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The Legend of Zelda: Link's Awakening
Summary
The Legend of Zelda: Link’s Awakening is playable. Performance may struggle in demanding areas.
Issues
- Using
OpenGL:- Tall grass and tree models have black flickering
- Depth of field (aka blurriness) is incorrectly rendered, causing the whole screen to appear blurred. This can be mitigated by using this mod patch.
- Lighting and grass shading may be incorrect.
- Water appears to not be transparent, and water surface reflections are too bright.
- Using
Vulkan:- Banding effects may occur on the terrain.
- Depending on the driver (e.g. RADV), black flickering may still occur on foliage.
- Crashes occur frequently when entering Manbo’s Pond. Switch to
OpenGLin order to bypass this problem.
- NVIDIA Turing series GPUs (GeForce 16- and 20-series, Titan RTX) may have some additional rendering issues (this note needs expansion).
Game-Specific Configuration
- Controller configuration:
Pro ControllerorDual Joycons - Typically, using the
Vulkanbackend will render far better thanOpenGL.
Screenshots
{image credits: Gidoly}
Known Issues
| Title | Created | Last Updated |
|---|---|---|
| DisconnectNpad getting called due to AcquireNpadStyleSetUpdateEventHandle | September 24, 2019 | August 27, 2020 |
| Unimplement ioctl on Link's Awakening | October 19, 2019 | November 22, 2019 |
Compatibility
| Build Date | Tested By | Hardware | Version | Rating |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 12/8/2021 | on 12/11/2021 | AMD Ryzen 5 2600 Six-Core Processor NVIDIA GeForce GT 710 Windows |
Mainline Build 2361cd8 |
Great
|
| 01/12/2022 | JustMob on 01/16/2022 | Intel(R) Core(TM) i7-8750H CPU @ 2.20GHz NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 with Max-Q Design Windows |
EarlyAccess Build b79fc85 |
Great
|
| 01/5/2022 | on 01/07/2022 | AMD Ryzen 5 2600 Six-Core Processor NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1050 Ti Windows |
Mainline Build 4377128 |
Great
|
| 12/8/2021 | on 12/11/2021 | AMD Ryzen 5 2600 Six-Core Processor NVIDIA GeForce GT 710 Windows |
Mainline Build 2361cd8 |
Great
|
| 12/8/2021 | on 12/11/2021 | AMD Ryzen 5 2600 Six-Core Processor NVIDIA GeForce GT 710 Windows |
Mainline Build 2361cd8 |
Great
|
| 11/15/2021 | on 11/17/2021 | Intel(R) Xeon(R) CPU E3-1231 v3 @ 3.40GHz NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 6GB Windows |
EarlyAccess Build 49af7e4 |
Great
|
| 12/31/2021 | PAtricio_Wenkulleo on 01/15/2022 | AMD Ryzen 3 3100 4-Core Processor Radeon RX 570 Series Windows |
Mainline Build 6591103 |
Okay
|
| 12/8/2021 | on 12/11/2021 | AMD Ryzen 5 2600 Six-Core Processor NVIDIA GeForce GT 710 Windows |
Mainline Build 2361cd8 |
Great
|
| 01/12/2022 | consistent60 on 01/14/2022 | AMD Ryzen 7 5800X 8-Core Processor AMD Radeon RX 6900 XT Windows |
Mainline Build a482e35 |
Great
|
| 01/17/2022 | on 01/17/2022 | AMD Ryzen 3 3100 4-Core Processor Radeon RX 580 Series Windows |
Mainline Build c5647b8 |
Great
|
Game Mods
See our game modding article on how to apply patches.| Name | Description |
|---|---|
| ZLA_Noblur_Mod.zip | Disables blur and depth of field. |
Savefiles
| Name | Description |
|---|---|
| Skip Intro | Skips the intro softlock. |
Screenshots
Compatibility
Great
Game functions with minor graphical or audio glitches and is playable from start to finish. May require some workarounds.
Release(s)
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