The team behind the best WiiU emulator, CEMU, has released a new version of it. According to the release notes, CEMU 1.8.1b fixes an issue that caused full CPU load on one thread, and supports even more games than its previous version.
In addition, this new version now supports vertex format 32_32_32_32_FLOAT for primitive RECTS, and handles better invalid/uncompilable shaders (in order to avoid drawcalls that will lead to errors).
It’s also worth noting that CEMU 1.8.1b avoids shadow samplers on AMD GPUs (and this workaround can be forced on other GPUs via -amdshadows command line parameter).
This new version of CEMU is currently available to all Patreon backers, and will be made available to the public next week.
Below you will find its complete changelog, as well as a video showcasing some of its improvements/features!
# New in 1.8.1b:
general: Fixed a bug causing permanent full CPU load on one thread
# New in 1.8.1:
CPU/JIT: Fixed a bug in ADDME. instruction
CPU/Interpreter: Fixed a bug in PSQ_STX and PSQ_LDX instruction (GQR index parsed incorrectly from opcode)
CPU/Interpreter: Fixed invalid endianness in instruction STHBRXcoreinit: Added ‘errno’ export
coreinit: Added API OSCalendarTimeToTicks(), OSCancelThread(), IM_GetHomeButtonParams(), OSCalendarTimeToTicks(), FSAppendFile(), FSRemove(), SAVEChangeDir()
coreinit: Fixed GHS flock handling. Added __ghs_flock_file() and __ghs_funlock_file()
coreinit: Added support for milliseconds and microseconds in OSTicksToCalendarTime()
coreinit: Fixed bug where FSOpenFile() with mode ‘r+’ would not allow read access
coreinit: Fixed a bug where shared-write file access prevented simultaneous read access from the same fileGX2: Added API GX2GetScissorReg(), GX2GetTargetChannelMasksReg(), GX2SetDefaultState()
GX2: Better handling for invalid/uncompilable shaders (avoid drawcalls that will lead to errors)
GX2: Added support for vertex format 32_32_32_32_FLOAT for primitive RECTS
GX2: MULADD shader instruction will now use correct rules in regards to 0*anything
GX2: Fixed OpenGL error caused by games requesting more mip levels than possible for a texture
GX2: Fixed source mip level parameter for GX2CopySurface()
GX2: Avoid shadow samplers on AMD GPUs. This workaround can be forced on other GPUs via -amdshadows command line parameterSWKBD: Fixed handling of active state (previously it was tied to the keyboard being visible whereas it should be separate)
SWKBD: Fixed input handling (should no longer clash with wxWidgets, leading to input sometimes being ignored)RPL: Fixed bug where imports/exports were mapped incorrectly if the internal module name included ‘.rpl’
zlib: Overhauled Cafe OS zLib implementation
nsysnet: Added nsysnet (socket) library
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A PlayStation 4 developer actually called the PS4 “a 5-year old PC.”
Eat your hearts out, plebeian fanboys 😀
Dude was right. PS4 started being designed in 2011, with finalized specs in 2013. So it effectively is at least 5 years old. Its actually quite obvious.
What 5 year old PC though? Because the CPU in the PS4 is way worse than a lot of 5 year old CPU’s.
Considering how i still got the 2500 I5 lol ;p Thats kind of old too ;d
I do wonder however.. which one is more powerful?
You can push 60fps (I hope) consoles can’t. I guess that’s your answer.
i7 2600 here, no need to update (yet)
Precisely. For example, there were gaming laptop PCs on the market 5 years ago that destroyed PS4 in every way.
If anything, Fares was too kind to Sony’s console. He could just as well have likened PS4 to a 7 year old PC. Perhaps even older than that.
The PS4 CPU compares to an overclocked Q6600 @ 3.2 Ghz. At least that’s what I got from this vid (can’t post the full link, just copy paste the part below on Youtube):
watch?v=EDmC04GHhRE
‘Better’ typically costs more money? No way! Thank heavens you’re here to make these revelations.
Carry on with your personal crusade to ‘prove’ something about consoles here on DSOG using more confused logic just like your other recent equally amusing little tirade.
Not PS4 developer but, developer from “Way out” game, at least do some re-search son.
A Way Out is on the PS4, that makes him a PS4 developer.
Or, a developer for/on the PS4 platform, if you’d rather, sure.
Like, yeah, sure, it’s also coming to the Xbox One & the PC, but he didn’t say a word about the XONE (since there’s really no need, considering how it’s even weaker than the PS4, after all).
His remark was for general consoles that includes Xbox as well. It’s just that at the time the game was running on PS4 when he was asked about his game.
But yeah these guys spoke the truth.
Also you want to know something interesting on console oriented sites people are calling the developers bad names and even saying they’re gonna boycott. All for speaking truth about their favorite plastic box.
because if he shared his view on xbox or wii u it would be diffirent, so what, xbone is like a 7 year old pc and wiiu is like a 10 year old pc.
“Also you want to know something interesting on console oriented sites
people are calling the developers bad names and even saying they’re
gonna boycott. All for speaking truth about their favorite plastic box.”
Dualshockers? The shills in that site are insane.
Dualshockers,Gamespot,ign,n4g etc etc you name it.
They’re even going so far as to calling them lazy, using weak hardware as a scapegoat, because “their game doesn’t look that good, anyway.”
Then they bring up first-party &/or platform exclusive titles like Horizon & Last of Us, talking about how good they look, it really is hilarious.
imagine if they tried to run a game that didn’t rely on cutting room floor clippings and baked visuals.
It has split screen co-op at all times. Even if it’s not graphically demanding than other it will surely take enough computation power that will be similar to other Superior games.
And what better games that are graphically Superior has run better too… horizon? uncharted 4? Well they are 30fps for a reason.
Also console users are bashing the devs by comparing a first party titles to a third party, he’s making the game for 5 platform not just one so of course it’s not gonna be easy.
While all the way forgetting that they are 30fps for a reason. These people just can’t accept that the current gen console have weak a#s CPUs and it’s only gonna take them so far. Can’t blame devs Everytime.
The hilarity is set to continue with the impending arrival of Xbone X as it uses the same abysmal AMD Jaguar CPU that so crippled performance on PS4, Xbone and PS4 Pro.
Not that it’ll ever stop them from trying, of course.
“people are calling the developers bad names and even saying they’re gonna boycott. All for speaking truth”
Sadly, an all too common sign of the times that’s in no way solely limited to videogames. Liberal fascism including the cult of SJWs behave in the same way. When the facts aren’t on their side and they know they’ve lost the argument then all they have left to resort to is ad hominem attacks and threats.
The fact that most of these people can’t seem to separate feelings with facts and just get upset and whine when the truth don’t align with their feelings. It’s just sad times. Playing blame game is the new hobby.
lol but with a ps4 you can sell more copies
with a pc you don’t sell too much because have piracy
Sanctum 2 devs said that the console sales did not even justify the port.
Ps4 doesnt give you more sales stupid community gives you more sales. By that logic, just make cod clones since cod clones sell. Oh wait thats what they did, guess where they didnt sell, pc….must be piracy…now cod is a mp game, but it is definetly piracy….and when your extremely expensive project flops on consoles (kingdoms of amalaur, crysis 2 and 3) always blame piracy.
To be fair, Amalur killed itself (or, rather, EA killed it) by launching next to Mass Effect with next-to-zero marketing, but yeah.
Also, those sales expectations were f*cking absurd, for that matter.
3 million for a new ip, game was good but too damn expensive too ambitious and no marketing.
https://uploads.disquscdn.com/images/a12f97292eccd590016e3a4cea2796c869cbbc3784fca290680dfad4a500190d.png
It always was always a 5 year old pc though.
And that’s relevant the WiiU emulator in the article how exactly?
It’s part of the overall consoles being ridiculed thing that PC Gaming has had going for it since the first time someone declared “PC Gaming Ez D33d.”
😀
You need to get out more
Why? 🙁 I like my sh*tty desk job 😀
nintendo must shutdown this emulator,it’s a shame if you want zelda buy a wii u!!!
Nintendo makes a garbage weak console with no games, abandons it and yet shills like you tell us to support it just to play zelda.
pffttttt Pc gaming always wins.
pc gaming always wins….yeah without red dead redemption 1-2,final fantasy xv,kh 3,injustice 2,zelda,halo,killzone,uncharted,the last of us 1-2,spiderman,bloodborne,resonance of fate,yakuza,persona,knack,virtua fighter 5
yeah…
“resonance of fate, knack”
Ok now you really are scraping the bottom of the barrel.
Insert pcs exlusives list here…. pc wins again
Pc wins everytime
Also note how his desperation reduced him to needing to list a pitifully small handful of games dating back to 2006 from four different console platforms.
While also omitting to mention that some of the games listed are already officially on PC thanks the PlayStation Now and some others will also soon be available on said service because Sony have confirmed that PS4 games will be featured.
That aside, I’m laughing to the thought of him being so deluded that he believes folk would love to be playing Knack on PC, Xbox, Wii U and Switch!
Oh, and he mentioned the Yakuza and Persona franchises which Sega Europe’s senior vice president of commercial publishing stated only a couple of days ago are being considered for release on PC.
wii u is dead, this emulator will keep those games for future generations.
I can’t wait to be able to play Breath of The Wild at 1080p with a stable 30FPS!
Cemu will be your solution then because neither Switch or Wii U does that.
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A TWO-THOUSAND-AND-SEVEN CPU?
ARE YOU F*CKING SH*TTING ME?
And a severely handicaped HD 7870. And from those videos, that setup performs better still, provided you tweak the settings.
And I’d argue the Q6600 is still better. Keep in mind,that’s theoretical max performance he listed and diminishing returns kick in the more cores you have. And with that low clock speed, it’s very likely.
There’s also a channel called BenchArt that uses a HD 7850 overclocked and a Phenom II X4 setup and tests games. And it runs games better than a PS4 or just as good in the worst case scenarios.
F*ck.
Wonderful!