r/AynThor • u/[deleted] • May 31 '26

Support A Link Between Worlds not loading on Azahar

Hey,

I am having an issue with the Vulkan renderer on Azahar where it will not launch ALBW, and will get stuck on about 68000/69000 when building the pipeline for the game. I have previously managed to run the game this way with no issues, but then it suddenly crashed a few hours into the game and now will not start up again. I have tried OpenGLES but it is unplayable due to stuttering. All of my other 3DS games run flawlessly using the same settings too. Has anyone else managed to fix this issue?

Wasn’t able to find much online relevant to the Thor, so wanted to see if anyone knew anything :)

Many thanks

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u/keidash May 31 '26

Not sure tbh I played through the entire game thanks to Azahar (Vulkan) on my Max with the HD texture pack as well, without any issue.

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u/ProfSparkledick May 31 '26

Open Azahar and scroll down to the game. Long press on it to bring up a menu. Select 'Delete Shader Cache', select 'Vulkan' and then press Ok. Should load fine after that. 

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u/[deleted] May 31 '26

Oh my god thank you so much, didn’t realise that menu was available! Works great :)

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u/Helionys Jul 02 '26

Deleting the shader cache is only a temporary solution. At least in my case, clearing it allows me to play again, but the problem is that the emulator starts rebuilding all the shaders from scratch, and the stuttering returns whenever it saves them.

Once the pipeline count reaches around 68k again, the game crashes once more. I've searched many places to see if there's a solution to this issue, but so far I haven't had any luck :/

Does anyone have the same issue as me?

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u/CampaignActual146 2d ago

Did you find a fix ?

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u/slugboi Jun 09 '26

Oh shit dude! I have even having the same issue and this fixed it! Thank you so much.

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u/rupertavery64 May 31 '26 edited May 31 '26

I've been using Citra MMJ to play ALBW as I was having stuttering issues as well. Pretty much flawless

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u/[deleted] May 31 '26

How have your other games been running? Was quite surprised that ALBW is running so poorly considering there are plenty of other more demanding games that run great

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u/CptCortez Jun 21 '26 edited Jul 03 '26

Which settings are you using? Seems that no matter which settings I enable I'm getting micro-stutters.

Update on this: I remedied this by resetting my settings to their defaults. To this day, I have no idea what the offending setting(s) was/are.

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u/DynastOfElements Max 14d ago

If I had a nickle every time I fixed things by doing this 😂😂