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Zelda BOTW Patch 1.11 released
- Thread starter RAWRferal
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Considering the speed of this considerable performance upgrade, I'd say that's a pretty safe bet.
flipswitch
Member
Do game updates download automatically on switch? I just done it the manual way.
ShadowFox08
Member
If the switch version of botw was optimized on switch, I wouldn't be surprised if it was possible for dynamic 1080p and unlocked 60 fps.
Lights and Waves
Member
This is great to hear!
Tested things undocked, and performance seems to be better.
- Kakariko is smoother all around. No noticeable frame drops.
- Korok Forest is also smoother. As you get closer to the center there's noticeable drops but once it's loaded everything goes smoother, even if you go back and forth.
- Great Plateau is also smoother. No noticeable drops if there is one.
- Fighting a bunch of moblins and no random freezing occurred on my side.
Patch does improve performance in a big way.
It downloaded as soon as it detected a wifi.
- Kakariko is smoother all around. No noticeable frame drops.
- Korok Forest is also smoother. As you get closer to the center there's noticeable drops but once it's loaded everything goes smoother, even if you go back and forth.
- Great Plateau is also smoother. No noticeable drops if there is one.
- Fighting a bunch of moblins and no random freezing occurred on my side.
Patch does improve performance in a big way.
It downloaded as soon as it detected a wifi.
Even with its performance problems (which are mostly in a few areas anyway, it's generally fine), it's way worth it. The game is fantastic.
Yes.
Posted almost the same impressions in the other thread (Switch docked).
Bless you.
I think mine did? I'm pretty sure I just went to the home menu and then when I tried to go back in it asked me if I wanted to install
Polygonal_Sprite
Gold Member
I'm not sure you'd notice tbh, it's not a massive difference on my 40" HDTV when docked but it was something I was looking for as I always had a feeling the shadow quality was too high for a Switch game and from my experience on PC lowering shadows down a level can get you 5-10 fps improvements.
The camera controls also feel more responsive to me now when docked, I guess just an improvement in latency from the faster framerate.
Can't wait till I get home! I barely played the game docked due to slowdowns, but now I can
FearMyWrench
Member
The big question though is whether they downgraded any effects to pull this off. Hope DF looks into that.
edit: oh jinx, people are saying shadows dropped?
edit: oh jinx, people are saying shadows dropped?
StarStabbedMoon
Member
Are the speedrun techs like infinite horse stamina and whistle sprinting still safe?
FloweryMarston
Member
Went to the hebra region, full of moblins, from all places this was the one i would get easily the freezing issue from them, now using multiple fire bombs, there is a slight milisecond hiccup. the villages are also much better and consistent.
Lol that was my first thought too. Hopefully they didn't patch it out.
dangerskew
Member
Whistle sprinting seems to still work.
Nope, false alarm. Just got the issue in another spot whilst making my way to a shrine.
Wat. Y'all are melting my heart.
SciencePilot
Member
So... no one yet knows if they fixed the blood moon glitch? That's the one real glitch in the game so I hope it was fixed.
For the uninformed: You were able to get blood moons at weird times (they're only supposed to happen at midnight). There were even multiple times where I got 2 blood moons within 5 seconds of each other, and 3 blood moons within a 1 minute.
You could trigger the glitch by always putting your game in sleep mode, and never actually quitting it. I guess I'll try that for a few days and see what happens.
For the uninformed: You were able to get blood moons at weird times (they're only supposed to happen at midnight). There were even multiple times where I got 2 blood moons within 5 seconds of each other, and 3 blood moons within a 1 minute.
You could trigger the glitch by always putting your game in sleep mode, and never actually quitting it. I guess I'll try that for a few days and see what happens.
SinCityAssassin
Member
Korok's a lot better, almost no drops in undocked now, still some slowdown in docked. Hetsu's dance always lags while docked and I saw a smooth dance this time. The patch is legit.
Spukc
always chasing the next thrill
Ooh yeah that was borderline uplayable !! Haha
It was the spikes that did that imo
lvl99 Pixel
Member
on WiiU, Hyrule Castle didnt seem better, Plataeu and the forest at the start still laggin pretty bad. KF and HV still a slideshow too.
either its more for the Switch version,very slight to the point where im not noticing, or its placebo.
James Scott
Banned
You look with your eyes. Don't think anyone is counting frames till DF shows up.
Due to the nature of blood moons, this might take a bit longer to answer. That said, if no one answers soon that bodes well
Yea, the fps drop while running to that shrine made me stop playing the game docked. It was bad.
Bamboo 竹
Member
Impressive performance upgrade for me on undocked mode. Not a single noticeable frame drop in
.
Korok forest
20cent
Banned
Seeing framerate dropping and slow downs is one thing, stating "I had 22 fps at best before and now I swear that it is locked at 30 fps in tablet mode" is another.
My Switch auto downloaded the patch. It installed after I closed the game and I restarted and immediately went to
where the framerate had been awful before and now it is as smooth as the rest of the game! Good improvement, now I don't have to deal with that chugging every time I visit.
the Kokiri Forest
Locations aren't fucking spoilers. I'm 1 hour into the game and it won't matter a lick of difference if I see the name of some place that's hours and hours away - if I even remember it by then. All the blacked out, spolierphobia BS is making this thread a chore to read.
The Main Event
Member
Playing docked right now and yeah it seems improved. Just wonder what the trade-off is. Looking forward to DF.
TyMiles2012
Member
It's definitely better. The Korok Forest has gotten better too, but it's not fixed. I think I know what they did though. Before, if you were in a spot where the framerate dropped, you could stand still then move the camera and it'd still be bad. Now if you're walking around, it'll tank but if you stop to move the camera, it'll be smooth. I think it has something to do with rendering the world. They probably did something related to LOD. I think the best fix would be to enable occlusion culling. So anything that's not in the camera's view won't be rendered. Like how Crash Bandicoot was made possible on PSOne. You might get some artifacts on screen edges as seen on FFXIV with that setting enabled (Enabled on PS4 version by default), but it would probably fix the frame rate for good.
EDIT: I tested in docked mode. Undocked, the forest is nearly flawless. Saw a very quick hitch or two but quickly fixed themselves. If that's the case there, the entire game world undocked is probably fixed.
EDIT: I tested in docked mode. Undocked, the forest is nearly flawless. Saw a very quick hitch or two but quickly fixed themselves. If that's the case there, the entire game world undocked is probably fixed.
SinCityAssassin
Member
They've certainly gotten less frequent in the areas I've done them. Normally I'd get 2 or 3 in a streak but I'm lucky if I get one in an area.
It's called further optimization.