One change that slipped by, made by a new contributor, improved the Vulkan experience so dramatically, it almost feels like cheating… The change is simple: instead of relying on the GPU driver to store and validate the pipeline cache (a.k.a. 1.5, several other GPU related changes had to be delayed. Vulkan on Ryujinx.During the time it took to merge last month’s Project Y.F.C. The ROMs in the Deck UI will use Yuzu.įor more on Switch emulation on Deck, check out the comparison that I did with OpenGL vs. I should note that if you want to play Switch games on Deck with Ryujinx, you’ll have to launch Ryujinx from the Deck UI and launch your game from there. It’s just too bad that I couldn’t use it on this game for the time being.

That being said, this was tested with OpenGL Vulkan would be a significant improvement, especially on a device like the Steam Deck. I even made sure the shaders were cached by playing the game a bit before recording. Age of Calamity is probably the most taxing game on the Nintendo Switch and poor Ryujinx couldn’t handle much of anything better than 13-14 FPS. games were recorded in Game Mode with the Crankshaft plugin.As a result I had to use OpenGL for both emulators in order to make the comparison more fair

Age of Calamity would not run at all on Ryujinx with Vulkan. Mario Kart 8 and Smash Ultimate were tested with Vulkan.To my knowledge Ryujinx doesn’t have a built-in FSR feature (though you probably could use it from the Quick Access menu) This also explains why performance is better on Yuzu than Ryujinx. This is because Yuzu has 0.5x scaling while using the emulator’s built-in FSR filter. you might have noticed the quality on Yuzu isn’t as great compared to Ryujinx.The following games were tested and compared: So, I went to work doing a comparison of emulating a handful of Nintendo Switch games on Deck with both Ryujinx and Yuzu, using the emulator settings set by EmuDeck. One feature in particular is that it adds support for the Ryujinx Switch emulator, in addition to Yuzu. And what’s nice is combined with the Steam ROM Manager, roms can get added to the Steam Deck UI with nice cover art, and you can launch the game directly through this interface.Īt any rate, the latest update adds support for the Anbernic Win600 and some other goodies. For those who aren’t aware, EmuDeck makes it incredibly easy to get emulation of retro to more modern titles set up on the Steam Deck. EmuDeck version 0.17.6 just came out a few days ago.

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