Yuzu

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Yuzu

Developers
	Team Yuzu
Release dates
Windows	January 14, 2018

Yuzu is a emulator for Nintendo Switch developed by Team Yuzu

Key points

Open-source and is curently in active development.

Progress is very fast and can run some commercial games very well (depending on your setup).

General information

yuzu Website

yuzu Compatibility List

Availability

Source	DRM	Notes	Keys	OS
Official website

Updates are locked to Patreon donors for about a week until it's released to the public. There is an Unofficial build that provides Yuzu Early Access releases.

macOS is no longer supported due to Apple deprecating OpenGL and their current version not supporting the OpenGL extensions required.

Game data

By default Yuzu uses AppData for config and Save data. The Config and Save data locations below referring to "path-to-game" are the directories for a portable install, this can be achieved by creating a "user" folder.

Configuration file(s) location

System	Location
Windows	%USERPROFILE%\AppData\Roaming\yuzu\config\ <path-to-game>\yuzu-windows-msvc\user\config\

Save game data location

System	Location
Windows	%USERPROFILE%\AppData\Roaming\yuzu\nand\user\save\0000000000000000\<user-id>\ <path-to-game>\yuzu-windows-msvc\user\nand\user\save\0000000000000000\<user-id>\

Video

Graphics feature	State	Notes
Widescreen resolution
Multi-monitor
Ultra-widescreen
4K Ultra HD		Up to 12K (12160x6480)
Field of view (FOV)
Windowed
Borderless fullscreen windowed
Anisotropic filtering (AF)		Up to 16x
Anti-aliasing (AA)		FXAA only
Vertical sync (Vsync)
60 FPS		Via mods
120+ FPS		Via mods
High dynamic range display (HDR)		See the glossary page for potential alternatives.

Supports FidelityFX Super Resolution.

Input

Keyboard and mouse	State	Notes
Remapping
Mouse acceleration
Mouse sensitivity
Mouse input in menus
Mouse Y-axis inversion
Controller
Controller support
Full controller support
Controller remapping
Controller sensitivity
Controller Y-axis inversion

Controller types

XInput-compatible controllers
Xbox button prompts		Via mods
Impulse Trigger vibration

Tracked motion controllers		Native for Joy Cons and Pro Controller. Workaround for other input devices.
Button/gesture prompts

Generic/other controllers
Button prompts

Additional information
Controller hotplugging
Haptic feedback
Digital movement supported
Simultaneous controller+KB/M		Up to 8 Input Devices

Audio

Audio feature	State	Notes
Separate volume controls
Surround sound
Subtitles
Closed captions
Mute on focus lost

Localizations

Language	UI	Audio	Sub	Notes
English
Italian
Polish

Other information

API

Technical specs	Supported	Notes
OpenGL	4.6
Vulkan	1.2

Executable	32-bit	64-bit	Notes
Windows

System requirements

Windows
	Minimum	Recommended
Operating system (OS)	7	10 1803 or newer
Processor (CPU)	Intel Core i5-4430 AMD Ryzen 3 1200	Intel Core i5-10400 AMD Ryzen 5 3600
System memory (RAM)	8GB	16GB
Hard disk drive (HDD)
Video card (GPU)	GeForce GT 1030 2GB / AMD Radeon RX 550 2GB	Nvidia GeForce GTX 1650 4GB / AMD Radeon RX Vega 56 8GB

A 64-bit operating system is required.

Linux
	Minimum	Recommended
Operating system (OS)	N/A
Processor (CPU)	Intel Core i5-4430 AMD Ryzen 3 1200	Intel Core i5-10400 AMD Ryzen 5 3600
System memory (RAM)	8GB	16GB
Hard disk drive (HDD)
Video card (GPU)	Nvidia GeForce GT 1030 2GB / AMD Radeon R7 240 2GB	Nvidia GeForce GTX 1650 4GB / AMD Radeon RX Vega 56 8GB

A 64-bit operating system is required.

CPUs lacking the FMA instruction set will produce very poor results (unless option Unfuse FMA will be set). Intel Core gen 3 series or older, AMD phenom II or older and all Pentium/Celeron/Atom CPUs will not produce optimal results.