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Nintendo Switch hacked to run Windows 11 on Arm, and it's just about as awful as you can imagine (www.tomshardware.com)

submitted 6 months ago by [email protected] to c/nintendo

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[–] [email protected] 1 points 6 months ago (1 children)

The performance is adequate for the typical Nintendo games but you can’t tell me the recent pokemon games or Zelda TodK run great, barely hitting 30fps.

I think you might know this, but a hacked Switch can be overclocked (to both safe and unsafe values) and you can pretty much fix most of the bad performing games (you can't fix ass broken games such as Batman Arkham Knight though).

So yeah, still many games will look and behave better somewhere else, but OC the Switch can lead you to good results, if you have any over there and wanna give it a try (newer models require hardmod, which sucks, but once this annoyance is sorted out, a new true era will begin for the Switch lol).

[–] [email protected] 1 points 6 months ago (1 children)

Oh yeah, since Nintendo fucked us over so much with the hardware (especially on the Oled version), just hack it to run much hotter than usual, great idea!!

[–] [email protected] 0 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago) (1 children)

Safe values will hardly make any significant temps increase, and still give you a better experience.

What is wrong with the OLED version BTW?

I have the original Switch and that thing can be hacked with a paperclip lol and after many years of usage and OC my battery and unit still performs well, according to some homebrew tools the battery is like at 90% of its lifespan, granted most of its usage is docked, but the "additional heat" is there yet.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago) (1 children)

Same old hardware, no real upgrades besides screen burn in and blacker blacks. The first switch was already outdated, about 5 years later and they give us the same tired hardware?? Bullshit cash grab imo

[–] [email protected] 0 points 6 months ago (1 children)

I agree with you in everything but in this:

screen burn in

Really bro?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago)

Oled = burn in. Its a fact of screen materials, old LCD would have no issue running twice that many hours