Switch simulator Yuzu stunning update: average performance improvement of 50%

CTOnews.com May 14 news, Nintendo Switch simulator Yuzu has ushered in a major improvement in performance, with an average increase of 50% to a maximum of 87%, which is good news for players who want to experience Switch exclusive games on PC.

Yuzu is a Switch simulator developed in 2018 that allows PC users to run Switch games with higher picture quality and frame rate. In addition, it supports local wireless multiplayer games. However, there is still a lot of room for performance improvement in previous versions.

Fortunately, the Yuzu development team didn't stop working, rewriting the old buffer cache code and making some other optimizations. These changes allow the performance of the simulator to be greatly improved when running at normal GPU precision (GPU accuracy) without sacrificing the picture effect.

The following are some comparative images, which are mainline version 1407 (high GPU precision) and mainline version 1421 (normal GPU precision), both of which render at 2x resolution and turn off dynamic resolution through MOD. CTOnews.com notes that some games can even achieve frame rates of close to 240 FPS.

To achieve this performance improvement, users only need to set the GPU precision to normal, which is an option to balance graphics rendering and performance. Previously, normal GPU accuracy would improve performance at the expense of visual effects, but the latest update almost eliminates this gap, and users using Zen 4 3D V-cache chips should get a greater performance improvement.

In addition, there are other improvements and fixes that fix the confusion between the original CPU frequency and CNTFRQ about the timing accuracy of CPU, thus improving the performance by 1-7%, and the automatic HDR function is implemented for Windows 11 users to make the game screen on the HDR compatible display more gorgeous.