Best Performance Settings for YUZU Switch Emulator 2023

In this video, we show the best configuration to achieve the best performance from your Yuzu Switch Emulator and how to do it.

0:00 Intro
0:17 Yuzu - Use the latest official release
0:51 Yuzu - Configuration Screen
1:11 Yuzu - Set CPU Accuracy to Auto
1:21 Yuzu - Set Graphics API to Vulkan
1:57 Yuzu - Disable Asynchronous Shader Builder
2:12 Yuzu - Experiment with Force Maximum Clocks
2:35 Yuzu - Default Audio and Controllers Config
2:46 Yuzu - Feeling Slow? Try Handheld Mode
3:18 Yuzu - Feeling Slow? Try Downscaling Resolution
3:35 Yuzu - Have a Fast PC? Try Upscaling Resolution and SMAA Antialiasing
4:05 Yuzu - Have a Fast PC? Try Unlocking the Framerate Limiter
4:38 Yuzu - Update your Games
4:52 Windows - Set Static Swap File / Page File
6:32 Windows - Update your Video Drivers to These
7:16 Windows - Create Custom NVIDIA 3D Profile

Latest Nvidia Drivers can be found here:

Latest Radeon Drivers can be found here:

Latest Intel DCH Drivers can be found here:

List of games that support the CTRL-U method of unlocking unlimited framerates can be found here courtesy of Law022:

[fatyoshi]

Tip: if ctrl+u makes the game run too fast, go to the general tab of the configuration menu in yuzu, and select limit speed percent. Then, set it too a high number like 1000%, which will make the game run at higher frame rates than 60 without speeding up the game

[DrDouche]

thanks! this helped me out a lot! my game works flawlessly now!

[nelaepowt]

Thank you so much! A guide I watched said that OpenGL is better, but I get constant stutters. Switching to Vulkan solved it.

[Fuzzy_Bricks]

Thanks so much before my games fps was 30 and some games were half speed and now it's 60 and not half speed!

[Snapshot-kdbg]

Really good and Informative Viedo, but one thing bothers me.
Why Should V-Sync be on in Yuzu itself, but Deactivated in the Nvidia ControllPanel, is there a Reason?

[Godfreed_]

I appreciate your video, thank you~ Great tutorial!

[zedetach]

Are there any cpu improvements with vulkan over opengl?

[RazielDark]

Is this dubbed by an ia?? it's really good!

[rabidwallaby]

So...change one thing...real helpful, Tips.

[Bangflintt]

Thank you for this thorough and well put together guide

[nightadmin]

I don't know why but after RTX40xx launched and newer Nvidia driver. Both OpenGL and Vulkan sucked so hard and wreck almost all games even that game is perfectly playable before.
Only thing that can help is to go into GPU setting and turn Thread Optimization on, Low Latency on or ultra, Triple buffer on

[WilliamDunn]

Why not use Extended Memory Layout when you have 6+ GB of DRAM like your GTX 3070?

[agungchen]

i tried all your settings and yes giving better performance but it becomes more often to make the game stucked (videos sound all ok but the game didn't budging)

[Fuchsfeuer]

what can you do if the game doesn't start?
I'm on the loading screen where it says Start... and nothing happens.

[bigboyanimation]

Hellow i have question i installed lightseekers in this emulator but when i open the game it give me unable to connect to network try again do you know if that game is only online or we can play it offline and how to play it offline?

[ratchet]

I have a laptop with an integrated Intel Iris xe and a dedicated rtx3050ti, but in yuzu when selecting Vulkan i can only choose the Intel iris from the dropdown list. Do you have a suggestion on how to fix this ?

[knightslayertsorig]

Hi, thanks for this it is very helpful. Can you do Ryujinx version of this video pls ?

[cube_]

6:30
win11 became win10 after restart

[santzel]

I've been playing Fire Emblem Three House on yuzu with vulkan setting because my graphic card is Amd Rx580, but after battle animation with Mage thunder skill the game crashed with shadder loading after restart the emulator cannot launch the game and must remove pipeline and can playing the game again but the game still crash after mage unit using thunder animation

[AngelGel]

I got a 4090 Ryzen 9 7950x and Im getting pretty bad performance, 15 fps in games like Bayonetta 3