Dolphin, the GameCube and Wii emulator - Forums

Trying out Dolphin... on my main rig (Phenom II 940, 4GB RAM, GeForce GTX 260 896MB, Win7 x64) it works great, so I thought I'd try it out on my living room computer (Athlon x2 4850e, 4GB RAM, GeForce 9500GT 512MB, Win7 x64) to see how it copes with lighter hardware (I confess, I was considering getting rid of my Wii if I can pull this off. I'd keep the games, though, of course). Unfortunately, it has some very odd behaviors there. The game refuses to actually start emulating, and if I go to the Config window, on the Plugins tab, there appear to be no plugins for GC Pad or Wiimote. Both the spots where the plugin would be are blank, if I click the dropdown a blank box appears, and clicking the Configure button does nothing. Have I somehow misconfigured Dolphin on this machine?

EDIT - I should probably add that the appropriate DLLs are, indeed, present in the Plugins directory (Plugin_GCPad.dll, Plugin_GCPadNew.dll, and Plugin_Wiimote.dll).

There is a stickied thread titled "[Read me first] FAQ: Plugins missing, Error xyz pops up, Why does abc not work?". Read it.