Some games (e.g., Rogue Squadron II , The Last Story ) have buggy Vulkan paths in Dolphin itself. Check the Dolphin Issue Tracker for your game. You may need to: Once triggered, the GPU context becomes unrecoverable, requiring a full emulator restart. : For NVIDIA users, changing the Vulkan/OpenGL present method to "Prefer layered on DXGI Swapchain" in the NVIDIA Control Panel may prevent the crash. Certain games trigger the VK error more often due to their rendering quirks: |