Issue:
every time i try to open a game with vulkan the emulator closes itself, i’ve tried many things but nothing works
System Information
Diagnostic Log
citra_log.txt (6.5 KB)
System Information for Support
Client Version Nightly 1994 HEAD-2792083
Operating System Windows 11 Version 22H2 (Build 22621.2283)
CPU 11th Gen Intel(R) Core(TM) i5-1135G7 @ 2.40GHz | AVX512 | FMA
Graphics API Unknown (?)
Graphics Renderer ?
GPU Driver Version ?
CPU JIT [x]
Hardware Shader [x]
Hardware Shader, Accurate Multiplication [x]
Shader JIT [x]
System Region -1
Shader Disk Cache [ ]
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System Information for Support
Client Version Nightly 1994 HEAD-2792083
Operating System Windows 11 Version 22H2 (Build 22621.2283)
CPU 11th Gen Intel(R) Core(TM) i5-1135G7 @ 2.40GHz | AVX512 | FMA
Graphics API Unknown (?)
Graphics Renderer ?
GPU Driver Version ?
CPU JIT [x]
Hardware Shader [x]
Hardware Shader, Accurate Multiplication [x]
Shader JIT [x]
System Region -1
Shader Disk Cache [ ]
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Go to File>Open Citra Folder, then delete the shaders folder found here. Now try your game again.
still the same, sadly
Please upload a new log file.
System Information for Support
Client Version Nightly 2016 HEAD-4ac10c4
Operating System Windows 11 Version 22H2 (Build 22621.2428)
CPU 11th Gen Intel(R) Core(TM) i5-1135G7 @ 2.40GHz | AVX512 | FMA
Graphics API Unknown (?)
Graphics Renderer ?
GPU Driver Version ?
CPU JIT [x]
Hardware Shader [x]
Hardware Shader, Accurate Multiplication [x]
Shader JIT [x]
System Region -1
Shader Disk Cache [x]
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And this game opens properly on OpenGL?
yep, only vulkan doesn’t work
Hmmm, download vkdiag.exe, run it, then post the output here.
this, right?
[+] VkDiag version: 1.2.2
[i] CPU: 11th Gen Intel(R) Core™ i5-1135G7 @ 2.40GHz
[+] OS: Microsoft Windows 11 Home Single Language
[+] Version: 10.0.22621 (Windows 11 22H2)
[+] System Vulkan loader version: 1.3.250.1
Found 1 active GPU:
[v] Intel(R) Iris(R) Xe Graphics
[+] Driver version: 31.0.101.4887 (10-6-2023)
[v] Proper Vulkan driver registration
Vulkan registration information:
[+] No explicit driver registration entries
[+] Implicit layers registration (HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE, 64-bit):
[+] Open Broadcaster Software hook, v1.8.0.0, API v1.3.216 (obs-vulkan64.json)
[+] crosire’s ReShade post-processing injector for 64-bit, v5.9.2.1758, API v1.3.204 (ReShade64.json)
[+] RTSS overlay hook bootstrap, API v1.3.224 (RTSSVkLayer64.json)
[+] Steam Overlay, API v1.3.207 (SteamOverlayVulkanLayer64.json)
[+] Steam Pipeline Caching, API v1.3.207 (SteamFossilizeVulkanLayer64.json)
[+] Implicit layers registration (HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE, 32-bit):
[+] Open Broadcaster Software hook, v1.8.1.0, API v1.3.216 (obs-vulkan32.json)
[+] crosire’s ReShade post-processing injector for 32-bit, v5.9.2.1759, API v1.3.204 (ReShade32.json)
[+] RTSS overlay hook bootstrap, API v1.3.224 (RTSSVkLayer32.json)
[+] Steam Overlay, API v1.3.207 (SteamOverlayVulkanLayer.json)
[+] Steam Pipeline Caching, API v1.3.207 (SteamFossilizeVulkanLayer.json)
[+] Explicit layers registration (HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE, 64-bit):
[+] Rockstar Games Social Club, v2.1.9.2, API v1.0.70 (SocialClubVulkanLayer.json)
[+] Explicit layers registration (HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE, 32-bit):
[+] Rockstar Games Social Club, v2.1.9.2, API v1.0.70 (SocialClubVulkanLayer.json)
[+] Implicit layers registration (HKEY_CURRENT_USER, 64-bit):
[+] Vulkan overlay layer for Epic Online Services, API v1.2.136 (EOSOverlayVkLayer-Win32.json)
[+] Vulkan overlay layer for Epic Online Services, API v1.2.136 (EOSOverlayVkLayer-Win64.json)
Hmmm, try closing ReShade completely, then try Citra again.
um, isn’t reshade just a dll? i only use it on one game, not citra
If it were just a .dll file, it would not be applied globally like vkdiag.exe shows. Please double check.
yeah i did some searching and it somehow got installed globally XDD ppl say there’s a checkbox for that on the installer but i don’t see it
anyways i managed to uninstall it and the games now boot up on citra! thx for the help
these other ones that appeared on vkdiag shouldn’t cause problems anywhere too right? i don’t know much abt this kind of stuff srry ;w;
They are fine from what I can tell. Reshade is just one of those things that is generally fine for normal Vulkan programs, but emulators are very sensitive to things like that, as we’re already doing weird things with the Vulkan driver to imitate the graphical backend of another device (3DS). Since Reshade is fine for most things, vkdiag.exe thinks it’s okay.
Generally speaking, if it ain’t broke, don’t fix it 
If you have any other issues with Citra, feel free to let us know.
i see i see, thx for the reply
i’ll be sure to report any problems in the future. right now everything is fine 