Dolphin, the GameCube and Wii emulator - Forums

(11-13-2015, 04:42 AM)Lunar Bluebird Wrote: [ -> ]Hey everyone, I am experiencing a strange bug. Whenever the world map screen is open, either by the light spirits, Midna, or myself, the game crashes after a few seconds of it being opened. I managed to get through the first light spirit but now that I need to receive the explanation about warping from Midna and warp back the bridge to Hyrule Field to get to Kakariko, I cannot get through it. Any advice? I'm running the game on Dolphin 4.0.2

Perhaps you have a bad iso.

(11-12-2015, 10:06 AM)OatmealDome Wrote: [ -> ]Right click dolphin.exe, go to properties, and click "Unblock" at the bottom.

nope that still gives me the corrupted msg

(11-14-2015, 06:09 AM)Link_to_the_past Wrote: [ -> ]Perhaps you have a bad iso.

You were right, I downloaded a new iso and it works now. Thanks!

Downloading games is against the forum rules. We don't condone piracy nor support pirates here.

This is mainly TP, but I have similar problems on other games. Occasionally, my FPS drops to zero and my VPS skyrockets, essentially freezing the game. This happens most of the time on TP when booting up, although occasionally, I'll get lucky and get to the start screen.

OS: Windows 7 x64
Processor: AMD FX-4300 Quad-Core 3.8 GHz
Graphics Card: AMD Radeon HD 7450
RAM: Won't Tell Me The Brand/8 GB
Dolphin Version: 4.0.2

Settings (If I don't mention something, assume it's unchecked):

Backend: D3D11
Reso: 640x480
AR: Force 16:9
IR: 1x Native
Anti-Aliasing: None
Anisotropic Filtering: 1x
Skip EFB Access
Ignore Format Changes
EFB Copies: Texture
Texture Cache: Full Fast
XFB: Disabled
Cache Display Lists
OpenMP Texture Decoder
Fast Depth Calculation
Dual Core
Idle Skipping
JIT Recompiler
Framelimit 30
Limit by FPS
Use Panic Handlers
On-Screen Display Messages
DSP HLE emulation
Audio Backend: DSound

Please update to the latest development build. And always set your framelimit to auto.

(11-21-2015, 01:35 PM)mimimi Wrote: [ -> ]Please update to the latest development build. And always set your framelimit to auto.

>Latest development build
Is not having the latest stable build enough? Do I always have to opt into the latest experimental build to get support for anything on here? Why can't 4.0.2 be enough? Is there something in the latest dev build that fixes this problem or something?

>Always to auto
Auto for me almost never works for anything. It always picks the highest option that I could theoretically obtain, not the highest option that would be practical.

Just tried it, same thing. Whole lot of good that did me. Auto frame limit: Your mileage may vary.

(11-21-2015, 02:20 PM)ShylokVakarian Wrote: [ -> ]Is not having the latest stable build enough?  Do I always have to opt into the latest experimental build to get support for anything on here?  Why can't 4.0.2 be enough?

It's almost two years old and is highly outdated, especially when it comes to Zelda titles.

Anyway, your CPU is both old and from AMD, which means you're probably never going to get ideal performance. Setting the frame limit to "Auto" makes Dolphin run the game at the speed it was designed for, but that doesn't do you much good if your CPU is too slow to emulate the game at full speed. The development versions are far faster than 4.0.2, but they can only do so much.

(11-21-2015, 03:08 PM)Aleron Ives Wrote: [ -> ]

(11-21-2015, 02:20 PM)ShylokVakarian Wrote: [ -> ]Is not having the latest stable build enough?  Do I always have to opt into the latest experimental build to get support for anything on here?  Why can't 4.0.2 be enough?

It's almost two years old and is highly outdated, especially when it comes to Zelda titles.

Anyway, your CPU is both old and from AMD, which means you're probably never going to get ideal performance. Setting the frame limit to "Auto" makes Dolphin run the game at the speed it was designed for, but that doesn't do you much good if your CPU is too slow to emulate the game at full speed. The development versions are far faster than 4.0.2, but they can only do so much.

Well, clearly, I'm never going to get ideal performance, I've known that for a while. My main problem is trying to get the games to work, I couldn't care less about the games running at 20-30 frames per second, at least it's playable in that state.  They've worked before, I've actually got as far as...Arbiter something...why won't they work now?

EDIT: Here, maybe a log will help.

(11-21-2015, 03:36 PM)ShylokVakarian Wrote: [ -> ]

(11-21-2015, 03:08 PM)Aleron Ives Wrote: [ -> ]

(11-21-2015, 02:20 PM)ShylokVakarian Wrote: [ -> ]Is not having the latest stable build enough?  Do I always have to opt into the latest experimental build to get support for anything on here?  Why can't 4.0.2 be enough?

It's almost two years old and is highly outdated, especially when it comes to Zelda titles.

Anyway, your CPU is both old and from AMD, which means you're probably never going to get ideal performance. Setting the frame limit to "Auto" makes Dolphin run the game at the speed it was designed for, but that doesn't do you much good if your CPU is too slow to emulate the game at full speed. The development versions are far faster than 4.0.2, but they can only do so much.

Well, clearly, I'm never going to get ideal performance, I've known that for a while, but I don't get why mimi had to be anal about my framelimit when I know what's best for my computer.

My main problem is trying to get the games to work, I couldn't care less about the games running at 20-30 frames per second, at least it's playable in that state.  They've worked before, I've actually got as far as...Arbiter something...why won't they work now?

He's not being anal about it, you posted looking for help and those were two of the suggestions he had. Just because you have Windows 7, does that mean you don't have or won't get any of the updates released for it, because according to your logic, the first release of 7 is "enough"?

I am sorry for coming off harsh, but it's because it's how your posts are.


I get the latest experimental for Dolphin every few months; in fact I just downloaded 4.0-8197 yesterday. My previous version is -7751, nearly 450 revisions between the two (less are available for download as multiple revisions can get merged in some cases; I'm not certain how or why but they are and I'd imagine it's when multiple revisions are put up nearly simultaneously.)


On to your issues:

Have you checked to make sure your .iso file wasn't corrupted? I don't know the proper MD5 checksums offhand but there's others here who do and if you post yours it can at least rule out that issue.

I personally don't know much else but this at least can be a start. And worst comes to worst I can compare your MD5 to mine (assuming same game version, there were multiple versions released. I believe there's GC 1.0 and 1.2; there may be a 1.1 but I don't know for sure)