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@dsi-hub dsi-hub released this 15 Nov 21:00
v2.0
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HookLink X1 is a new engine and a redesigned launcher. The engine is the latest nxnative with HookLink's own fixes and the best of cheemu21's kid-with-sword-remake on top, and every setting both projects offer is in the launcher.

Before you update

The engine compiles the game's shaders differently again, so the first build after updating compiles every shader (about 30 minutes on an M-series Mac), and the first start on the phone prepares the game's pipelines behind the progress screen for a while. Leave the phone plugged in; later starts take seconds.

A new launcher

  • Play shows the game, Play and a Resolution dial in the middle of the left side: Coolest, Cool, Balanced, Sharp and Sharpest. With Dynamic resolution on it reads Auto; moving it fixes a size.
  • Quick settings on the right, each with a line on what it does: Frame rate, Frame generation, Cool mode, Potato mode, Wide view and the Ocarina mic.
  • Frame generation and the frame rate mode are one choice: turning frame generation off moves 60 + frame generation to 60 fps, and on again moves back.
  • Settings has Game, Controls and Performance as tabs, with real switches and sliders. Extras is a set of cards that say what each does.
  • The title bar says HookLink X1, and nothing sits under the Dynamic Island on either side.

New settings

  • Render scale, 25 % to 100 % (it never worked for Ocarina before: the game's render-scale hook was missing).
  • Cool mode: half the 3D resolution and smaller in-between frames, for less heat and longer battery. It starts on for iPhones with less than 10 GB of memory.
  • Potato mode: the lightest the game can run, at 25 % resolution with memory savers, for older iPhones. The settings it sets are locked while it is on.
  • Light movies: the title and opening movies skip a sharpening step that kept the title screen under 60 fps. A slightly softer movie; turn it off for the movies as made.
  • Microphone: play the ocarina by humming or whistling.

Faster and steadier

  • About 11 % less CPU work per object drawn, and far fewer hitches after loading an area (texture tables reused instead of made 16 times a frame; from kid-with-sword-remake).
  • Less GPU memory at scene changes: the old scene's textures are no longer made again (about 2.5 GB at the house-to-forest change). This is aimed at the crashes when loading a save on iPhones with less memory.
  • Frame generation pauses in the pause menu, where it could hang the GPU, and is switched off on iPhones whose GPU can't make in-between frames.
  • nxnative's newest work, including a faster start (the pipeline archive opens 3 to 6 times faster) and steadier frame pacing.

Known issues

  • Hyrule Field can still drop under 60 fps when the GPU falls behind or the phone is warm. 30 fps + frame generation, Cool mode or a lower Resolution help there.

To update: download HookLink.zip below and replace your old HookLink.app, then click the engine update in HookLink and build again. Install the new app over the old one: your saves and game files stay on your phone.

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