Dolpin 5.0 Emulator Released, Now Requires OpenGL 3 & 64-bit

[ssokolow]

@ssolokow eh, I can respect that. You might consider getting the Raptor Power8 thing, being PowerPC it should allow using virtualization instead of cpu emulation, which should improve performance by quite a bit even if you seem GPU-limited - the syncs between units and shared RAM may appear similar.

Believe me, if I had the money, that'd be the least of my reasons for getting it.

[ssokolow]

Dolphin has worked without any lag on my 750ti since i bought it, but only when building from git because their stable builds used to be incredibly outdated.

Hmm. I'll have to look into that once I make time to upgrade off Lubuntu 14.04 LTS.

[lorn10]

Here follows for the sake of completeness and correctness a short addition to this topic.

• the first dolphin version which had required GLSL 1.30 aka OpenGL 3.0 was dolphin 4.0-27 and not any 5.x release
• the first 64 bit only dolphin version was 4.0-1624 and not any 5.x release

As a consequence dolphin 4.0-26 was the last GLSL 1.20 aka OpenGL 2.1 compliant one while the final official 32 bit dolphin release was build 4.0-1609.

This was discussed recently (as of December 2022) at the dolphins forums here. Michael