Please help with settings - very slow on i7-7820HK and GTX 1080

Yuzu Support
#1

I keep reading others with graphics cards and systems much less powerful than mine, who are getting 60FPS on most games, while I can barely play them. Am I missing anything? Thank you in advance, sorry for all the noob questions, I have tried to research for solutions on my own but I keep hitting a brick wall.

I have gone through several tutorials for settings (system and yuzu) and I am a Patreon supporter so I have the newest releases. My specs are:

Alienware R17 Laptop - i7-7820HK - GTX 1080 - 32 gigs of RAM - WD Black SN750 NVMe

BOTW and I get 20 FPS tops, usually 12-15

Paper Mario won’t even load

Mario Odyssey runs well, but 25 FPS

The only game that runs well is Sonic

I understand that there will be graphical glitches, I have used many emulators in the past. I can live with that, but again, I feel my system should be doing a lot better with frame rates.

I have tried docked and undocked, I know OpenGL is for Nvidia but I’ve also tried Vulkan and not any better.

Is my CPU the bottleneck? I know it is a little dated

Thank you again for your time and knowledge

#2

In order for us to provide better support, we need to see the log generated by Citra. This guide will walk you through how you can obtain the log file: How to Upload the Log File.

#3

yuzu_log.txt (1.0 MB)

#4

System Information for Support

Client Version                                yuzu Early Access 892 HEAD-382b7daf0
Operating System                              Windows 10 (10.0)
CPU                                           Intel(R) Core(TM) i7-7820HK CPU @ 2.90GHz | AVX2 | FMA
Graphics API                                  OpenGL 4.6.0
Graphics Renderer                             GeForce GTX 1080/PCIe/SSE2
GPU Driver Version                            451.67
Use Async GPU                                 [x]
BCAT Backend                                  none
GPU Emulation Accuracy Level                  Normal

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

#5

The CPU may be a possible bottleneck, depending of the clock speed you get while playing. A bigger cause here is the Nvidia drivers, recent ones are far slower in OpenGL. Stick to 446.14 for now to get the best performance.

#6

citra_log.txt (4.8 KB)

#7

You need to dump keys from your Nintendo Switch.

Hardware Requirements

CPU GPU RAM
Minimum Intel Core i5-4430 / AMD Ryzen 3 1200 Intel HD Graphics 520 / NVIDIA GeForce GT 1030 2GB / AMD Radeon R7 240 2GB 8GB
Recommended Intel Core i5-10400 / AMD Ryzen 5 3600 Intel UHD Graphics 630 / NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1650 4GB / AMD Radeon RX Vega 56 8GB 16GB