Select the preferred graphics processor for this program:’ option. I selected ‘Custom Installation’ and made sure to check the ‘Perform a clean installation’ box.Īfter doing all of this and restarting my computer, I opened up the NVIDIA control panel and went to Manage 3D Settings > Program Settings > Add, then added citra-qt.exe and citra.exe, making sure to select the ‘High-performance NVIDIA processor’ in the ‘2. During the graphics driver installation, I was prompted for either ‘Express Installation’ or ‘Custom Installation’.

Then I installed the ‘NVIDIA Graphics Driver’ from the same place (as of current writing, it was version 442.23). Only the ‘Intel Chipset Driver’ was updated, so I installed that. I then went to my laptop manufacturer’s website ( MSI USA) to see if any drivers have been updated since I last installed them.

To uninstall drivers, go to Device Manager > Display Adapters > Right Click over NVIDIA card > Uninstall To uninstall software, go to Control Panel > Uninstall a program > Select everything that begins with NVIDIA and uninstall it (you may be prompted to restart your computer several times) I uninstalled all NVIDIA software and drivers from my PC (even though I had all of the latest ones). If the GPU is 5 or more years old, there is a possibility that it does not support OpenGL 3.3. Note- My laptop is an MSI GE75 Raider 10SE-008. Please note, most machines with a dedicated GPU from AMD or NVIDIA support OpenGL 3.3 and above as long as this GPU was released within the last 4-5 years. By running on a standard PC, the emulator helps software.

I’ll document my process here in case anyone has the same issue, although you may not need all of the steps to get it to work: Mali OpenGL ES Emulator is a library that maps OpenGL ES API calls to the desktop OpenGL API. I had already tried through NVIDIA’s software and through Windows, but neither had worked for me until I did the steps below. For whatever reason, I wasn’t able to force the laptop to run Citra using the NVIDIA graphics card (it kept defaulting to the integrated one). I was finally able to resolve this, thank you everyone for your suggestions.

Opengl 3.3