We've improved the user experience on macOS significantly and restored support for older devices. You won't have to scroll far for that news, we promise.īut that's only the tip of the iceberg we've had three months worth of changes pile up and some other important infrastructure news. And with a critical bottleneck getting fixed just days ago, performance on Adreno GPUs has skyrocketed.

For those on mobile phones and tablets, Adreno powered devices provide decent enough graphics drivers to get a reasonable experience at this point.

This means that every PowerPC instruction that the x86-64 JIT supports along with every major JIT feature are now supported in the AArch64 JIT! And this is a great time for ARM in general, with each generation of processor pushing the boundaries and companies like Apple adopting the architecture for larger and higher power devices like their M1 Mac line. On that note, we're happy to announce that Dolphin's AArch64 JIT has finally reached feature parity with Dolphin's x86-64 JIT. We did not take this decision lightly, but after evaluating the situation, we knew what had to be done in order to make sure we can keep working on Dolphin without having to make compromises. With Microsoft ending support for Windows 7 a few years ago and more and more software abandoning it, supporting Windows 7 has become a liability for us.Īfter several months of breaking/restoring Windows 7 support, we've decided to drop support for Windows 7. While Windows 7 was able to survive the release of Windows 8 and 8.1, Windows 10 finally provided another popular option, and users have moved on. However, all good things must come to an end. We've supported Windows 7 for 13 years, making it our longest supported single operating system version ever. This combination was a tremendous success, and users loved Windows 7 so much that it had the longest support lifespan of any version of Windows - over 10 years!ĭolphin has been proud to support Windows 7 for its entire life, and then some. It continued the technical advancements from Vista while righting most of its wrongs, all wrapped up in a friendly, reliable package. After the wide rejection of Windows Vista, Windows 7 set the bar for all Windows versions to come. Dolphin Progress Report: June and July 2019 We don't plan on purposefully breaking support, but, its days are numbered. Eventually, the differences between Windows 7 and newer versions of Windows may increase to the point where we drop support for the aged OS.

With none of our active developers using Windows 7 as their primary OS, the userbase dwindling, and Windows 7 starting to meaningfully fall behind newer versions of Windows, it's going to become more and more likely that features are accidentally broken in Windows 7.

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