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Hypatia HD Texture Pack

Please try it on the latest development version available from our downloads page. Also try it without the texture pack, though I doubt that's related.

Also try with dual core disabled.

Stenzek wrote:

Also try with dual core disabled.

Tried wth dual-core enabled and disabled, it makes no difference.

Techjar wrote:

Please try it on the latest development version available from our downloads page. Also try it without the texture pack, though I doubt that's related.

Tried out the latest dev build and it still seems to happen on there too. The game will boot and show the logos at the beginning, but as soon as it reaches the start screen of the game or just as its about to load the start screen is where it hangs itself. When it does start loading the start screen or does become fully loaded it'll jitter for a few seconds sometimes and hang there too. I did also try see what happens if I load without custom textures, and it does seem to run fine there at start up vs when they are loaded is where it begins to have loading issues. I also tested to see if it would do the same if I loaded the game up without the custom textures being loaded, and then load them after, which does seem to work OK then.

I can confirm this issue, running from a randomized build of the game. It seems to be related to, in my case, Hypatia's HD texture pack also pre-loaded to System RAM.
I could always reproduce this problem when approaching Windfall Island using said texture pack, turning off the texture pack in graphics settings resulted in no crash from my experience.

Dual core ON or OFF makes no difference like stated above (I always use Single Core mode otherwise). This was tested on the very latest Dolphin build (5.0-9986 as of now).
Running on Windows 10 Home 1809 build, Core i7 7700, GTX 1080 with 425.31 geforce drivers (Always using DDU before installing new drivers) and 16 GB DDR4 System RAM.
D3D 11 backend with synchronous ubershaders and all hacks disabled.

I assume the issue here is because of the texture packs ridiculous size? It's over 9 GB and could be one reason?

I have played Super Mario Sunshine using custom textures w/o any issues, but the size of the HD texture pack for Mario Sunshine is below 1 GB as well.
Same settings as above.

Dolphin prints out these warnings:
GFX-FIFO: Unknown opcode (0x17 @ 000001574CC80D1F, preprocess=false).

Illegal command 17
CPBase: 0x0041b800
CPEnd: 0x004bb7e0
CPHiWatermark: 0x0009c000
CPLoWatermark: 0x00050000
CPReadWriteDistance: 0x00009ce0
CPWritePointer: 0x004a01a0
CPReadPointer: 0x004964c0
CPBreakpoint: 0x00000000
bFF_GPReadEnable: true
bFF_BPEnable: false
bFF_BPInt: false
bFF_Breakpoint: false
bFF_GPLinkEnable: true
bFF_HiWatermarkInt: true
bFF_LoWatermarkInt: false

Hope the solution can be found!

Okay so, enabling pre-load custom textures to RAM seems to cause this problem.
I have tested this issue on the very latest dev build to date and it's still happening.
Turning off pre-load custom textures to RAM seems to not cause any issues.
I noticed that loading Windfall Island would cause the RAM used by Dolphin to spike from around 600 MB to 1100 MB,
to go back to around 600-700 MB of RAM used again in a few seconds when the island is loaded.
This is all I have found, the solution for me is to not pre-load the textures to RAM when using Hypatia's HD custom textures.

Tested on 430.64 Nvidia drivers as well.

If the issue is due to texture pack size I wonder if this might be a limitation of Dolphin being unable to fully support texture packs bigger than 1GB despite having sufficient memory for it. I too have about 16GB of RAM available, and when Hypatia's Texture Pack is loaded it may sometimes crash on start-up, and usually having the Pre-Loaded Custom Textures thing enabled is suppose to help with load times.

Was this ever fixed? My system has an i5-8600k / 1080 Ti / 16gb memory and my current theory is that the Hypatia HD Texture pack requires more memory since when I first load in the game rivatuner is showing around 13.5 gb of memory being used. I ordered 32gb of ram and I'm going to test to see if that fixes the problem.