Download Blog Screenshots FAQ Guides Compatibility Forum Wiki Code Blog Tags 5.0 Tag archives: 5.0 Dolphin 5.0 Release Written by MayImilae, JMC47 on June 24, 2016 / Last update on Sept. 9, 2016 / Short link / Forum thread Dolphin 5.0 Release Video The long awaited Dolphin 5.0 release is finally here! After nearly a year of bug-hunting and handling the release process, everything has come together for our biggest release yet! The three previous releases followed a very distinct pattern: sacrifice performance, hacks, and features in exchange for higher accuracy. As such, Dolphin 3.0, 3.5, and 4.0 progressively grew slower. But thanks to the cleanups put forward throughout those releases, Dolphin 5.0 is the fastest Dolphin has ever been! By removing all of those hacks and outdated features while cleaning up the codebase, Dolphin has reached a new level of efficiency, powered by a revitalized dynamic recompiler. On the GPU side, OpenGL and D3D11 have seen tons of optimizations and accuracy improvements, and have been joined by a brand new D3D12 backend for huge performance gains. If there's a CPU or GPU extension that can make Dolphin faster, we take advantage of it. At a basic level, Dolphin 5.0 is more accurate and more efficient than previous builds in every way. Individual games will vary, especially due to various hacks being removed along the way. Dolphin 5.0 can be downloaded for Windows and Mac OS X from our official website: dolphin-emu.org. System Requirements to run Dolphin 5.0 can be found here but here's a quick rundown of what 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. Dolphin on Android is not getting a release build. This does not mean it's falling behind or anything. We just did not feel like Dolphin on Android has reached any milestone with these changes. We'd rather it have its own special time in the sun when it comes, instead of tagging it onto what has been an already concerted effort on the desktop release. Continue reading You can continue the discussion in the forum thread of this article. Tags 5.0 release Categories No categories Dolphin Progress Report: May 2016 Written by MayImilae, JMC47 on June 1, 2016 / Last update on June 2, 2016 / Short link / Forum thread This will likely be the last Progress Report before Dolphin 5.0 is released for one simple reason: we're running out of fixes and notable changes! From here on out, unless some huge bugs are discovered, all we're left with is a few minor regressions and prepwork for the release. For those wondering why so much care is being taken into Dolphin 5.0's release, look back at Dolphin 4.0's release. It shipped with several huge day one bugs that required 2 hotfix patches to become what people now see as Dolphin 4.0.2. In order to prevent another debacle, all changes are being carefully checked over and tested before and after being merged. We want the highest possible compatibility for our releases, as they are a benchmark for the next wave of development builds until the next release! For your viewing pleasure, we have a video of an AI being developed for Dolphin fighting its distant ancestor: the Level 9 AI. It turns out an AI built upon all we've learned about Melee in the past 15 years doesn't exactly feel fair to throw at the original AI. Smashbot vs Level 9 AI With that, let's get to what is hopefully the last batch of Notable Changes before the 5.0 release! Continue reading You can continue the discussion in the forum thread of this article. Blog series This article is number 26 within the blog series Dolphin Progress Report. ‹ Previous article in series / Next article in series › Tags 5.0 bugfix progress report Categories No categories Dolphin Progress Report: March 2016 Written by MayImilae, JMC47 on April 1, 2016 / Last update on April 2, 2016 / Short link / Forum thread It's April Fool's day which means that the internet is full of fake articles, products, videos, and images meant to fool users into thinking they're real. We decided to do things a little differently here at the Dolphin Blog, instead of making the users our fool, we decided it would be JMC47. See, JMC47 has been going through the trouble of getting as many games possible to gain a stranglehold on the issue tracker/wiki help with testing and issue verification. In the past, he's made videos of the games he's come across upon his own will, which led to videos like the one on Speed Racer. delroth ended up finding a game so spectacularly weird that JMC47 not only had to play it, he had to record his experience. Welcome to Gummy Bears MiniGolf presented in glorious 1080p HD! Gummy Bears Minigolf Continue reading You can continue the discussion in the forum thread of this article. Blog series This article is number 24 within the blog series Dolphin Progress Report. ‹ Previous article in series / Next article in series › Tags 5.0 bugfix progress report Categories No categories Dolphin Progress Report: February 2016 Written by MayImilae, JMC47 on March 1, 2016 / Last update on March 4, 2016 / Short link / Forum thread Another month rolls by and now the feature freeze is starting to take a toll on the new features. Aside from Android and D3D12 development, which have an exception from the feature freeze, most of the changes this month were either relatively small or involved Dolphin 5.0 blocker bugs. Progress on the eventual Dolphin 5.0 release is very promising, with over half of the remaining blocking issues with fixes pending! While there is still quite a bit of work to do, we hope this month's notable changes, featuring some oft requested tweaks, will tide people over until the feature freeze is over. Continue reading You can continue the discussion in the forum thread of this article. Blog series This article is number 23 within the blog series Dolphin Progress Report. ‹ Previous article in series / Next article in series › Tags 5.0 android bugfix new feature progress report Categories No categories Dolphin Progress Report: January 2016 Written by MayImilae, JMC47 on Feb. 2, 2016 / Last update on Feb. 20, 2016 / Short link / Forum thread With Dolphin in the thick of the 5.0 feature freeze, things were expected to slowdown a bit. Some of us were worried there wouldn't even be enough content for a Progress Report! Alas, while the gears have shifted toward different things to prepare for a release, there is no shortage of interesting changes. As an added bonus a feature implemented three years ago was rediscovered! That kind of thing just seems to happen over the course of a project. Work toward Dolphin 5.0 has continued; but, a lot of these cleanups have come at a cost. There have been some noteworthy regressions (notably with netplay) and through testing we've noticed some broken features that have been working incorrectly for some time. As Dolphin approaches its next release, we hope that users will continue to update to the latest dev builds and test for regressions and issues so they can be caught before 5.0 is in everyone's hands. Something to notice about this Progress Report is that we heavily leaned on Dolphin's FIFOCI infrastructure for screenshots and examples. These images were automatically generated on a server without user interaction and were taken from the exact same frame of instructions sent to the emulated GameCube/Wii GPU. Of course, FIFOCI is limited to graphical bugs, and certain graphical bugs at that. Without FIFOCI, it's possible that these changes would not exist, or if they did, there wouldn't be an easy way to verify what they fixed. In the case of the Wrap Negative Indirect Texture Coordinates, it was developed as a fix for F-Zero GX, but FIFOCI discovered it also affected Skyward Sword. Continue reading You can continue the discussion in the forum thread of this article. Blog series This article is number 22 within the blog series Dolphin Progress Report. ‹ Previous article in series / Next article in series › Tags 5.0 android bugfix progress report shieldtv Categories No categories Dolphin Progress Report: December 2015 Written by MayImilae, JMC47 on Jan. 2, 2016 / Last update on Aug. 5, 2017 / Short link / Forum thread Happy New Year! Now for the big news. On January 7th, 2016, we will be entering a full feature freeze in preparation for the Dolphin 5.0. A feature freeze is basically a period where we all devote ourselves to doing testing and fixing regressions to move us toward the Dolphin 5.0 release, and we've had one for every release we've done! During the feature freeze, no new "features" can be added to the emulator, and only bug fixes can be applied to master. Does that mean there won't be blog updates? No! The show must go on, and the Progress Report will monitor the fixes as they come in, plus there will be articles in the interim about the remaining bugs, some of the great features added since Dolphin 4.0, or just some articles that we've been wanting to put up and never have time. But the feature freeze hasn't started yet! We have a nice full month of updates for you in this month's Progress Report. Continue reading You can continue the discussion in the forum thread of this article. Blog series This article is number 21 within the blog series Dolphin Progress Report. ‹ Previous article in series / Next article in series › Tags 5.0 Wiimote audio bugfix progress report video Categories No categories Dolphin Progress Report: October 2015 Written by delroth, MayImilae, JMC47 on Nov. 1, 2015 / Last update on Jan. 19, 2016 / Short link / Forum thread A few months ago, we announced our intentions to work on and release Dolphin 5.0 with a new release method. By using a stable branch, we hoped to avoid doing a feature freeze so that devs could both work on new features and continue to stomp out regressions. Unfortunately... that didn't work. Users wanted the newest features to be in Dolphin 5.0, developers were confused on what features needed to go to what branches, and things more or less ended up not working out the way we hoped. Sometimes, it's best to just admit a mistake and do things right, so, in order to provide users and developers with the clearest path for Dolphin 5.0, we will be restarting the Dolphin 5.0 release process from scratch. That means abandoning the stable branch (along with merging all unique fixes over into Master) and eventually implementing a full feature freeze in order to give time to close all regressions and make Dolphin 5.0 the special release it needs to be. We hope that users are understanding of the delay. With that, let us continue with our regularly scheduled Progress Report action! Continue reading You can continue the discussion in the forum thread of this article. Blog series This article is number 19 within the blog series Dolphin Progress Report. ‹ Previous article in series / Next article in series › Tags 5.0 bugfix mesa progress report Categories No categories Dolphin Progress Report: September 2015 Written by MayImilae, JMC47 on Oct. 1, 2015 / Last update on Oct. 5, 2015 / Short link / Forum thread After some minor delays, Dolphin's new issue tracker is up and running, with all of the old issues preserved and imported. It hasn't taken long for things to heat up on our new tracker despite trying to keep it on the down low while it was being tweaked. A mixture of delays with the issue tracker and new bugs in our stable branch cropping up has pushed back the Dolphin 5.0 release out of September. When will it be released? Well, it all depends on when all critical bugs and regressions are stomped out of the stable branch. In order to prevent a fiasco, it's better to report these regressions now rather than after release. No one wants another 4.0.1 and 4.0.2 situation on their hands. As the release candidates drag on, we've noticed that many users are assuming that 5.0 release candidate builds are newer than development builds. Please remember, the 5.0 release candidates are based on 4.0-6727, and only have bug fixes applied beyond that. Almost all of the new features from July's progress report onward ARE NOT in the stable branch unless they are a regression fix. For new features, the development builds are still recommended. Speaking of the newest features... Continue reading You can continue the discussion in the forum thread of this article. 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