By the way, older-ish lower-end AMD GPUs like the Radeon R5 240 would be considerably faster yet go for all of like $10-15 USD on Ebay...
Also, LGA1150 Haswell CPUs like the overclockable dual-core Pentium G3258 or non-overclockable quad-core Xeon E3-1220 v3 goes for like $10-15 on ebay, and they use DDR3 RAM as well which you can re-use from your current system (assuming you're not using an AM2+ motherboard with DDR2 RAM...not to mention that an LGA1150 motherboard may not be quite as dirt-cheap).
...actually the Xeon E3-1225 v3 and Xeon E3-1226 v3 include integrated graphics that would probably be faster than your current HD3400 and, at least on Linux, it'd even support Vulkan partially (at least enough for Dolphin); the G3258 also has integrated graphics but it's substantially cut down though.
Isn't it just the Windows GPU driver itself, not the GPU hardware, that is lacking OpenGL 3.3 support?
I say this because the 3D models are showing up on my "email & browsing" Phenom II PC with an integrated Radeon HD3300 running the OpenGL backend on a live session of Linux Mint 21.0 (albeit with a pretty substantial CPU bottleneck, though my fps seems similar to undefinedCat's which makes sense if they really are using an Athlon II 245):
![[Image: attachment.php?aid=20229]](https://forums.dolphin-emu.org/attachment.php?aid=20229)
Also, LGA1150 Haswell CPUs like the overclockable dual-core Pentium G3258 or non-overclockable quad-core Xeon E3-1220 v3 goes for like $10-15 on ebay, and they use DDR3 RAM as well which you can re-use from your current system (assuming you're not using an AM2+ motherboard with DDR2 RAM...not to mention that an LGA1150 motherboard may not be quite as dirt-cheap).
...actually the Xeon E3-1225 v3 and Xeon E3-1226 v3 include integrated graphics that would probably be faster than your current HD3400 and, at least on Linux, it'd even support Vulkan partially (at least enough for Dolphin); the G3258 also has integrated graphics but it's substantially cut down though.
(10-24-2022, 04:22 AM)KHg8m3r Wrote: Your GPU only supports DirectX 10.1 and OpenGL 3.3, which are below Dolphin's minimum requirements.
Isn't it just the Windows GPU driver itself, not the GPU hardware, that is lacking OpenGL 3.3 support?
I say this because the 3D models are showing up on my "email & browsing" Phenom II PC with an integrated Radeon HD3300 running the OpenGL backend on a live session of Linux Mint 21.0 (albeit with a pretty substantial CPU bottleneck, though my fps seems similar to undefinedCat's which makes sense if they really are using an Athlon II 245):
Dolphin 5.0 CPU benchmark
CPU: Pentium G3258 @ 4.5GHz 1.24v
GPU: Intel integrated
RAM: 4x4GB Corsair Vengence @ DDR3-1600
OS: Linux Mint of some variety + [VM] Win7 SP1 x64
CPU: Pentium G3258 @ 4.5GHz 1.24v
GPU: Intel integrated
RAM: 4x4GB Corsair Vengence @ DDR3-1600
OS: Linux Mint of some variety + [VM] Win7 SP1 x64