Revivedx/SavageWindRecomp v0.4.0-alpha.4

Savage Wind Alpha 4 (0.4.0-alpha.4)

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Alpha 4: the DLC, and much faster on discrete GPUs. Savage Wind plays The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild
1.9.0 on Windows, Linux and the Steam Deck. This release adds The Master Trials and The Champions' Ballad, keeps the
game's geometry in video memory (about +45-55 % fps on an RTX 3060), and fixes most of what players reported on Alpha
3. It's still an alpha: expect bugs, and please report what you find.

Downloads

Highlights

• Downloadable content: The Master Trials and The Champions' Ballad, from your own DLC files. Both are optional,
  set up with the game files or later.
• Faster on discrete GPUs: the game's geometry is kept in video memory instead of being read over PCIe on every
  draw. On an RTX 3060 at 1440p, 72 to 105 fps; at 1080p, 81 to 124 fps. 4-6 GB cards get it too, in chunks. The CPU
  and GPU now work in parallel, and the game copies about 13 times less constant data to the GPU every frame.
• Draw distance (Video > Draw distance: Original, Medium, High) for trees, rocks, buildings, enemies and grass.
• Colour grading (Options > Colour) with presets and LUTs, HDR10, AMD FSR 3 frame generation (Windows)
  and TAA.
• Mouse and keyboard: the game's own pointer in the menus, inventory, map, shops and dialogs; a 1:1 mouse camera;
  tilt shrines with the keyboard, a mouse drag, or both sticks on controllers without a gyro.
• Steam Deck gyro for bow aiming and motion puzzles, through SteamDeckGyroDSU.
• Import Wii U / Cemu saves from Savage Wind Configuration's new Settings > Saves tab.
• In-game console (F12): report copies your version, hardware, settings and exact place for a bug report.
• Fixes: memory no longer grows over long sessions; crashes on GTX 10-series and Intel GPUs; AMD and Intel on
  Windows back on the full Vulkan setup; cutscene freezes; arrows, cucco jumps, shield surfing, moving platforms and
  HUD text at high frame rates; ultrawide menus, map and loading screens; OBS Game Capture; and the Control Flow Guard
  crash of the game code build on recent Windows 11.

The full list is in CHANGELOG.md.

Getting started

Windows: extract the zip to a folder you can write to (not Program Files) and run savagewind.exe.
Linux: make the AppImage executable (chmod +x) and run it.

The first time it asks for your game files: pick the folder with your own extracted game (exefs/ and romfs/,
version 1.9.0) and choose Set up game files. It checks the version, recompiles the game code on your machine
(about 7 minutes on a desktop CPU, 14 on the Steam Deck) and precompiles the shaders, once. Then the game starts.
Settings are in the game's Options; Savage Wind Configuration (Windows) or the AppImage's --config opens the
configuration screen, where the DLC can also be added later.

Needs a GPU with Vulkan 1.3, a CPU with SSE4.2 (2008 or newer) and about 20 GB of free disk space.

Coming from Alpha 3: extract Alpha 4 over your Alpha 3 folder (Windows) or use the new AppImage (Linux). Your game
files, saves and settings stay; the start screen asks you to build the game code again (Set up game files) once.

Known issues

• A short stutter the first time a place or effect is seen: each new combination of shaders and drawing state is put
  together the first time it's drawn, then saved, so it fades as you play.
• Draw distance: bushes can still pop in at High.
• AMD's legacy Windows driver (RX 400/500, Vega) is slower: it copies render targets instead of using feedback loops
  (#261).
• The geometry copy in video memory is Windows-only for now.
• FSR 3 upscaling stays hidden: on today's code it costs more than it saves.

Thanks

To everyone who reported bugs and sent logs, and to the contributors whose work is in this release: @adriadam10,
@Fayberr, @Demetter, @Igorms27, @MarllonMenezes, @YmirxUwu, @Matthew-Doe, @Yiozolm, @StonedEdge, @Phosquitos,
@cfcosta, @conongnang, @Guitarband, @moronigranja, @sabeliam, @Tempus3214, @wuruoye, @Wuawydu and @fgabe (see the
CHANGELOG for who did what).

Bundled components

Savage Wind's own code is MIT. The Windows zip also bundles, under their own licenses: FFmpeg 9.0.2 built as LGPL only
(source, configured by tools/build_deps_windows.sh), SDL 3
(zlib), shaderc (Apache 2.0), libiconv (LGPL), the GCC runtime (GCC Runtime Library Exception), winpthreads, Zig
0.17.0 (MIT; LLVM: Apache 2.0 with LLVM Exceptions), the generator frozen with PyInstaller (Python, Capstone, Unicorn
GPL 2.0, python-lz4), the AMD FidelityFX SDK 1.1.4 (MIT), the Fira Sans and Noto Sans Thai fonts (SIL OFL 1.1) and
three CC0 colour LUTs. The AppImages bundle SDL3, an LGPL-only FFmpeg and shaderc built from pinned sources
(tools/linux/build_deps.sh), Zig and the frozen generator; glibc, libstdc++, zlib, the Vulkan loader and the GPU
drivers are the system's. Versions, licenses and sources: the README's License section and
docs/linux.md.

This release was made almost entirely with AI (Anthropic's Claude, through Claude Code), directed, tested and
reviewed by a human.

SHA-256

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