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I have recently upgraded from dolphin 3.0 to the newest revision as of yesterday (don't remember the number), and I have noticed that the emulator crashes a ton now. Almost every 15 minutes or less, windows will pop up saying that dolphin has stopped working, and it shuts it down. After the window goes away, I can see that dolphin resumes normally about 1/2 a second before being shut down by Windows.

I really liked the newer version as my games work much better on it, but I have reverted to the old version because it rarely ever crashes. Is there a fix for this? If not, I just want to let the devs know about this. Thanks.

These are my Specs:
Intel Core i7 2nd generation 2 Ghz
8 Gigs RAM
Nvidia GT 555M
Windows 7 Professional 64-bit

My dolphin (Version 3.0 r631) settings:
Config:
Enable Dual Core - on
Enable Ide Skipping - off
Enable Cheats - on
Framelimit - 60
Use FPS for limiting - off
Skip GC BIOS - on
CPU Emulator Engine - JIT Recompiler
Lock threads to core - off
Use Panic Handlers - off

Direct3D9 Settings

General:
All boxes unchecked
Dx9
Fullscreen resolution- 1600x900
Aspect ratio- auto

Enhancements:
Render to Main Window- off
Internal Resolution- Auto (multiple of 640x528)
Anti-Aliasing - none
Anisotropic Filtering - 1x
Force texture filtering - off
Per-Pixel Lighting - off
EFB Scaled Copy - on
All other boxes unchecked

Hacks:
Fast Mipmaps - on
EFB Copies - Texture
Skip EFB access from CPU - off
Disable Per-Pixel Depth- on
Ignore Format Changes- on
Texture Cache - Middle
External Frame Buffer- Disable
All other boxes unchecked
Advanced:
All off

DSP Settings

DSP HLE emulation
Audio Backend- XAudio2
Sample Rate-48000 Hz


All of these games had crashing:
Super Mario Sunshine (GC)
Final Fantasy Crystal Chronicles: My Life as a King (Wiiware)
Fire Emblem: Radiant Dawn (Wii)
Legend of Zelda: Wind Waker (GC)
Final Fantasy Crystal Chronicles (GC)
(that's all the games I have)

I did notice that Fire Emblem played much more smoothly graphically (When it worked) than it did in 3.0/

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Post your Dolphin settings. Also, which games are you trying to play?

When I upgraded from 3.0, I did copy/paste my User folder, could that have anything to do with the crashing?

Yes. Just copy your user/GC folder for GC game saves and your user/Wii folder for Wii game saves.

(05-12-2012, 05:24 AM)Starscream Wrote: [ -> ]Yes. Just copy your user/GC folder for GC game saves and your user/Wii folder for Wii game saves.

OK, Ill try just transferring that. Ill play for a few hours to see if I notice an improvement.

EDIT:I have just tested it and so far, no crashing. Thanks, I think it's fixed.

EDIT: Its not crashing as much as before, but its still crashing alot.

fix dolphin 4.0.2 from stop working ever 15 minutes in window 8.1 . un check confirm on stop in configuration/ interface.

There´s no need to revive old threads...

Old thread is old.

Closed.