TotK Recomp (Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom native Windows port)

Tears of the Kingdom (2023) has only been released on Switch and Switch 2. TotK Recomp is the second native Windows port of it in a week, after UltraTears on 25 October 2026. The repository was created on 29 October and had about 1,800 GitHub stars two days later, with more than 20,000 downloads of its first build.

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What it is

• A static recompilation: the Switch game’s ARM64 code is translated ahead of time and compiled into a native x86-64 Windows program (the project’s architecture notes are in docs/architecture.md).
• The Switch replaced on the PC: its services and its NVN graphics are reimplemented, drawing with Vulkan. The credits list LAS Recomp (the Link’s Awakening port), MacNativeGames (the Mac and iPhone port), nxnative, Savage Wind (the Breath of the Wild port) and Ryujinx, among others.
• Built on your PC: the release is a setup program. It takes your game files, builds the game once, and prepares the shaders at install time instead of during play. The README says the result contains the game, so it is for your own use and should not be shared.

Features

From the README:

• 60 fps by default, up to 144 fps or the monitor’s refresh rate (experimental); 0.1.6 added a 90 fps option.
• Custom resolutions, supersampling and AMD FSR 1 upscaling.
• An in-game settings menu (F1) and a performance overlay (F10); every setting is also in totk.ini.
• Keyboard, mouse and gamepad with remapping, rumble and gyro.
• Both update 1.2.1 and 1.4.3, with saves that carry over between them.

Planned: Linux and Steam Deck, emulator-style mods in a mods folder, ultrawide and other aspect ratios, and VRR.

Current status

On 31 October 2026 the issue tracker had 134 open reports, two days after release. Most are about AMD GPUs: crashes a few seconds after start (“device lost”), startup errors on cards such as the RX 6600 XT, graphics glitches on older Polaris cards and see-through objects. Others report flickering shadows, wrong text languages and a Depths camera quest that cannot progress because the in-game camera recognises nothing.

Version 0.1.6 (30 October) fixed rainbow and blocky terrain on AMD and Intel, objects that turned see-through above about 63 fps, blurry output with display scaling above 100%, slowdowns on 4 GB GPUs and builds running out of memory on PCs with many cores. Chinese text now shows in Chinese instead of Japanese. We didn’t play it ourselves.

What you need

• Your own Tears of the Kingdom: the base game and the 1.2.1 or 1.4.3 update, dumped from your own Switch. We don’t explain how to obtain or copy game data.
• Windows 10 or later on an x86-64 CPU with AVX2.
• A GPU with Vulkan 1.3 and the VK_EXT_external_memory_host extension.
• About 36 GB free during setup, 20 GB after.

How it installs (overview)

From the README, at a high level: download the setup zip from the official Releases page, unpack it and start TotK-Setup.exe (Windows SmartScreen may warn about an unsigned app). Pick your game files, a language and an install folder, and press Start; the setup builds the game once. Then play totk.exe from the install folder. A newer setup run on the same folder updates it and keeps saves and settings.

TotK Recomp or UltraTears?

Both are early Windows-only static recompilations that build the game on your PC from your own files, and both report problems on AMD and Intel GPUs. A third project, NotRexed’s SkyboundTOTK, targets the base game 1.0.0 on Windows and Linux but had no ready-made release on 31 October 2026 (see the UltraTears page). On Apple devices, the Mac and iPhone port is the one to look at.

Is it official, and will it stay up?

• No, it is an unofficial fan project, not affiliated with or endorsed by Nintendo.
• We found no takedown when we checked on 31 October 2026. GitHub’s DMCA archive had three Nintendo notices in October 2026, none about Tears of the Kingdom. Nintendo has acted against Switch emulators and game decompilations before, so it may not stay up.
• Get it only from valentderah/totk-pc-recomp. Sites offering a ready-made “TotK PC download” with the game included are not this project.

Not working?

Read the issue tracker first, since many GPU problems are already reported there, and report new ones following the project’s CONTRIBUTING file, with the log. For every other native port we track, see the recompiled games list.

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