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SwitchNOW 1.1.0 Game Details

SwitchNOW 1.1.0

The first major update for SwitchNOW, a native GeForce NOW homebrew client for Nintendo Switch.

Version 1.1.0 combines the improvements developed and tested throughout the 1.0.x branch, with a strong focus on cloud session recovery, network stability, game details, image loading, controls and diagnostics.

Highlights

  • Fixed device identity conflicts that could cause SESSION_LIMIT_PER_DEVICE_EXCEEDED_STATUS.
  • Automatic detection and safe cleanup of stale CloudMatch sessions belonging to the current Switch.
  • Automatic best-region selection with latency testing and optional manual GeForce NOW server selection.
  • NVIDIA and experimental GeForce NOW Alliance provider support.
  • Improved ICE route selection, RTT measurement and adaptive decode queues for 30 and 60 FPS.
  • Redesigned game details with official NVIDIA metadata, descriptions, screenshots, genres and input capabilities.
  • Faster multithreaded artwork loading with memory caching, prefetching and corruption protection.
  • More reliable in-stream keyboard with remote Esc on ZL.
  • Fully isolated game-description area with bidirectional scrolling, focus outline and B shortcut.
  • Expanded localization and always-available startup diagnostics through runtime.log.

Cloud Sessions and Authentication

  • SwitchNOW now creates and preserves a unique device identity for each installation instead of using a shared test identifier.
  • Before starting a game, it checks for stale sessions created by the current device and safely ends them when appropriate.
  • If NVIDIA still reports a per-device session limit, SwitchNOW refreshes the session list, renews authorization and retries once.
  • Saved accounts continue to renew short-lived authorization tokens without requiring a full manual login each time.
  • Provider, identity-provider and streaming-service information is preserved with saved accounts.
  • GeForce NOW Alliance providers are discovered dynamically from NVIDIA service data. Availability and compatibility depend on the regional operator.

Streaming, Network and Audio

  • ICE candidate pairs are prioritized before connectivity checks to improve route selection.
  • Network latency is measured through STUN, with SCTP RTT used as a fallback.
  • Decode queue depth adapts to 30 or 60 FPS to reduce accumulated latency without dropping frames too aggressively.
  • UDP packets are processed in batches and the network loop uses adaptive idle timing to reduce unnecessary CPU load.
  • Audio startup buffering is adaptive to reduce initial crackling without permanently increasing audio latency.
  • Current RTT is available in the compact performance overlay.

Game Details and Artwork

  • Game pages now use official NVIDIA metadata when available, including descriptions, developer, publisher, genres, age ratings, features and supported input methods.
  • The gallery displays actual game screenshots instead of reusing box art or hero banners.
  • Centered indicators show the real screenshot count, and screenshots can be browsed with L and R.
  • The redundant large box art was removed, allowing a larger title and a cleaner console-focused layout.
  • Descriptions have their own focusable area with predictable scrolling in both directions.
  • Short descriptions no longer create empty scrollable space, and the layout automatically adapts to games with two or three action buttons.
  • Artwork loading now uses three prioritized worker threads, in-flight request deduplication, an in-memory LRU cache and background prefetching.
  • Cached images are validated and written atomically so damaged or interrupted downloads cannot block the gallery.

Controls and Keyboard

  • - + Y opens the in-stream keyboard.
  • While the keyboard is open, ZL sends a full remote Esc key press and release.
  • Keyboard state is recreated on each opening and automatically recovers after repeated update failures.
  • Xbox-style and Nintendo-style ABXY layouts remain available in Settings.
  • Priority button delivery and touch cursor handling have been made more reliable.

Interface and Languages

  • New interface text, server selection, queue information, game metadata and regional errors are localized.
  • Available interface languages: English, Simplified Chinese, Spanish, Russian, Italian, French, Polish and Ukrainian.
  • Fixed a settings crash that could occur after saving a changed controller layout.
  • Focus restoration is safer after saving settings or changing the interface language.

Diagnostics

  • sdmc:/switch/SwitchNOW/runtime.log is now written even when extended diagnostics are disabled.
  • It records key startup, automatic sign-in and HTTP/TLS failure information before streaming begins.
  • Passwords, authorization tokens and other secrets are not written to the log.
  • The log is size-limited and the previous copy is retained as runtime.log.previous.
  • Extended diagnostics can capture detailed ICE candidate-pair state and the selected network route.

Installation

  1. Download SwitchNOW-1.1.0.zip.
  2. Extract the switch folder to the root of the SD card.
  3. Start Homebrew Menu in application mode by holding R while opening an installed game.
  4. Launch SwitchNOW.

The standalone SwitchNOW-1.1.0.nro is also provided for manual installation to sdmc:/switch/SwitchNOW/.

Existing saved accounts and settings can remain on the SD card when updating from 1.0.0.

Controls

  • A: confirm/select.
  • B: back/close; leave the focused game-description area.
  • L / R: switch launcher tabs or browse game screenshots.
  • Y: search on catalog and library screens.
  • X: context action, show more games or save settings.
  • - + Y: open the in-stream keyboard.
  • ZL while the keyboard is open: send remote Esc.
  • Touch screen: move the remote cursor and perform a left click at the touched position.
  • Controller mapping can be switched between Xbox-style and Nintendo-style ABXY layouts in Settings.

Requirements

  • Nintendo Switch capable of running Homebrew Menu in application mode.
  • Working internet connection and a valid GeForce NOW account.
  • Games, Alliance providers and membership features depend on the selected region and account tier.

Downloads

  • SwitchNOW-1.1.0.zip: recommended SD-card-ready package.
  • SwitchNOW-1.1.0.nro: standalone application binary.
  • SHA256SUMS.txt: integrity hashes for both downloads.
  • SwitchNOW-1.1.0-showcase.jpg: release illustration.

See the README for the complete feature list, settings, build instructions and upstream acknowledgements.

SwitchNOW is an independent, unofficial homebrew project and is not affiliated with NVIDIA or Nintendo.

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