The RPCS3 team has announced that the first MotorStorm game is now playable on PC thanks to the latest version of RPCS3. By using the latest version of this PlayStation 3 emulator, PC gamers can finally enjoy this PS3-exclusive racing game.
MotorStorm was one of the first PS3 games that impressed a lot of gamers. While it was nowhere close to the CG trailer that Sony showcased at E3 2005, it was still a great-looking racing game.
One of its key features was its car destruction and terrain deformation. And, funnily enough, these two features in this game remain pretty cool, even by today’s standards.
The RPCS3 claims that levels with muddy tracks are very GPU-heavy. As such, you should not upscale the game too much on mid-tier GPUs. Owners of high-end GPUs may be able to brute-force their way. There is also a 60FPS patch for it that you can use. Originally, the game was locked at 30FPS on PS3. But now, you can enjoy it with 60FPS on PC.
It’s also worth noting that the game can run on the Steam Deck. It’s not perfect on that device, but it can still be enjoyed. Just make sure to set the GPU clock at 1600Mhz to ensure stable performance. You should also disable MSAA and use the visual patches.
Another game that appears to run great on RPCS3 is Killzone 2. On a high-end PC system, you can play it at 60FPS. At the end of the article, you can find a video showcasing the game running at 4K with more than 75FPS at all times on an AMD Ryzen 9 9950X3D with an NVIDIA RTX 5090. However, I don’t know if the full game is playable.
But what about God of War 3? Well, at least the first big battle with Poseidon appears to be running smoothly on a high-end PC. Below, you can find a video that shows the prologue running with 60FPS on an Intel Core i9-13900K with an NVIDIA RTX 4090.
And look, I know these two PC systems are top of the line. Still, it’s at least good to know that such high-end PC systems can brute force their way and run these two games with 60FPS. Again, I don’t know if later levels crash, even with this latest version of RPCS3. From what I can see, though, things are looking pretty great.
You can go ahead and download the latest version of RPCS3 from its official website.
Have fun!
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"even by today’s standards."
do you mean, average looking unoptimized games with a lot of stuttering and faketracing that use upscaling to be playable on the best gpus and still fail?!
Yeah, unfortunately the automatic GPU clock selection done by the firmware isn't always ideal.
Another way to indirectly influence this on Linux is by using a custom CPU scheduler via Sched-Ext, which is a mechanism to replace the in-kernel scheduler at run-time without the need to reboot the OS.
AFAIK, right now only CachyOS provides a convenient GUI to change these settings, which looks like this:
https://uploads.disquscdn.com/images/9f956074a5ebfdd9ffeec6693f53c20c775f5e932a12c194b58207f3d54e3013.png
As you can see, besides changing out the CPU scheduler itself, you can also influence its behavior via various pre-defined profiles or even directly by passing individual parameter flags.
For those interested in further details, I'll leave a link to a wiki article as a reply to my own post, since it will need to be approved by Papa John first. 🙂
https://wiki.cachyos.org/configuration/sched-ext/
Unpopular opinion: FUEL is better.
Apples and oranges, MotorStorm is a traditional racing game while Fuel is an open world racing game.
while I disagree with you, I do understand the sentiment. I own fuel on every system it released on. the physics in fuel was two steps away from being doo doo…not there…but just a bit further and it would've been.
https://www.moddb.com/mods/diffusion check this out 8-12 hour mod.
Just saw it yesterday, pretty impressive for a GoldSrc mod, it really looks like Source, it needs Xash3D though.
i dont even know what that is.
It's an open source engine for GoldSrc games for better compatibility and other improvements. It works for games like Half-Life 1, Gunman Chronicles, etc.
It’s made on GoldSrc which is the HL1 engine and not Source even though it looks like Source, Xash3D is a custom engine for HL1 with less limitations, this mod requires it as it doesn’t run on vanilla HL1
Daaaaaaaaaaaaaaaamn ♥️💦
Pretty good mod!
Since you often post links to obscure mods/indie games, just curious, where do you usually find them? What website or what account on what website keeps you up with these niche, yet pretty good games?
The first Motorstorm is one of my favorite racing games. Emulated pacific rift and arctic edge without issue before, been waiting for this. Looking forward to trying it out.
Played it at a demo in Target and was so blown away. Had no money way back then, but at least I could see the quaity.
I had the same experience playing it at a Gamestop and it left a pretty lasting impression. Great tech demo that was also quite fun to play.
These games show how remarkably little graphics have progressed in ~15 years.
i dare them to make a game like MotorStorm, a 20 "years" old game = No RT b##s##, No UE5 s##t !! , No Nvidia trash hardware !!!! A game just weight about 15 Gb at DX9 graphic level but delivers stunning graphics , colors and shaders with physics from another galaxy !!!!!!! respect for Sony (sony of 2006 not 2025 !!) and Evolution Studios.
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It's about time, the Motorstorm games are bangers!