Hacking GPU handheld mode overclock (soon) available

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The 768 mhz OC is available for free and I dont want to upload someone else's program. I also think the free one is better. My tests show that 460 mhz does not make much of a difference since the most demanding games (e.g. wolf, doom diablo, xenoblade) already uses the 384 mhz mode in handheld. 768 mhz (almost twice the frequency) makes hell of a difference in these demanding games, according to my opinion.

It is probably more likely to be safe (than not) since the stock tegra shield has even higher gpu clocks and the switch already uses the 768 mhz mode in docked, although we cannot of course say for sure that it is safe. So use it on your own risk. I have not encountered any issues so far at least, normally the switch just shuts off itself if it gets too hot (have not happened due to the oc yet for me though). Just dont use it in less demanding games where it is not needed and use it in relatively short bursts (not hours), since we do not know how the battery is affected long term.

By the way, if someone has a switch to spare, it would be very interesting to test what happens if the OC is on all the time for weeks.

can't anyone upload it for public? 1 dollar is nothing but I don't like the behavior of this guy. because in this kind of situations, when the donation is optional, you can aways gain more.
 
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can't anyone upload it for public? 1 dollar is nothing but I don't like the behavior of this guy. because in this kind of situations, when the donation is optional, you can aways gain more.
Sorry that I want to give my supporters some benefits with unreleased work that would never see the daylight otherwise
 

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Excuse me, does anybody have an issue with the Switch that cannot turn on when the 768 MHz mod turned on if device stay on charging overnight?
 
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Excuse me, does anybody have an issue with the Switch that cannot turn on when the 768 MHz mod turned on if device stay on charging overnight?
Do you mean it won't wake up from sleep mode?

Edit: If it won't wake up, try holding down the power button for a while and restarting it. I was always careful to turn the clocks back down before putting my Switch to sleep.

Maybe I'll fix it up a bit. I'm not sure how far I want to take this though. It's one of those "I got bored" projects/ideas I usually hoard and never release.
 
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anyone tried hyrule warriors overclocked? does it prevent the stuttering? (the game unreasonably seems to render graphics in 1080p mode even when in handheld mode, causing unneeded stutter)
 

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Do you mean it won't wake up from sleep mode?
Yep, exactly, Switch can't wake up from sleep mode when it was hibernate by itself / or at charging — and only for a long time when it wasn't in use, for example, at night.

Edit: If it won't wake up, try holding down the power button for a while and restarting it.
Yes, of course, restart works, but I think it's not quite a normal when I must hard-reboot Switch every time after overnight charging or just such a long periods of hibernate if I want to use the mod.

Maybe I'll fix it up a bit.
That will be wonderful! Thank you in advance!..


If you find it interesting to fix, there's another bug — sadly, ZR+Right stick didn't work properly, it rollback only RAM frequency, but not a GPU one if one want to reset overclock to normal state. Please take a look:
1. This is normal FR, without overclocking, it's OK
CPU: 1020000000
GPU: 307200000
RAM: 1331200000
2. Overclocked FR, also OK
CPU: 1020000000
GPU: 768000000
RAM: 1600000000
3. But, there're "wanna-be" turned off overclock, after pressing "ZL+Right stick" buttons , in-game:
CPU: 1020000000
GPU: 768000000
RAM: 1331200000
 
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If you find it interesting to fix, there's another bug — sadly, ZR+Right stick didn't work properly, it rollback only RAM frequency, but not a GPU one if one want to reset overclock to normal state. Please take a look:
1. This is normal FR, without overclocking, it's OK
2. Overclocked FR, also OK
3. But, there're "wanna-be" turned off overclock, after pressing "ZL+Right stick" buttons , in-game:
Yep, I already noticed that. I've made a few changes to how the module handles changing and holding clock speed. I've also added a plugged in/unplugged mode. Anyone willing to test run it can PM me. I don't feel super comfortable dropping builds over and over in this thread.
 
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