![]() ![]() Whilst this was incredible news for AMD users, there was a caveat to this: only GCN 4.0 GPUs and newer received these improved drivers. This improvement saw those AMD GPU users, who were struggling to hit 100% emulation speed before, suddenly achieving up to 10 times that emulation speed. Namely, Windows users with older AMD GPUs.Ī while back, AMD massively improved their notoriously bad OpenGL drivers. There is another group of users that will benefit greatly from Vulkan. Additionally, the long-standing white/grey-screen bug, that required you to resize your Citra window in order to see anything being rendered, has been fixed with this API! AMD To use Vulkan, go to Citra > Preferences > Graphics > Advanced tab and set the Graphics API option to Vulkan. Through this translation, Citra can run on macOS once again! ![]() This is a translation layer that translates Vulkan calls into Metal calls. Given Citra’s cross-platform nature, that wouldn’t be ideal. However, that would require us to create a graphics backend that is only relevant for macOS, and no other platform. Apple, in their infinite wisdom, decided to create a proprietary graphics API called “Metal”, and wants all apps to use that instead. “Does macOS support Vulkan then?” another might ask… As such, Citra could no longer run on macOS. This means that macOS does not support anything beyond OpenGL 4.1, which doesn’t meet Citra’s new requirements. Unlike all other major operating systems, Apple decided to deprecate OpenGL support. However, after many revisions of our graphics backend, that requirement was upped to at least OpenGL 4.3. “Well, what does that have to do with Vulkan?” one might ask…Ĭitra used to require only OpenGL 3.3 in order to run, which macOS still technically supports. Great news for macOS (Apple Silicon and Intel) users! Citra once again fully supports macOS devices! We've been waiting for you, Hero of Time. And with the addition of asynchronous shader compilation, in-game stutter due to shaders building is greatly reduced, leaving you with a more seamless gameplay experience. You can now easily go beyond 100% emulation speed on most, if not all, games. Now, these concerns can be laid to rest! Mali’s vastly better Vulkan drivers allow for better, and smoother, gameplay when using Citra’s Vulkan backend. ![]() However, many titles were still running short of full speed. Performance improved significantly for these devices after some of the initial rasterizer cache refactor work on our graphics backend was done, making many less demanding titles capable of reaching 100% emulation speed. Sadly, these GPUs tend to have rather poor OpenGL ES drivers, so Citra’s performance on them generally left a lot to be desired and bordered on unplayable for most 3DS titles. This isn’t something specific to Citra users, the majority of phones currently on the market have them! Especially with Samsung phones, if you live anywhere in the world apart from the United States or China, there’s a high chance you’ll get one with a Mali GPU. AndroidĪttention Android users! We have not forgotten about you! We are still here, making your gaming experience on mobile even better!Ī very large number of Citra users currently use a phone with a Mali GPU. ![]() Things are always evolving and changing, and this is no different. What to expectĪs with anything to do with emulation, nothing is ever perfect. If you’d rather jump straight into the action, Citra with the Vulkan renderer can be found in the latest Nightly release, either as a standalone build or from our installer. We thoroughly recommend you give that a read, as it’s a really good recap of the development of Vulkan at the time of writing. If you haven’t read it already, we have posted a detailed teaser about Vulkan in Citra in our 2020 Q2 ~ 2023 Q1 Progress Report. A modern graphics API like Vulkan is perfect for our vision of the New™️ Citra. OpenGL is considered an ageing graphics API, with buggy and slow drivers, and performance bottlenecks. Vulkan support is also becoming a standard feature across many emulators, such as Dolphin, Ryujinx, RPCS3, yuzu, and many others.Īs we’ve mentioned before, Citra is heading into the modern age. ![]()
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