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God of War 3 is almost playable on the PC, sees up to 100% performance boost in latest version of RPCS3

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The team behind the best Playstation 3 emulator for the PC, RPCS3, has released a new video showcasing the major improvements that have been implemented for God of War 3 in the latest version of the emulator.

According to the team, and thanks to user Nekotekina, games like God of War 3, Sly Cooper Thieves in Time, WipEout and more – which previously broke when using SPU LLVM when the slow “Accurate Xfloat” setting was disabled – have been fixed by approximating xfloat. As such, this resulted in a major performance improvement when using the SPU LLVM Recompiler with a large number of games.

Now while God of War 3 runs better now on the PC – via the emulator of course – than it did before, there are still some slowdowns that need to be addressed. So yeah, while the game is closer to be listed as “playable” right now, it will take a while until we are able to play the game with 60fps.

Still, in some cases there is a 100% performance boost thanks to the latest changes/tweaks so we have to congratulate the team for accomplishing something like that.

Last but not least, the RPCS3 team also stated that it will release more videos that show the performance improvements in other popular games, so stay tuned for more!

RPCS3 - God of War 3 Major Performance Improvement! (4K IR Gameplay)

118 thoughts on “God of War 3 is almost playable on the PC, sees up to 100% performance boost in latest version of RPCS3”

  1. As much as I love PC gaming, I have to admit, Sony exclusives are great and make buying a PS4 and a PS3 worth it.

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      1. god of war = button mashing and qte cancer with a lot of cutscene, audience = autistic low iq kids.
        uncharted = cutscene simulator, audience = autistic kids who can’t socialize with real people and never been in a relationship with anyone other than their moms
        last of us = cutscene simulator, audience = girls, autistic kids and manchilds with homoseksual desires

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          2. Well that’s fine and that’s your choice to make but why in the hell are you on a PC gaming site reading articles about PC gaming and commenting on the articles for PC gaming?

    2. If the PS4 has 6 exclusive ones that are worth playing, it should be a lot, ie it is not worth buying a PS4 just to play a few exclusive quality games, it is better to continue playing on the PC the exclusive ones of the PC or the Multiplatform with much more quality than the consoles !!!

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      1. It depends on what your financial situation is like. For me its worth it just for a few exclusives because I tend to replay them quite a bit. If NHL gets ported to PC I might quit buying consoles all together though.

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        1. “It depends on what your financial situation is like”

          I respectfully disagree. That may be the case for some people but plenty of other PC-only gamers could ably afford to also buy one, two or all three of the main consoles. We simply choose not to.

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          4. You can tell the children who still live in mom’s basement and get to use all their part time Mcdonalds money on PC parts, because mommy still clothes and feeds them…..

            I have a bachelor’s degree in network management….I have a $3,500 PC that my company purchased for me….I know that PC versions of games are going to look and play better…BUT considering im an actual adult with an actual job after working 14-18hrs a day pretty much constantly using a PC, working on PCs or working on networking equipment.

            THE LAST thing I want to do after I get home, spend time with my wife and decide to play a game for a couple hours to unwind is play that game on a PC……Playing a game on a PC when you work everyday on PCs, feels like working rather than unwinding…I can sit on my couch fire up the PS4 pro and know the game is going to work, im not gonna have driver issues and have to mess with settings or look for a patch, just like if I were at work…..

          5. Sure, wutever you say. It’s not like console nowdays are basically a closed source PC form Sony or MS. I too sit on my couch fire up my PC that is on the other room initiate Steam in Big picture and play the games i want without even touching a mouse and keyboard, but hey maybe your $3.500 PC can’t do that.

          7. I guess in that case it would depend on your predisposition towards anti-consumerism.

            If you’re looking to make a statement about consoles, honestly I don’t think buying one is going to make much difference. Consoles are sold very cheaply, sometimes at a loss, under the assumption that your are going to buy many games to compensate. I’ve bought maybe 3 games at full price for my PS4, two of them being NHL titles, the other being RDR2.

            My NVME and SSD drives cost more than my PS4 Pro.

          8. When I bought my PS3, it was because my DVD player had died, and it was the best Blu-ray player available at the time. The only games I ever bought for it were the NCAA Football games.

            I miss those!

      2. LMFAO and what LOL “exclusive” PC games exist beyond MMOs which are now slowly trying to find space in the console market because they aren’t making money hand over fist on PC….Oh wait thats right there aren’t any major PC exclusives anymore……Yet the tardcore PC fagbase is constantly port begging and of course stealing console games to use in emulators….

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      3. Why Rockstar games don’t like PC community? GTAIV came on PC 6 months after consoles and when released it was the worst PC port ever, GTAv 1,5 year after consoles, RDR still didn’t release, RDR2 also.

        Then there is Destiny 1 which skipped PC, MHW which came 6 months after consoles, FFXV 1 year late, KH3 still isn’t announced,….

        Master Race indeed.

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      1. The only PS4 exclusive that had real pulling power for me was Rez Infinite due to it being compatible with PSVR.

        Then it turned out to be a mere timed-exclusive whereby it subsequently arrived on PC with Oculus Rift and Vive compatibility.

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      2. TLOU Part II? God of War? Kojima’s Death Stranding? Persona 5? Yakuza 6? Ghost of Tsushima? Uncharted 4? Ratchet & Clank? Detroit? Spider-Man?

        Then you coud play multiplats which aren’t on PC like RDR2, Kingdom Hearts 3, Spyro, Crash Team Racing,….

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        1. Console exclusives are only for fanboys and impatient gamers who can’t wait a little to let emulators mature. I still haven’t played Witcher 3, Doom 2016 or Resident Evil 7. I’ll wait until my PC is upgraded, because I want to run them at highest settings, at the highest resolution with good frame-rates. So I’ll wait. I’m a patient man. I’ll do the same for the almost non-existent console exclusives that I have a slight interest in, emulators will be there soon enough.

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        2. well let me check my steam i have so many games i lose track of the games i play – here is my top 5 Assetto Corsa/ with rift Crusader Kings II
          Cities: Skylines -Arma 3 -American Truck Simulator in VR- they are are the games i have played recently ah let me check my PS4 list Call of Duty: Modern Warfare Remastered Yakuza 0- yakuza kiwami Persona 5 and the last time i even turned it on was 19th December 2017 is this a good answer for you console pheasant ? BTW here is my PSN ID https://psnprofiles.com/sniperbsr. ah i have a question for you name 5 exclusive you have played that’s 60 FPS or higher and i want an answer to this since you want to ask me a retarded question that i answers any way

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    6. Makes no sense to own a console. Just rent them a few times over the course of a few years to play the handful of “great” exclusives there are, the majority of which are linear, single-player games that can be completed in a few hours.

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    7. “As much as I love PC gaming, I have to admit, Sony exclusives are great and make buying a PS4 and a PS3 worth it.”

      As much as I love PC gaming, I have to admit, Sony exclusives are mostly rinse and repeat 30fps third-person action adventures and make not buying a PS4 a given. ?

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        1. Are you on crack, son? Because that statement is a whole lotta ‘nope’. I don’t even know where to begin with that! F2P garbage? Maybe if you live in some broken third world country but here, in the US, the triple AA A PC industry is alive and well. That statement is just…wow…

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        2. wow you’re hypocrisy is just showing off, who cares if PC got less AAA exclusives games, it got indie and F2P titles that make the community enjoying and busy. You can brag all day about how much more AAA titles got on a console, but it is a fact that AAA titles on PC looks better than consoles, then again you come back with “but graphics doesn’t matter”. Double standard much.

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          1. Indeed. The console peasantry are often quick to say that ‘graphics don’t matter’ and yet with every single new console announced by Sony/Microsoft/Nintendo they lose their minds at the prospect of being able to play games with, er, better graphics!

    8. YET you want to steal them….Gee its almost like because your a child who has a part time job, mommy still pays for your food, shelter and clothing…Weird how there are ZERO PC exclusive games the majority of them are all console ports YET you want to steal PS and Xbox games to play on an emulator…LMFAO yep makes sense to waste all that part time Mcdonalds money on PC parts to run an emulator….But you hate Sony games LMFAO….STFU and sit down kid….

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      1. “there are ZERO PC exclusive games”

        Sorry to let the facts interrupt your delusions but PC has more exclusives than the total number of all games for PS4, Xbone and Switch combined. D’oh!

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    10. 13 000 comments and every one about PlayStation. It really hurts you that PS4 RAPES Microshit’s Xbox One.

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  3. I remember using a peformance hack in Shadow of Collosus (ps2) that state my fps was in the 60 when in reality it wasn’t anywhere close

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    1. God of War (all episodes except the last one) runs natively at 60fps (with a lot of slowdowns in the 3rd and Ascension) Shadow of The Colossus runs at 25-30 fps and accelerating the emulation doesn’t do anything on that particular game, it’s known to be one of the most difficult games to emulate on PCSX2 and one of the slowest/unoptimized PS2 games

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  4. And it only took 9 years… Hopefully it will only take 8 years for the PCMR to finally play 2018’s game of the year at 20 fps lmao. You can practically hear the cries of all the sony ponies.

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    1. I came here just to reply to you, i knew you were gonna post this.

      ….ATLEAST THIS IS A GOD OF WAR GAME.

      The 2018 one ISNT.

      And to be fair god of war 3 was disappointing, 2 is the best 1 and 4 are decent.

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      1. Maybe you watched last year’s game award and you’re confused. I’m pretty sure GoW won at the Game Awards this year, not RDR2, lol.

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          4. The current-latest God of War aka Cuck of War aka Dad of Boy saw Kratos emasculated (no more ‘toxic masculinity’ from a supposed god of war because a hipster beard and a parenting skills simulator at 30fps with yet more QTEs is what we want!) so of course the journalists soyboy far Left activists in the shill media praised it.

          5. and ofcourse they had to shove mmo rpg mechanics in there to fine tune the performance of your character with armors that effect yout statistics like a mmo and of course they had to slow down the combat for the casualtards…..”goty”….if you enjoyed the order 1886 and other movie games.

          6. “saw Kratos emasculated (no more ‘toxic masculinity’ from a supposed god of war because a hipster beard and a parenting skills simulator at 30fps with yet more QTEs is what we want!”

            Ahahahahahhahahahahahahahhahaha

            Thank you!

          1. The peasantry need such things to help validate their questionable consumer choices. Pointing to sales numbers and what the likes of IGN thinks seems to be important to them. Bless!

          2. I know, right? They had 6 games nominated for GOTY. Three of them (GOW, RDR2, Spidey) aren’t on PC, and fourth. MHW, released on PC 6 months after consoles.

          1. These are dark days indeed for the console peasants. They’ve always had so little compared to PC gamers and now some of their former exclusives are being ported to PC and the ones that aren’t are being emulated.

            When I think of the plight of the poor console peasants I cry a little inside.

          2. Microsoft:
            – made redundant by Microsoft itself courtesy of abandoning true exclusivity with Windows 10 Store
            – commercially annihilated by PS4
            – mobile-oriented CPU for predictably abysmal performance
            – home to the most deluded of console brand fanboys

            Nintendo:
            – one-time industry titan reduced to hawking a woefully outdated and downclocked mobile chipset-based device as their sole ‘console’ after the debacle of Wii U and as 3DS is quietly phased out
            – continued backward approach to online gaming
            – growing presence on iOS/Android

            Sony:
            – one-trick pony in doing what Top Hats and Champagne labels ‘third-person action adventures with stealth elements’
            – mobile-oriented CPU for predictably abysmal performance
            – console industry dominance heralding a return to their bad old ways
            – attracts the most vile and hateful of all fanboys

          3. PC
            Online full of cheaters
            Nobody cares about achievments and are easily hacked
            AAA multiplats like RDR2, MHW, GTAV, KH3, FFXV late or don’t come at all
            You always have to buy something for your PC
            A different launcher for every Publisher
            Lack of AAA exclusives
            Media only talks about consoles

          5. In 6 months PS4 will reach 100 million sold, Switch is on track to 100 million also, Xbox One on track to 50 million.A lot of console gamers who don’t care about PC.

          6. Well, I have seen it reported on several sites that there are 1.2 billion people who play games on PC. Now I don’t know if that’s accurate or what the definition of “games” is. They could mostly be Candy Crush type games or flash games but Steam has reported 125 million active accounts. Some people have more than one Steam account though.

            Also it’s widely reported that a lot of PC owners also have a console so there is overlap in statistics and just because 100 million PS4 are sold doesn’t mean 100 million people only game on a PS4 and don’t care about PC.

            In any case you and I both know that a PC cost more than a console but if you are willing to spend the money on a PC then you will get a superior gaming experience.

    5. “Hopefully it will only take 8 years for the PCMR to finally play 2018’s game of the year at 20 fps lmao”

      Hopefully not, since they’re making mad cash while doin’ it. Something they didn’t have when they started developing RPCS3. My guess is that once they announce that they’ll start doing RPCS4, even more money will flood in, and development will pick up the phase. Besides, shouldn’t PS4 be easier to emulate? Since it resembles a PC more hardware wise? That, and the though of PS3’s complex cell processor, and the lack of it in PS4.

      https://uploads.disquscdn.com/images/8e628959be8c6d3ffa53ba0ba0edc0a999fbef94cc372d05e834eb34f8461362.png

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  5. “will take a while until we are able to play the game with 60fps.”

    So they’re aiming to improve RPCS3’s performance relative to an actual PS3 given that Digital Foundry stated the following?

    “For the most part, frame-rates on the PS3 hover between 35-45fps during combat and QTE action scenes, with metrics approaching the lower end of that scale when the engine is under load.”

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      1. Indeed. Possibly better because Digital Foundry also reported that said ‘remaster’ on PS4 doesn’t quite manage a stable 60fps at all times.

        Upscaling the PS3 version’s assets to 1080p and beyond should give similar results to the lazy 1080p so-called remaster on PS4 because that still uses the PS3 version’s original textures with only a token improvement to mip-maps, shadows resolution and anti-aliasing method. Even the cutscenes still run at 30fps like on PS3.

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        1. Not only 30fps but also native 720p they did not bother remastering the cutscenes,switching from 1080p gameplay to those cutscenes was a jarring experience

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          1. Lazy Sony disrespecting both its own IP and its most loyal of customers. Perhaps the only thing to be said in their favour is that they at least knew they were pushing a lazy product so priced it at the lower SRP of $40/£30. However, they predictably didn’t offer any discount via PlayStation Network to owners of the PS3 version registered to their account. Much peasantry.

        2. But one needs to define the term “better”. Sometimes the framerate is tied to the game mechanics/physics (even on PC games and even PC exclusives), so its not actually better just because you run the game at 60 – 120 FPS. Developers are sometimes at fault for being lazy….

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    1. Excuse “Bob” because he is stuck with a poor connection and very low-res monitor, so he can’t internet properly!

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  7. Marvel’s Spider-Man – 9 million sold after 2,5 months
    Uncharted 4: A Thief’s End – 8.7 million sold after 7,5 months
    Horizon Zero Dawn – 7.6 million sold after a year
    God of War – 5 million sold after a month

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  9. “playable” at @5.3GHz on a $370.00 8700k CPU. But good progress! in 5 years from now they will probably hit 60FPS! at 720p.

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  10. I downloaded RPCS3 and then took a look at what games i wanted to play. The only 1 that interested me that wasn’t already on pc was Persona 5.

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    2. Game Awards had 6 games nominated for GOTY. Three of them (GOW, RDR2, Spidey) aren’t on PC, and fourth. MHW, released on PC 6 months after consoles.

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      2. Are you exited about Kingdom Hearts 3? Did you finish Spyro Trilogy? You can’t wait for Crash Team Racing?

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  13. In 6 months PS4 will reach 100 million sold, Switch is on track to 100 million also, Xbox One on track to 50 million.A lot of console gamers who don’t care about PC.

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    1. Steam reports 125 million active accounts though some people do have more than 1 account.

      How many of those millions of PS4 and XBox One gamers would much rather be gaming on a PC but can’t afford the PC hardware for gaming?

      Also it’s widely reported that a lot of PC owners also have a console so there is overlap in statistics and just because 100 million PS4 are sold doesn’t mean that 100 million people only game on a PS4 and don’t care about PC.

      In any case the fact is that a PC costs more than a console but for people who are willing to spend the money it offers a superior gaming experience.

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