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Hah! I hadn't played Twilight Princess for many years before playing playing it on Dolphin, so I actually thought Midna was supposed to have those lava-arms! B

Hah! I hadn't played Twilight Princess for many years before playing playing it on Dolphin, so I actually thought Midna was supposed to have those lava-arms! Being on a mac, I'm tied to OpenGL so I'm hoping this doesn't hurt me too much.

archagon 13y ago
Do you have a Windows license lying around? Bootcamp might be worth it: I almost get 2x performance in Windows compared to OSX!
- delroth 13y ago
  A lot of that is because OS X OpenGL drivers are just not good. If you look at https://developer.apple.com/graphicsimaging/opengl/capabilities/ https://developer.apple.com/graphicsimaging/opengl/capabilit... the support is currently stuck at OpenGL 4.1, with virtually no recent extensions supported (things like ARB_buffer_storage which give a great boost to applications like Dolphin are unsupported, for example).
  - archagon 13y ago
    I've heard that before, but oddly enough, performance in a Parallels VM is often close to native Windows for me, despite ultimately going through those same OSX drivers. Someone on HN hypothesized that this might be due to Parallels' shader optimization.
- MaxGabriel 13y ago
  I do actually, for windows 8. But I don't think they give you a disk image, making it a pain to install.
  - pilif 13y ago
    The windows 8.1 installer you can download from the MS store can create an ISO image which the bootcamp assistant can work with
  - archagon 13y ago
    You can actually download the ISO from a Microsoft CDN, but I don't have a link on me right now.
    - pbhjpbhj 13y ago
      You can get ISOs for MS Windows 7, eg links at http://bratnin.narod.ru/Windows_7.html http://bratnin.narod.ru/Windows_7.html, from msft.digitalriver.com servers. You can also get an upgrade application from http://windows.microsoft.com/en-US/windows-8/upgrade-product-key-only http://windows.microsoft.com/en-US/windows-8/upgrade-product... to move Win7 up to Win8. But AFAIK you can't get a MS Windows 8 ISO to download from Microsoft itself?
      - archagon 13y ago
        That's what I meant: I'm pretty sure digitalriver.com is Microsoft's own CDN, used for App Store and MSDN downloads. You can even verify the hashes on an actual Microsoft subsite — possibly here? http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/subscriptions/downloads/ http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/subscriptions/downloads/
thefreeman 13y ago
You could try it in Wine
- pantalaimon 13y ago
  Wine will just translate the DirectX calls to OpenGL.
  - cookiecaper 13y ago
    It can still be faster to use Wine and have it translate D3D->GL if the original application has a bad OpenGL implementation.
- cookiecaper 13y ago
  Wine won't run most DX10/DX11 applications. The article mentions that Dolphin's D3D9 backend was deleted, so I wouldn't expect to get anywhere with Wine.

archagon 13y ago

Do you have a Windows license lying around? Bootcamp might be worth it: I almost get 2x performance in Windows compared to OSX!

delroth 13y ago
A lot of that is because OS X OpenGL drivers are just not good. If you look at https://developer.apple.com/graphicsimaging/opengl/capabilities/ https://developer.apple.com/graphicsimaging/opengl/capabilit... the support is currently stuck at OpenGL 4.1, with virtually no recent extensions supported (things like ARB_buffer_storage which give a great boost to applications like Dolphin are unsupported, for example).
- archagon 13y ago
  I've heard that before, but oddly enough, performance in a Parallels VM is often close to native Windows for me, despite ultimately going through those same OSX drivers. Someone on HN hypothesized that this might be due to Parallels' shader optimization.
MaxGabriel 13y ago
I do actually, for windows 8. But I don't think they give you a disk image, making it a pain to install.
- pilif 13y ago
  The windows 8.1 installer you can download from the MS store can create an ISO image which the bootcamp assistant can work with
- archagon 13y ago
  You can actually download the ISO from a Microsoft CDN, but I don't have a link on me right now.
  - pbhjpbhj 13y ago
    You can get ISOs for MS Windows 7, eg links at http://bratnin.narod.ru/Windows_7.html http://bratnin.narod.ru/Windows_7.html, from msft.digitalriver.com servers. You can also get an upgrade application from http://windows.microsoft.com/en-US/windows-8/upgrade-product-key-only http://windows.microsoft.com/en-US/windows-8/upgrade-product... to move Win7 up to Win8. But AFAIK you can't get a MS Windows 8 ISO to download from Microsoft itself?
    - archagon 13y ago
      That's what I meant: I'm pretty sure digitalriver.com is Microsoft's own CDN, used for App Store and MSDN downloads. You can even verify the hashes on an actual Microsoft subsite — possibly here? http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/subscriptions/downloads/ http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/subscriptions/downloads/

thefreeman 13y ago

You could try it in Wine

pantalaimon 13y ago
Wine will just translate the DirectX calls to OpenGL.
- cookiecaper 13y ago
  It can still be faster to use Wine and have it translate D3D->GL if the original application has a bad OpenGL implementation.
cookiecaper 13y ago
Wine won't run most DX10/DX11 applications. The article mentions that Dolphin's D3D9 backend was deleted, so I wouldn't expect to get anywhere with Wine.