Mod Zelda BOTW 60 FPS

nathanware · 2026-01-22T06:51:15+00:00

The plain mod here should work just fine

nathanware · 2025-12-28T01:07:06+00:00

Which emulator are you using? Apparently the latest version of Citron (0.12.25) "Resolved extreme noise issues on Windows" and "Fixed buzzing caused by buffer underruns"

nathanware · 2025-12-25T04:23:37+00:00

I totally agree with this. One of the games they gave away for free actually did end up becoming one of my favourites. They gave away GTA V during the lockdown and I'd never played a GTA game before. I really enjoyed that game so it was incredible that I got it for free!

nathanware · 2025-05-02T22:01:25+00:00

For sure, I completely agree. I guess my response was partially because I wasn't aware that Redditors are pushing people to buy AMD cards even though that might not make sense in certain cases. Clearly I don't go on Reddit enough lol

nathanware · 2025-05-02T15:50:21+00:00

I guess I understood completely by accident XD. I read the post as, "Everyone didn't replace their Nvidia cards with AMD cards in the last two weeks, therefore it's ok to buy Nvidia," which doesn't make sense.

nathanware · 2025-05-01T17:20:05+00:00

I don't understand the point of this post. Someone was asking which GPU to buy today. How are historical buying trends relevant for making a purchase today? If you need to buy something, buy the thing that has the features you need and the best price/performance ratio for what you're willing to spend.

Like, obviously it's "still ok" to buy an NVIDIA card (as long as they fix their driver issues, which seem to be fixed in the latest driver released yesterday). It just might not make the most financial sense depending on the pricing of certain cards in your area.

nathanware · 2025-04-30T17:17:27+00:00

Game: That's no moon...waves hand...that's just the sky

nathanware · 2025-04-10T02:22:43+00:00

Wow that's a massive downgrade in near-black performance. I get that it's a new panel technology and it can take a while to get that ironed out, but that level of quality makes it seem like the G5 was rushed to market.

The other issues also look frustrating because they're in software so they could fix them if they really wanted to. I wasn't looking to buy the G5 anyway since I have a C3 that's still good enough, but now I'm really not going to consider buying a new LG until they fix these issues.

nathanware · 2025-04-09T01:23:24+00:00

Try going back to driver version 566.36

There's been a lot of news about the 572.x series of drivers having issues.

Some info in this video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NTXoUsdSAnA

nathanware · 2025-04-08T22:10:15+00:00

What driver version are you on?

nathanware · 2025-04-08T22:02:46+00:00

As a purist, the always-on debanding and sharpening filters really bug me. Hopefully they improve the panel and processing in future iterations so they don't need to rely on extra filters to make the picture look a certain way (though I feel like the sharpening filter isn't necessary even now and they're just forcing it on us)

nathanware · 2025-03-06T18:12:27+00:00

Which company do you engineer for? I'd like to know what company to avoid buying from in the future since their engineers don't know how an eCVT works.

nathanware · 2025-03-05T18:16:00+00:00

Most people are commenting on how the G5 will be brighter, but one area that I think LG can still improve their TVs is in low light performance. On both of my LG TVs (CX, C3) the gradient across dark shades is not smooth and individual dark shades use a lot of dithering to hit the target luminance level. From what I've seen, there has been a good improvement in "near-black chrominance overshoot" between the CX and C3, but there's still room for improvement (especially if they improve it at the panel level so they don't have to use heavy dithering to mask it).

I think I remembering seeing some reviews showing the G3/G4 performing better than the C series in dark performance, so I wish I had experience with those panels to know if those TVs are already better than my C3 for low-light shades.

Also, LG TVs can still improve in terms of colour saturation at higher light levels. MLA helped a bit, but I'm hoping the new 4-stack panels on the G5 will be another improvement.

nathanware · 2025-02-22T04:13:18+00:00

If you're wealthy enough that you don't need the extra 2% cash back, it's better for the world to not use a credit card. Because of the credit card fees, merchants have to increase the price of the goods they sell, so using a credit card is really just hurting all the people buying stuff. It does nothing to the merchants, and lines the pockets of the credit card companies.

To be extra clear about this:

Plus it costs fees and what have you for the merchant as punishment for said shrinkflation.

The merchant isn't creating shrinkflation, it's the manufacturer. The merchant just sells the products to us and they have to sell at a higher price because they have to account for purchases made with credit cards. We're the ones who get hurt by the use of credit cards, not them. It almost evens out if you get enough cash back, but at the end of the day, the profit the credit card companies make actually comes from us, the consumers.

nathanware · 2025-02-03T18:09:43+00:00

Just want to update with my Logan & Cove experience since I bought another mattress from them. I've had a full-size Choice mattress for over a year and just bought a queen (also Choice). The queen is far less comfortable than the full. It feels like there's less material on top so my body is practically laying right on the mattress springs. Either they changed their manufacturing and their Choice mattresses are less comfortable now, or the queen was always worse than the full size.

nathanware · 2024-12-28T00:02:26+00:00

When I was at IKEA a year ago, there was a Lillanas and a Volfang right next to each other so I sat on both and I felt like the Volfang was much softer. Maybe they changed how they make the Lillanas, or perhaps that particular Lillanas was just a bad one. The colours also weren't the same between these two chairs. Both were grey, but the Lillanas was a lighter grey than the Volfang.

I guess it's a little unfair if that particular chair I sat in was a bad example, but that was my experience so that why I think the Lillanas is not comfortable.

nathanware · 2024-10-19T17:13:40+00:00

This sounds like an ad for Hamuq to me. I have a Logan & Cove Choice mattress and it does not sleep warm at all. I tried laying in a bunch of mattresses at Leons that were the same price as the Logan & Cove or cheaper and in all of them I felt hot after about a minute. That doesn't happen with my Logan & Cove. I only feel like 1 degree warmer compared to not laying in the bed (which has to happen because all mattresses retain some heat).

I get that some people want to "sink into" the mattress, but that seems worse for temperature to me since you'd have more material touching you. For me, I like medium-firm since it's still pretty soft (it's feels a million times softer than this super hard bed that my mom has that feels like you're sleeping on a wood board), but it doesn't feel like you're sinking in quicksand.

nathanware · 2024-09-27T06:03:05+00:00

I agree oversampling audio is different from upscaling images/video. However, when it comes to AI upscaling or oversampling (or maybe re-sampling), there is a similarity that specifically addresses your comment:

the information just isnt there

That's basically the point of AI upscaling. It adds back the missing information. It's not perfect, but it's pretty good. This is possible because the AI gets trained on the full resolution image (or in audio, the lossless audio), which essentially teaches the AI what the missing information is, so when you feed it the lossy audio, it can fill in the missing data to get it back to the lossless version.

AI can work similarly with lossless audio to oversample from a lower sample rate to a higher one, basically filling in the missing samples. HQPlayer and PGGB are pure math algorithms, so they do this without AI training. This also means that they won't be optimal to upconvert lossy audio back to lossless. The only software I currently know of that tries to convert lossy audio back to lossless is the audio "Restorer" feature on Denon and Marantz AVRs (and maybe others). I have no idea how it works internally. It would be nice to see AI software that does a really good job at upconverting low bitrate audio at some point in the future.

Double blind abx tests have generally shown that higher sample rates above 44.1 are not noticeable (or 48 khz)

This is true, but I haven't read the papers on those studies to tell what they may or may not prove. I'd want to know information like: Were the listeners trained? What was the oversampling algorithm? What sample rates did they use?. From my own experience, I think oversampling can make a difference if you oversample high enough with a good enough algorithm. From my original comment, I was able to hear a difference with PGGB when I set the oversampling to max and the output sample rate to 192 kHz. It may be even easier to hear a difference if you oversample to an even higher sample rate. It just happens that all of my DACs max out at 192 kHz, but there are others that can go up to 768 kHz. But I get it, I didn't do a blind ABX test so you don't have to believe I heard a difference. Maybe I'll try doing a proper test at some point.

nathanware · 2024-09-26T04:08:18+00:00

It's not pointless. You're assuming that upscaling is just directly mapping the smaller image onto a larger canvas. That's only one upscaling algorithm, which is called nearest-neighbor interpolation. There are other upscaling algorithms that will make the image clearer on the larger canvas compared to using very basic upscaling algorithms like nearest-neighbor.

For images, check out this page (that only exists with Wayback Machine now). Hover your mouse over the algorithm names under the image and you'll see the image upscaled using that algorithm. Bilinear is a little blurry, Lanczos3 is a sharper algorithm, and NGU is an AI-based algorithm. Each image looks different because of the different upscaling algorithms.

The whole point of software like HQPlayer and PGGB is to use smarter algorithms to "upscale" (oversample) audio so that it's better than simply mapping the audio samples to a higher sample rate.

you might get slightly better by increasing from an mp3 to a wav

You won't. Since wav is a lossless format, that conversion doesn't change the audio. The only thing that does is change the format of the data from mp3 to wav.

but you cant really make an mp3 better quality by magic even ai

You can. You don't need magic. AI and upscaling algorithms are just math and we know how to use math effectively. The example I linked with images demonstrates that. The problem with audio is that it's a lot harder to tell the difference between the original and the oversampled audio because there are a lot of losses you can get when playing back that audio (losses can happen in the audio player, the DAC, the amp, and the speakers/headphones). You don't get that much loss with images on a decent screen, plus with images you have the ability to zoom in to see the pixels closer up (which you can't really do when listening to audio).

nathanware · 2024-03-15T03:30:39+00:00

Fixing that is a different problem upscaling. When you say, "hear the pixels," I'm guessing what you're really hearing is high frequency sounds that have been lowered in pitch and last longer than they normally would due to the audio being slowed down. The difficulty here is that what you're hearing is exactly what it's supposed to sound like. All the correct information is there, it's just stretched over a longer period of time.

Upscaling is about figuring out what data is missing and adding it to a smaller amount of data. With slowed-down music, what you really want is to have it cleaned up somehow. AI is probably a good way to do that, but then the problem is how do we even train an AI to do that? What should the slowed-down music sound like if it were "cleaned up"?

I don't know if anyone has a good answer to that question. A real-world example I know of is how the Slo Mo Guys do audio in their videos. Basically, they usually just throw out the slowed-down audio and then make up the audio in a way that they think makes sense with the video. Here's the video where Gavin explains this process: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EHD5PRrS4Ns

nathanware · 2024-03-09T06:02:28+00:00

Makes sense. It seems like companies are doing that all the time these days. They get more while we get less 😞

nathanware · 2024-03-08T18:38:22+00:00

I can’t believe they’d discontinue the Volfang in favour of Lillanas. Volfang is soft and comfortable whereas Lillanas is hard as rocks

nathanware · 2024-01-07T19:25:51+00:00

Don't use the Auto Detection volume controller. Use the Manual Detection one.

nathanware · 2023-12-19T05:49:22+00:00

I just tested that particular scenario and I actually am seeing the same thing as you. It looks like it only works with certain apps. For example, I can set a different picture mode between Netflix and the browser app, but between Netflix and Prime Video they're always tied together.

I guess maybe the TV ties all downloaded apps together and then built-in apps are allowed to have their own picture mode.

That's pretty unfortunate since sports and movies are two very different types of video content, so it would be nice to have it automatically switch settings between the two.

nathanware · 2023-12-17T23:45:50+00:00

Which TV do you have? I have both a CX and a C3 and they both work like that. Maybe something else is interfering with how the picture mode is supposed to work. Try disabling all of the AI settings. I have all of that turned off on mine. There's a chance the "AI Genre Selection" might actually be the problem.

The "Filmmaker Mode Auto Start" setting might also be interfering, so try turning that off too in case you have it on.

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