Issue: Hardware Shader Not Working on Mac
Hi all,
I was ultimately unable to find a way to fix this issue after trying to with much effort & time. I decided to come here because maybe you guys could help me with it. I’m having no problems at all with Citra, the game doesn’t ever crash. The problem is the FPS. I’ve been playing Pokémon Ultra Sun for the past few days along with my sibling. The game is playable, but it would be a better experience if I could enhance the FPS. My sibling uses Citra Nightly on a Windows Surface computer. The FPS I normally run is about 18 FPS - 23 FPS. The FPS in his computer barely fluctuates (constant 30 FPS) despite having specs that are inferior to those on my Macbook Pro. His processor is far weaker than mine. His processor is 1.6 GHz, while mine is 2.3 GHz. I have the double amount of RAM he has (I have 8 GB while he has 4 GB). When I compared my settings with his, I saw that he had this Hardware Shader enabled, while mine wasn’t. When I attempted to turn on the Hardware Shader along with the accurate Geometry Shader, the game would execute with a gray screen. Pictures will be posted below along with the computer specs. I’d like to know if there is a way of making the Hardware Shader work on my Mac in order to improve FPS.
I should mention that the Hardware Renderer does indeed work, the only thing that doesn’t work is the Hardware Shader.
I also compared my sibling’s GPU along with mine, and it seems that mine is superior in all aspects according to this website:
https://technical.city/en/video/Iris-Plus-Graphics-640-vs-HD-Graphics-615
94.3% faster (about 2 times) in synthetic tests
200% faster (about 3 times) in games
More pipelines (48 vs 24)
These are my sibling’s PC specs:
Operating System: Windows 10
CPU: Intel ® Core™ m3-7Y30 CPU @ 1.00GHz 1.61 GHz.
Installed RAM: 4 GB.
GPU: Intel® HD Graphics 615
MY COMPUTER’S SPECS:
System Information
- Operating System: macOS High Sierra
- CPU: 2.3 GHz Intel Core i5
- GPU: Intel Iris Plus Graphics 640 1536 MB
- Citra Version (found in title bar): Citra Nightly #802
- Game: Pokémon Ultra Sun & Moon
- Screenshot of Issue (include the full Citra window including titlebar):
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