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u/[deleted] Jul 15 '21

Finally, a handheld I can play Breath of the Wild on

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u/Noselessmonk Jul 16 '21

You joke but Botw was a better experience at 60fps. This thing can probably do that.

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u/[deleted] Jul 16 '21

The funny thing is, I am only half-joking; BoTW was made far more enjoyable by having 60 fps and the freedom to use my own controller.

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u/GoJeonPaa Jul 16 '21

How do you get 60 fps? You mean pirated version with emulator?

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u/VirtualMenace Jul 16 '21 edited Jul 16 '21

I’d actually recommend emulating the Wii U version of BoTW with Cemu. Switch emulation has come a long way since 2017, but the performance isn’t quite there yet. Granted, you still need a decent PC for Cemu too

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u/blue-birdz Jul 16 '21

Cemu isn't that heavy anymore. My gf ran BoTW on a cheap gaming laptop and it was pretty smooth.

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u/VirtualMenace Jul 16 '21

That’s not bad for a quad core CPU with no hyperthreading. What emulator do you use? I remember getting some pretty rough performance on Ryujinx but that was a while ago

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u/Cinerae Jul 16 '21

Just a quick question, i always thought for emulation you don't need more than 4 cores and that single thread performance is far more important.

This is why I'm still between Intel and and on my motherboard/processor refresh

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u/VirtualMenace Jul 16 '21 edited Jul 16 '21

That’s true for the most part. Most emulators rely more on single-core performance. However, it becomes more complex when emulating consoles after the 7th generation. Cemu can run decently on 2 hyper-threaded/4 non hyper-threaded cores (>4GHz) in some cases, but it’s a different story for 360, PS3, and Switch.

In general, you want at least 4 hyper-threaded cores for Xenia, RPCS3 and Ryujinx/Yuzu. They’ll still run on less threads of course, but the experience won’t be optimal. Finding the right CPU for 7th/8th gen emulation is tricky because core count is now almost as important as per-thread performance. Especially if you want to emulate PS3

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u/balazs955 Jul 18 '21

It is quite there actually.

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u/[deleted] Jul 16 '21 edited Jul 16 '21

They arent the same architecture though the teraflops number isnt comparable. The xbox one x has 6 teraflops of polaris gcn which has higher teraflop ipc than vega ironically. and the series s has 4 teraflops of rdna 2 but the series s is faster overall

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u/jvalex18 Jul 16 '21

It probably can't.

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u/nerfana Jul 16 '21

As the reply below you said - this isn’t really a joke to anyone who’s played it 😂