To those of you with respectable specs on their Mac hardware wondering why they can't run Dolphin with good performance: Install Windows via Boot Camp. It makes a huge difference, particularly with certain games. It takes merely a few moments to reboot your machine into Windows to run Dolphin at much-improved frame rates and resolutions.
I started this thread after quite a bit of searching — and personal testing on my own machine. This same advice and information is buried in comments of several other threads — with lazy statements such as OS X Sux, but I had a hard time finding definitive advice searching for it via thread subjects. There weren't any subject lines that were searchable specifically for this question.
I have now done a direct comparison, and Windows via Boot Camp on a mac should be standard advice, and a relatively easy choice for those running Dolphin. It's
My late 2013 imac has a i7 3.5 quad, NVIDIA GTX 780M 4GB, and 32 GB ram
One tiny bit of confusion when first loading Dolphin on the new Windows setup was a string of missing .dll file errors. It turns out that Dev versions require the 64 bit Visual Studio 2015 — a link is provided at the top of the Downloads page, but this isn't required on macs, so when you're first switching from the Mac platform, it's not obvious.
Stop wondering, install windows via boot camp.
I started this thread after quite a bit of searching — and personal testing on my own machine. This same advice and information is buried in comments of several other threads — with lazy statements such as OS X Sux, but I had a hard time finding definitive advice searching for it via thread subjects. There weren't any subject lines that were searchable specifically for this question.
I have now done a direct comparison, and Windows via Boot Camp on a mac should be standard advice, and a relatively easy choice for those running Dolphin. It's
My late 2013 imac has a i7 3.5 quad, NVIDIA GTX 780M 4GB, and 32 GB ram
One tiny bit of confusion when first loading Dolphin on the new Windows setup was a string of missing .dll file errors. It turns out that Dev versions require the 64 bit Visual Studio 2015 — a link is provided at the top of the Downloads page, but this isn't required on macs, so when you're first switching from the Mac platform, it's not obvious.
Stop wondering, install windows via boot camp.