Unfortunately, the current 4.0 version of Dolphin runs much slower than the old 3.0 builds on any normal piece of hardware. Even if you spend thousands of dollars and heavily overclock your CPU, you will not be able to play games smoothly and with lag free audio anymore.
With the old 3.0-750 build however, everything, even games like Zelda SS run smoothly and fine using the old asynchronous HLE audio mode which got removed from dolphin recently.
Thus, since the Dolphin 4.0 release, people start complaining about performance and asking for old releases everywhere. This is because almost nobody in the the world can afford the hardware or has the overclocing skills required to run the new HLE audio engine introduced with 4.0 properly.
But it would be really easy to fix this by bringing back the old audio code from 3.0-750 as an option for the average normal player like me. Are there any plans to fix this or to create a "old HLE audio" fork of Dolphin so that mobile users and users with normal hardware can use Dolphin again which currently is completely broken because of the non working audio?
Dolphin should be aimed at the normal user again, because this is how it became famous and successful long ago. At the moment any normal user with normal hardware will experience broken audio with dolphin unless the old audio code or a new asynchronous audio mode is brought back. (Or you can wait 10 Years until normal hardware is powerful enough to run the new HLE audio code properly).
With the old 3.0-750 build however, everything, even games like Zelda SS run smoothly and fine using the old asynchronous HLE audio mode which got removed from dolphin recently.
Thus, since the Dolphin 4.0 release, people start complaining about performance and asking for old releases everywhere. This is because almost nobody in the the world can afford the hardware or has the overclocing skills required to run the new HLE audio engine introduced with 4.0 properly.
But it would be really easy to fix this by bringing back the old audio code from 3.0-750 as an option for the average normal player like me. Are there any plans to fix this or to create a "old HLE audio" fork of Dolphin so that mobile users and users with normal hardware can use Dolphin again which currently is completely broken because of the non working audio?
Dolphin should be aimed at the normal user again, because this is how it became famous and successful long ago. At the moment any normal user with normal hardware will experience broken audio with dolphin unless the old audio code or a new asynchronous audio mode is brought back. (Or you can wait 10 Years until normal hardware is powerful enough to run the new HLE audio code properly).
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