Zelda Wind Waker - Freezing after Intro and after certain cut scenes

[SuperCrazyAfroMan117]

Good Afternoon,

I recently downloaded Dolphin 2.0 and I'm trying play Zelda Wind Waker(USA), however after the intro (With the storybook) Zelda Hangs for about 30sec - 1.30mins and will sometimes not load. After passing the intro scene, after rescuing Petra from the forest, I have extreme lag watching the scene with your little sister being taken away. The game then freezes and will not load.


Hardware:
Nvidia 480GTX
6Gb RAM DDR3
i7 960 - Stock clock 3.20ghz

Settings:
-I'm using the The legend of Zelda, Wind Waker ROM from USA - Iso
-I have the "copy efb to gl texture" Option in Open GL truned on.
-I've tried running the game with different resolutions still same freezing spots.
- I have noticed that the state of my game in the emulator only says (intro) see screenshot.




Has anyone else had these issues? Is there a different plug-in I should use? I would like to attempt to re-texture the game and I'm at a loss, all help would be greatly appreciated. ^_^

[saj-la93]

Well first off you have to download the latest version of dolphin emulator(dolphin 3.0). Then under properties>patches (found when you right click the game in dolphin emu) enable fix item hack. Then restart the game play to the cutscenes and you will find that the game won't freeze...however there IS one side effect. Fix item hang disables all sound except sound effects for wind waker. So, you have to disable it until you reach a cutscenes and then you have to enable it(yes I know very annoying) but so far that is the only way I've found to fix the cutscene freeze problem.

Oh one more thing. You have to restart the game for changes to take effect, so first save, then quit and reload with fix item hack enabled and your cutscene will
Have no freezing except for sound.

[LordVador]

Saj-la it was an old post not sure the guy will get your answer btw you were right to advise 3.0

[bxj325]

I've also had the same problem, and it help alot. Thanks!

Well first off you have to download the latest version of dolphin emulator(dolphin 3.0). Then under properties>patches (found when you right click the game in dolphin emu) enable fix item hack. Then restart the game play to the cutscenes and you will find that the game won't freeze...however there IS one side effect. Fix item hang disables all sound except sound effects for wind waker. So, you have to disable it until you reach a cutscenes and then you have to enable it(yes I know very annoying) but so far that is the only way I've found to fix the cutscene freeze problem.

Oh one more thing. You have to restart the game for changes to take effect, so first save, then quit and reload with fix item hack enabled and your cutscene will
Have no freezing except for sound.