Having trouble loading Hi-Res textures.

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(06-28-2014, 09:38 AM)AnyOldName3 Wrote: Apparently folder splitting works, but I've always seen it as a way to disable unwanted textures temporarily. Maybe dolphin searches subfolders if there isn't a matching texture in the main folder.

All dolphin versions post-4.0 should use the My Documents/Dolphin folder, unless you specifically tell them not to. Deleting the game ini from the 4.0.2 folder may have triggered it to regenerate it, in which case the one in the my docs folder will have been replaced by a 4.0.2 one, rather than the one belonging to whatever newer build you have. This could potentially cause the problems in the newer build if it didn't see the ini it was expecting. This paragraph is speculation, though.

As for what specifically the yellow text is telling you, Dolphin has an ini file for each release game with certain settings which are required for accuracy noted down inside. When you open a game, if a setting is set by the ini, Dolphin will ignore your global setting, and use the one from the ini instead. In this case, it's telling you that even though you have EFB copies to Texture etc. set in Dolphin's global settings, the ini is changing this to EFB copies to RAM etc. to stop the game breaking.

Your speculations make sense, but after trying to have both textures pack in both versions and their respective 'Load->Textures' paths, to be absolutely sure it works, I still can't manage to make the more recent build work.

I tried the Xenoblade pack that is distributed here and it's the same scenario: Only works with the installed 4.0.2, but good god does it makes the game prettier...I want to dip another 50 hours playing it now. (._. )

That said, yeah, problem almost solved, though I still can't make my latest build work.

Would there be a way to switch the stable 4.0.2 version with my recent one (or any that I would get online) by doing a simple switch-a-roo with the Dolphin.exe? I don't think so but hey, it won't hurt asking.

EDIT: I actually managed to make it work on a newer version I just downloaded.

It was having the same issue, no matter what I did, though this time I slapped the game's .ini back there instead of literally deleting it, then I erased all the text in it and saved. BOOM!

EDIT 2: After another test, because I was having both textures pack in both versions of Dolphin, after deleting the text in the .ini, dolphin (no matter was version) automatically goes for the textures in MyDocs. So finally you were kinda right, haha! It's all a matter of how it's done.