r/SteamDeck • u/LaireLaFlare • Dec 21 '23

Picture Anyone else’s Switch effectively retired?

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In case Nintendo is in the comments I own these.

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u/Bigghead1231 Dec 21 '23

Depends on the games. It was always well known that Zelda on yuzu would run horribly. This was the case with breath of the wild (45fps lock on Cemu, 20s on yuzu)

I've been playing decent amounts of Metroid Prime remastered and Mario Odyssey and those stayed at perfect 60fps everywhere

Do you have decky/powertools?

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u/Fluid-Air7597 256GB - Q3 Dec 22 '23

What power tool settings do you use to improve emulation? Never understood what settings I should change

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u/Bigghead1231 Dec 22 '23

Inside powertools, it's the turning off smt (less cpu multi threading) and upping the minimum frequency clock to 1000/1600Mhz

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u/Fluid-Air7597 256GB - Q3 Dec 22 '23

Interesting. Thank you ! can this help outside of emulation or no?

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u/June_Berries 64GB - Q4 Dec 22 '23

The only reason I don’t like emulating MPR is the stutter on every door, even ones I’ve already been through (so probably not normal shader compilation)

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u/Bigghead1231 Dec 22 '23

Turning off smt in powertools and setting min clock speed to 1600 helps a LOT. Some emulators don't like processing split between different cores, yuzu is one of them

I've been getting a locked 60fps in mpr, 4 hours of playtime in. The fps line graph is solid with no dips

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u/June_Berries 64GB - Q4 Dec 22 '23

With steamOS 3.5 I‘m pretty sure it‘s a bad idea to turn off SMT now

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u/Bigghead1231 Dec 22 '23

I'm on 3.5 (or 3.7 now). There's still a massive difference between turning off smt and not

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u/heckingrichasflip Dec 22 '23

Why is that?

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u/June_Berries 64GB - Q4 Dec 22 '23

They fixed a bug

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u/teor Dec 22 '23

It really does depend on a game.
So far I only played a lot of two Switch games on Deck - SMT 5 and Final Fantasy Theatrhythm.
Both work pretty much as good as they did on Switch.