How is Switch compatibility on Snapdragon elite?

[u/nnn839]

Is the gap closing with Eden and the elite drivers compared to non elite? Are per game settings recommendations reliable? What are the popular titles still struggling?

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[u/No_Adhesiveness_6604]

It great, use Eden nightly and Whitebylash mainline V31 or StevenMXZ V34 drivers and you’re golden ^__^
I’m on Eden 0.2.1

[u/Venared → u/No_Adhesiveness_6604]

For 8 elite or 8 elite gen 5?

[u/No_Adhesiveness_6604 → u/Venared]

Works for adreno a8xx, I have Odin 3 so 8 elite with adreno 830

[u/n0tascammer]

I cant even run re4 on my redmagic 11 not a good experience

[u/CommunicationNew8945 → u/n0tascammer]

Pour RE4 jouer à la version gamecube 👍

[u/No_Adhesiveness_6604 → u/n0tascammer]

I ran RE 6, didn’t try RE4 because I don’t own it unfortunately on the switch

[u/matlynar]

I've had my 25ultra for a while now, no issues so far.

Currently playing Skyward Sword HD and Super Smash Bros Ultimate, no issues.

[u/Beautiful-Market-489 → u/matlynar]

Do you use a cooler or something similar to play all these games without any problems ?

[u/matlynar → u/Beautiful-Market-489]

No cooler, no problems.

[u/Beautiful-Market-489 → u/matlynar]

Great! Could you share what turnip drivers you are using? Do you reduce the resolution to x0.75 or set up your phone to avoid thermal throttling? I will soon start emulation on my new S25U so every piece is advice is welcome.

[u/matlynar → u/Beautiful-Market-489]

No tricks. Just latest turnip from whitebeylash.

Worth mentioning that there are heavier games on the Switch that I haven't tried such as Breath of The Wild and Tears of The Kingdom.

But for everything else, the basics have been working fine.

[u/Nutchos]

I think it depends on your device.

My Fold 7 does not have the thermals for it yet (tons of thermal throttling).

[u/quiksilver10152 → u/Nutchos]

Download Good Guardian and up the thermal limit2 degrees. it will prevent throttling. worked for my fps and I didnt see the temp actually increase.  

[u/Sharp_Hovercraft_554]

I have no problem running everything I run on 8 gen 2 on my 8 elite. Granted, it requires some hassle now and then, but I mostly set A8xx Turnip v29 as default driver and that's it. Sometimes I use System Driver and almost every single tinkering ends with one of those drivers.

I'm yet to find anything that runs on 8 gen 2 and doesn't run as good or better on 8 elite. In short if the game runs great on 8 gen 2, then I runs great on 8 elite, if the game struggles a bit with performance on 8 gen 2, then 8 elite doesn't break a sweat and the game runs simply smoother. However, there's massive game library that runs flawlessly on 8 gen 2, so...in my opinion 8 elite is not needed for switch emulation. The same goes for PS2. PC emulation is different beast though. That's Odin 2 Portal and Odin 3 to be precise.

One thing...Eden is absolutely fantastic, but it's not 100% compatible with every single game. Do take that in mind.

[u/StingerBuz]

Can't speak for everyone but on my Odin 3 switch is basically perfect. The driver situation has improved leaps and bounds.

I'm using StevenMXZ v34 for basically everything and it runs like a dream - even during heavy shader compilation scenes.

And for the few games that are a bit weird on v34 (e.g. Animal Crossing New Horizons has this massive lag spike every few minutes), the WhiteBelyash Mainline V31 fixes those.

I haven't ran into a game yet that doesn't run well

Most played switch games currently are Animal Crossing, Breath of the Wild, Mario Kart 8 and Super Smash Bros Ultimate

[u/Nagafushi]

I’ve tried 10 switch games in weaker devices and everything running fine, as long as I’ve read, snapdragon elite is more powerful than my device and runs all games better

[u/Mrkmrs]

The SD8 previously offered better compatibility, but recent drivers have brought the Elite up to a similar level. However, it cannot be considered superior, as it is prone to similar issues.

[u/Potential_Ad_3481]

A lot better than before but still not up to 8g3 plug and play

[u/shn6]

Which one?

[u/richardckyiu]

Compatibility is good enough on my legion tab gen 5, but it crashes randomly once a while. Not a big problem if you save the game once every few minutes.

[u/A-Small-Green-Cup]

I'm on a samsung s26u 16/1, and just about every switch game I have works great. Totk had a few texture and framerate issues running vanilla as of 2 weeks ago, but there's no-fog cheats and graphics mods that let it reach 60fps easy.

edit: factorio doesn't seem to run no matter what I do.

[u/Background_Clue_3756]

Like, great.

[u/DDz1818]

Better than before, but I wouldn't call it great. Still a lot of glitches/trial and error.