Outdated GPU drivers that lack the required features to run Vulkan.

Keeping software up to date is the only way to prevent this issue from happening.

Broken Vulkan layers on HUD and screen recording software could cause issues when yuzu and drivers add support for new Vulkan extensions.

The two main causes for Vulkan related crashes when trying to boot a game or opening yuzu’s configuration are: Vulkan by defaultĪs previously discussed, we have to circumvent issues like OEM-locked drivers (so common on Intel hardware, it has its own official procedure) and broken third party software limitations (outdated screen recorders are a common cause of broken rendering) in order to provide a smooth experience with Vulkan as the default API. Not forcing the developers to divert their time into supporting dated platforms (which they no longer use), means that they can instead focus on improving the core emulation components.įinally, projects like Dolphin have already followed the same path, and for the same exact reasons.Ī 13 years old Windows is old enough to drive in some places.įor those that still prefer to not upgrade, Mainline 990 and older will work just fine. This decision is reinforced by the lack of GPU driver support on EOL systems (which affects Vulkan support going forward), inconsistencies in the maximum path length (critical for file system emulation improvements), as well as worse memory handling on a kernel level, which is required to properly emulate the Switch and its subsystems. That being said, it is yet another sign of the times, and that a pre-Windows 10 experience in yuzu will continue to become more subpar.ĭue to our focus on improving accuracy, stability and performance, it doesn’t make much sense to divert time and resources onto maintaining old and out of support operating systems.įrom Mainline version 991 and onward, only Windows 10 revision 1809 and newer, Windows 11, and Linux, will be the officially supported operating systems. While fastmem was only ever designed to work with newer operating systems, the changes to dynarmic breaking support for older Windows versions was purely accidental. While working on dynarmic and kernel emulation, including improving the compatibility of 4 thread CPU systems, we made changes to dynarmic and fastmem that broke support for Windows 10 revision 1803 and older, including Windows 7 and Windows 8/8.1.

Let’s first address the elephant in the room, shall we? Roll the tape! End of support for EOL Windows versions Rest assured, we also have some major rewrites and improvements in the works, and we’ll touch on those near the end. This time around, we’re covering small and incremental improvements to yuzu.

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