Quote:I hadn't thought of that - could this be the answer? Sounds promising as the connection is usually made by a button press on the Wii. Would anyone have more insight into this?
With Bluetooth passthrough, it would work the same way as any other Bluetooth adapter -- that is to say, the adapter and the remote probably won't like having the connection suspended.
I think it could work if you disconnect remotes (or let the game auto disconnect them) and then reconnect them after the PC has woken up though (so that *something* is handling the connections).
(09-13-2017, 08:34 AM)andykara2003 Wrote: [ -> ]I'm looking to build a PC exclusively for Dolphin that I want to behave like a console in the way of being able to be put into a suspend mode and woken up in as little time as possible by the touch of a button on the PC case like the rest mode on the PS4. The idea is that if I'm playing through a game, I want to be able to suspend it and restart almost instantly with a button press without ever needing to ever quit to or even see Windows, giving the feel of playing on a console. The PC will be hooked up to my plasma via HDMI via an HDMI switch.
Can this work flawlessly with either the sleep or hibernate function on the PC using a button on the case? Are there any problems that might occur or can I do that without a hitch time after time without problems, bearing in mind the PC won't be used for anything else?
Also would hibernate or sleep be a better option for this? I'm looking for speed, although I heard that hibernate can be almost as fast as the sleep function when using an SSD.
Thanks.
With my long time and deep experience of Windows, (i do stuff like registery tweaking, even .DLL hacking to get my features and behavior I want) and I can tell you that unfortunately it will not work as perfectly as you think, it may, but as time goes on you will have to reboot or do some maintenance at some point and that will be routine, many things could happen, one of the Win7 machines I know uses a lot of sleep creates huge .TMP files that have to regularly be deleted or will outgrow the disk, that is just how life is on Windows, not only is that the standard, but you're trying to use the risky suspend feature on top, the feature is known to produce various weird behavior, such as unexplained loss of connectivity, hardware device problems, and quite frankly downright failure with a BSOD. I use suspend very rarely and I used it like 10 times (yeah, count them by hand) in the last 4 years and at least two or three times I had a BSOD. That's 20% each time you turn on your console-pc that you'll get a blue screen of death, if you had my PC. Not necessary, but just a warning. While I'm really good at PC maintenance, and I know the tiniest things that happen and go around, there's no one program I don't know about that runs or is installed, so wouldn't be warning you like this if I wasn't sure.
You may however get better luck with Windows10 which is more modern and may have more reliable suspend feature. However because Win10 is more fresh, and it's not that popular with the geeks out there, you might not get as much help for rare problems as you would for Win7. I use Win10 only to run a couple of games, I did dive in to tweak the crap out of it to forcefully delete all the snooping an limitations stuff but that's as far as I go unless I experience some problems which I haven't yet as I don't really use it as the main OS.
Thanks! That's incredibly useful - in that case I'll give up on the idea of a 'consolized' Dolphin machine & get a more powerful general use gaming PC to replace my laptop and have it connected to both my TV and monitor via an HDMI switch. I'll use it for Dolphin and general PC gaming, possibly VR etc. I thought of using an HDMI switch as I think there can be problems running a second screen in full screen with Dolphin - am I right about that?
What do you mean by running a HDMI switch for a second full screen Dolphin? Are you wanting another monitor to display something?
As for Windows 10, there shouldn't be any issues with Dolphin since all modern CPU/GPU combos support the necessary features. And if you need a good front-end for Dolphin, there are always programs like LaunchBox or Steam Big-Picture mode that can be configured to launch upon boot to get you right into gaming.
Ahh OK - I seem to remember having read that if you're using two screens at the same time, Dolphin has problems displaying full screen on the second screen - so if I had my TV connected via HDMI as as second screen as well as my monitor I would have trouble displaying on the TV in full screen. Sounds like this isn't true then.
So if I want to do this, could I just have it so that when the TV's selected to the correct input the TV just automatically takes over the video output or would I have to manually set the output to the TV every time? I'm just looking for the most direct easiest way to flip over to the TV to play Dolphin.
Sometimes yes. To get around that, I'd recommend that you set the display options in Windows to display the same thing on both screens, so that both screens are treated as the same screen. That way you can use both as the Dolphin main screen without having to mess with display options every time.