Emulator Freezing

Aeturnus · 09-12-2009, 12:55 PM #1

Ok heres the deal... recently i have gotten my PC out of storage and booted it up ready to play some game. i have several emulators on here (No$GBA, Dolphin, Project 64, and some Snes Emu) and i booted up dolphin which has always ran just fine, if a littleslow. ran fine for maybe 30-45 seconds, and then the game will just freeze, no matter what game. i checked all my settings and they were the same. i tried updating to the newest version and still no luck. i tried to play my other games...and my no$gba doesnt work either, same issue. i didnt try the 64 or snes though. any ideas? and am i the only one with this issue? i really wanna play my games!!

Windows XP Pro SP3 X86/Windows Vista Premium SP2 (Dual boot vista is main OS)
6 Gigs of RAM
AMD Phenom 9550 Quad-Core
NVDIA GeForce 6150SE nForce 430
500GB HDD

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Aeturnus · 09-16-2009, 02:25 AM #2

ok heres an update....just out of the blue the No$gba started working again, at a higher frame rate O_o PJ64 runs fine too, but dolphin still freezes up...

hansenderek · 09-17-2009, 11:58 PM #3

well since it came out of storage you should probably go and update everything because some requirements have changed since dolphin was first made...opengl is now 2.1 not 2.0 and the direct X uses the update of august 2009

also update everything else too! lol ;P good luck

**nosound97** · 09-18-2009, 12:00 AM #4

Enable "LLE DSP on Thread" in settings

09-18-2009, 12:48 AM #5

(09-17-2009, 11:58 PM)hansenderek Wrote: well since it came out of storage you should probably go and update everything because some requirements have changed since dolphin was first made

that depends on since when he had it in storage Tongue

(if he sent it to storage after the Ogl 2.1 change or later Tongue

)

Aeturnus · 09-18-2009, 01:02 AM #6

(09-17-2009, 11:58 PM)hansenderek Wrote: well since it came out of storage you should probably go and update everything because some requirements have changed since dolphin was first made...opengl is now 2.1 not 2.0 and the direct X uses the update of august 2009

also update everything else too! lol ;P good luck

well i had updated EVERYTHING even before booting up dolphin. drivers, software, opengl, directx (all the way to ten). also its less than a year old. been in storage for 5 months (got grounded for talking to people to much XD)

Also, i have lle enabled.

**nosound97** · 09-18-2009, 01:16 AM #7

what is the game btw?

Aeturnus · 09-18-2009, 01:24 AM #8

(09-18-2009, 01:16 AM)nosound97 Wrote: what is the game btw?

I've tried several. (All Gamecube versions)
Super Mario Sunshine
Zelda: Twilight Princess (PAL)
Zelda : The WindWaker
and...i'll have to get the rest when im at home. lol

Aeturnus · 09-19-2009, 12:26 AM #9

Hey good news...i got it going...mostly. i turned of UAC, set frame skip to four and move the dolphin folder to my desktop (previouslywas in a subfolder...names didnt have speacial characters or spaces though). it took all of those to get them working. Zelda WW still freezes though. the others i had to frame skip past the intro's then i could return to normal. also...is it normal for ZTP to be red without efb (or whatever the disable thing was for lol..im at school so i cant check). and this version need the disable/enable thing back!! i hate stopping and having to go to graphics every time to disable it!!

PS last game was smash bro's melee