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RPCS3 Emulator Shows Exceptional Progress in Latest Update Video

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While the RPCS3 emulator has been in development since 2011, it is only recently that it has begun to see rapid improvements thereby Bringing PS3 games to the PC platform in a playable way. In their latest update video, the development team behind RPCS3 showed off the most recent performance improvements they have made. Multiple titles have seen tremendous gains thanks to Nekotekina, who managed to approximate Xfloat. This has allowed more games to benefit from the SPU LLVM recompiler which delivers better performance compared to ASMJTT. It also results in LLVM seeing better compatibility with a broader range of titles that before did not run with it or had game breaking issues. They also demonstrated Improvements to SPU cache building with LLVM now being multi-threaded. This change cut the cache build time from 12 minutes and 34 seconds to a 1 minutes 28 seconds on an AMD Ryzen 7 1700.

To display their hard work the development team used Sly Cooper: Thieves in Time which saw a roughly 20-30% performance increase but is still not considered fully playable as of yet. Even so, the performance uplift means Sly Cooper is running in the low 40-50 FPS range which is an excellent start all the same. They also chose a first party title in Uncharted Drake's Fortune which thanks to the same changes received a massive uptick in performance of around 50%. While this means the game only went from 20 FPS to 29 FPS, it is still a sizable improvement.

On top of various performance improvements, they also showed off multiple fixes for large number titles. First up was Tekken Tag Tournament 2 which had clothing issues fixed while Ratchet & Clank: Full Frontal Assault saw ghosting problems resolved. In general, the video shows a tremendous amount of progress the team has made with a total of 2996 games tested and over 1119 of them now being playable. If you want to see for yourself how well some titles run, the emulator is free to download. Just keep in mind you might want to make sure your PC is up to snuff as the development team recommends a quad-core Haswell or Hexa-core Ryzen CPUs or better alongside 8 GB of system memory and a GPU that offers full Vulkan support.

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Nice to see emulation news here.
 
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Having a real PS3 is much cheaper than emulating it nowadays.
 
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Having a real PS3 is much cheaper than emulating it nowadays.

You haven't ever done console emulation?

Obviously. PC offers additional AA and filtering/upscaling options and most importantly running at your native resolution, thus gaining better graphics fidelity.
 
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Having a real PS3 is much cheaper than emulating it nowadays.

Just a matter of time. I certainly do prefer PCSX2 over the actual console...
 
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I love how they still can't mention Persona 5, and it works flawlessly.
Having a real PS3 is much cheaper than emulating it nowadays.
What about emulating a PS3, PS4 (Orbital, early stages), Wii U, Switch, Wii/Gamecube, XBox 360, PS2, N64, Dreamcast, PS1, etc? Emulating is cheaper than owning and maintaining all the possible consoles.
 
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Having a real PS3 is much cheaper than emulating it nowadays.

Consoles break down pretty easily and are a hassle to fix. PC does everything better.

Little example.
Real PS3 capture - looks dull
Emulated with default rpcs3 settings - vastly cleaner image
 
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