Graphics settings not doing anything

[BearbaBear]

I have been using Dolphin 5.0 to run Super Paper Mario for a couple days.  It was working perfectly.  This game requires Bounding Box and EFB to RAM both enabled for some animations to be shown properly, such as doors opening.  Today, I opened SPM up, and it seemed like the two settings mentioned above were off, because the problematic animations were being displayed improperly.  I checked in the graphics options, and they were both on, as they should be.  I turned them off, and then on again, to no avail.  I restarted Dolphin with the same results.  I restarted my computer with the same results.  I deleted the Dolphin directory and reinstalled Dolphin with the same results.  And it still wasn't working.  So, I tried the development builds.  It worked!  But I couldn't use the dev builds because OpenAL wasn't working on them.  And remember, 5.0 was working wonderfully before.

Specs:
Macbook Air, early 2015
MacOS Sierra, 10.12.4
1.6 GHz Intel Core i5 processor
4 GB 1600 MHz DDR3 RAM
Intel HD Graphics 6000 1536 MB

I used Dolphin 5.0, 5.0-5097, and 5.0-5077 (not sure about the dev versions, it was around those)

I am using default settings, except for BBox and EFB to RAM

[ExtremeDude2]

Is there a reason you need to use OpenAL?

[BearbaBear]

It says in the performance guide that OpenAL is faster. I have personally found that to be true.

[Craftyawesome]

The reason that the dev builds work is that bounding box didn't work on systems without opengl 4.3 and SSBO on stable. This was changed in 5.0-2964.

[BearbaBear]

But 5.0 was working perfectly before.... And what about the OpenAL?

[Helios]

you were likely not actually hitting an effect that used bbox until now.

OpenAL was removed. Use cubeb.

[BearbaBear]

The animation for entering and exiting pipes is broken without BBox.
What actually happened was this: It was working fine, and I played to 3-3 (going through plenty of pipes along the way). Next day, I opened SPM, went through a pipe, and realized that it was acting as if BBox was off.

[JMC47]

Bounding Box for OSX did not exist in 5.0. There was no fallback or way to do bounding box.

[Helios]

oh right, that's a thing.

Anyways, either you really weren't playing a game that used bbox, or you were using a recent development version and didn't realize (and perhaps we broke something with config, but bbox works for me so)

[BearbaBear]

Well, whatever the issue, I updated to the latest dev version things are working ok. Cubeb seems to stutter a bit more, though. Is there a development version with both BBox and OpenAL, by any chance?