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MacOS: Metal or Molten?
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MacOS: Metal or Molten?
01-18-2019, 04:16 PM
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So after having discarded my PC and left with only my 2015 Macbook Pro, I realised that Dolphin might run like crap.

One of the reason being drivers, since as I understand Mac are stuck with old OpenGL versions.

So my question is: is Dolphin planning to go the Metal route as I've seen mentioned or is Dolphin rather going to take the MoltenVK route and what does it change?

I personally would boycott Metal, screw that proprietary crap, but I don't what exactly MoltenVK does either...

Thanks.
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01-18-2019, 04:44 PM
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Use the latest development build. We've implemented MoltenVK.

It's a Vulkan -> Metal translation wrapper. It's somewhat faster than GL, shader compilation stuttering sucks even worse than GL, and I don't remember if async Ubershaders works on it to relieve the stuttering.
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01-18-2019, 05:08 PM
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Depending on how old it is I'd just hack Windows onto it cause iOS sucks for anything except productivity
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01-18-2019, 06:11 PM
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Macs don't run iOS.
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01-19-2019, 07:49 AM
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But yes, Bootcamp would be a more optimized experience. Or even Linux
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