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Any new on the random freezing issue?

(12-22-2013, 08:42 PM)tet666 Wrote: [ -> ]Any new on the random freezing issue?

What version(s) of Dolphin are you using?

Tried most of the last betas and stable releases they all still freeze after some time.

Well you shoudn't get freezes anymore with recent versions of Dolphin.

Are these random freezes or in some specific parts of the game? What versions of the emulator are you exactly using? Give us more details

(12-23-2013, 12:01 AM)LordVador Wrote: [ -> ]Well you shoudn't get freezes anymore with recent versions of Dolphin.

Are these random freezes or in some specific parts of the game? What versions of the emulator are you exactly using? Give us more details

the usual random freezes tried most betas from 4.0-530 onwards and 4.0.1,4.0.2 its also still marked as type-defect in the bugtacker: http://code.google.com/p/dolphin-emu/issues/detail?can=2&start=0&num=100&q=&colspec=ID%20Type%20Status%20Priority%20Milestone%20Owner%20Summary&groupby=&sort=&id=6705
its easy to test cause it will always freeze after a short while with the framerate unlocked or while making a savestate.

(12-23-2013, 08:33 AM)tet666 Wrote: [ -> ]the usual random freezes tried most betas from 4.0-530 onwards and 4.0.1,4.0.2 its also still marked as type-defect in the bugtacker: http://code.google.com/p/dolphin-emu/issues/detail?can=2&start=0&num=100&q=&colspec=ID%20Type%20Status%20Priority%20Milestone%20Owner%20Summary&groupby=&sort=&id=6705
its easy to test cause it will always freeze after a short while with the framerate unlocked or while making a savestate.

Well, now that you mention it, I remember getting random freezes (more like the game would lock up, music and idle animations would still run, but it everything "froze" when it was Vyse's turn to attack) when I pressed Tab a lot to temporarily disable the frame limit (because most battles are slow...)

In the case of disabling the framelimit, you are forcing Dolphin to emulate the game in a way the game was never designed to run, so it's not surprising that this issue crops up. But in a perfect emulator, going turbo like that shouldn't affect anything that needs to be synced properly to continue emulation. Ideally save states should just work too, but they're still not perfect, even outside of this game.

(12-23-2013, 09:39 AM)Shonumi Wrote: [ -> ]

(12-23-2013, 08:33 AM)tet666 Wrote: [ -> ]the usual random freezes tried most betas from 4.0-530 onwards and 4.0.1,4.0.2 its also still marked as type-defect in the bugtacker: http://code.google.com/p/dolphin-emu/issues/detail?can=2&start=0&num=100&q=&colspec=ID%20Type%20Status%20Priority%20Milestone%20Owner%20Summary&groupby=&sort=&id=6705
its easy to test cause it will always freeze after a short while with the framerate unlocked or while making a savestate.

Well, now that you mention it, I remember getting random freezes (more like the game would lock up, music and idle animations would still run, but it everything "froze" when it was Vyse's turn to attack) when I pressed Tab a lot to temporarily disable the frame limit (because most battles are slow...)

In the case of disabling the framelimit, you are forcing Dolphin to emulate the game in a way the game was never designed to run, so it's not surprising that this issue crops up. But in a perfect emulator, going turbo like that shouldn't affect anything that needs to be synced properly to continue emulation. Ideally save states should just work too, but they're still not perfect, even outside of this game.

Its just a way to force the freezes, it happens without it too sooner or later, sometimes after 5 minutes sometimes after half an hour just the way you described it, the emulator doesn`t crash the game just stops and sometimes the audio goes in to an anoying sound.

Seems to be a fifo issue, since single core or gpu sync fix it here.

(12-23-2013, 09:43 PM)Link_to_the_past Wrote: [ -> ]Seems to be a fifo issue, since single core or gpu sync fix it here.

Yep i think so too unfortunatly the fifo-bp merge didnt help for this title.

Huh, that's weird. I played this game for a few hours on dolphin without any special settings and didn't run into any issues whatsoever with freezing or crashing. Does it only happen during abnormal framerates?