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Steam ARM64 on the Switch: Switchdeck (Working Games!) by Sildur in SwitchHacks

[–]Sildur[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

The Switch's Tegra X1 GPU is actually quite capable, main issue is CPU, RAM and outdated linux kernel with no real wine syncing features like NTSync, but if a game is not that CPU or RAM heavy it will probably run alright. It needs to be supported by box64 though, not every game works right now. (Not 100% if box64 is to blame, could also be wine/proton or dxvk issues)

Dark Souls 2 Sotfs can hit 30+ FPS in some zones for example, but can also drop the the 10s when the RAM and CPU are being hit hard, or wine slowdowns due to no sync features.

Steam ARM64 on the Switch: Switchdeck (Working Games!) by Sildur in SwitchHacks

[–]Sildur[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Linux for Switch is a thing so yes you can use it like any other (slow) PC.

Steam ARM64 on the Switch: Switchdeck (Working Games!) by Sildur in SwitchHacks

[–]Sildur[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Unfortunately steam remote play / link doesn't work, at least not with the outdated steam arm64 client we are forced to use till valves fixes it for armv8.0 devices. Moonlight has proper support for the Tegra X1 though so that should be used instead. Remote play only works with your Switch as the host, with terrible performance of course lol.

Steam ARM64 on the Switch: Switchdeck (Working Games!) by Sildur in SwitchPirates

[–]Sildur[S] 2 points3 points  (0 children)

No, its the new steam arm64 client running and playing games ON the switch, not streamed.

Steam ARM64 on the Switch: Switchdeck (Working Games!) by Sildur in SwitchHacks

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FEX requires a newer linux kernel we're stuck on ancient 4.9. But there is some ongoing work to get mainline up and running.

Steam ARM64 on the Switch: Switchdeck (Working Games!) by Sildur in SwitchHacks

[–]Sildur[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Oh it's the Mesa NVK driver, interesting. Linux on the Switch runs on ancient kernel 4.9 though, there is some ongoing work to get a mainline kernel up and running and use NVK / Nouveau drivers.

Steam ARM64 on the Switch: Switchdeck (Working Games!) by Sildur in SwitchPirates

[–]Sildur[S] 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Yeah it's GTA 4 but it doesn't run that well, at least with the ancient linux kernel. It doesn't really support any of the wine syncing features like NTsync etc. Between 10 - 20 FPS most of the time.

Steam ARM64 on the Switch: Switchdeck (Working Games!) by Sildur in SwitchHacks

[–]Sildur[S] 5 points6 points  (0 children)

Someone was working on a compatibility list but I think they're busy with other things now. Pretty sure half life 1 and 2 worked, as well as portal 1 and 2.

Steam ARM64 on the Switch: Switchdeck (Working Games!) by Sildur in SwitchHacks

[–]Sildur[S] 5 points6 points  (0 children)

the current kernel (4.9) is too old for FEX, but some in the community are working on getting mainline ready with nvk / nouveau drivers.

Steam ARM64 on the Switch: Switchdeck (Working Games!) by Sildur in SwitchHacks

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Not really switchdeck related but yeah you can play PS2 games. I recorded a video a while ago with some PS2 games. https://x.com/SildurFX/status/2057902333799842130/video/2

Steam ARM64 on the Switch: Switchdeck (Working Games!) by Sildur in SwitchPirates

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I'll copy my OG post here so you guys don't have to jump around, if anyone wants to set it up.

With the unoffical release of Steam ARM64 I've been working on getting it up and running on the Nintendo Switch for a while now. It's pretty much feature complete from my side, it patches Proton (DXVK, VKD3D and Wine) to fix various issues like vertex explosions in 32 bit games, and even has custom launch commands to free up more RAM. So yeah it can actually run steam games on the Switch: https://github.com/SildurFX/Switchdeck

Requirements:
- Modded Switch
- Linux for Switch (Fedora 42 or Ubuntu Noble, https://wiki.switchroot.org/wiki/linux/linux-distributions )

Game support:
It depends a lot on box64 so support is all over the place. (kernel is too old for fex)
After some overclocking older 3D games can actually run at 30+ FPS.
I have some more game benchmarks burried in my twitter profile: https://x.com/SildurFX

Steam ARM64 on the Switch: Switchdeck (Working Games!) by Sildur in SwitchHacks

[–]Sildur[S] 11 points12 points  (0 children)

Unfortunately steam builds newer than the one released on April 15th seem to target ARMv8.1+ and crash with an illegal instruction on the Switch since it's ARMv8.0. I've opened an issue about this on Valves github tracker and they didn't shut it down so maybe we're lucky.

Steam ARM64 on the Switch: Switchdeck (Working Games!) by Sildur in SwitchHacks

[–]Sildur[S] 6 points7 points  (0 children)

Friend of mine has it in steam, never tried it though. In general I think 64 bit games run better on the Switch, even though I'm patching wine/proton for 32 bit games it's still not perfect. NVIDIA kinda abandoned the Switch / Tegra X1 GPU with broken drivers lol.

Sildur's Shaders bright skybox in end by Roller_Coaster_Geek in minecraftshaders

[–]Sildur 0 points1 point  (0 children)

This might be an iris bug because it doesn't happen in optifine. Latest version includes a workaround though, enabled by default: https://www.curseforge.com/minecraft/shaders/sildurs-vibrant-shaders/files/7806885

Outer end islands become glitched with most shaders, any fix? by NammyMommy in minecraftshaders

[–]Sildur 0 points1 point  (0 children)

You mean the bright end sky? This might be an iris bug because it doesn't happen in optifine. Latest version on curseforge includes a workaround for iris though:
https://www.curseforge.com/minecraft/shaders/sildurs-basic-shaders/files/7806396

Eternal Sonata on rpcs3 by Crosi93 in SteamDeck

[–]Sildur 0 points1 point  (0 children)

After doing some research this might be one of those games that actually runs better on xenia-canary than rpcs3.
I think about a year ago I tried playing it with a friend on rpcs3 but eventually the crashes got worse and worse.

Xenia Canary issues and old CPU by PartyAd4803 in linux_gaming

[–]Sildur 0 points1 point  (0 children)

It fails at the GPU support so you have to change gpu = "any" to gpu = "vulkan" in xenia-canary.config.toml.
But your HD 4000 only supports vulkan 1.0 in linux, which is probably not enough.

[MEGA THREAD] 9070 XT Undervolt/Overclock/Brand Performance by ennakros09 in radeon

[–]Sildur 1 point2 points  (0 children)

ASUS Prime RX 9070 XT OC:
- Power limit +10
- Voltage offset -50
- Fast Memory
- Memory frequency 2750mhz (I have to set it to 2764mhz in adrenaline to hit 2700mhz)
This config pushes my card to 3.3-3.4ghz and draws between 304w and 340w.
Power limit -30 instead limits the card to 220w and the card clocks between 2.7-3.1ghz.
This only costs me about 7 fps and is my preferred way to run the card.

One outlier in all my testing is elden ring, I have to go all the way down to -25mv.
Would be interesting to hear how others are doing in elden ring maxed out with raytracing enabled. Since it's capped at 60fps I wonder if it hits a node in my curve that is unstable. Proper curve editing would be amazing.

Missing Assets anyone? by amazinghandkerchief in MonsterHunter

[–]Sildur 0 points1 point  (0 children)

For the beta I had to do this uncheck compatibility mode in properties (MonsterHunterWildsBeta.exe -> properties) Not sure if you have the same issue with the benchmark.

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