I have recently been playing around with dolphin some and have been quite impressed with the improvements made since the last time I took a look at it a few years ago. Many games have support and run at fully playable speeds, and the featureset is improving constantly.
I am having an issue however that I'm unable to solve and is impeding any serious use of the emulator. I have been running into periodic hard lockups when running dolphin across many (pretty much all) games, including those that are listed to have fairly good compatibility. Dolphin will be running fine, and then will suddenly hard lock (frozen image, looping sound) and background apps will appear to continue to run for at least a short while. Any attempt to break out of it (alt-tab, alt-f4, ctrl+alt+delete) results in a complete system lockup, necessitating a full reboot.
I've had the problem occur with various versions of Dolphin (32-bit, 64-bit, normal, IL, latest official, latest nightly, etc...) and with all sorts of different settings (I've tried many combinations with no change). The problem has occurred for both Wii and Gamecube games, and I'm out of ideas as to how to resolve it.
I am running the emulator on a very modern system whose specs are detailed below; are there any known compatibility issues with any of these parts/software, and if so - are there any workarounds? I would really love to be running my Wii games in 1080p (SSBB looks fantastic) but if the games are periodically locking up my entire system that's not really possible.
Core i7 920 @ 4GHz (stock makes no difference)
6GB DDR3 Triple-channel memory
EVGA X58 3xSLI Motherboard
ATi Radeon 4870X2 (Catalyst 9.3)
Asus Xonar DX
Windows 7 Build 7000 64-bit
As another side-note, I've been having some difficulty getting many games running at all that are otherwise listed as having excellent compatibility (Twilight Princess, Mario Kart Wii, Super Paper Mario, Lego Star Wars and Indiana Jones... Boom Blox and Okami for example load at least some way into the game from DVD). These are mostly Wii games that I'm having the issue with, and I will load the disc and get stuck at a black screen before just about anything has happened, and the emu will hang loading from the disc (I have most of these already burned to DVD for my Wii, so I'm trying to run straight from those). Are there any known issues with loading from DVDs instead of ISOs, or are there any common issues that would cause many Wii games that are listed as working to hang at a black screen before anything happens? Most of the discs I have are NTSC (as that's the kind of Wii I have) and I see more talk of PAL on the forums here - is there better compatibility with PAL discs in general, and is most compatibility testing done with those? Any hints as to why I'd be having difficulties getting many titles to even start at all? Any help is appreciated!
I am having an issue however that I'm unable to solve and is impeding any serious use of the emulator. I have been running into periodic hard lockups when running dolphin across many (pretty much all) games, including those that are listed to have fairly good compatibility. Dolphin will be running fine, and then will suddenly hard lock (frozen image, looping sound) and background apps will appear to continue to run for at least a short while. Any attempt to break out of it (alt-tab, alt-f4, ctrl+alt+delete) results in a complete system lockup, necessitating a full reboot.
I've had the problem occur with various versions of Dolphin (32-bit, 64-bit, normal, IL, latest official, latest nightly, etc...) and with all sorts of different settings (I've tried many combinations with no change). The problem has occurred for both Wii and Gamecube games, and I'm out of ideas as to how to resolve it.
I am running the emulator on a very modern system whose specs are detailed below; are there any known compatibility issues with any of these parts/software, and if so - are there any workarounds? I would really love to be running my Wii games in 1080p (SSBB looks fantastic) but if the games are periodically locking up my entire system that's not really possible.
Core i7 920 @ 4GHz (stock makes no difference)
6GB DDR3 Triple-channel memory
EVGA X58 3xSLI Motherboard
ATi Radeon 4870X2 (Catalyst 9.3)
Asus Xonar DX
Windows 7 Build 7000 64-bit
As another side-note, I've been having some difficulty getting many games running at all that are otherwise listed as having excellent compatibility (Twilight Princess, Mario Kart Wii, Super Paper Mario, Lego Star Wars and Indiana Jones... Boom Blox and Okami for example load at least some way into the game from DVD). These are mostly Wii games that I'm having the issue with, and I will load the disc and get stuck at a black screen before just about anything has happened, and the emu will hang loading from the disc (I have most of these already burned to DVD for my Wii, so I'm trying to run straight from those). Are there any known issues with loading from DVDs instead of ISOs, or are there any common issues that would cause many Wii games that are listed as working to hang at a black screen before anything happens? Most of the discs I have are NTSC (as that's the kind of Wii I have) and I see more talk of PAL on the forums here - is there better compatibility with PAL discs in general, and is most compatibility testing done with those? Any hints as to why I'd be having difficulties getting many titles to even start at all? Any help is appreciated!
