[GC] Paper Mario: The Thousand-Year Door

**KHg8m3r** · 08-06-2018, 01:47 PM **#761**

Here are some things to check:
1. Do you have the latest Nvidia drivers?
2. Are you using the latest dev build of Dolphin?
3. Is Windows Power Management set to High Performance?
4. Do you have a High Performance profile set up in Nvidia Control Panel?
5. Have you tried doing a restart lately?

**mbc07** · 08-07-2018, 03:45 AM **#762**

Have you tried single core mode? AFAIK Paper Mario games experiences some frame pacing issues in dual core...

08-07-2018, 04:34 AM **#763**

Oh well, I am embarassed, I feel like those old people calling to their ISP because their modem is turned off haha.

I restarted the laptop after a loooong time, and everything works fine now! Thanks everyone!

08-16-2018, 06:58 PM **#764**

(05-20-2018, 12:52 PM)TheNuggetMaster Wrote: When i'm at the part in chapter 2 where you have to fight the jabbies they just dont show up and the game freezes

I had very similar problems with this game. Some objects won't show, freezing etc.
I tried three different GPUs Ati Radeon HD4250, Nvidia 315 gt and Radeon R7 250
Nothing worked.
Eventually I solved problems by using Dolphin 4.0-5124 x64

08-22-2018, 01:12 PM **#765**

I have been truing to find a solution to my paper Mario thousand door closing the whole emulator after booting the game. It runs all other gamed properly. i have re-downloaded the emulator multiple times and managed nothing. It says nothing when it happens and it completely closes. I have been holding off from asking here but I have found nothing like this.

**KHg8m3r** · 08-23-2018, 02:29 AM **#766**

@grizzlyFOX: Check to see if your game is a bad dump. Right click on the game in Dolphin > Properties > INfo > compute the MD5 sum. Then compare it against a known good dump from a website like gametdb.com.

@Super Mario: Did you use the Display Driver Uninstaller tool to make sure all previous display drivers were purged in-between switching GPUs, and then installing the latest drivers? There could have been leftover stuff that was messing you up

08-23-2018, 11:35 AM **#767**

(08-23-2018, 02:29 AM)KHg8m3r Wrote: @grizzlyFOX: Check to see if your game is a bad dump. Right click on the game in Dolphin > Properties > INfo > compute the MD5 sum. Then compare it against a known good dump from a website like gametdb.com.

@Super Mario: Did you use the Display Driver Uninstaller tool to make sure all previous display drivers were purged in-between switching GPUs, and then installing the latest drivers? There could have been leftover stuff that was messing you up

It was clean installation in all cases so there were no previous drivers
PC 1 - AMD Athlon II X2 255 +4GB RAM + HD4250 Win 7 x64
PC 2 - AMD Athlon II X2 255 +4GB RAM + Nvidia Geforce GT315 Win7 x64
PC 3 - AMD Athlon X4 950 +4GB RAM + AMD Ati Radeon R7 250 Win7 x64

I am using Direct3D + XAudio2

Check this older forum https://forums.dolphin-emu.org/Thread-gc-paper-mario-the-thousand-year-door?page=41

It has somethink to do with VertexLoader

This game crashes on 4.0-5143 and later but works on 4.0-5124
I hope this can help anyone who has the same problem

**DJBarry004** · (This post was last modified: 08-24-2018, 02:17 AM by DJBarry004.)

Note that the HD4250 and the GT315 don´t have either full DX11 or GL support, so I´d expect some issues with both of them. Maybe they´re some of those specific GPUs that are no longer supported for BBox emulation?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Radeon_HD_4000_series
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GeForce_300_series

You´ll have more chances with the R7.

08-25-2018, 04:59 AM **#769**

(08-23-2018, 02:29 AM)KHg8m3r Wrote: @grizzlyFOX: Check to see if your game is a bad dump. Right click on the game in Dolphin > Properties > INfo > compute the MD5 sum. Then compare it against a known good dump from a website like gametdb.com.

@Super Mario: Did you use the Display Driver Uninstaller tool to make sure all previous display drivers were purged in-between switching GPUs, and then installing the latest drivers? There could have been leftover stuff that was messing you up

@KHg8m3r: I checked the dump and it matched a good one. (db9a997a617ee03bbc32336d6945ec02) I don't think that is the problem. I managed to get through half the game so if i need do redo a lot of things is there a way to recover my save? I did update some things when this happened but all the other games still work fine. Are some games sensitive to that?
Im running AMD Radeon Adrenalin 18.8.1, I was on 18.7.1 before.

**KHg8m3r** · 08-25-2018, 05:20 AM **#770**

(08-25-2018, 04:59 AM)grizzlyFOX Wrote: ...
I managed to get through half the game so if i need do redo a lot of things is there a way to recover my save? I did update some things when this happened but all the other games still work fine. Are some games sensitive to that?
...

The way you worded this makes me wonder, have you been using savestates to save your progress, or in game saves?