Nice! Look forward to downloading and trying it out tomorrow.
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Zelda BOTW Patch 1.11 released
- Thread starter RAWRferal
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Nice! Look forward to downloading and trying it out tomorrow.
Spine_Ripper
Member
Haven't been able to play in a week. Last I played I had just discovered THAT location which dropped like crazy. Still some frame drops, but any improvement will be taken. Gonna play for the next 2 hours!
It downloads when you launch the game.
Xdrive05
Member
Can confirm dramatic improvement to docked play on Switch. The starting area next to the old man is much improved, dropped only very briefly (like a half second) and then smooth again. Before it would chunk up for like 10 seconds straight.
The certain unnamed forest area will still go 10fps with particular camera angles in a particular spot however. But the rest of that forest area definitely plays smoother now.
Nintendo delivered. Not perfect but so, so much better. I wonder if they're done or if they'll continue to patch performance going forward?
The certain unnamed forest area will still go 10fps with particular camera angles in a particular spot however. But the rest of that forest area definitely plays smoother now.
Nintendo delivered. Not perfect but so, so much better. I wonder if they're done or if they'll continue to patch performance going forward?
Good, keep cutting stuff till the game runs 99% locked 30 fps pls.
Serenitynow
Member
You're still going to get those.
Japanmanx3
Member
Yeah Kakariko never gave me issues. Korok on the other hand...
lvl99 Pixel
Member
really? we have multiple people including myself that haven't noticed an improvement.
Someone needs to do an actual test of some sort
Mike Double U
Banned
I have to say,
is silky smooth, but
is noticeably improved but still has dips.
And I'm playing on a docked Nintendo Switch.
Kakariko Villiage
Korok Forest
And I'm playing on a docked Nintendo Switch.
Pharaoh 117
Member
Great timing! Just started playing today a few minutes after the patch released.
Go to kakariko village, that place is unbearable because of the framerate
I feel like the framerate is better in Kakariko Village on the Wii U version post-patch, but the shitty thing is the game's still using double-buffered vsync, meaning it'll still drop to 20fps instead of staying between 20-30. Still, before the patch, the entire area was 20fps, now it's like half the village, which still sucks.
Then it's really annoying that it's not updating. Launched and it didn't show. Restarted Wii U and it still hasn't updated.
Dark Cloud
Member
Good stuff. Better performance on my side.
ShadowFox08
Member
no the majority of people that are reporting are docked on switch
SinCityAssassin
Member
Switch version has seen a lot of framerate improvement. Most of this talk about the forest framerate comes from Switch owners. Wii U owners are only seeing minimal improvements because it was probably the most optimized as it could be by launch for the Wii U already.
Not really, to be honest, to me it feels the same as before :/
The Hermit
Member
It is in the WiiU version though.
Btw, just tested and it's still fucked. It might have incremental improvement.
Also, for some reason, the looks a bit... Worse. More blurred I dunno.
Yeah, this is closer to my findings.
Oh well :/
victreeb3l
Member
How is Korok Forest docked after the update?
ss_lemonade
Member
Seems to run the same for me, though maybe the framerate's more stable now? I do still see the same framerate hit in portable mode, in the forest while having something like the magnet ability enabled but that was the only quick comparison I did pre and post patch.
SinCityAssassin
Member
Still some slowdown, a lot less than before though. Undocked though? Barely there. The biggest hit there is around the center and I ran around it just fine.
shotgunbob04
Member
On Switch docked here. Ok so I went back go K
V
to test the framerate. Seems like it's pretty much fixed, but one interesting thing that happens is if you're standing facing the
Obviously much better than how things were previously, but just wanted to report my findings.
akariko
illage
prayer statue/the rest of the village, the framerate will drop if you zoom in and out by clicking the right thumbstick. Try zooming in on the statuezooming in on the sky or the forest above won't cause the dip in framerate.
victreeb3l
Member
Oh my Hylia I am so excited
Are you talking about the wii u version here?, because if so, then yeah, it's weird, the textures on the shrine entrances look blurrier for example, idk, maybe I'm crazy haha
Pray to the network gods that patch server senpai will notice you.
Usually the system will automatically check when you boot up a game, but sometimes that doesn't work when the patch is still fresh. Otherwise just give the system some time (a few hours) and it'll eventually start auto downloading the update.
DaxMedFlax
Member
Docked on Switch is much improved across the board in my experience. It feels smoother and more responsive also, was not expecting that.
SinCityAssassin
Member
Of course, I will say that slowdown does happen in handheld if you also use the magnetism rune, not slide show bad but I want to clarify.
victreeb3l
Member
Oh yeah thats totally fine. I normally get like 15fps in that area on average so any improvement is exciting.
Gotdatmoney
Member
Eh there is no fucking way you could actually think it runs the same. I just booted it up and it's night and day. The thing was a god damn slide show before. There are still drops but it is noticeably better.
Just go to the system settings and click update system. Then reload the game and it should update.
Saw there were performance updates and quickly loaded up the game and went to THAT forest. It still dips in docked, but it stays around 30 FPS way more than it did.
Also tested out one of the shrines surrounded by grass and jagged rocks. Used to crawl when you even got close to that place, but seems to run almost flawless now.
Glad I still have 20 hours until I hit 100!
Also tested out one of the shrines surrounded by grass and jagged rocks. Used to crawl when you even got close to that place, but seems to run almost flawless now.
Glad I still have 20 hours until I hit 100!
Garou
Member
Don't use quickboot, go to the main menu and let it sit there for a minute.
Naked Snake
Member
Can you easily delete the update on Switch? Say if it is confirmed that the patch is a visual downgrade and I'd rather have better textures and shadows than framerate.
Moblin bug wasn't fixed.
There isn't going to be a downgrade. It was a bug causing the framerate problems in the first place.
That too is my own personal low water mark... and well, just about anything on N64.
SinCityAssassin
Member
One objective factor about the forest in docked mode is that
Hestu's dance
I know. But with the switch being there own hardware and probably not even that complex for the length of time zelda and it were in developing you would think they could have done this literally 1 month earlier.