Dolphin not working on 1.8.3 (stable, Win10)

Felstaff · 21 January 2020 13:45

Dolphin appears to have ceased working since I upgraded to latest (stable) version 1.8.3. (tried on 1.7.7 backup - works fine!). Windows 10, neither GameCube nor Wii titles start up.

Log console briefly gives this error before shutting down:

Exception code=0xc0000005 flags=0x0 at 0x00007FFE401D519A. Access violation - attempting to read data at address 0x00000000000230

Here’s the Retroarch start up log for when I tried to load Dolphin core and then New! Super Mario Bros. Wii

Can’t work out where the problem is. Dolphin standalone works just fine (<3 Dolphin) but when trying with RetroArch I get nuthin’.

hunterk · 21 January 2020 14:33

Go to settings > core > allow cores to change the video driver OFF (if you don’t see settings > core submenu, go to settings > user interface > show advanced settings ON).

Felstaff · 21 January 2020 16:47

Thank you @hunterk. It works now. I thought I’d tried that already after reading this post, but I must have not saved the configuration.

SiriusVI · 11 February 2020 18:37

I’ve searched forever for a fix. Thank you so much, it worked!!!

mike7883 · 23 March 2020 13:05

I’m fairly new to RetroArch so forgive me if I’m not familiar with some terms or things like that. I’ve had a similar error and I’ve tried everything suggested but it’s still crashing. I’ve been getting this error from the log console: Exception code=0xc0000005 flags=0x0 at 0x00007FFD72C68430. Access violation - attempting to read data at address 0x000000000000000C Dolphin on its own works great, but I can’t get it to work within RetroArch. Any help would be great! Thanks!

JR30 · 24 March 2020 23:24

Hello, same problem since the upgrade to RA 1.8.5. RA just crash with any Gamecube ROM. I try to uninstall / reinstalld dolphin without any change. Any suggestions ? Thanks !!

ninjachamp · 27 March 2020 18:17

I’m getting the same error as @mike7883. I tried disabling allow cores to change the video driver but the error persists. Running RA 1.8.5 and latest dolphin core. I also made sure I installed the latest visual c++ runtime and directx from Microsoft.

Here is the log: https://github.com/ninjachamp/retroarchlog/blob/master/log.txt

dukeblooders · 28 March 2020 20:50

I updated RA to 1.8.5 version and Dolphin works fine (Win10, D3D11).

@ninjachamp It seems you’re using the gl1 driver, which it’s not working anymore for Dolphin. Try Vulkan or D3D11.

ninjachamp · 28 March 2020 22:35

Thank you, but I tried both and get the same error. I wonder if it is a driver issue.

ninjachamp · 29 March 2020 03:02

I ended up completely blowing away the retroarch folder and donwloaded the latest nightly and dolphin can run games without issue.

Sixtopia · 3 April 2020 19:26

I am seeing this issue on 1.8.4, 1.8.5, and April 3rd 2020 nightly. Happens on any video drivers and toggled “allow core to change video driver” does not help

zlogan · 30 April 2020 15:31

Hi, i,ve got the same Problem. RetroArch crashes on starting any GameCube or Wii-Rom with an Access Violation. Here is my Solution:

I have to deactivate

Run-Ahead to Reduce Latency

under

Settings => Latency

The Video Settings can be changed to Vulkan, OpenGL and DirectX with Threaded Video enabled or disabled.

Hope this will help.