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Your second and third errors come from 4.0-1468 (known buggy), upgrade to a more recent version.

For GL 3.3 support, no idea. CC-ing degasus.

Our sampler cache and so this requirement was implemented in Feb 2013, so I doubt that this extension is only available on 10.9 :/

But this error msg is still correct, so do you want me to implement a workaround for the sampler cache? I don't know if it's worth as you're the first one reporting this issue in more than a year.

But you're right, we do require this one OGL3.3 extension (which everyone else support), one OGL3.1 (UBO) and half of the OGL3.0 ones. So which do we want to be called as requirement?

Not sure, I'd be fine with requiring >= 10.9. Your call.

Everything works perfectly fine on 10.8 too, and many folks have had zero problems on 10.7. Maybe just a "Hey, if you're having problems on 10.7, upgrade to 10.8/10.9!" message for 10.7 users would be best?

That is not true, 10.7 and 10.8 have no support for ARB_sampler_objects. They do not work perfectly fine.

10.8 have officially no support, but we use it for more than a year ;)

Feel free to up the OS requirement, then. That chart probably isn't 100% accurate, and a lot will depend on whatever GPU's in use, but it's not out of the question to require 10.9 when it's free and all Macs with a Dolphin-worthy GPU can easily upgrade to it.

I still prefer the advise-users-to-upgrade-upon-encountering-issues approach, though.

Just tried with 4.0-1487.
Upon clicking [play], the game window appears, the OpenGL error dialog appears.
After clicking [Ok], some debug text appears in the game window (http://i.imgur.com/auoazSv.png), then Dolphin crashes.
The "BackPatch" dialog didn't appear.
Crash log: http://pastie.org/9125341

My computer is a MacBooK Pro with a dual GPU (Intel + AMD Radeon), so I've tried to run with the automatic switching enabled then disabled. Same results.

@pauldacheez As far as I can tell, Mavericks seems to be available for free from the AppStore. I hadn't upgraded yet because the comments in AppStore were very negative :)
Now that it's at 10.9.2, I'll probably upgrade.

Again, I perfectly understand why coding a workaround this problem is pretty much useless. I was merely pointing that it could be better to explicitly require the correct OSX version so users don't send pointless bug reports.

I'm using dolphin 4.0-2752 and trying to play Luigi's Mansion and i keep getting this error
GPU: OGL ERROR: Need GL_ARB_sampler_objects.GPU: Does your video card support OpenGL 3.3?Please report this issue, then there will be a workaround

please help if you can email me at ashpaw94@gmail.com

We could also just change this error msg to something like "Please update your OSX version"

Before this gets closed some edits need to be done for the website as well indicating that the requirement has changed.

In https://dolphin-emu.org/docs/faq/ "Mac OS X (Lion and up)" should be updated to "Mac OS X (Mavericks and up)". There are possibly some more locations where Lion or OSX 10.7 are referenced in the site.

Could someone do something about this? the FAQ cannot be updated until the next release.

As this is more of a website issue; I think it needs to go into the next release's release process more than anything.

Honestly we'll just update the website when it comes down to it. Can we put the download button to say Mac OSX 10.9 or whatever?

I think it would be best to not change that and instead make the Dolphin system requirements more visible for the average user. If the button itself was re-labelled then to maintain consistency the ones for the other operating systems should be too and I think that would become a bit of a mess. Plus that would create additional work as it would have to be established which build numbers require which OS versions.

We could put it in the FAQ + release announcement.

That sounds reasonable to me.

I think we're going to handle this in a satisfactory manner. Unpinging everyone, will remove from milestone current once I get confirmation.