A few days ago, we shared a video in which the RPCS3 showcased a number of games running on the PC via the Playstation 3 emulator, RPCS3. And today, we are happy to report that this PS3 emulator can run various games faster than before.
Whatcookie, one of the RPCS3 contributors, has managed to significantly improve performance in a lot of games that use Morphological Anti-Aliasing (MLAA). This Anti-Aliasing method made use of the PS3’s CELL SPU cores to take load off the weak PS3 GPU to give it more time to push impressive visuals and was first used in God of War 3 back in 2010.
Whatcookie’s recent changes allow the RPCS3 team to patch SPU ELF’s directly. This allows them to patch multiple games, various game regions and versions without having to do them separately on a game-by-game basis. Sadly, the patch doesn’t work with every game that uses MLAA as some games load it in a way that cannot be patched yet.
For instance, the patch for The Last of Us, is actually one of those titles which cannot be patched with the new SPU Elf method. However, Whatcookie went ahead and patched the game specifically as well.
The following video showcases most of the PS3 games known to use MLAA that work with the patch. Some of the missed games include Sly Cooper: Thieves in Time, which did see SPU usage decrease, however frame-rates didn’t change much. Motorstorm Apocalypse also saw a small performance improvement and probably a few more we missed.
All in all, RPCS3 is progressing nicely and we can’t wait to see what the team will be able to accomplish in 2020.
Enjoy!
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great games
One day i’ll be able to play the Last of us on the PC…………One day.
i am playing twillight princess with graphics mods, texture packs and enb effects and hacks to make the camera better and i set it up to use mouse and keyboard, sadly not mouse fps aiming but, yeah the fact that we can do graphics mods on emulators is amazing to me…or emulate the mouse.
Cemu is freaking amazing for BOTW too, Dolphin is king of all emulators however i have no idea how the community is so big despite my favorite console losing 6th gen
yeah its weird, few people in the west bought a gamecube, yet somehow dolphin is the best emulator and has a large community.
Do they have a devblog somewhere?
Im always fascinated by emulation developments detailed reports
They have a Discord channel.
https://rpcs3.net/blog/ + rpcs3’s youtube channel
Far from RIP. To GOW and last of us get playable as god intended it will take at least 2 more years and one generations of cpus
nonsense, it took over a decade for ratchet and clank to run well on emulators, the progress here is amazing, way i see it only TLOU has awful perfomance.
fanboy
“PS4 Reaches 106 Million Units Sold And Reveals Other Milestone Numbers”
https://www.gamespot.com/articles/ps4-reaches-106-million-units-sold-and-reveals-oth/1100-6472542/
106 million ! wake up.
Is that a cheap knock off (from china) controller of the pro switch controller?
But I’m white you dumb sperg? You’re blind since you’re a ni**er so clearly you’re an ape.
yeah its almost perfectly playable right know, 2 days after that news one guy from dev team posted new updated that removes garbage sony AA technic and boosted performance in 50 games that used it by 25% to even 400%.
“almost perfectly playable”
The Last of Us runs at sub 20fps with a 8700K at 5Ghz !!!
If I just have a blu ray player can I just pop these into my computer and play them?
……………………………………………………………………………………..no
No
This is really good maybe one day people with mid specs pc can play until then I will be looking to see we’re it goes