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Captain_Yuri said:

Yuzu progress report has some interesting notes which could be important if you want to play switch games on PC as the shader compilation stutter is essentially non existent ever since their async update so it's a really good way to play switch games.

https://yuzu-emu.org/entry/yuzu-progress-report-jan-2023/

"NVIDIA, forgetting about their old cards.

We previously mentioned that the 527.XX release of drivers solved issues we previously had with Pascal and newer cards. While this was true for most issues, Pascal is still hitting some of the old problems, like crashes with ASTC texture decoding enabled. We recommend Pascal users to either disable ASTC texture decoding, or revert back to 512.95 drivers. We hope NVIDIA backports the fixes Turing and newer cards got to the old guard too.

AMD, custom drivers are not good

The recently released RX 7000 series, or RDNA3, are not particularly compatible with emulators right now, with yuzu not being an exception. Broken rendering and crashes were reported by early adopters.

Sadly, we can’t focus on these products while they run a custom driver branch. Until AMD merges the RDNA3 driver with the regular Polaris to RDNA2 one we’re all used to, it’s impossible to focus efforts on trying to solve any particular issues of this new release. Sorry early adopters, you will have to wait.

Having access to hardware that doesn’t cost NVIDIA-stupid levels would also help. AMD, please don’t take a year to release the mid and low end.

Now, regarding unofficial custom drivers, we received reports that Amermine Zone drivers break rendering in many games. Regular drivers are perfectly fine, so just stick to official AMD releases."

They also have an essay regarding Intel GPU but we all know those drivers are far from perfect even in pc games. It is interesting that RDNA 3 is on a custom driver branch but it does make sense. Perhaps that is why the older Radeon products have such delayed updates. Hopefully and assuming it's possible, they will unify them. It's also lame that Nvidia isn't taking care of Pascal cards the way they are taking care of RTX cards but I suppose emulation isn't Nvidia's top priority. There's also a lot of other interesting tid bits if you wanted to take a look.

I felt like Nvidia forgot about me, the moment they fucked me with Wolfenstein TNC "game ready" driver, and then followed up 3 times in a row to fuck me over with Supreme Commander 1-2 (two old games where their then latest drivers fucked me for playing those two games, like how do you do that?), and then eventually leave me in the dust with DLSS, and all I'm left with is shitty hairworks tech that was also forgotten about and never really refined, so I'm the one with the card that got the shitty unrefined tech, while the last two gens have seen DLSS be refined 4 times now, and newer tech coming out. 

I also feel like it's a general business practice for most corps on the planet to willingly forget what they just released a year later, be it via planned obsolesce or aiming for the bigger pie in the sky. The only ppl I know on the planet who care about what came before or what is still around today, are modders and retro gamers (restorists too).