How to Install Dolphin Emulator Windows 11

In this guide, let’s see how to install Dolphin Emulator the latest developer version 5.0-15115 on Windows 11. Dolphin emulator is the most popular and reliable emulator for playing classic games. The best thing about Delphin is that it is available for Windows and Android. Here you will learn how to download and install Dolphin Emulator.

What is Dolphin Emulator

Dolphin App Player is a free and open source console emulator for the Wii and GameCube, which is basic for Android, Windows, Mac, and Linux. The preliminary version was available in the year 2003 as a free Windows application. Dolphin player was also the First executable GameCube emulator.

Dolphin Emulator Minimum Requirements

Operating System – Windows 7/8/10/11, or Linux
CPU – Core i3 or higher
Ram – 2 GB (32bit) and 4 GB (64bit)
Hard Disk – 10 GB
Graphics hardware – Supports at least DirectX 9.1, 128MB of GPU RAM

Dolphin Emulator Recommended Requirements

Operating System – Windows 7/8/10/11, or Linux
CPU – Core i7
Ram – 4 GB (32bit), 8 GB (64bit)
Hard Disk – 20 GB solid-state disk
Graphics hardware – DirectX 11, 1 GB of GPU RAM

How to download & install Dolphin Emulator

Go to the Dolphin Official Website and then download the Windows x64 beta version.
The very first download link is the most recent version of Dolphin Emulator.

Download Dolphin app player

After downloading the Dolphin setup file, you will notice that the Windows beta version requires Visual C++, click on it.
Once you click on it, it will redirect you to Microsoft C++ 2015 2019 download page.

Dolphin Emulator download

On the Visual C++ download page, scroll down and then click on vc_redist.x64.exe to downloading it.

Download Microsoft Visual C++

It depends on your system, if you are using the x64 operating system, click on it, and if you are using x32 bit then download x86.

Once downloading is completed, go to your download folder and then double click on VC_redist.x64.exe file to install the Microsoft C++ 2015-2019.

Windows explorer dolphin setup file

Accept the licensee and then click install.

Install Microsoft Visual C++

Installing Microsoft C++

Installing Microsoft Visual C++

Click on the restart button

Microsoft Visual C++ setup successful

How to install Dolphin emulator on PC

After successfully installing Microsoft C++
Right-click on the dolphin emulator and Extract the zip file with 7zip or WinRAR.

Windows explorer extract files

Open the Dolphin Emulator folder.
Run Dolphin.exe

Dolphin Emulator extracted folder

After opening the Dolphin Player, you will see a pop-up on your screen, showing you to allow Usage Statistics Reporting, and then click on Yes.

Install Dolphin Emulator.png

Now we have successfully installed the Dolphin Emulator on our Windows Pc.

Related: How to Install Dolphin Emulator on Android

Jamil Parvez
Jamil Parvezhttps://www.xpertstec.com
Jamil Pervez works as a Network Administrator, based in Kuwait with a Primary focus on Microsoft technologies. Microsoft Certified MCSE, MCTP, MCITP, CCNP, CCIP, CCVP with 20 years of experience in administering Windows Servers, Exchange, VMWare, Veeam B&R, Veritas BackupExec.

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