Emulator

Game Name?
The Sims

Game ID?
GCIE69

What's the problem? Describe what went wrong in few words.
The latest build causes the game to sometimes stutter on the EA games/The Sims intro, also the game fails to get past the loading screen when loading a saved game and when starting a new game the screen goes black.

What did you expect to happen instead?
Runs nice and smooth with no crashing problems

What steps will reproduce the problem?

1. On startup menu select "Get a life"
2. choose new game
3. screen will go to black
4. restart and choose to load a game and the game freezes when it's about run the 3D game content but doesn't get past the loading screen

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?
Problem extends from 4.0-5070 onwards

Does using an older version of Dolphin solve your issue? If yes, which
versions of Dolphin used to work?
4.0-5068

What are your PC specifications? (including, but not limited to: Operating
System, CPU and GPU)
Windows 8.1
AMD FX-6100
AMD Radeon HD 7870 (Tahiti LE) with 14.12 Omega drivers
8gb DDR3

Is there any other relevant information? (e.g. logs, screenshots,
configuration files)
nope