Other compilers might beĪble to build Dolphin on Windows but have not been tested and are not Visual Studio 2015 Update 2 is a hard requirement. Use the solution file Source/dolphin-emu.sln to build Dolphin on Windows. Attempting to install on an unsupported device will fail and display an error message.

A graphics processor that supports standard desktop OpenGL features is recommended for best performance.ĭolphin can only be installed on devices that satisfy the above requirements.

Performance varies heavily with driver quality.

A graphics processor that supports OpenGL ES 3.0 or higher.

(An Intel x86 processor could also work in theory, but no known x86 devices support 64-bit applications.)

An ARM processor with support for 64-bit applications.

A graphics card that supports Direct3D 11 / OpenGL 4.4 is recommended.

A reasonably modern graphics card (Direct3D 10.0 / OpenGL 3.0).

A modern CPU (3 GHz and Dual Core, not older than 2008) is highly recommended.

Unix-like systems other than Linux are not officially supported but might work.

Windows (7 SP1 or higher is officially supported, but Vista SP2 might also work).

Please read the FAQ before using Dolphin. The terms of the GNU General Public License, version 2 or later (GPLv2+).

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