Steam Deck: Dolphin frequently hangs RA when sometimes saving or loading a save state
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Description
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Description
RA hangs when saving/loading state (sometimes)
Expected behavior
When pressing save/load state (sometimes)
Actual behavior
RA completely crashes
Steps to reproduce the bug
- Save/load state
- Either works fine or completely hangs RA
Bisect Results
Not sure, never used the RA core of Dolphin
- OS: Linux (Steam Deck)
Note: I don't think saving and loading states from the RA menu is doing it, but it does it when using the shortcut hotkeys (L3 and R3)
Contributor guide
First steps
- Read the whole issue, then the project's contributing guide.
- Comment on the issue to say you are picking it up — it saves two people doing the same work.
- Fork the repository and make your change on a branch.
- Open a pull request that references the issue number.
Research direction
Start by reproducing the hang on Linux Steam Deck with the Dolphin core, comparing the L3/R3 save-state shortcut hotkeys against saving and loading from the RetroArch menu. Determine whether the failure is specific to shortcut handling or state operations, then verify that repeated save/load attempts no longer hang or crash RetroArch.
Written by the indexing model from the issue text.
Assessment
- Tech stack
- linux
- Domain
- frontend, operating-systems
- Issue type
- Bug
- Difficulty
- 4/5
- Estimated time
- 3-5 days
- Activity status
- Stale
- Clarity
- Needs clarification
- Newbie friendliness
- 35/100