It's now possible to play Breath of the Wild on PC at 4K and 60 FPS

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Whether you love or hate the idea of platform-exclusive games, they aren't going anywhere anytime soon; particularly not when games like Nintendo's Breath of the Wild or Super Mario Odyssey sell Switch consoles at a rate of 50 percent or more.

Unfortunately for the publishers who choose to go the exclusive route, though, such business practices inevitably create a standard supply and demand scenario.

To use Breath of the Wild as an example again, it's Switch-only nature has caused some non-Switch gamers to turn to legally-grey methods of obtaining and playing the game.

For many such players, that means using CEMU (one of the most popular emulation tools out there) to make the game playable on PC.

Historically, CEMU has required heavy tweaks to make Breath of the Wild playable on PC. Various third-party mods and shader overhauls were practically essential to boost FPS to playable levels, but those adjustments often came at the cost of Breath of the Wild's otherwise-gorgeous visuals.

Now, it seems that those tweaks might not be quite as necessary. With the latest release of CEMU (1.15.2), Breath of the Wild seems to be able to run at a minimum of 60 FPS, and often much higher, in glorious 4K.

A reasonably powerful computer might still be necessary to hit those numbers, but the bar has clearly been lowered quite a bit.

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I thought playing it at 60fps broke alot of the in-game physics (arrow trajectory and such like), last time I looked.

...have they somehow fixed that as well?
 
I thought playing it at 60fps broke alot of the in-game physics (arrow trajectory and such like), last time I looked.

...have they somehow fixed that as well?
I believe so. Things look fine from the footage we dug up.
 
BotW is not switch only. It was also released on WiiU. Cemu is a WiiU emulator not Switch.

Btw Cemu kicks ***.
 
I would assume yes, I cant imagine there isnt a remap program to convert to x-input

I would rather us an xbox one controller, same one you would use for all your other pc games and emulators too
 
I've got this running on my computer and it runs fantastic. I tried it early last year and it wasn't any good in terms of performance. It's really good right now. You just need a strong PC.
 
You just need a strong PC.

Define strong....
I have a 2500K and a 970 and if I remember right that wasn't enough for Dolphin at a time but I think a Ryzen 2600(x) may be moving closer than later because my PC needs a few reboots before it grabs the OS successfully and launches otherwise I'm staring at a black screen till I kill the power.
 
Define strong....
I have a 2500K and a 970 and if I remember right that wasn't enough for Dolphin at a time but I think a Ryzen 2600(x) may be moving closer than later because my PC needs a few reboots before it grabs the OS successfully and launches otherwise I'm staring at a black screen till I kill the power.

Dolphin has always done fine with your 2500k, as long as she was overclocked.

Now dolphin runs on anything, its been optomized to the moon

Try a bios flash, or new hdd/ssd
 
I've got this running on my computer and it runs fantastic. I tried it early last year and it wasn't any good in terms of performance. It's really good right now. You just need a strong PC.

Can you point me to a guide of some kind on how to get this up and running? I don't really have any experience with emulators.
 
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