Help: mupen64plus is randomly freezing

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Hi
I have a very annoying problem with Retroarch and mupen64plus-next core : retroarch is freezing radomly while playing N64 games especially with RAREWARE games (Blast corps and Banjo Kazooie are freezing a lot, Conker and perfect dark sometimes) I cant do anything and have to go back to switch home menu and close app
I think it happens during small framerate drops but not sure

Sometimes it freezes immediately after 30 sec and sometimes after minutes
Tried to reduce screen resolution but it didn’t help
Problem appears in both docked and handheld
I don’t think I have the problem with non rareware games

Anyone has this problem?
 

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Im having this EXACT same issue with Donkey Kong 64 which is also a Rareware developed game. Tried turning off sysmodules and shader to see if it’d make a difference as well as played with many settings to no avail. Just keeps freezing, sometimes instantly, sometimes after 20 minutes.
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I found a solution its just a rather strange one, or at least one i wouldnt expect. Changing the audio driver from switch_audren_thread over to just switch completely gets rid of the freezing. Not really sure why this is the case but I found someone online from 2 years ago on a forum recommend this and it worked. Ive also been informed for some reason the switch_audren_thread was known for this issue and while its been greatly improved it clearly still exhibits issues in certain titles such as DK64 and rareware titles. Its best just to use the switch audio driver anyway because on switch the only benefits from the switch_audren_thread driver is being able to record audio with the built in video capture as the regular switch driver will not record audio. Know this thread is old but hopefully this helps you and anyone else that stumbles upon this. Shout out to the good fellas on the RetroNX discord who gave me more insight on this issue.
 
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UPDATE
I found a solution its just a rather strange one, or at least one i wouldnt expect. Changing the audio driver from switch_audren_thread over to just switch completely gets rid of the freezing. Not really sure why this is the case but I found someone online from 2 years ago on a forum recommend this and it worked. Ive also been informed for some reason the switch_audren_thread was known for this issue and while its been greatly improved it clearly still exhibits issues in certain titles such as DK64 and rareware titles. Its best just to use the switch audio driver anyway because on switch the only benefits from the switch_audren_thread driver is being able to record audio with the built in video capture as the regular switch driver will not record audio. Know this thread is old but hopefully this helps you and anyone else that stumbles upon this. Shout out to the good fellas on the RetroNX discord who gave me more insight on this issue.
You are my hero, I can finally play Jet Force Gemini and Banjo Kazooie on my switch lite :)
 

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