System Requirements
Minimum system requirements include:
- A CPU that supports SSE2 (Intel Pentium 4 or AMD Athlon 64)
- A GPU that supports Pixel Shader 3.0 (NVIDIA GeForce 6800 or ATi Radeon X1800)
- 2 GB of RAM
- 50 MB of disk space
- Windows XP or OS X Snow Leopard
Dolphin runs best on a computer with a 3 GHz or higher dual-core processor, and a graphics card that supports the latest versions of DirectX, OpenGL, and OpenCL. Note that Dolphin only utilizes a maximum of three cores; it is a dual core program, with an optional additional thread for low level DSP processing. Preferable graphics cards are those manufactured by Nvidia or ATI. Integrated cards (like the Intel HD series) are not recommended due to lower average performance. Dolphin is able to accept input from a mouse, keyboard, joypad, joystick, Wii Remote, and microphone.
Dolphin's performance varies between operating systems, with the Windows version generally being the best optimized. For example, the only video backend available on the OS X releases is OpenGL, while Windows allows DirectX9, DirectX11, or OpenGL. Other emulator features like Free Look only work on certain operating systems or are not correctly implemented otherwise. Thus the same game running on a Windows operating system will usually perform better than under OS X, even under the same hardware by dual-booting.
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