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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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[Costello]

Did it break or something? I mean, is understandable if things happen, but if you still have your console, is likely to keep those controller equipment as well.

I'm gonna mess around with the android port on my Nvidia sheild, see if there anything worth mentioning.

I was living with my fave room mate shaunj66 at the time and he kept the Wii when I moved out.
After that, I got a 360, then a few years later a PS3, and then I'm now a PC gamer.

 

[Sonic Angel Knight]

I was living with my fave room mate shaunj66 at the time and he kept the Wii when I moved out.
After that, I got a 360, then a few years later a PS3, and then I'm now a PC gamer.

I see, so did you miss not getting a wii before? Is probably no point asking now since.... well dolphin emu 5.0 lol

 

[the_randomizer]

I see, so did you miss not getting a wii before? Is probably no point asking now since.... well dolphin emu 5.0 lol

Dolphin 5.0 runs freaking amazing despite my PC being three years old

 

[VinsCool]

I guess I could give it a shot. Last time I used Dolphin was for the dx12 early beta, and that was working amazingly well on my Asus laptop

 

[Jayro]

It could be worse. It could be Andyroid> Dolphin> Nintendont> mGBA> FCEUx

Or:

Mac OS X > Linux in vmware > Windows in virtualbox > Android > emu.PSP > GpSP Kai > GoombaColor

 

[gbatemplloyd]

nice

 

[Pedeadstrian]

That was fixed in the development version around a year ago.

Source: I play it.

That's great to hear, thanks.

 

[Psionic Roshambo]

Dolphin Nightly build 5.0.15 with Mario Sunshine!!!

 

[Minasodrom]

Nvidia 8x cards minimum... Holy cow. I have the 660TI. Guess I can't run this.

of course you can. 8x is 8000 series

 

[GamerzHell9137]

Ahhhh yissss~! I need to check out that Netplay update!

 

[Deleted User]

That is amazing. I didn't know they were working on it anymore

 

[the_randomizer]

That is amazing. I didn't know they were working on it anymore

Oh they've been working their butts off behind the scenes for sure, doing what many might consider impossible; the biggest thing that amazes me is the fact they have matched, no, surpassed audio emulation with HLE alone, thus nullifying the need for LLE audio emulation altogether. I'll never know how they did that

 

[lexluth0r]

Update is awesome... Except now I get noticeable slowdown with ssx tricky

 

[the_randomizer]

Update is awesome... Except now I get noticeable slowdown with ssd tricky

What are your system specs? It could be any number of factors, sometimes the games have to "build cache" over time in order to run faster, it's a weird phenomenon.

 

[lexluth0r]

What are your system specs? It could be any number of factors, sometimes the games have to "build cache" over time in order to run faster, it's a weird phenomenon.

Socket fm2+ plus fatality motherboard
Amd Athlon x4 860k 3.7 ghz
16 gb ddr3
Xfx r7 250x 2gb
Maybe my harddrive is going it sounds like a dot matrix printer lol

 

[the_randomizer]

Socket fm2+ plus fatality motherboard
Amd Athlon x4 860k 3.7 ghz
16 gb ddr3
Xfx r7 250x 2gb
Maybe my harddrive is going it sounds like a dot matrix printer lol

That...that's definitely not a good sign, if you have another HDD, back up what you care about immediately, clicking/grinding is signs of imminent failure. But as far as Dolphin, check settings and be sure they are default, if need
be, see what the Dolphin wiki entry says for it.

 

[lexluth0r]

Yup settings are default and it ran a lot better on the older version when I get free time I'll check out the older version see if I get the same slow down. Yea it's time to upgrade the hdd it was the only part from my old pc that I recycled

 

[the_randomizer]

Yup settings are default and it ran a lot better on the older version when I get free time I'll check out the older version see if I get the same slow down. Yea it's time to upgrade the hdd it was the only part from my old pc that I recycled

There shouldn't be any real reason for it being slower, as the amount of performance has increased tremendously as stated in their recent wiki article on the main page. Could be a corrupt ISO image, but as far as a game running worse, it makes no sense...that being said, you can try a nightly build as it's possible there is a regression for a few games.

 

[lexluth0r]

There shouldn't be any real reason for it being slower, as the amount of performance has increased tremendously as stated in their recent wiki article on the main page. Could be a corrupt ISO image, but as far as a game running worse, it makes no sense...that being said, you can try a nightly build as it's possible there is a regression for a few games.

It may be the harddrive all games have slowdown even steam games

 

[the_randomizer]

It may be the harddrive all games have slowdown even steam games

Yeah, that's not cool Backup whatever you can as soon as possible, a new HDD would help Dolphin run a lot better.