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Notable Removed Features and Support
(This is a work in progress that will be made into a proper wiki page at some point. It exists to record features Dolphin has removed, why they were removed, and when was the last version they were in Dolphin, in order to aid anyone who wants to explore an old feature for whatever reason. Feel free to use my discussion for any suggestions or help you'd like to give! Also it is not sorted in any particular order just yet, I need to figure out what order I want it to be in by default. For now I'm just focused on getting data in my spare time.)
Problems
- tables are different sizes, width=100% appears to do nothing
- cannot sort (removed sortable as it didn't work correctly with Dolphin versions)
This is a list of notable features and support that Dolphin has dropped. It for those who want to revisit and explore interesting features that we have moved on from. Do not use these old features if you only want speed - the latest development or beta builds will always be faster on modern hardware.
Features
Major Features
Feature | Introduction Version | Final Version | Removal Version | Reason for Removal | Notes |
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Xaudio2 Audio Backend | r6371 (2.0-987) | 5.0-10947 | 5.0-10950 | Progress Report Oct 2019 | |
WX GUI | Megacommit | 5.0-8277 | 5.0-8279 | Dolphin Blog - The Legend of Dolphin: A Lens Between Worlds and Progress Report June 2018 | In the Megacommit, Dolphin used a mixture of wxwidgets for the main GUI and W32 for some plugins. W32 was slowly removed over time around 2.0 1, and was completely removed by the unification of GFX plugin interfaces in r6422 (2.0-1038). |
Triforce AM Baseboard | r4437 (1.0-4437) | 5.0-412 | 5.0-414 | Progress Report August 2016 | The first step of a Triforce implementation that never materialized. It never actually did much. To explore Triforce emulation, try the old Triforce Branch. |
32-bit ARM Support + ARMv7 Support | 3.5-476 | 4.0-6674 | 4.0-6676 | Progress Report June 2015 | First Android merge was 3.5-1243, but the ARM JIT was in Dolphin well before. |
Dsound Audio Backend | ALPHA | 4.0-2715 | 4.0-2717 | Progress Report Aug 2014 | |
32-bit x86 Support | ALPHA | 4.0-1409 | NA | Dolphin Blog - Obituary for 32-bit | Removed from Dolphin's build system and officially unsupported by the blog post. However there is no explicit removal commit - the 32-bit parts of the x86 JIT were slowly cleaned out over time. Notable cleanup commits are 4.0-1959 and 4.0-2612. |
D3D9 Graphics Backend | ALPHA | 4.0-146 | 4.0-155 | Dolphin Blog - D3D9: Why It's Not a Part of Dolphin's Future | |
OpenGL 2 Support | ALPHA | 4.0-26 | 4.0-27 | Making way for tev_fixes_new, removing hacks | Explicitly OpenGL 2.1, set as our min version by 3.5-1203. Before that is complicated. |
Minor Features
Feature | Introduction Version | Final Version | Removal Version | Reason for Removal | Notes |
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ASCII Art Shader | 3.5-1025 | 5.0-12879 | 5.0-12881 | Progress Report Oct 2020 | Original commit was in the GLSL branch, merged into Dolphin with the GLSL merger. |
3D Vision | r6347 (2.0-963) | 5.0-10943 | 5.0-10945 | Progress Report Aug and Sept 2019 | The first implementation was removed with D3D9 in 4.0-155. However a new implementation was made in 4.0-4643. |
Fractional Internal Resolution | Alpha | 5.0-5094 | 5.0-5097 | Progress Report July and Aug 2017 | Can corrupt saves in some cases, revisit with caution. Originally Dolphin just presented typical PC game resolutions which were always fractional. However, Dolphin switched to controlling EFB Scale (Internal Resolution) after 2.0. 1 2 |
Frameskip | r3949 (1.0-3949) | NA | 5.0-1033 | Broken | Was broken long before it was removed. Even when it did work, it only worked with certain settings (such as XFB Disabled), only worked on certain games, only worked on 50 or 60FPS titles, and had minimal performance improvement if any. Possible versions to try to see it "working" would be versions before major graphics overhauls, such as tev_fixes_new (4.0-1192) or the GLSL Rewrite (3.5-1025). |
Disable EFB Copies | TODO | 4.0-5653 | 4.0-5656 | No longer necessary | An extreme hack to work around Dolphin issues. |
Disable Textures | r988 (1.0-988) | 3.0-691 | 3.0-692 | No longer necessary | An extreme hack to work around Dolphin issues. |
Disable Lighting | r988 (1.0-988) | 3.0-690 | 3.0-691 | No longer necessary | An extreme hack to work around Dolphin issues. |
OS Support
Windows
Feature | Introduction Version | Final Version | Removal Version | Reason for Removal | Notes |
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Windows 7, 8, and 8.1 Support | NA | 5.0-16391 | 5.0-16393 | Dolphin Blog - Leaving a Legend | |
Windows Vista Support | NA | Unknown | Unknown | Lack of use | Officially unsupported as part of the 5.0 Release, however it would continue to work for an indefinite period of time. The exact failure date is unknown. |
Windows XP Support | ALPHA | 4.0-295 | 4.0-296 | Updated to Visual Studio 2013 |
macOS
Feature | Introduction Version | Final Version | Removal Version | Reason for Removal | Notes |
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macOS 10.12 (High Sierra) | NA | 5.0-11686 | 5.0-11688 | macOS builder updated to QT 5.14.1, which no longer had macOS 10.12 support. | Was not caught immediately so the PR officially bumping the minimum version to 10.13 was 5.0-14901. |
Linux
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