TotK Recomp turns Tears of the Kingdom into a native program for Windows and Linux
The open source project recompiles the Switch game to x86-64 with Vulkan rendering, starting from your own copy. It's playable, with visual bugs and crashes still expected, and has reached version 0.3.13.
Built on your own machine
TotK Recomp is a static recompilation of The Legend of Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom for Windows and Linux, with a Vulkan renderer and no emulator involved. valentderah's MIT-licensed repository opened in late October and shipped version 0.3.13 on November 7, after a dozen releases going back to 0.1.1 on October 29.
No game files are included. You supply your own legally obtained copy, dumped from your console, with the base game and the 1.1.0, 1.2.1 or 1.4.3 update, and the repository says it won't explain how to get those files. The setup builds the game on your machine from them, so the result contains the game, and the author says it must not be shared.
What the port offers
It runs at 60 fps by default, with up to 144 fps or your monitor's refresh rate as an experimental option. Custom resolutions, supersampling, FSR 1, DLSS and DLAA on RTX cards and HDR10 are all there. So are 16:10, 3:2, 21:9 and 32:9 screens, with the camera and interface adjusted to fit. Shaders are prepared during installation so they aren't generated while you play.
Mods made for emulators go in a mods folder next to the executable and can be ordered from the in-game menu. Version 0.3.13 keeps an optional setting for AMD GPUs, vk_recorder = 1 in totk.ini, and the author is asking for results.
Windows requirements
Windows 10 or later, an x86-64 CPU with SSE4.2, a GPU with Vulkan 1.3 and the VK_EXT_external_memory_host extension, and about 36 GB free during setup, dropping to 20 GB afterwards. SmartScreen may complain because the installer is unsigned.
Other repositories with similar names are circulating. Only download from the project listed in the sources, and don't share your installed folder.
The README describes it as early development. It's an unofficial project with no connection to Nintendo.
