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Emulator Issues #7939

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Metroid Prime video freezes & audio keeps running, random instances

Added by jim51881 over 9 years ago.

Status:
Invalid
Priority:
Normal
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Issue type:
Bug
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No
Relates to usability:
No
Relates to performance:
No
Easy:
No
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Game Name?Metroid Prime

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Metroid Prime video playback freezes at random times throughout game play.

What did you expect to happen instead? Game to run smoothly

What steps will reproduce the problem?
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1.Any game play.
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Dolphin 3.5 and 3.5-367 are old versions of Dolphin that have
known issues and bugs, so don't report issues about them and test the
latest Dolphin version first.
Which versions of Dolphin did you test on? Running on Dolphin 4.0-4603

Does using an older version of Dolphin solve your issue? If yes, which
versions of Dolphin used to work?N/A

What are your PC specifications? (including, but not limited to: Operating
System, CPU and GPU)Windows 7 X64, Core I7, 8GB Ram, Nvidia Gforce GT720 video card

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Actions #1

Updated by pauldacheez over 9 years ago

  • Status changed from New to Questionable

Could you record video of this or something and upload it to Dropbox/YouTube/whatever? I can't tell if you're just complaining about typical shader-cache stutters (e.g. upon entering a new area, seeing a new graphical effect), general low speed, or something legitimate. Probably one of the first two considering your low-end GPU and unknown variant of Core i7...

Actions #2

Updated by bgtsetso over 9 years ago

could this be the same issue that I just reported - issue 7938 (GFX FIFO Unknown Opcode in Resident Evil 0 Wii PAL)? I suppose jim51 has disabled Panic Handlers and therefore he does not see error messages, but the rest of it sounds the same.

Actions #3

Updated by jim51881 over 9 years ago

Here is a link to a video of my issue, sorry it took me so long, I have never had to record PC gameplay before.

https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B556LHcFT-a3cVlwRmFhQ2ZRb2c/view?usp=sharing

Actions #4

Updated by JMC4789 over 9 years ago

Turn on panic handlers

Actions #5

Updated by jim51881 over 9 years ago

Panic Handlers are on.

Actions #6

Updated by JMC4789 over 9 years ago

Oh, that makes this a lot more interesting then. Maybe it's not a fifo issue? Can you try turning off any cheat codes? Can you verify your ISO MD5?

Actions #7

Updated by jim51881 over 9 years ago

I don't have any cheats enabled hat I am aware of, not sure what "ISO MD5" is.

Actions #8

Updated by JMC4789 over 9 years ago

right click the game in the game list, go to the info tab, and grab the revision number and the verify the md5. Give us those.

Actions #9

Updated by jim51881 over 9 years ago

I have taken several screenshots & attached them here. The last is the info you asked for.

Actions #10

Updated by pauldacheez over 9 years ago

Uh, click "Calculate" next to MD5 checksum? All your dumps are normal-size, so you've likely been dumping them properly yourself. Equal probability of it being a bad dump in either case, though.

Actions #11

Updated by jim51881 over 9 years ago

This is what it gave me after computing:

b1379c44e0ebc521e18215de3e5dbeea

Actions #12

Updated by pauldacheez over 9 years ago

  • Status changed from Questionable to Accepted

Good dump of the game, thus that's not what's breaking it. \o/

Actions #13

Updated by jim51881 over 9 years ago

So any ideas what is breaking it?

Actions #14

Updated by ZephyrSurfer over 9 years ago

@jim51 Enable the checkbox "Show FPS" under Graphics Configuration.
Can you make a video and link to it and tell us your processor as well please?

Actions #15

Updated by JMC4789 over 9 years ago

Try single core mode; aka disable dualcore option in options/configure.

Actions #16

Updated by jim51881 over 9 years ago

I tried single core mode, same results. I am running an Intel Core I7 4790 CPU @ 3.6 GHZ. Attached is a video with the FPS enabled. Not sure how well you can see it, but it mostly ran at 60 FPS.

https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B556LHcFT-a3WDd5MUhfSVZCbDg/view?usp=sharing

Actions #17

Updated by skidau over 9 years ago

Try turning off v-sync

Actions #18

Updated by jim51881 over 9 years ago

I have ran it without V-sync as well, same issue.

Actions #19

Updated by skidau over 9 years ago

As a test, would you please turn off "Ignore Format Changes", switch to EFB to RAM and turn off "Fast Depth Calculation"? This is to ensure that the issue isn't caused by one of the graphics hacks.

Would you also please take a screenshot of the Game Properties? Right click the game in the game list and select properties. It has a long list of check-boxes.

Actions #20

Updated by jim51881 over 9 years ago

I have added screenshots of the settings as I have adjusted them per your request. Same thing happens.

Actions #21

Updated by skidau over 9 years ago

Just noticed that the game is PAL but the FPS is running at 60fps. Would you please try enabling Progressive Scan under the Advanced graphics properties?

If that doesn't work, delete/move/backup the SRAM.raw file that can be found under the User/GC folder. This will clear the GameCube's internal memory where it stores information like progressive scan.

Actions #22

Updated by jim51881 over 9 years ago

I enabled progressive scan, same results. Why would I delete my save files? i did not have progressive scan enabled before. When I first started the game it did give me memory card format errors twice.

Actions #23

Updated by skidau over 9 years ago

The SRAM.raw does not contain your save file. It is the MemoryCardA.EUR.raw that has your save file. SRAM.raw is safe to delete as Dolphin will regenerate a new one for you. To be safe, you could back-up SRAM.raw first.

Actions #24

Updated by jim51881 over 9 years ago

Deleted the SRAM.raw file, tried again with progressive scan enabled, same deal.

Actions #25

Updated by skidau over 9 years ago

I'm running out of ideas, sorry. Maybe try updating the video driver or using the OpenAL audio backend instead of XAudio2.

Actions #26

Updated by jim51881 over 9 years ago

I used OpenAL & same issues. Are there specific drivers for Dolphin? If so how do I update?

Actions #27

Updated by skidau over 9 years ago

I meant the Nvidia video driver in Windows.

Actions #28

Updated by jim51881 over 9 years ago

Checked, I have the most updated drivers.

Actions #29

Updated by jim51881 over 9 years ago

Any other ideas? I played metroid prime 2 for a whole without the same glitch, can it possibly be a bad iso file?

Actions #30

Updated by pauldacheez over 9 years ago

It's not a bad .iso, we checked that earlier – your MD5 hash matches the one on redump.org: http://redump.org/disc/1247/

Actions #31

Updated by jim51881 over 9 years ago

OK, so any other ideas?

Actions #32

Updated by pauldacheez over 9 years ago

Nothing in particular from me. I dunno exactly what's goin' on, and if it's FIFO stuff I bet we're gonna break yet another thing when we fix this...

Actions #33

Updated by jim51881 over 9 years ago

Sorry, not sure what FIFO is.

Actions #34

Updated by rigation over 9 years ago

But "versions of Dolphin used to work?N/A" what does it mean? That you didn't try other older revisions or that no one of them works for you?

Actions #35

Updated by jim51881 over 9 years ago

That I did not try any of them with this recently. I daw the list of them & did not known which version/s to try. There are a lot there, not sure what's different with each.

Actions #36

Updated by rigation over 9 years ago

Try to get back a hundred revision (for example 4.0-4565), if it still doesn't work try get back much more (500 revisions) and so on...btw you didn't overclock your system? Temperatures are under control?

Actions #37

Updated by jim51881 over 9 years ago

Ok so I downloaded version 4.0-4503. I have been playing for about an hour & so far no glitches, seems to run smooth & the error seems to be gone. Thanks for all the help.

Actions #38

Updated by JMC4789 over 9 years ago

That's not the point of telling you to use an older version. We want to find out what version causes the problem so we can fix the bug!

Actions #39

Updated by jim51881 over 9 years ago

ok, well i was running version Dolphin 4.0-4603 & it continuously gave me an erro when trying to play a game. SO thats the version with the bug.

Actions #40

Updated by ZephyrSurfer over 9 years ago

What error? Is there a message? screenshot please on imgur.
That's not what you reported though.

Does using the version prior to 4.0-4603 have stuttering?
What version after 4603 stops the new error you're reporting.

Info -- we need it.

Actions #41

Updated by JMC4789 over 9 years ago

Can you try the latest dev version with "Skip EFB Access to CPU" checked?

Actions #42

Updated by jim51881 over 9 years ago

The error I reported is listed above. The images are recorded in 2 videos also linked above.

Actions #43

Updated by JMC4789 over 9 years ago

Try in the latest development builds with XFB on.

Actions #44

Updated by JMC4789 about 9 years ago

  • Status changed from Accepted to Invalid

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