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Changing the internal resolution invalidates the texture cache, which can break certain effects in games or cause high resolution effects to suddenly become low resolution, so this probably isn't a good idea. On top of that, I think this would only benefit low-end or very old GPUs, as most recent GPUs will run Dolphin without so much as breaking a sweat at typical resolutions, or even 4K in many cases.

It's mostly seen in console titles, not much in PC titles. But yeah, without fractional IRs it would be rather limited, and the jumps in resolution would be quite obvious and jarring. We won't support fractional IRs as they cause nasty issues, which is why they were removed in the first place.

Even though it may break gameplay, many of the other graphic settings and features can break gameplay as well. I think it would be great to have as an option for users, with the same disclaimer on this feature that other features have.

Usually, settings that break graphical effects are forced via GameINI anyways. The major problem is changing these settings while the game is running. Besides, as stated, the wide gap between resolutions severely limits the usefulness of this, and would probably be pretty jarring to the experience. As such, I'm also voting against this.

Jebeld17@gmail.com wrote:

Even though it may break gameplay, many of the other graphic settings and features can break gameplay as well. I think it would be great to have as an option for users, with the same disclaimer on this feature that other features have.

Also against this for the most part.

In my experience Dolphin users don't read what is presented to them based on forum support over time. Considering this is a feature that hurts waaaay more than it helps, since most GPUs aren't resolution limited on Dolphin (and thus this wouldn't even help much), I think this would be a pretty harmful feature to implement.