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Dolphin Emulator, the most popular (and pretty much only good) GC and Wii emulator has reached their latest milestone, 5.0! It's been ~3 years since the release of 4.0, and during that time there have been thousands and thousands of fixes for games of all kinds. Dolphin 5.0 re-adds support for stereoscopic output, official zFreeze support, official ES_Launch support (so you can play those lovely, lovely masterpieces on Super Smash Bros Brawl!), improved Netplay and more!

With this new release, the requirements have changed:

• 64-bit CPUs and Operating Systems are required.
• Windows XP is no longer supported. Windows Vista is no longer officially supported.
• Direct3D10/OpenGL3 Required. This means AMD Radeon 4xxx, NVIDIA GeForce 8xxx, or Intel HD 2xxx minimum! Anything older than that will most likely not work or will have significant glitches

You can check out the full-ish "changelog" here, and as always you can grab the emulator itself at Dolphin Emu's official website.


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[Tom Bombadildo]

That's...probably why, is there any way to install a video card to your machine? Dolphin requires DX12/OpenGL 3 and I don't think that IGP (integrated graphics processor) has those APIs.

No idea where you're getting those requirements, cuz it only requires DX10, which that GPU supports (with a max of DX11, which is the plugin he's using to run it). It also supports OpenGL 4.

 

[the_randomizer]

No idea where you're getting those requirements, cuz it only requires DX10, which that GPU supports (with a max of DX11, which is the plugin he's using to run it). It also supports OpenGL 4.

Apologies, I only heard that most IGPs don't run with Dolphin too well, hence those weird graphics glitches he was getting, Link's looking a little fuzzy lol.

Edit: Updated my last post to clarify, many IGPs, at least laptop IGPs have issues with complex emulators.

 

[tomman321]

theres gotta be some way to fix it though. like i said, it looks perfectly fine with opengl, but it runs so much better with direct3d 11.

 

[the_randomizer]

theres gotta be some way to fix it though. like i said, it looks perfectly fine with opengl, but it runs so much better with direct3d 11.

I've been told that OpenGL is more accurate, but a lot slower, where DX10/11/12 is faster, but is more prone to glitches, have you tried any previous versions or 5.0-xxx nightly builds to see if it's any better?

 

[Tom Bombadildo]

Apologies, I only heard that most IGPs don't run with Dolphin too well, hence those weird graphics glitches he was getting, Link's looking a little fuzzy lol.

Edit: Updated my last post to clarify, many IGPs, at least laptop IGPs have issues with complex emulators.

That's also fairly wrong. Intel's HD 4000+ can run a good majority of games on Dolphin, apparently being able to run games with "enhancements" according to Dolphin's own FAQ/Requirements and only struggle with demanding titles. They won't be able to run games with a higher internal res (most of the time) or with a lot of filters, but they'll run just about anything else.

As to the problem, you're better off asking at Dolphin's own forums. It could be a driver issue, it could be something wrong with your config, your build might be corrupted somewhere etc.

 

[the_randomizer]

That's also fairly wrong. Intel's HD 4000+ can run a good majority of games on Dolphin, apparently being able to run games with "enhancements" according to Dolphin's own FAQ/Requirements and only struggle with demanding titles. They won't be able to run games with a higher internal res (most of the time) or with a lot of filters, but they'll run just about anything else.

As to the problem, you're better off asking at Dolphin's own forums. It could be a driver issue, it could be something wrong with your config, your build might be corrupted somewhere etc.

Apologies once again, I don't have much experience with running on IGPs, sorry I was wrong with my assumptions.

 

[Trilliam]

Hello every one can some one please send me to a dummie ver for i can learn where to get iso and roms from people ask for servays.

 

[Tom Bombadildo]

Hello every one can some one please send me to a dummie ver for i can learn where to get iso and roms from people ask for servays.

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[Psionic Roshambo]

This emulator is just so fantastic, exploring GC games in an entirely new light. (If you have the hardware to pull off all the enhancements my god the things this emu can do.)

I really should post some video montage of what I feel look the best running on the current build in Dolphin. Just so busy playing and not working lol

 

[Thunder Kai]

How does this fair with Dolphin?
http://pcpartpicker.com/product/94s8TW/amd-cpu-ad880kxbjcsbx

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[nexusmtz]

If you have 6GB with 5.89 usable, you don't have much shared memory (but maybe your IGPU doesn't use it). See if your bios has a setting that references video memory and try bumping that up. The HD4000 can use up to around 1.5GB dynamically, but I think it still uses a smaller reserved block. My i7-3770k desktop has 1GB allocated to it, but that's out of 32GB, so I don't miss it whether I'm getting any benefit or not.

 

[nl255]

Any idea how good/bad the Geforce GT 430 is for Dolphin, especially for Wii games? So far Eternal Darkness seems to work just fine but that is all I have tested and it is only a Gamecube game.