MelonDS Will NOT work on Windows 8.1 and lower using the provided 1.0 build


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Posted on 01-09-25 10:11 AM (rev. 4 of 01-10-25 05:13 AM)

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Bad News, any devices with Windows 8.1 and lower using the provided 1.0 build WILL NOT WORK due to fact that this emulator now uses Qt6, which unfortunately only supports Windows 10 and above.

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Using the official 1.0 build

Fortunately, support for Qt5 is still NOT DROPPED yet (Thanks 'Scar), so for those who wanted to play on MelonDS, either upgrade Windows, use version 0.9.5 or compile the source code yourself.

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Posted by Menkent
due to fact that this emulator now uses DirectX 12

Not true, it uses OpenGL

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It IS true, but it's not the emulator directly using D3D12. It's just Qt6 internally using such, which one of several reasons why it dropped support for pre-Windows 10, and thus melonDS has also dropped support for pre-Windows 10.

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It's exclusively a QT6 issue, other than that, support for Windows 8.1 is still there

Thankfully Qt5 support hasn't been completely dropped and, using the source code, you can compile your own Qt5 build, so technically speaking, it's still compatible with Windows 8.1, you just gotta compile it yourself using their guide

I'm still using Windows 8.1 to this day, and it works just fine on my end on a 1.0 build

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Posted on 01-10-25 04:57 AM (rev. 3 of 01-10-25 05:09 AM)

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Posted by Saizo7
Not true, it uses OpenGL

Well then why using the latest release provided, I get this:

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Posted by 'Scar
It's exclusively a QT6 issue, other than that, support for Windows 8.1 is still there

So its still compatible, just you have to compile it yourself. (I hate compiling)

Ill update the thread on this, thanks

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