Dolphin, the GameCube and Wii emulator - Forums

(12-22-2013, 10:33 PM)MaJoR Wrote: [ -> ]@Yorgal: describe your sound problem please.

I'm not good in english so it will be hard but it's like the music stop 0.01 second . Its not a big problem but if i can adjust it , i'l do

Edit: The solution to my problem can be summed up to: CLEAN YOUR PC ONCE EVERY 6 MONTH KIDS!

OK here I go...

I got an old dolphin version for Xenoblade quite some time ago. I think about a year or older. It's called "r6880". With just very little tweaking I was able to play Xenoblade PERFECTLY (some audio hiccups only in big battle situations but very very rarely) up to a part in the game you visit twice where the whole screen just mushed over with green. had to play those parts on an actual Wii so yeah nothing big.

Now... I wanted to start my well deserved NG+. So I revved that stinger up again and expected just the same unalterated fun I had beforehand. But now there is this weird bug. The game runs perfectly once ingame for about 30 seconds and then the audio goes on a vacation in bitcrush-land. The sound is just abyssmal. I tried switching the audio plugins around but its always the same, just with different symptoms. Always 30 seconds till meltdown and then some kind of horrible audio chokeups. And I consider myself to have a rather high tolerance but this is just awful. It ran perfect before.

So I thought maybe I will regain the perfectness by updating my dolphin version to the latest release. So I downloaded it, configured a bit, started the game and VOILA.... I haven't seen so many edges in my LIFE. It looked HORRIBLE. Then I thought: Of course! I haven't configured the new dolphin version the way my old one was configured.

But I can't for the love of me configure them the same. It seems the dolphin developers change around the UI between versions just for the fun of screwing with the users I tried for 2 hours now to get the same options in but it just won't work.

So my big problem is.... if the game works perfect for 30 seconds and then starts to screw up it surely has to be something memory related right? But how do I extend these 30 seconds to... i dunno.... 8 hours?
Any ideas?

Edit: This may also not only be the audio, maybe the whole game skips.

Edit 2: Also.... I seriously just don't know what information to post to you guys to maybe help fix this thing up.

@ Yorgal and Kajotex:
You need to run the game full-speed to get correct audio. If you can't run the game full-speed then the sound will stutter or will skip from time to time etc.
And for an optimal sound quality in this game you also need to use a recent version of Dolphin. More precisely a build as of 3.5-1154. The "hack" is no more needed

(12-22-2013, 11:45 PM)LordVador Wrote: [ -> ]@ Yorgal and Kajotex:
You need to run the game full-speed to get correct audio. If you can't run the game full-speed then the sound will stutter or will skip from time to time etc.
And for an optimal sound quality in this game you also need to use a recent version of Dolphin. More precisely a build as of 3.5-1154. The "hack" is no more needed

Yes but i use the 4.1 version , it's recent no ?

(12-22-2013, 11:45 PM)LordVador Wrote: [ -> ]@ Yorgal and Kajotex:
You need to run the game full-speed to get correct audio. If you can't run the game full-speed then the sound will stutter or will skip from time to time etc.
And for an optimal sound quality in this game you also need to use a recent version of Dolphin. More precisely a build as of 3.5-1154. The "hack" is no more needed

I would. I would gladly switch to the newest version. But... I just can't find out why the old version looks like HD material and the new dolphin renders worse than a gameboy. I'm simply not as into the system and the technical stuff of the emulator to know what I have to "take over" to get the same results.

(12-22-2013, 11:49 PM)Yorgal Wrote: [ -> ]

(12-22-2013, 11:45 PM)LordVador Wrote: [ -> ]And for an optimal sound quality in this game you also need to use a recent version of Dolphin. More precisely a build as of 3.5-1154. The "hack" is no more needed

Yes but i use the 4.0.1 version , it's recent no ?

I fixed that for you.

Yeah it's recent. This part of my post was adressed to Kajotex.

(12-22-2013, 11:57 PM)Kajotex Wrote: [ -> ]I just can't find out why the old version looks like HD material and the new dolphin renders worse than a gameboy

Your system might just not be adequate for recent versions of the emulator. They're much more demanding than the very old build you are using

Kajotex: increase the internal resolution, or set it to "Auto (Multiple of 640x528)". And make sure "Fullscreen resolution" is on "Auto". Make note of the speed you are getting, you want it to run at fullspeed (30 or 25fps constant, 60 or 50vps constant, depending on if you are using NTSC or PAL) at all times.

And keep using the new version.

(12-23-2013, 12:13 AM)LordVador Wrote: [ -> ]

(12-22-2013, 11:57 PM)Kajotex Wrote: [ -> ]I just can't find out why the old version looks like HD material and the new dolphin renders worse than a gameboy

Your system might just not be adequate for recent versions of the emulator. They're much more demanding than the very old build you are using

But such a drastic step down in quality? Please compare this: https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/13477906/pixelated.jpg to this: https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/13477906/nonpixelated.jpg

So you say I have to update to a new version, which may be too much for my machine, to run a game that ran nearly perfect on an older version, to get a heavily pixelated game out of it that may not even fix the autio problems?

This seems..... odd to me to be honest...

So you have no fix for me :'( ? I'am on a 64 bit windows on a 64bit dolphin 4.0.1 and i run the game at 100% but sometimes i have a little crash on the sound (just 0.01second) , im on dsound HLE

(12-23-2013, 12:18 AM)MaJoR Wrote: [ -> ]Kajotex: increase the internal resolution, or set it to "Auto (Multiple of 640x528)". And make sure "Fullscreen resolution" is on "Auto". Make note of the speed you are getting, you want it to run at fullspeed (30 or 25fps constant, 60 or 50vps constant, depending on if you are using NTSC or PAL) at all times.

And keep using the new version.

Now THIS helped... such an easy fix for the resolution. Thanks for that!
Sorry I just don't know how to configure to optimum.

Well now it looks as good as the old version, thats perfect. It runs at 25fps constantly no problem there too but there is still the problem that after some time (now increased to about 1 or 2 minutes!) the audio gets a contant hiccup every 0.5 seconds and noticeably so. Before that, not even a trace of any problems.
I still think there should be an easy fix for this somewhere in the jungle of options that is dolphin... I just don't know where to start. Any leads?