Setting up dolphin-nothing is happening

[The Cadet]

I have no idea what I'm doing. I read the stickied threads and still have no clue.

Basically, before it was asking for some gamepad .dll file. I nipped that in the bud by removing the gamepad from the settings. But now whenever I start the game... nothing happens. It just sits there. I get the hourglass until I move my cursor at all, and well... nothing. I'm running XP over Parallels on an intel macbook.

[Jefferson]

Mmm....You could post your RAM, GHZ....,etc.
Mm....Did you downloaded all the necessary?
Directx, libraries...
Mm...You mean the game doesnt show anyything or. When you press a key like start: doesnt reconigzes?

[Rage Machine]

Do macbooks have dedicated graphics chipsets?

[The Cadet]

Mmm....You could post your RAM, GHZ....,etc.
Mm....Did you downloaded all the necessary?
Directx, libraries...
Mm...You mean the game doesnt show anyything or. When you press a key like start: doesnt reconigzes?

Basically I click play and it's as if I hadn't; nothing happens at all. I'm not 100% aware which directX libraries are necessary, nor did I get anything not described in the guide in the sticky.

Do macbooks have dedicated graphics chipsets?

I have no idea. I have an intel dual core processor (2GHz), 2GB RAM, a NVIDIA GeForce 9400M chipset... I don't know much about computer hardware (if I did, why would I use mac? xD).

[Jefferson]

Mm....What REV are you using? Have you tried downloading latest REVs?
Mm....Maybe you have to active Panic handlers to see the error?

[The Cadet]

Is REV Version? If yes, I have 4771.

I turned on panic handling and got "error loading Plugins/Plugin_PadSimple.dll: can't read info" which is clear because the file doesn't exist. It wasn't there, and I don't know where to get it. >.> Then I click okay, it tells me it couldn't load the gamepad, then it couldn't load the core.

[Chaoscode]

you need to install directx 9. please dont tell me you have directx 11 and you dont need to install 9. just install directx 9.

[Jefferson]

Mm....Have you downloaded the Update for Directx in getting started with Dolphin?

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Mm....Just go here: http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/detai...layLang=en for update it and solve the problem.

[The Cadet]

All right, that worked. The bad news is, I think the problem is just that my computer sucks too much to run this in Parallels. Oh well.