Running Citra Canary 1283 on iMac (Retina 5k, 27-inch, 2017)

Citra Support
#1

Issue:
Somehow the latest Citra Canary and Citra’s nightly broke compatibility with iMac. I am unable to load up anything. It would constantly say that my “GPU may not support OpenGL 3.3” but it can run above v3.3.

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#2

System Information for Support

Client Version                                Canary 1283 HEAD-a6d83ab
OpenGL Vendor                                 null
OpenGL Renderer                               null
OpenGL Version                                null
Enable Hardware Renderer                      [x]
Enable Hardware Shader                        [ ]
Hardware Shader, Accurate Multiplication      [x]
Hardware Shader, Geometry Shaders             [x]
Enable Shader JIT                             [x]
System Region                                 -1

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#3

Afaik, you will have to update macOS to 10.14

#4

I don’t think macOS 10.14 would update OpenGL :confused:
I wonder if the developers of Citra could use MoltenGL without rewriting everything in Citra, it’s supposed to be an additional layer for OpenGL using Apple’s “Metal”. https://moltengl.com/

#5

If you have the ability to update, try. Use Citra on iMac Middle 2011

It seems running through terminal works if you don’t want to update but you won’t have a GUI. You will have to edit everything in the config file :stuck_out_tongue:

#6

It’s not a question of updating opengl, it’s a change in one of the libraries used in teh QT interface we use for the GUI. This library change makes the GUI version (citra-qt.exe) require 10.14 for MacOS, instead of the previous 10.13. This is why updating would solve the problem.

Using a commandline interface through terminal with citra.exe is an option that will function on 10.13, but this is… not an easy thing to do.