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I recently tried running Dolphin on my Macbook after a long hiatus, and was shocked to discover that my games were now running at a buttery 60fps. What's more,

I recently tried running Dolphin on my Macbook after a long hiatus, and was shocked to discover that my games were now running at a buttery 60fps. What's more, there are practically no glitches to be seen or heard anymore. When I last tried booting up my games about a year ago, all I could get was about 45fps at 1x resolution. Now I can have my Wii games with me wherever I go. It's stunning how quickly the Dolphin team is jumping over these technical hurdles. I find it almost impossible to visualize how a bunch of young, eager amateurs (at the time) took an insanely complicated black box and created an almost perfect software version of it!

cdr 12y ago
If you follow the (extremely well written) monthly progress updates on the blog, Dolphin has been seeing speedups in the range of 100% per month in some of the past few months. Pretty incredible. https://dolphin-emu.org/blog/ https://dolphin-emu.org/blog/
- robin_reala 12y ago
  I guess they’ve hit stage three of make it work, make it correct, make it fast.
  - mparlane 12y ago
    Well we were once at a point where we had fast+working, as we added correct we lost speed. Now some of the devs are just re-adding that speed and others are making it even more correct :)
  - wingerlang 12y ago
    If I recall correctly they are very much focusing on making it /work/ rather than making it /correct/. Which seems to be a very important distinction in emulators. I know you probably didn't even mean that, but still.
- ekianjo 12y ago
  > seeing speedups in the range of 100% per month Not for all games, as far as I can remember.
acmecorps 12y ago
Wow, I wished mine is as good. My average is between 40-50fps, and sometimes glitches happened. May I know what's your MBP's specs?
- archagon 12y ago
  It's a late-2013 retina 15" Macbook Pro with a 2.3GHz i7 and integrated Nvidia graphics. Currently playing Super Mario Galaxy 2 and Metroid Prime Trilogy (Prime 2) with barely any issues, minus a few very minor ones for the latter: occasional shader generation stuttering and having to set "EFB to Ram" to fix the visor.

cdr 12y ago

If you follow the (extremely well written) monthly progress updates on the blog, Dolphin has been seeing speedups in the range of 100% per month in some of the past few months. Pretty incredible. https://dolphin-emu.org/blog/ https://dolphin-emu.org/blog/

robin_reala 12y ago
I guess they’ve hit stage three of make it work, make it correct, make it fast.
- mparlane 12y ago
  Well we were once at a point where we had fast+working, as we added correct we lost speed. Now some of the devs are just re-adding that speed and others are making it even more correct :)
- wingerlang 12y ago
  If I recall correctly they are very much focusing on making it /work/ rather than making it /correct/. Which seems to be a very important distinction in emulators. I know you probably didn't even mean that, but still.
ekianjo 12y ago
> seeing speedups in the range of 100% per month Not for all games, as far as I can remember.

acmecorps 12y ago

Wow, I wished mine is as good. My average is between 40-50fps, and sometimes glitches happened. May I know what's your MBP's specs?

archagon 12y ago
It's a late-2013 retina 15" Macbook Pro with a 2.3GHz i7 and integrated Nvidia graphics. Currently playing Super Mario Galaxy 2 and Metroid Prime Trilogy (Prime 2) with barely any issues, minus a few very minor ones for the latter: occasional shader generation stuttering and having to set "EFB to Ram" to fix the visor.