UltraTears

UltraTears 0.2.0 builds a native PC version of Tears of the Kingdom 1.4.3 from your own dumped copy, on your PC. No game files, keys or Nintendo code are included.

• A launcher instead of the console: choose your game folder, click Prepare the game, then Play. Settings, updates and a full rebuild are in the same window.
• Steam Deck and Linux (experimental): a native build, made on the Deck from the AppImage or on your Windows PC. Starts from Steam in Gaming Mode.
• 60 fps at the proper game speed, with even frame pacing (up to 240 as a beta).
• Any resolution and screen shape, FSR 1 scene scaling and sharpening, an FPS counter.
• No shader stutter: every shader is compiled for your graphics card while the game is prepared.
• AMD: the black screen on Windows is fixed; a possible fix for flickering fog.
• The Depths draw properly on Windows, and the crash after the bats at the start of the game is fixed.
• Faster texture loading, less memory, smaller downloads, CPUs without AVX2 supported.

Updating from 0.1.0: extract the new zip over your old folder (saves stay) and start UltraTears Launcher.exe.

Known issues: on the Steam Deck the Depths’ ground is missing and the frame rate drops in busy places; some cloth tears; the mouse does not move the camera yet.

Downloads

Follow the README to install.

Full list of changes

The launcher (new)

• UltraTears Launcher.exe replaces setup.bat and the console window. Choose the folder with your exefs and romfs (or drop it onto the window) and the launcher checks right away that it is version 1.4.3, and says why if it is not. One click prepares the game: an overall progress bar, every step with the time it took and the time left, a hardware check before the long part, and on an error a button that opens the log. Then: Play.
• If the build stops or the PC turns off, Continue preparing picks up where it stopped. The game can be installed into another folder than the one you extracted.
• Updates: once a day the launcher checks for a new release and offers it. It downloads it, verifies its size and SHA-256, puts it in place (your data and saves stay) and rebuilds only what changed. updates=off in ultratears-launcher.ini turns this off.
• Game settings on the Play screen: window mode, resolution, scene scale, sharpness, frame limit, V-Sync and the FPS counter. A Language tab for the launcher and the game’s text, and a Debug tab: Debug mode for performance reports, F9 snapshots, GPU markers for crash reports, and a full rebuild.
• English and Russian, scaled to the screen (larger on a Steam Deck), usable with a controller.
• A new icon for the game and the launcher: the emblem from the cover.
• Windows SmartScreen may warn about the launcher because it is not signed: More info → Run anyway.

Steam Deck and Linux (new, experimental)

• A native Linux build (not Proton), two ways to the same game folder:
  • on your Windows PC: choose For Linux (Steam Deck) or Both platforms in the launcher. You get UltraTears-SteamDeck.tar (~27 GB) to copy to the Deck and extract;
  • on the Deck itself: download the AppImage, allow it to run, start it and prepare the game there.
• One program: UltraTears.AppImage in the game folder opens the launcher; with --play in Steam’s launch options it starts the game directly. It starts from Steam in Gaming Mode (a patched AppImage runtime: under Steam it could not find fusermount and quit at once).
• Graphics prepared for the Deck’s own GPU: the first Play on the Deck compiles every shader with its driver (about 2 minutes, with a progress bar, once), so the game itself has no shader stalls.

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