Legend of Zelda Twilight Princess, Freezing in Faron Woods

[sonicdude987]

I have the gamecube iso of the game, and I am able to run the game at 30 FPS no problem, even in faron woods. But, at the beginning of the game, when the girl gets stolen I get the key and unlock the gate on the west end of the woods. But when I run down the tunnel, it fades to white then gets frozen. I have an i7 clocked at 3.6 ghz and an nvidia geforce 650. So my specs are clearly not the issue. I am running on Mac OSX mountain lion with the 3.5 master build to get rid of the dark 3D model glitches. Any idea what could be happening?
Thanks in advance.

[Delayline]

Are you using JITIL recompiler? Because JITIL cause random freezes in LoF TP. Also disable the EuRGB60 if you're using NTSC version.

EDIT: Install the latest display driver if available and also test with stock cpu frequency.

[Shonumi]

@sonicdude987 - You say you're using 3.5 (which indicates the stable 3.5 released in December, the one with no numbers following it), but it's clear you're using some revision after the the GLSL merge. At any rate, this is irrelevant. Anything below 4.0 is officially outdated and thus not supported here on the forums. Use 4.0 or the newer revisions, and when you do be sure to tell us exactly which version/revision you're using (e.g. 4.0, or 4.0-50 for example).

The settings you posted so far look fine though. It could very well be because of some setting you haven't shown us yet (like Delayline's suggestion). Also, low specs tend to cause slowdowns, not crashes, so of course we aren't going to question your specs :p

[sonicdude987]

Alright! I updated to 4.0 and it got past the spot! Another question, My minimap is "visual garbage" and when I enable efb to ram, my speed drops in half (15 FPS, 30 VPS, 50%). Any solution to this without the speed drop? Or am I SOL.

[rokclimb15]

SOL unfortunately. You can potentially tweak other settings to compensate. Try turning off V-Sync and enable the VBeam speed hack since you're using an Nvidia card.

[sonicdude987]

Okay, things are weird here. So, when I set it to ram, My frame rate drops terribly. But I look at my CPU usage and its only using 20%. WTF? Why am I experiencing such a show down?

[ExtremeDude2]

That would be because you have 8 threads and only 2 are being used

[sonicdude987]

Is there a way to enable more? or is dolphin only limited to two

[rokclimb15]

Limited to two or three depending on LLE config. Check your CPU temps/clock just to make sure you're getting 3.6 GHz. There have been a lot of people lately who discovered that their temps were too high and the CPU was downclocking.

[sonicdude987]

I am getting 3.4 ghz, not completely tapped out, max load is 3.6. I enabled vbeam hack at got my VPS at a steady 60 but my fps still lags behind at about 15FPS when I have EFB to ram. Anything to get that FPS up or just live without a minimap on Twilight princess GC.