Problem regarding SDL.ll

06-26-2012, 07:14 AM #1

Hey everyone. I'm new to emulation and I just downloaded/extracted/installed Dolphin. For the first 40 minutes or so everything was working fine, until the game crashed. I restarted my PC and then when I tried to use Dolphin once again it gave me an error reading: "The program can't start because SDL.ll is missing from your computer. Try reinstalling the program to fix this issue".

I tried reinstalling and still the same issue, any tips?

Thanks!

**neobrain** · 06-26-2012, 07:16 AM #2

Make sure to extract the archive properly. SDL.dll is included in the archives. Do NOT run the Dolphin executable without extracting the archive...

06-26-2012, 07:27 AM #3

(06-26-2012, 07:16 AM)neobrain Wrote: Make sure to extract the archive properly. SDL.dll is included in the archives. Do NOT run the Dolphin executable without extracting the archive...

Thanks! I'm attempting to re-extract. What is a common mistake regarding the extraction process?

**neobrain** · 06-26-2012, 04:17 PM #4

Dunno, whatever it is that you've been doing apparently :p

Some people try to run Dolphin.exe directly from within their archiver program which obviously won't work because the executable can't find any of the other files.