Fan Powers ‘The Legend of Zelda: Breath Of The Wild’ To Look 4K Resolution Using Nvidia 1080Ti GPU

A fan of the newly released “The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild” found the Nintendo switch’s 720p resolution unimpressive. The gamer experimented by using the GTX 1080 Ti GPU of Nvidia to power the game on PC and show how it looks like in 4K resolution. The fan then shared the screenshot on Reddit.

Impressive & Sharp Game

Geeksultd reports that with the 4K resolution, “The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild” looks impressive and sharp. The fan just showed what Nintendo could achieve if it made the Nintendo Switch more powerful and run it at 1080p natively. However, present specs only run the game at 720p, which Ars Technica calls bare bones HD resolution, although it could run in 900p by using the console’s dock mode.

The website notes that the Wii U version of “The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild” is technically running on CEMU after the game’s release in early March. However, with the release of the software patch, version 1.7.4c of the emulator on Monday to Patreon backers and to the public on April 9, the fix would address a lot of issues. These are outstanding and gameplay issues that prevent the game from being fully playable through emulation.

Resetting Game’s Internal Resolution

The emulated version of “The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild” allows gamers to reset the game’s internal resolution up to a full 4K 3840 x 2160 pixels at a steady 30 frames per second. But it would require a beefy PC and some community-made graphics packs which resample the low-res textures of the game to look acceptable when it is blown up to higher resolution.

YouTube channel YamGaming tweaked CEMU’s settings and shared a cleaner-looking version of “The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild,” still considered one of the best games of 2017 despite the last-gen system of the Wii U and what many considered a glorified handheld console, the Nintendo Switch, Venturebeat reports.