"You did read the article, right?"
Yes, and reread it again. Didn't found my case.
"Anything too old for x64 drivers is too old to run Dolphin anyway"
Drivers? Some devices simply don't have x64 drivers, like old printers, scanners and etc. If those devices still work, why I need to garbage those and buy new just to use in x64 OS? I could use my good old win32 with those devices.
"Only matters if you have a budget system, which wouldn't run Dolphin well anyway."
I have budget PC and it's run dolphin very well.
"Considering you need a hundreds of dollars in PC parts to run the majority of games in Dolphin fluidly"
Not hundreds.
That's why I told about "some cases about emulation speed on x86 is not covered". All your statements not covers some situations.
I have budget PC that I assembled from new parts in total worth of 586 dollars 5 years ago. It run games awesome! Ark Rise Fantasia, The last story and other graphics rich games run at full speed in win32 with x86 dolphin builds. I have i5-660 3.3Ghz CPU and Radeon HD 5750.
So, instead of spending 100 - 150 dollars on x64 OS, I could buy two Wii games :O
Seriously, I don't think anything will be changed. Just I think that you could get rid of x86 code with #ifdef WIN32 and keep code for both versions. Maybe some developers will maintain x86 builds. By seeing dolphin even goes to android, it's kind of confusing. The developers does versions with a way different code for android, but don't want to keep x86.
But to the main question... err I guess I just use the latest then.
Yes, and reread it again. Didn't found my case.
"Anything too old for x64 drivers is too old to run Dolphin anyway"
Drivers? Some devices simply don't have x64 drivers, like old printers, scanners and etc. If those devices still work, why I need to garbage those and buy new just to use in x64 OS? I could use my good old win32 with those devices.
"Only matters if you have a budget system, which wouldn't run Dolphin well anyway."
I have budget PC and it's run dolphin very well.
"Considering you need a hundreds of dollars in PC parts to run the majority of games in Dolphin fluidly"
Not hundreds.
That's why I told about "some cases about emulation speed on x86 is not covered". All your statements not covers some situations.
I have budget PC that I assembled from new parts in total worth of 586 dollars 5 years ago. It run games awesome! Ark Rise Fantasia, The last story and other graphics rich games run at full speed in win32 with x86 dolphin builds. I have i5-660 3.3Ghz CPU and Radeon HD 5750.
So, instead of spending 100 - 150 dollars on x64 OS, I could buy two Wii games :O
Seriously, I don't think anything will be changed. Just I think that you could get rid of x86 code with #ifdef WIN32 and keep code for both versions. Maybe some developers will maintain x86 builds. By seeing dolphin even goes to android, it's kind of confusing. The developers does versions with a way different code for android, but don't want to keep x86.
But to the main question... err I guess I just use the latest then.