Ok some bad news. Didn't get the new video card for Christmas. So for now stuck with my current one. So I've experimented to see how Dolphin runs in my alternate operating systems. I have Win7 x64 on my SSD, then a second much older copy running on a different partition. This one I hadn't booted up in ages. So I boot that up (same version of Win7 as my primary OS on SSD) get it up to date with drivers and windows updates and Dolphin still freezes/crashes on that OS.
So I went a step further and installed Windows XP x64 on my 300GB drive get that up to date and tried an older version of Dolphin on that. (since current versions past 2.0 stopped supporting XP I believe). The very same version that still freezes randomly for me on my primary OS. And....it runs perfectly fine. I got through an entire cup race in Mario Kart Double Dash without a single freeze or crash. Yet using the SAME version of Dolphin on my current Win7 x64 OS will result in random freezing (In 3.0+ versions it will crash after the freeze, where as the old version will freeze and I can wait a few seconds, exit fullscreen and go back to get back into the game, but sometimes it will freeze and stay like that).
So if the hardware is defective somewhere in my video card, then why would Dolphin run perfectly fine in WinXP x64?
So I went a step further and installed Windows XP x64 on my 300GB drive get that up to date and tried an older version of Dolphin on that. (since current versions past 2.0 stopped supporting XP I believe). The very same version that still freezes randomly for me on my primary OS. And....it runs perfectly fine. I got through an entire cup race in Mario Kart Double Dash without a single freeze or crash. Yet using the SAME version of Dolphin on my current Win7 x64 OS will result in random freezing (In 3.0+ versions it will crash after the freeze, where as the old version will freeze and I can wait a few seconds, exit fullscreen and go back to get back into the game, but sometimes it will freeze and stay like that).
So if the hardware is defective somewhere in my video card, then why would Dolphin run perfectly fine in WinXP x64?
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