The latest Zelda installment has only been out for a month, but The Legend of Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom is already running beautifully on PC in native 4K with more than 60FPS.
Over the past few weeks, we have reported on several updates for the popular Yuzu and Ryujinx emulators that improve the visuals and performance of Tears of the Kingdom, emulated on PC. It’s good to mention that some crafty modders already managed to get Nintendo’s latest Zelda running on PC even before the game launched globally. Back then, we already suggested that it would be likely that the game would be looking and running great on the popular Switch emulators in no time.
Fast forward a little over a month, and with the recently-released dynamic FPS mods for Ryujinx and Yuzu, the title is running with over 60FPS in native 4K resolution on an NVIDIA RTX 4090. Coming from a locked 30FPS in 900p/720p resolution on Nintendo’s hybrid platform, it’s not only great that the game can be emulated on PC, but it’s also quite an upgrade. Then again, you’ll need quite the setup in order to be able to achieve this kind of visuals and performance. You can check out the gameplay showcases from YouTuber ‘NoBigDeal La’ of Tears of the Kingdom running in Yuzu and Ryujinx on an RTX 4090 in native 4K down below. Do you like what you’re seeing? Hit the comments below.
As always with emulated games, you’ll need to legally own a copy of The Legend of Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom to emulate it via Yuzu or Ryujinx.
The Legend of Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom is available globally now for the Nintendo Switch. Here’s what we wrote about the Breath of the Wild sequel in our launch review last month.
“But there’s another way Nintendo has expanded Hyrule, which they’ve kept oddly quiet about in their marketing”, Nathan Birch wrote. “In addition to the sky islands, there is now an entire underground world beneath Hyrule that seems to span the entire map or close to it. These murky Depths are accessed through gloom-filled chasms dotted around the map and are bathed in darkness, with Link having to make his way with a Zonai flashlight or “brightbloom seeds” which can be attached to arrows and act as makeshift area lights wherever they land. The only way to permanently shoo away the dark is to find a Lightroot which will illuminate an area and provide a fast-travel point.”
