Fritchii guide

Your first launch

Unzip Fritchii anywhere and run lichii.exe from its folder. If Windows asks for the Visual C++ runtime, run vc_redist.x64.exe from the same folder first.

If you played on Eden or Lichii, Fritchii asks which folder to copy from, showing when you last played in each and picking the newest for you. Saves and keys and Settings are ticked, Mods aren't. Pick Copy, or Start fresh. Your old folder is never changed.

Fritchii keeps its data in %APPDATA%\fritchii. A portable install, with a user folder next to lichii.exe, keeps using that folder.

Preparing shaders

The first time you start Ocarina of Time, a "Preparing shaders" screen builds the game's shaders at full speed, about 15 minutes on an 8-core CPU. It happens once.

After that, places you visit for the first time play like you've been there before. It runs again only after a release that changes how shaders are translated, or with a new driver or GPU.

60 or 30 fps, or higher

The 60 FPS / 30 FPS button at the bottom of the window switches at once, even in the game. 60 fps needs a fast, recent CPU; 30 fps keeps the game at its normal speed on lower-end PCs.

To go above 60, press Ctrl+U in Ocarina of Time, and again to go back. The cap is in Graphics > Advanced: your monitor's refresh rate, 90, 120, 144 or 165. It's experimental, so say so if a timer, cutscene or minigame acts strangely.

DLSS on NVIDIA RTX cards

Turn on NVIDIA DLSS in Graphics, and pick the quality: Automatic, Native (DLAA), Quality, Balanced, Performance or Ultra Performance. Preset K is the default and recommended.

The quality and preset change while you play, and the status bar shows what DLSS is running. A game's own settings, under Game Settings > Graphics, can override both.

Saves

The Saves button on the home screen, also in Help > Saves, exports your saves to a zip, imports them from one, or copies them between Fritchii, Eden and Lichii in any direction.

It always backs up first and tells you where. Close the game before using it, and close Eden or Lichii when copying into them.

Settings

Fritchii starts with settings tuned for Ocarina of Time, and applies them again with some updates. You can change anything afterwards.

Settings > General > Reset to Defaults puts everything back to Fritchii's tuned settings after saving a backup, and Restore Settings brings a saved set back. Controls and game folders stay.

When Ocarina of Time has its own values in Configure Game, the Settings window says so at the top, with a button to put it back on your global settings.

While you play

Move the mouse to the top of the game for Pause, Restart, Stop, Fullscreen and the menus.

View > Performance Overlay shows big fps, frame times, the lowest recent fps, and RAM and VRAM, against a line at 60 or 30.

Reporting a problem

Use Help > Export Log right after it happens. The log says what caused each stutter, which makes reports much easier to track down.

Post it with your GPU model and what you were doing in the Issues channel on the Discord server.