Glitches and Bugs
There is no perfect setup, each setting behaves different depending on your hardware and combination of settings.
If you savestate while there is a glitch in your game, you will save the glitch and it will be loaded into memory again once you loadstate. Savesates can cause many problems including visual, audio and gameplay errors.
You should always fully restart your game after applying these settings changes.
How do I add my game so that I can go to Game Properties?
You can go to the Game Properties by right clicking your game and selecting Properties.
- Enable Dual Core should be on.
- Synchronize GPU thread should be off.
- Store XFB Copies to Texture Only ensure this is enabled.
- Immediately Present XFB can sometimes solve the flickering logo glitch, however this is not recommended as it is not a consistent fix and often introduces a large black bar on the bottom or top of the screen. This bar can flicker as badly as the logo glitch.
Try setting Deterministic Dual Core to Auto
Enabling Synchronise GPU Thread can solve glitches such as the "black bar" glitch but causes a moderate performance loss.
Alternatively you may try disabling Dual Core. This solves a lot of crashes and visual gliches, however enabling Dual Core is one of the best settings for improving performance.
If that does not help, try setting your Video Backend to Direct3D11. This backend is the best for stability while not entirely sacrificing performance.
Unfortunately you must choose the low performance route,
In Game Properties:
- Disable Enable Dual Core
- Enable Synchronise GPU Thread
This isn't very good for performance, but this is the strongest way to prevent Visual Glitches. You may need to reset your Dolphin settings as some other unknown setting has broken your game. If this also fails, please ask in the Discord support channel and let us know everything has failed.
If your game still has visual glitches after these steps, it's possible your dump is corrupted or damaged.
- Problems scanning small objects in Prime 3.
- Rendering Issues at high FOVs