
Emulators are an important part of many classic game communities and give players access to features like netplay multiplayer, modding, and savestates, while also opening up the doors to enhancements not possible on console. Many gaming communities over the years have reached out to thank emulator developers for their efforts. Please enjoy these rather lengthy Notable Changes! With that out of the way, there's no point in delaying things any further. While it's not related to Dolphin directly, Apple released the new M1 Max and we got our hands on one to see how it stacks up against the M1 with some rather interesting performance numbers at the end of the report. This beta was mostly to showcase and let users on the Play Store try out the newly finished Cheat GUI! We'll finally showcase that after a lengthy delay between when that extra beta was pushed and this Progress Report. Speaking of Android, users may have noticed we pushed out an early beta last month.
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An easy to use GUI for launching Riivolution mods was added both to desktop Dolphin builds and Android.

If that wasn't enough, Dolphin also welcomed support for a wealth of mods through support for Riivolution. The fact that the PlayStation 2's floating point behaviors mattered to us for this Progress Report should tell you the kinds of things we were up against when writing up the changes. This Progress Report also contains collaboration with the PCSX2 development team as they helped us understand some of the behaviors of Floating Point Math on the PlayStation 2. Trying to even begin to rectify the problems with this approach and explain the reasoning behind why it sort of wasn't emulated go very, very deep.

Dolphin's approach to emulating this bit of the hardware has been to effectively ignore it exists. The first rabbit hole showcases TMEM, the GameCube and Wii's texture cache. That line doesn't exactly work when it's midway through the month, huh? This Progress Report ended up being a very technically challenging report to write with several huge rabbit holes that go through the history of Dolphin and the games themselves.

For the most part, more recent dev builds offer a better experience than 5.0, and calling that 'stable' is more a comment on it being a known quantity rather than any comment on it's quality.It's the beginning of the month and time for another Dolphin Progress Report!.

Many mobile CPUs have limits on the energy they can use (and therefore output as heat), and may have limits on their top-end boost or throttle before the listed speed on the spec sheet, so check that you're meeting your expected boost speed (your profile says 2.11 ghz, but I assume that's wrong as that's /very/ low for even the most thermally limited device) and not hitting any temperature limits.ĮDIT: Also your profile says you're using 5.0 - if that's correct, try using the latest -dev release, as there's been a large number of improvements since the 5.0 release.
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Also make sure that nothing else is running and using any CPU power - as mobile devices are often power and thermally limited, anything running could be using resources there which could have been allocated to dolphin.įor the most part, dolphin is single-core limited, so when checking in the windows task manager check the highest per-cpu utilization instead of any "global" value. Check it's plugged in and in "high performance" power mode in windows. Increasing this too far could have negative consequences, such as the audio noticeably lagging behind the onsceen action.įrom your profile specs I assume you're on a laptop. I have no idea why it seems recently popped up as a "recommendation". Increasing the audio buffer (the "audio latency" setting) only helps in very specific situations, and even then mostly when extremely marginal on CPU power. Most 'choppy' audio is actually caused by the CPU not being able to keep up with emulation requirements.
