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Hmm cheats enabled you say...
The probability of Dolphin crashing is always higher with cheats enabled.
I haven't really tested any cheats for the last couple of thousand revisions but I know for a fact that the slightest fault in any of the codes will crash Dolphin hard.
I don't use cheats any longer though, I tend to delete the codes for the games I play, don't want to risk anything.

I never have cheats enabled (or are there cheats enabled by default?)

(07-04-2011, 03:05 AM)StripTheSoul Wrote: [ -> ]I never have cheats enabled (or are there cheats enabled by default?)

No I don't think that there is any cheats on by default for any game.

There's usually not any good cheats for most of the games anyway so why bother with them, but in rare occasions like in Wind Waker, the All figurines code was quite handy.
There's absolutely no chance I would have patience taking that many pictures, but that's about it I guess.

I must be confused as to the function of "cheats enabled". I enabled because I thought that was what facilitated the options of the iso properties. MMU, MMU speed hack, etc. I actually don't run any gecko codes or "Cheats". If it is enabled and a search was performed for the cheat codes, would the codes automaticlly be applied? or do I still have to input the desired code for the cheat specific to a game?

(07-04-2011, 03:37 AM)Trunk8 Wrote: [ -> ]I must be confused as to the function of "cheats enabled". I enabled because I thought that was what facilitated the options of the iso properties. MMU, MMU speed hack, etc. I actually don't run any gecko codes or "Cheats". If it is enabled and a search was performed for the cheat codes, would the codes automaticlly be applied? or do I still have to input the desired code for the cheat specific to a game?

Oh well that explains it.

As for your question I don't think they're automatically applied but instead you choose the cheats from the list in the cheat tab, and you tick a little check box for the cheats you want to use.

Hmm MMU, MMU speed hack you say??
I have actually never tried those, from the game option list I usually just take Dual Core and Idle Skipping and leave the rest unticked/unchecked.
Most of my games runs perfectly fine with just Idle skipping and Dual core, maybe that's why it hasn't crashed for me yet.

It's mostly GC games that need MMU and MMU Speed Hack. And most of those games which do need it, have it enabled by default via game ini. I don't fiddle around with those, so that's not the reason for the crashes.

(07-04-2011, 03:56 AM)StripTheSoul Wrote: [ -> ]It's mostly GC games that need MMU and MMU Speed Hack. And most of those games which do need it, have it enabled by default via game ini. I don't fiddle around with those, so that's not the reason for the crashes.

Lucky me, I don't even think I own a game that have it enabled by default or using it at all.
That goes for the rest of the odd options.
Well then, I'm glad that can be ruled out then.

I had a thought about scaled EFB setting being removed from the configuration. Was that removed or permanently enabled? It was one of the settings I always needed enabled.

So I got the crashes worked out now:

On the previous version I used (67**) it started giving infinite FIFO errors (counting up the numbers) and crashed the same way if I click "no" on those errors. So it kind of crashes faster now. Also this happens after like 10 minutes of gameplay!?.

I use Soluto, it analyzed process crashes and such. It said it is probably caused by XAudio. (Yes, it said that!)

HLE and LLE audio made no difference, btw.

Switching to DirectSound solved the problem!

EDIT: ... NOT.

It crashed again. It took longer than before, this time Soluto says caused by Dolphin.exe *rolleyes*.

What soluto has to say:

Crashed Application: dolphin.exe
Crashed Process: dolphin.exe
Crashed by Module: dolphin.exe

Stack Trace:
ntdll.dll:4cc7b3251ac000+0x333232
kernel32.dll:4a5bdfdf11f000+0x142458
dolphin.exe:4e042d4a4681000+0x592608
dolphin.exe:4e042d4a4681000+0x1895956
dolphin.exe:4e042d4a4681000+0x1439863
dolphin.exe:4e042d4a4681000+0x1447820
dolphin.exe:4e042d4a4681000+0x3554191
dolphin.exe:4e042d4a4681000+0x3612959
dolphin.exe:4e042d4a4681000+0x2863761
dolphin.exe:4e042d4a4681000+0x2866003
dolphin.exe:4e042d4a4681000+0x2866400
dolphin.exe:4e042d4a4681000+0x2866422
dolphin.exe:4e042d4a4681000+0x2866588
dolphin.exe:4e042d4a4681000+0x2798740
dolphin.exe:4e042d4a4681000+0x176964
user32.dll:4a5be088fa000+0x34208
user32.dll:4a5be088fa000+0x73755
user32.dll:4a5be088fa000+0x94613
user32.dll:4a5be088fa000+0x117034
user32.dll:4a5be088fa000+0x117086
dolphin.exe:4e042d4a4681000+0x2136474
dolphin.exe:4e042d4a4681000+0x3899297
dolphin.exe:4e042d4a4681000+0x2169074
dolphin.exe:4e042d4a4681000+0x2659518
dolphin.exe:4e042d4a4681000+0x2766472
dolphin.exe:4e042d4a4681000+0x2178156
dolphin.exe:4e042d4a4681000+0x601932
kernel32.dll:4a5bdfdf11f000+0x128365
ntdll.dll:4cc7b3251ac000+0x208065

Running Modules:
ModuleName FileVersion Vendor
xinput1_3 9.18.944.0 microsoft corporation
dolphin 0.0.0.0 N/A
cggl 3.0.0.7 nvidia corporation
vcomp100 10.0.40219.1 microsoft corporation
atiumd64 7.14.10.841 ati technologies inc.
atiumd6a 8.14.10.312 advanced micro devices, inc.
aticfx64 8.17.10.1083 ati technologies inc.
cg 3.0.0.7 nvidia corporation
user32 6.1.7600.16385 microsoft corporation
kernel32 6.1.7600.16385 microsoft corporation
ntdll 6.1.7600.16695 microsoft corporation
psapi 6.1.7600.16385 microsoft corporation
sdl 0.0.0.0 N/A
d3dx9_43 9.29.952.3111 microsoft corporation
d3d9 6.1.7600.16385 microsoft corporation
dinput 6.1.7600.16385 microsoft corporation
dinput8 6.1.7600.16385 microsoft corporation
msvfw32 6.1.7600.16385 microsoft corporation
avifil32 6.1.7600.16385 microsoft corporation
msftedit 5.41.21.2509 microsoft corporation
msimg32 6.1.7600.16385 microsoft corporation
ddraw 6.1.7600.16385 microsoft corporation
opengl32 6.1.7600.16385 microsoft corporation
dsound 6.1.7600.16385 microsoft corporation
d3d8thk 6.1.7600.16385 microsoft corporation
wbemsvc 6.1.7600.16385 microsoft corporation
ntdsapi 6.1.7600.16385 microsoft corporation
fastprox 6.1.7600.16385 microsoft corporation
atiu9p64 8.14.1.6214 advanced micro devices, inc.
dbghelp 6.1.7600.16385 microsoft corporation
winnsi 6.1.7600.16385 microsoft corporation
iphlpapi 6.1.7600.16385 microsoft corporation
msacm32 6.1.7600.16385 microsoft corporation
audioses 6.1.7600.16385 microsoft corporation
winmm 6.1.7600.16385 microsoft corporation
wbemprox 6.1.7600.16385 microsoft corporation
dciman32 6.1.7600.16385 microsoft corporation
wbemcomn 6.1.7600.16385 microsoft corporation
glu32 6.1.7600.16385 microsoft corporation
powrprof 6.1.7600.16385 microsoft corporation
mmdevapi 6.1.7600.16385 microsoft corporation
uxtheme 6.1.7600.16385 microsoft corporation
propsys 7.0.7600.16385 microsoft corporation
comctl32 6.10.7600.16661 microsoft corporation
avrt 6.1.7600.16385 microsoft corporation
hid 6.1.7600.16385 microsoft corporation
version 6.1.7600.16385 microsoft corporation
rsaenh 6.1.7600.16385 microsoft corporation
cryptsp 6.1.7600.16385 microsoft corporation
dwmapi 6.1.7600.16385 microsoft corporation
cryptbase 6.1.7600.16385 microsoft corporation
rpcrtremote 6.1.7600.16385 microsoft corporation
msasn1 6.1.7600.16415 microsoft corporation
kernelbase 6.1.7600.16385 microsoft corporation
devobj 6.1.7600.16385 microsoft corporation
wintrust 6.1.7600.16493 microsoft corporation
cfgmgr32 6.1.7600.16385 microsoft corporation
crypt32 6.1.7600.16385 microsoft corporation
msvcrt 7.0.7600.16385 microsoft corporation
ws2_32 6.1.7600.16385 microsoft corporation
oleaut32 6.1.7600.16722 microsoft corporation
usp10 1.626.7600.16385 microsoft corporation
nsi 6.1.7600.16385 microsoft corporation
sechost 6.1.7600.16385 microsoft corporation
setupapi 6.1.7600.16385 microsoft corporation
advapi32 6.1.7600.16385 microsoft corporation
imagehlp 6.1.7600.16385 microsoft corporation
msctf 6.1.7600.16385 microsoft corporation
shlwapi 6.1.7600.16385 microsoft corporation
lpk 6.1.7600.16385 microsoft corporation
imm32 6.1.7600.16385 microsoft corporation
gdi32 6.1.7600.16385 microsoft corporation
rpcrt4 6.1.7600.16385 microsoft corporation
clbcatq 2001.12.8530.16385 microsoft corporation
comdlg32 6.1.7600.16385 microsoft corporation
shell32 6.1.7600.16644 microsoft corporation
ole32 6.1.7600.16624 microsoft corporation

This crash was detected and analyzed by Soluto (as part of the PC Genome).
For recommendations and solutions to application crashes and other PC problems, download Soluto at: http://www.soluto.com

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Anybody?

Random crashes with no explanation(just closes) is what I think we are talking about here.

From 7608(my first version) onwards I saw frequent closes(1 every half hour to hour average). I tried to fiddle with it(dual or no dual core, DSP changes, many other combinations) nothing worked.

After I changed to previous versions like 6505 or 6515 now I very rarely get random closes(crashes). Almost perfect + speed increase. The most recent versions does not fix any of the graphics problems in the games I test anyways.

If you have to stick with the latest versions for the games you want play I found with my many hours of settings testing that "render to main window" and/or changing the sound to LLE vs HLE gave me more time between crashes.