Problems running Citra on Mac

Citra Support
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Issue:
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Cannot boot 3DS game. Following message appears: “Your GPU may not support OpenGL 4.3, or you do not have the latest graphics driver.”

System Information

  • Operating System: Mac OS Monterey 12.5.1

  • CPU: 2.3 GHz Quad-Core Intel Core i5

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  • GPU: Intel Iris Plus Graphics 655 1536 MB

  • Citra Version (found in title bar): 1784

  • Game: Bravely Default

  • Screenshot of Issue (include the full Citra window including titlebar):

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System Information for Support

Client Version                               Nightly 1784   HEAD-47c4f31
Operating System                             macOS 12.5
CPU                                          Intel(R) Core(TM) i5-8259U CPU @ 2.30GHz | AVX2 | FMA
Graphics API                                 Unknown (?)
Graphics Renderer                            ?
GPU Driver Version                           ?
CPU JIT                                      [x]
Hardware Renderer                            [x]
Hardware Shader                              [x]
Hardware Shader, Accurate Multiplication     [x]
Shader JIT                                   [x]
System Region                                -1
Shader Disk Cache                            [x]

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MacOS support has been temporarily dropped until a Vulkan implementation is implemented. Until then, please use this older Citra version:
Download citra-osx-20220901-d380980.tar.gz from Release nightly-1782 · citra-emu/citra-nightly · GitHub Extract the .tar.gz file and run citra-qt. (edited)

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Firstly thanks very much for all the hard work that people have and are putting into Citra, a brilliant achievement + kudos to you all

I did notice that you guys have now implemented Vulkan, does that mean we can expect a new MacOs version incorporating Vulkan soon too?

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MacOS doesn’t support Vulkan natively if I recall correctly. Apple has their own bootleg version of it called MoltenVK. Which should be easy enough to port, but might not be as performant. We’ll have to see.

There are currently test builds out for Windows and Linux for the Vulkan backend as it is. But there’s still a bit of work that needs to be done before it has feature parity with OpenGL. After that, we’ll look into porting it to MacOS and Android.

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Thanks for the update @SleepingSnake + very informative too

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System Information for Support

Client Version                               master-ae3d50f71
Operating System                             macOS 13.0
CPU                                          Intel(R) Core(TM) i5-8210Y CPU @ 1.60GHz | AVX2 | FMA
Graphics API                                 Unknown (?)
Graphics Renderer                            ?
GPU Driver Version                           ?
CPU JIT                                      [x]
Hardware Renderer                            [x]
Hardware Shader                              [x]
Hardware Shader, Accurate Multiplication     [x]
Shader JIT                                   [x]
System Region                                -1
Shader Disk Cache                            [x]

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