Dolphin, the GameCube and Wii emulator - Forums

I never have this issue on my desktop because I know my desktop is more than capable  of running Dolphin just fine. If I had to take a wild guess, it's because of my laptop.

I've had Dolphin crash on me just browsing the menus and even while just have it running idly while browsing the Internet. I've also had it crash on me while playing games, so I'm not sure what exactly it is that's causing the crashes. I just have a hunch that it's my underwhelming laptop.

I have an Aspire V which means it has

Windows 8.1 64
Intel i5-5200U @ 2.2GHz
8 gigs of ram
The integrated graphics card reads "5500, up to 3839 MB Dynamic Video Memory." 

I already know my cpu and its clockspeed and lack of an actual video card aren't very optimal for running Dolphin, but Super Smash Bros Melee ran perfectly fine. I have the graphics low, but it played surprisingly fine. That's what's confusing me as to why it keeps crashing on me. Any thoughts? All help is always appreciated.

There should be a log somewhere in the directory it is installed in, although I'm not sure where to look for it.

The fact that it's crashing while a game is not even running makes me think it's probably not because of your "underwhelming laptop".

02:15:989 Src\NANDContentLoader.cpp:217 W[DIO]: CreateFromDirectory: error opening C:/Users/Leo/Documents/Dolphin Emulator/Wii/title/00000001/00000002/content/title.tmd
02:16:083 Src\NANDContentLoader.cpp:217 W[DIO]: CreateFromDirectory: error opening C:/Users/Leo/Documents/Dolphin Emulator/Wii/title/00000001/00000002/content/title.tmd
03:37:488 Src\NANDContentLoader.cpp:217 W[DIO]: CreateFromDirectory: error opening C:/Users/Leo/Documents/Dolphin Emulator/Wii/title/00000001/00000002/content/title.tmd
03:37:519 Src\NANDContentLoader.cpp:217 W[DIO]: CreateFromDirectory: error opening C:/Users/Leo/Documents/Dolphin Emulator/Wii/title/00000001/00000002/content/title.tmd
33:27:449 Src\NANDContentLoader.cpp:217 W[DIO]: CreateFromDirectory: error opening C:/Users/Leo/Documents/Dolphin Emulator/Wii/title/00000001/00000002/content/title.tmd
33:27:465 Src\NANDContentLoader.cpp:217 W[DIO]: CreateFromDirectory: error opening C:/Users/Leo/Documents/Dolphin Emulator/Wii/title/00000001/00000002/content/title.tmd
35:01:273 Src\NANDContentLoader.cpp:217 W[DIO]: CreateFromDirectory: error opening C:/Users/Leo/Documents/Dolphin Emulator/Wii/title/00000001/00000002/content/title.tmd
35:01:304 Src\NANDContentLoader.cpp:217 W[DIO]: CreateFromDirectory: error opening C:/Users/Leo/Documents/Dolphin Emulator/Wii/title/00000001/00000002/content/title.tmd
03:37:149 Src\NANDContentLoader.cpp:217 W[DIO]: CreateFromDirectory: error opening C:/Users/Leo/Documents/Dolphin Emulator/Wii/title/00000001/00000002/content/title.tmd
03:37:165 Src\NANDContentLoader.cpp:217 W[DIO]: CreateFromDirectory: error opening C:/Users/Leo/Documents/Dolphin Emulator/Wii/title/00000001/00000002/content/title.tmd


This is all I found in the logs. I only have a single game and it's Melee and it isn't in that folder, nor could I even find the "title" folder.

What version of dolphin is this?

Try using the latest development build. Many times there are issues in the development builds that are only in one build.

I'll go ahead and get the latest developer build. I forgot to mention I'm running 4.0.2 If running the developer builds doesn't work, it isn't a huge loss. Thanks for the help and I'll report back in time to just update anything for anyone else who may be encountering the problems I am.