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Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom finally runs silky smooth on PC (www.dsogaming.com)

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The Legend of Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom is finally smooth on PC using Nintendo Switch emulators during both gameplay and cut-scenes.

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[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

@neonfire

a Ryzen 7, Yuzu barely uses it, at most 30% utilization

With emulation, that's usually an indication that not all cores are utilized. The most faithful emulation is to use as many cores for the CPU as the original system has. From Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nintendo_Switch#Technical_specifications

While the SoC features 8 CPU cores, the Switch only uses the 4 64-bit Cortex-A57 cores, of which 1 is reserved to the operating system

As you can see, only 3 cores are actively used by the game under high pressure. The one system core is probably (just probably!) light on resources to emulate. I don't know how many cores your system has, but this should be an indication why only 30% of your CPU is utilized to emulate the game.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Oh sure, but it's also by design of the emulator and based on the machine it's emulating. my point is that while I have a BIS CPU for AM4 gaming, it's not what is making the game run well and it could continue to run well on a much more modest CPU.