Dolphin doesn't show 3D models

[undefinedCat]

(10-24-2022, 12:54 PM)Nintendo Maniac 64 Wrote: 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):

Somehow, the Direct3D 11 worked perfectly with more or less the same FPS (20-30 FPS) . Also, what is the fastest (by performance) Dolphin configuration for my PC?