08-14-2016, 11:48 AM
Okay, so I've been using Dolphin since 4.0. When dolphin 5.0 came out, I saw the video, and was ecstatic! I upgraded and booted it up and everything ran twice as well as before. I was actually able to run Xenoblade Chronicles with the HD Retexture at 2x Native with the D3D12 renderer. I was able to play games and make them look pretty nice, which I loved.
Until last Tuesday. Last Tuesday, after not touching Dolphin for a couple of weeks, I ripped my Mario Kart Wii disc and made an iso. I booted it up in Dolphin and, to my surprise, it wasn't working very well. Not even 30fps in a 60fps game- every menu and sound lagged me. I thought it was pretty odd, so I booted up XBC as a benchmark, just to make sure everything was running. And, well, it wasn't doing so good. It was getting 20 fps with no HD texture pack at 1x native in a small, non-fullscreen window. I tried every Renderer, and nothing worked. Actually, I could put it to 3x native with some antialiasing and it ran just as awfully, which didn't sound right to me. So, after fiddling, I ended up changing my audio backend, and it worked spectacularly. Yay! So I played and went to bed.
Cut to wednesday. I booted it up, and Dolphin was pulling the same nonsense again. I changed everything, including the audio codec (and mind you, no updates had installed and no settings had been changed since I last played). I plugged my laptop into my PC and unplugged it- and it fixed it. Somehow. It started running fine again. HD Texture Pack at 2x native with D3D12 at full speed in Xenoblade (Note: I tried all my roms as well, it wasn't just Xenoblade, everything was running similarly, but I use XBC to benchmark). Not sure why that would fix anything, but I wasn't questioning it.
Cut to Thursday. Dolphin yet again was acting up I tried changing every possible setting (again, NO updates or settings changes since the previous day). So I said screw it, and reinstalled.
Everything worked, but ONLY after I backed up, deleted, and restored my Dolphin Emu documents folder (I had to let it regen it, then I restored. If I just left it there nothing worked). "FINALLY!" I thought, because it was working. "Surely that fixed it."
Cut to today. Dolphin pulled the same thing. Reinstalling did not help. I tried deleting every single Dolphin related file, registry key, shortcut, EVERYTHING, and it still wasn't running as it was before. I still can't figure it out- for the time I'm running Dolphin 4.0 until I can get some help, and 4.0 is working as it had been before, but not as good as 5.0 did upon the times I could get it to work.
I have no viruses and have had Dolphin on high priority every time. I have no idea what to do at this point. Could anyone help, or at least put me in contact with someone that could?
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Ninja Edit: I own and rip every game I emulate myself
Until last Tuesday. Last Tuesday, after not touching Dolphin for a couple of weeks, I ripped my Mario Kart Wii disc and made an iso. I booted it up in Dolphin and, to my surprise, it wasn't working very well. Not even 30fps in a 60fps game- every menu and sound lagged me. I thought it was pretty odd, so I booted up XBC as a benchmark, just to make sure everything was running. And, well, it wasn't doing so good. It was getting 20 fps with no HD texture pack at 1x native in a small, non-fullscreen window. I tried every Renderer, and nothing worked. Actually, I could put it to 3x native with some antialiasing and it ran just as awfully, which didn't sound right to me. So, after fiddling, I ended up changing my audio backend, and it worked spectacularly. Yay! So I played and went to bed.
Cut to wednesday. I booted it up, and Dolphin was pulling the same nonsense again. I changed everything, including the audio codec (and mind you, no updates had installed and no settings had been changed since I last played). I plugged my laptop into my PC and unplugged it- and it fixed it. Somehow. It started running fine again. HD Texture Pack at 2x native with D3D12 at full speed in Xenoblade (Note: I tried all my roms as well, it wasn't just Xenoblade, everything was running similarly, but I use XBC to benchmark). Not sure why that would fix anything, but I wasn't questioning it.
Cut to Thursday. Dolphin yet again was acting up I tried changing every possible setting (again, NO updates or settings changes since the previous day). So I said screw it, and reinstalled.
Everything worked, but ONLY after I backed up, deleted, and restored my Dolphin Emu documents folder (I had to let it regen it, then I restored. If I just left it there nothing worked). "FINALLY!" I thought, because it was working. "Surely that fixed it."
Cut to today. Dolphin pulled the same thing. Reinstalling did not help. I tried deleting every single Dolphin related file, registry key, shortcut, EVERYTHING, and it still wasn't running as it was before. I still can't figure it out- for the time I'm running Dolphin 4.0 until I can get some help, and 4.0 is working as it had been before, but not as good as 5.0 did upon the times I could get it to work.
I have no viruses and have had Dolphin on high priority every time. I have no idea what to do at this point. Could anyone help, or at least put me in contact with someone that could?
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Ninja Edit: I own and rip every game I emulate myself
