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Re:Legend of Zelda game sells 10M copies in three days by HideousKojima on Thursday May 18, 2023 @10:59AM (#35988913)
It's incredibly easy to emulate, and at much higher resolutions than the switch. There are also patches to unlock the FPS (and to fix the occasional 20 FPS throttling that the game forces) though I haven't tried them yet. I've had a few minor graphical issues, and had occasional crashes until I updated the firmware and game version, but it's working amazingly well overall.

Your GPU won't matter too much, so long as you have a decently powerful CPU you should be fine.

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Re:Legend of Zelda game sells 10M copies in three days by evantbyrne on Thursday May 18, 2023 @11:56AM (#35989835)
I keep hearing that GPU doesn't matter, but I don't understand why. It uses Vulkan and OpenGL behind the scenes–wouldn't those rely heavily on the GPU?
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Re:Legend of Zelda game sells 10M copies in three days by HideousKojima on Thursday May 18, 2023 @01:57PM (#35991701)
They do rely heavily on the GPU, bit the game was designed (in terms of poly count, VRAM usage, shader complexity) for a several year old mobile GPU.
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