Kirby Air Ride is unplayable with Vulkan on MacOS

Kuriibo · 08-05-2019, 08:56 AM #1

On MacOS, if you use Vulkan as the graphics backend, then Kirby Air Ride won't load the textures for the environment. The characters and UI appear correctly. This is using the latest development build (5.0-10762). The graphics appear properly when used with OpenGL,
but there's some occasional stuttering.

**JMC47** · 08-05-2019, 04:58 PM #2

Maybe it's a missing feature in MoltenVK. Can't be sure.

**Helios** · 08-06-2019, 02:50 AM #3

This got forwarded to the dev channel to see if any macOS devs (we have like one) know whats happening. We're aware now, thanks.

Unfortunately, don't expect much movement on this, we have anywhere from no to little macOS developer availability at any given time. If you want a workaround, dual booting Windows or Linux to get access to better GPU drivers is your best bet.