PC crashes when connecting Wii remote

[TheFizzWizz]

Hello

I've used Dolphin in the past but almost exclusively for Gamecube titles or Wii titles that support Gamecube controller and have recently tried to connect a Wii remote to my PC for use in Dolphin. I've followed quite a few tutorials but could never get my controller to stay connected. My PC would recognize it at first and attempt to connect to it but upon connecting the Wii remote would immediately disconnect.

I tried having Dolphin open while connecting the remote and upon the connection being established, my entire PC would crash and shut down. I tried it twice and my PC crashed both times consistently. Afterwards I tried getting some Wii remote drivers (having gotten used to everything auto-installing drivers, I completely forgot about installing them myself at first). I ended up downloading and installing the drivers from Julian that I found suggested by everyone from basically every location I looked.

However now I cannot get my PC to recognize a Wii remote at all when attempting to connect via Bluetooth.

I am not using any Bluetooth adapter, just the pre-existing Bluetooth capabilities that came with my motherboard. I've tried many different things over the past few days and cannot get anything to work so this is basically my last resort before putting down the controller and trying again later on. Any help would be appreciated.

[ExtremeDude2]

The only drivers that you should ever need to install would only be for if you were wanting to use bluetooth passthrough:

https://wiki.dolphin-emu.org/index.php?title=Bluetooth_Passthrough

[TheFizzWizz]

(06-26-2021, 12:49 PM)ExtremeDude2 Wrote: The only drivers that you should ever need to install would only be for if you were wanting to use bluetooth passthrough:

https://wiki.dolphin-emu.org/index.php?title=Bluetooth_Passthrough

Thank you but again, to my knowledge, I'm not using a Bluetooth adapter.

Is a Bluetooth adapter what most people suggest one uses for connecting Wii remotes to Dolphin.

[JosJuice]

(06-26-2021, 04:24 PM)TheFizzWizz Wrote: Thank you but again, to my knowledge, I'm not using a Bluetooth adapter.

Is a Bluetooth adapter what most people suggest one uses for connecting Wii remotes to Dolphin.

The Bluetooth that you have built-in is a Bluetooth adapter. Such a Bluetooth adapter might not work with Bluetooth passthrough, but it should work for connecting Wii Remotes when not using Bluetooth passthrough.

Either way, you shouldn't be using those drivers you installed. They're for connecting Wii Remotes to programs that don't have special support for them, and Dolphin is not such a program.

[TheFizzWizz]

(06-26-2021, 05:47 PM)JosJuice Wrote: The Bluetooth that you have built-in is a Bluetooth adapter. Such a Bluetooth adapter might not work with Bluetooth passthrough, but it should work for connecting Wii Remotes when not using Bluetooth passthrough.

Either way, you shouldn't be using those drivers you installed. They're for connecting Wii Remotes to programs that don't have special support for them, and Dolphin is not such a program.

I've uninstalled the drivers I had installed previously and followed the Dolphin's Wiki page on the Bluetooth Passthrough feature to the letter and have still been unable to successfully connect my Wii remote to Dolphin. Either it does not connect at all or on the few times I have gotten it connected, it only stays connected for a few seconds before disconnecting itself.

I've tried different combinations of the Drivers the Wiki article suggests I change to using Zadig and I cannot get it to connect. I've been trying many different suggestions I've seen around the net and nothing seems to be working for me.