win7x64 sp1 qwave.dll is missing in dolphin 5.0-11661

[naimadekar]

My spec are win7x64 sp1, im install all , Visual Studio 2015, 2017 and 2019 and Windows6.1-KB2999226-x64.msu.; Windows6.1-KB2999226-x32.msu, last directx etc.

I played some games on old dolphin-master-5.0-5495-x64 no problem all work fine, now when update to last version dolphin-master-5.0-11661-x64 i have this error "qwave.dll is missing"

Somebody know what i need to install now to fix this?
download qwave.dll alone not fix problem.

[MayImilae]

Someone wrote a guide to fix this for discord, give this a try.

https://imgur.com/a/RDS6J

[naimadekar]

Thanks for reply,I dont have server manager in my win7, when try install KB958830 (server manager) fail, so is over dont waste more time, why dolphin do this stupid change anyway?... bye

[MayImilae]

Ok, let's try to do the same thing but do it through the control panel. See if it is there.

https://www.dummies.com/computers/operat...windows-7/

Use that to get to the add or remove windows features, and then add the Qwave thing there.

[naimadekar]

Again thanks for you time, but for some razon i cant add server manager
https://subefotos.com/ver/?aec886601bd86...7b5c0o.png
https://subefotos.com/ver/?4702213a778ef...f7009o.png

I can use win10 anyway and work fine, but just i hate win10, i dont want install new fresh win7x64 ultimate again, maybe this happen because is customized windows 7 installation iso. i dont know.
dolphin staff maybe have to know this change affect many custom windows7x64 versions
anyway thanks for you reply and I will have no choice but to use win10 (telemetry and spy stuff) with new versions of dolphin. bye

[naimadekar]

If somebody want know the last version working fine in win7x64 is dolphin-master-5.0-6580 !
From version dolphin-master-5.0-6582-x64 onwards all give the error qwave.dll missing

[MayImilae]

Thank you for bisecting!

Unfortunately, I'm quite certain that this is an issue with your Windows 7 installation itself. 5.0-6582 was quite a while ago, and we've not received any reports from other Windows 7 users of this happening. Plus we have lots of users posts here on the forum and elsewhere showing Windows 7 working without that error.

That said, quality of service stuff shouldn't be blocking non-netplay from working. I'm not sure if that's our fault, or Windows' however. This is not a scenario we've encountered before.

For now, your best bet would be to fix your Windows 7 installation, or upgrade to Windows 10. Alternatively you could compile Dolphin yourself with all of the QoS stuff from pr6146 removed, though that will require a bit more expertise and I'd recommend focusing on repairing your Windows installation first.