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Dolphin crashing on game startup - HitsEmHard - 01-15-2016
Whenever I try to load up a game(Fire Emblem-Path of Radiance), it immediately freezes and tells me that Dolphin.exe has stopped working. I've discovered that whenever I delete my 'Global User Directory' in my documents it works once but then stops working when I close it and try a second time. I changed the location of the User directory and used a local User directory but it didn't change anything. The game would only run after I deleted the directory.
I'm using version 4.0-8711 x64. My operating system is windows 8.1 pro x64 and I have 4 GB of RAM. I'm using an integrated graphics card(Intel HD 4000). My specs should probably not be the problem since the game runs smoothly at 60 FPS when I load it up the first time.
Anyone who can help me with this?
RE: Dolphin crashing on game startup - JMC47 - 01-15-2016
Sounds like the Intel HD graphics crash. Could you try updating your graphics drivers?
RE: Dolphin crashing on game startup - HitsEmHard - 01-15-2016
My drivers are up to date.
RE: Dolphin crashing on game startup - JMC47 - 01-15-2016
If that's the case, try switching GPU backends, it appears that the shadercache is causing issues with your particular intel card. I thought we finally iced that, but I guess not.
RE: Dolphin crashing on game startup - HitsEmHard - 01-15-2016
Ummm, I don't understand what I have to do. How do you switch backends?
EDIT: Should I switch from my OEM driver to the Intel one?
RE: Dolphin crashing on game startup - DJBarry004 - 01-16-2016
He means that you change the graphic renderer that Dolphin uses (e.g. from Direct3D to OpenGL).
RE: Dolphin crashing on game startup - Ninjuto - 01-16-2016
I'm also having the same problem with Paper Mario: The Thousand Year Door. It worked once and now it won't open again. I literally just acquired Dolphin beforehand and changed the settings to match what it said on the wiki page so I may have done something wrong there.
RE: Dolphin crashing on game startup - JMC47 - 01-16-2016
If you're using Intel HD, then it's reacting negatively to our shadercache. could we please get a stack trace or something?
RE: Dolphin crashing on game startup - Ninjuto - 01-16-2016
(01-16-2016, 09:17 AM)JMC47 Wrote: If you're using Intel HD, then it's reacting negatively to our shadercache. could we please get a stack trace or something?
How do I do that? Sorry, pretty new to this emulation thing
RE: Dolphin crashing on game startup - HitsEmHard - 01-16-2016
Switching from OpenGL to Direct 3D worked, thanks!
BTW, should I still do the stack trace thing? If so, how do you do it?