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Heya guys,
I'm having my worst problem yet with Dolphin and for the first time, so I guess it somehow got into the code in one of the latest revs. I downloaded and tried r4521 (32bit) yesterday and when playing a game and going out of fullscreen (pressing Esc), there's nasty stuff going on on my screen (looks like a graphics card dying :O ) and/or it goes black and sound is looping, screen then switches off...after a few seconds on again with BSOD. Had it thrice now...twice with ZTP and once with ZWW...I guess it'll be the same with other games....also I think it happened in 4520 or 4521 cuz I tried 4519 before and it was fine (even with those big DX9-changes which e.g. made SMG much faster with EFB enabled).
I played with DX9-plugin, btw...
Also this was what the BSOD told me:
nvlddmkm.sys - Address 8F2EE740 base at 8F210000, DateStamp 4ae7e02b
Something with the graphics card driver dying would be my guess
Maybe this can help you fix it...

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uh, wait a sec...I just figured that 4520 was the "big commit", so I guess I played SMG well on 4521 (cuz I don't think the DSPLLE-changes in 4521 could make such a problem)...dunno, either it doesn't happen in all games, or just randomly...
My pc is normally running well, though...never before had a BSOD with Dolphin...

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Alright...I tested with r4525 now. When going out of fullscreen, I had pretty bad screen messup again, though only on the emulation window, not the whole screen this time...dunno if it was just luck or if it got a bit better...anyway, the problem is still there...
No one else having this?

I haven't had this with Dolphin, but is it something like this:
1.The mouse gets weird pixelels and lines follwing it
2.Then the program you're running gets messed up graphics, like different areas of the screen are mixed
3.Then your screen goes black with a "no input" message
4.And the PC doesn't respons to keyboard, mouse or a single press on power button, you need to hold it to shut it down

First time this happened I really freaked, then after a few times it didn't happen in half a year, but now recently it happened twice. I'm using the Nvidia 195 beta drivers.

Strange, Gfx cards drivers should no longer produce BSODS in Vista/7.

Are you 24/7 stable with your Oc ?

Something similar happends to me in latest revisions. When I get to full screen it looks like broken graphics (strange lines on screen). In window mode it works fine. I have to use RV4470 (older) to solve it.

@ abfab126: I haven't done any prime-power-testing, but I can play any game with max quality for hours, also any emulator incl. Dolphin...without any problem...so when I have this problem after some seconds of some games in (only this) Dolphin rev, I don't think it comes from my overclocked CPU

btw: Is rodolfoosvaldobogado also in this forum? What's his name here? Anyone knows if he's looking into this issue (since it seems it has to do with his commit 4520)?

(11-10-2009, 04:10 AM)fagoatse Wrote: [ -> ]Strange, Gfx cards drivers should no longer produce BSODS in Vista/7.

This is very true, it'll almost never be a driver fault causing BSODs in Vista/7; It'll be the card itself erroring out and causing the system to fail.

StripTheSoul: What GFX card do you have? Have you overclocked it? Have you kept an eye on the card's temp using GPU-Z to see what it peaks at? (My server machine has horrible airflow, the PSU vents directly onto the video card, so heavy use of 3D in any app does this to me on that machine, but under Win2k3.)

Geforce 8800GTS (G92-512MB), not overclocked and just as I said before, I can play the most demanding games for hours without a problem, and a few seconds of one Dolphin rev suddenly gives me a BSOD because of heat probs? Don't think so...

Well an 8800GTS should run around 60-65C when under decent load, what temp does yours get while playing? It seems you're telling me I'm wrong without at least looking at the temp of the card. Anything over 68C will cause odd behaviour from the card (texture artifacts, vertex misplacement, BSODs...) and anything over 77C will cause permanent damage. If you're going over 68C, you really should check into issues like dust, what exactly is getting OC'd by your processor (PCI express channel being overvolted? I've seen it before...), and if there's sufficient airflow in the case.

I'm saying all this because I've seen it before, on one of my own computers. If all you do is post back saying the card never goes above 60C no matter what you're playing, I'll be happy and shut up.