Emulator freezes game emulation and reset doesn't work

[fade2black001]

What I mean is that at random times no matter what game it is the FPS will drop to 0 and stay there. The emulator itself is still running fine and normally. Thankfully it doesn't happen often.

I don't think reset has ever worked from what I remember. Does it just not work? Or is there something special you have to do to make it work?

Dolphin build version 4.0-2704

I5 3570 4.2ghz
2gb 6950
8GB DDR3

[JMC47]

This is a useless post because you don't say what games your playing. Saying every game isn't useful because if it was every game happening to everyone it'd obviously be reported already.

[fade2black001]

Well The main game I am playing at the moment is Arc Rise Fantasia. So it does it with that one for sure.

[JMC47]

Do you have any more common games that this may be happening in? So I could confirm this is a global problem?

[mimimi]

Hmm, are you using a HDD? In which condition is it? It sounds like there's a chance that Dolphin might be waiting for the HDD. Can you try to put the .isos on a different hard drive or even an usb flash drive and try again?

@JMC47 and anybody who might know this:
What happens in Dolpin if reading the .iso file takes several second instead of x ms? Could this be causing this kind of problem? Is there some log file that could help here?

[fade2black001]

Well it doesn't happen often at all. So I'm not that worried about it. So testing other game could prove to be a LONG process. If I see it in other games I will let you know.

According to Crystal Disk Info. Both my ddrives are in good health. I can put the game on my 2nd drive and see if it still does it though.

[KHg8m3r]

@mimimi: Dolphin usually loads the games faster than the GC/Wii could because they were reading optical disks, while Dolphin loads off of way faster hard drive

@fade2black001: try the latest dev build

[fade2black001]

Different HDD doesn't work.

Latest dev build? Those come out like what every 4-12 hours? One will loose their mind trying to keep track of them all.... By the time I will have any info on it I bet at least 2-3 other builds will be out by then.... In other words I won't be able to keep up.

[KHg8m3r]

Don't worry about keeping up to date every few hours. I am a heavy user of Dolphin, and I only update every few days.

[fade2black001]

I'm not really a heavy user and I update mainly every 3-6 months. Anyways... I somehow doubt it would fix anything. I played the game before on a earlier version and it didn't have this problem. I think It was some 3.5 version. So this problem hasn't always been here.