Lag / low frame waves when running games

Citra Support
#1

Issue:
I have only used Citra for a little while now, but I am having trouble getting my games to run on a smooth, consistent frame-rate. The games I have tried are “Paper Mario: Sticker Star”, “Super Mario 3D Land” and “Kirby Triple Deluxe”. Both Paper Mario and Kirby jump between 60 and around 10-20, and this seems to happen about every 10-15 seconds. Paper Mario: Sticker Star also seems to be unable to run higher than around 15 FPS, running mostly at around 10. I’m not sure if this is an issue with the games, Citra or my laptop.

System Information

  • Operating System: Windows 10
  • CPU: Intel® Core™ i5-10300H CPU @ 2.50GHz
  • GPU: Intel® UHD Graphix & NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1650 Ti
  • Citra Version (found in title bar): Citra Nightly 1694
  • Game: Paper Mario: Sticker Star, Super Mario 3d Land, Kirby Triple Deluxe
  • Screenshot of Issue (include the full Citra window including titlebar):

Diagnostic Log
citra_log.txt (5.3 KB)

#2

I did not find anything wrong in your log file. Please wait for a moderator to assist.

#3

The log file is incomplete. Make sure you follow the steps carefully:

  1. Open Citra, then go to File>Open Citra Folder and open up the log folder. Now keep that open in the background.
  2. Launch your game and encounter the problem; crash/slowdown/glitch and close citra if it doesn’t do so by itself. Do not restart citra as that will wipe the log of important information!
  3. Now upload the log file in this chat.
#4

ah okay apologies, im not used to doing this.

this is the log of Paper Mario: Sticker Starcitra_log.txt (89.7 KB)

#5

System Information for Support

Client Version                                Nightly 1694 HEAD-e6c479f
Operating System                              Windows 10 (10.0)
CPU                                           Intel(R) Core(TM) i5-10300H CPU @ 2.50GHz
Graphics API                                  OpenGL 3.3.0
Graphics Renderer                             GeForce GTX 1650 Ti/PCIe/SSE2
GPU Driver Version                            451.67
CPU JIT                                       [x]
Hardware Renderer                             [x]
Hardware Shader                               [x]
Hardware Shader, Accurate Multiplication      [x]
Shader JIT                                    [x]
System Region                                 1
Shader Disk Cache                             [x]

Here’s some issues I found with your log that might help.

  • The CPU Clock percentage is not 100%. You may experience unexpected game speed.
#6

apparently they all want to run smoothly now. previously when i used 100% clock percentage,
it would still run at extremely low fps.