or switching the graphics backend to directX?

[pkarlos07]

Can I update my graphic drivers for free?

[JosJuice]

(11-23-2018, 03:13 AM)pkarlos07 Wrote: Can I update my graphic drivers for free?

Yes.

[pkarlos07]

Where?

[JosJuice]

(11-23-2018, 03:19 AM)pkarlos07 Wrote: Where?

At the manufacturer's website. Since you haven't listed your GPU in your profile, I don't know which manufacturer that would be.

[pkarlos07]

They're up to date but my Dolphin hasn't fixed itself in the slightest.

[JMC47]

The black screen usually means the graphics backend can't be initialized. Can you try enabling logging and seeing if anything obvious is wrong.

[pkarlos07]

I toggled everything for logging and this was the text that appeared:

47:22:669 core\configmanager.cpp:720 N[CORE]: Active title: Super Smash Bros. Melee (GALE01)
47:22:680 core\core.cpp:890 N[COMMON]: Want determinism <- false
47:23:014 inputcommon\controllerinterface\controllerinterface.cpp:208 N[SI]: Added device: DInput/0/Keyboard Mouse
47:23:249 core\boot\boot.cpp:328 N[BOOT]: Booting from disc: C:/Users/pkarl/Downloads/Super Smash Bros. Melee/Super Smash Bros. Melee.gcm
47:23:258 core\hle\hle_os.cpp:85 N[OSREPORT]: 81200308->81300000| Apploader Initialized. $Revision: 27 $.
47:23:258 core\hle\hle_os.cpp:85 N[OSREPORT]: 81200324->81300000| This Apploader built Nov 14 2001 02:04:39
47:23:431 core\hw\exi\exi_deviceipl.cpp:302 N[OSREPORT]:
47:23:434 core\hw\exi\exi_deviceipl.cpp:302 N[OSREPORT]: Dolphin OS $Revision: 47 $.
47:23:439 core\hw\exi\exi_deviceipl.cpp:302 N[OSREPORT]: Kernel built : Nov 12 2001 01:46:17
47:23:442 core\hw\exi\exi_deviceipl.cpp:302 N[OSREPORT]: Console Type : Development HW3
47:23:443 core\hw\exi\exi_deviceipl.cpp:302 N[OSREPORT]: Memory 24 MB
47:23:446 core\hw\exi\exi_deviceipl.cpp:302 N[OSREPORT]: Arena : 0x804eec00 - 0x817f8ac0
47:23:495 core\hw\exi\exi_deviceipl.cpp:302 N[OSREPORT]: app booted from bootrom
47:25:511 core\hw\exi\exi_deviceipl.cpp:302 N[OSREPORT]: # ---------------------------------------------
47:25:511 core\hw\exi\exi_deviceipl.cpp:302 N[OSREPORT]: # Super Smash Bros. Melee
47:25:512 core\hw\exi\exi_deviceipl.cpp:302 N[OSREPORT]: #
47:25:512 core\hw\exi\exi_deviceipl.cpp:302 N[OSREPORT]: # Distribution 1
47:25:512 core\hw\exi\exi_deviceipl.cpp:302 N[OSREPORT]: # Language 1
47:25:513 core\hw\exi\exi_deviceipl.cpp:302 N[OSREPORT]: # DbLevel 0
47:25:513 core\hw\exi\exi_deviceipl.cpp:302 N[OSREPORT]: # Arena Size 19 MB
47:25:513 core\hw\exi\exi_deviceipl.cpp:302 N[OSREPORT]: # ARAM Free Size 9 MB
47:25:514 core\hw\exi\exi_deviceipl.cpp:302 N[OSREPORT]: # DATE Feb 13 2002 TIME 22:06:27
47:25:518 core\hw\exi\exi_deviceipl.cpp:302 N[OSREPORT]: # GC Calendar Year 2018 Month 11 Day 22
47:25:518 core\hw\exi\exi_deviceipl.cpp:302 N[OSREPORT]: # Hour 12 Min 47 Sec 23
47:25:519 core\hw\exi\exi_deviceipl.cpp:302 N[OSREPORT]: #

[pkarlos07]

UPDATE: Switching the graphics backend to Direct3D Works perfectly