Dolphin, the GameCube and Wii emulator - Forums

Hi guys, cant remember when started to happen, but I guess this problem come from builds from less than a month ago.


When running a game in fullscreen, press alt f4 to close the game, and screen goes black. Even alt tab wont show anything. Only solution is pressing ctrl alt del bring task manager and kill dolphin process.


Running on gtx970 latest drivers, tried older, the same.
I7 4770k
Win7 x64

Dolphin at 4xir, no AA, no aniso, show fps on. Today's build.

Btw, not using AA cause with newer builds mario Galaxy 2 will give warning error gfx screens saying something about msaa ( "This usually happens when trying to use Dolphin with an outdated GPU or intergrated GPU like the Intel GMA Series") when loading a level and hangs.

Thanks.

While I doubt Dolphin's supposed to freeze like that, pressing escape first to stop emulation will make it more robust to this kind of thing.

I have a similar problem when I close out of a game.  Even using the Esc key.  After it asks if I want to stop the current emulation, when I click yes, Dolphin just freezes.  I figured out it's only when I use the OpenGL backend.  I don't use the D3D one because it doesn't perform as well on my NVidia graphics card.  I don't think it's an isolated problem with Dolphin though, because the same thing happens when I use PCSX2 w/OpenGL.  To me it's not a big deal.  I just leave task manager open when I'm using Dolphin

I can second that issue. unlike evinsaged, however, it is isolated to Dolphin for me, i don't get the issue on pcsx2, epsxe, or vba. i haven't dumped any games since i installed this new os though, so i'll test it with fedora and see if i get the same problem.

I'll third that issue was well. I don't think it's an OpenGL-only issue since I'm running into the issue with the DirectX backend as well.

all of us were using windows when we got the issue, and evinsaged says he gets it only with ogl. is it possibly a driver issue?

Good to hear you are having similar problems.

I use a htpc remote control that only has alt f4, no ESC key, so cant try.

But alt f4 was working fine on older builds. Now it hangs every time while exiting any game, it;s not an sporadic problem.

btw im using dx11 here.

Well, tried with ESC, the same, blackscreen.

I had this, too. Reverted to an older build, as the black screen blocks even the task manager for me.
The next thing would be just to bisect the build causing this. Sorry for not doing it myself, but I'm not at home this week.

I have the same problem except I'm on win 8.1 pro x64. The black screen even covers the task manager for me, so the only option I have is press the window key and restart. This is quite a major bug, and annoying too.