The remake of The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time, released on November 5, 2026 as a Nintendo Switch 2 exclusive, already runs on PC. Within hours of launch, modders booted the game on Lichii, an experimental Switch 2 emulator — and a day later, tests already report 60 frames per second in parts of the game.
The news is confirmed by footage and several specialist outlets, but performance figures are user reports and vary with hardware and emulator build. This is not an official PC release: the game remains a Switch 2 exclusive.
From 15–30 fps to 60 fps in a day
In the first hours, the remake ran at 15–30 fps on Lichii, with severe visual glitches and stuttering, according to TweakTown. A video from X user AZRage showed the game loading, reaching the menu and entering the map, with the emulator's fps counter visible on screen.
A day later, the picture changed: DSOGaming, cited by WCCFTech, reported that Lichii fixed most visual issues in a single day, with the opening area and the Great Deku Tree sequence running at 60 fps. One X user went further, describing the latest build as stable 4K at 60 fps — an isolated report, not a broad benchmark.
How the test ran
According to Pro Gamer, the leap came with Lichii Build 75, which fixed rendering faults and translated around 80 previously unsupported shaders. In a test by the Finn Benchmarks channel, the game held 60 fps with a 16.69 ms frame time inside the Great Deku Tree dungeon, on a PC with an AMD Ryzen 7 9800X3D processor and an NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5080 graphics card, with 64 GB of DDR5 memory.
Other tests recorded worse results: VideoCardz reported 20–60 fps, with graphical glitches and stutters, on a system with a Ryzen 7 9800X3D and an RTX 4080. Even in the best cases, the experience is still experimental.
Eglantine and the native-port efforts
Lichii is a fork of Eglantine, another experimental Switch 2 emulator, which also received Ocarina of Time-specific branches in recent days — including blackscreen fixes and performance optimization work, according to WCCFTech.
In parallel, efforts are underway to bring the game to PC without emulation: an X user says preliminary recompilation work has begun, and a Reddit user built a native port that, for now, only plays the introduction before crashing.
Context
Switch 2 emulation has moved fast in recent weeks: before the remake launched, modders had already run Mario Kart World and Donkey Kong Bananza on PC emulators, as Geekiki previously reported. The Ocarina of Time remake is the latest milestone in that race — and a stress test for the console's exclusivity. Also read our story on the remake's Switch 2 launch: The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time arrives on Switch 2 with reworked visuals and voice acting.
Image credit: official artwork of the remake, released by Nintendo and reproduced by TweakTown.
Sources
- TweakTown — Zelda: Ocarina of Time remake emulated on PC just hours after launch
- TechSpot — Zelda: Ocarina of Time remake launches to day-one PC emulation
- WCCFTech — Zelda: Ocarina of Time Remake Now Runs at 60 FPS on PC Emulators
- GamingBible — Zelda: Ocarina of Time remake already running on PC
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