of course having all that crap open makes it less stable, dolphin isnt perfect, and with all that crap windows has to give them all some priority, with hyperthreading enabled windows will have 2 processes it can keep running at the same time, i dont know how windows sets the affinity with quad cores for programs that use single core mode, but its safe to say that its process priority is being changed alot, dolphin doesn't get the CPU usage it wants and becomes even more unstable, just because you have a quad core doesnt mean it can do everything perfectly. also if you overclocked your CPU then its even more unstable
Intel core i7 2600k 4.3GHz corsair h100: gigabyte windforce x3 GTX 670 2gb 1150MHz
OCZ 750watt PSU : 4X4 16GB G skill ripjaws DDR3 1600mhz ram
NZXT Phantom red : ASUS p8z77 - v Pro
500GB western digital green : 64GB samsung 470 SSD :250GB HDD
47" LG 3D passive TV
OCZ 750watt PSU : 4X4 16GB G skill ripjaws DDR3 1600mhz ram
NZXT Phantom red : ASUS p8z77 - v Pro
500GB western digital green : 64GB samsung 470 SSD :250GB HDD
47" LG 3D passive TV