Halo 3 is a game that a lot of PC gamers wanted to play (especially since Halo 1 and 2 came out on our platform) and it appears that this will be possible in 2019 via the Xenia Xbox 360 emulator. YouTube’s ‘Emulators for PC’ has shared a video comparing the original X360 version with the emulated Xenia version using the DX12 API.
As we can see, the game currently lacks some lighting effects that make the Xenia version look washed out. Moreover, there are some shadow imperfections (shadows look square-ish in the Xenia version) and some texture issues (texture also appear to be more low-res on Xenia though this could be due to a shader issue).
Furthermore, the emulated DX12 version also lacks some environmental effects (like the bullet holes on surfaces and the water ripples when firing a gun) and there aren’t any gun muzzle effects.
There is no doubt that the Xenia team has a lot of work to do and although the game is missing a lot of effects, it appears to be playable. Performance also seems to be fine. Emulators for PC used an Intel Xeon e3-1240 V2 at 3.6Ghz with an NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1050Ti 4GB and was able to run the game with 20-30fps. Since the game is locked at 30fps on X360, we can assume that more powerful modern-day PC systems can offer a 30fps experience.
Enjoy the comparison video. Do note that the comparison between X360 and Xenia DX12 starts at 7:30. Prior to that, there is a comparison between Xenia’s Vulkan and DirectX 12 APIs!
![XENIA [Xbox 360] - Halo 3 [DX12 vs Vulkan vs Xbox360] Comparison Video #1](https://www.dsogaming.com/wp-content/plugins/wp-youtube-lyte/lyteCache.php?origThumbUrl=https%3A%2F%2Fi.ytimg.com%2Fvi%2FQ3jjwkckLDw%2F0.jpg)
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I finally updated my system from 3770k to a 9700k thats great news for me.
Instead of getting a 2700X or waiting for the beast that’s going to be the 3700X you got ripped off for the 9700K. Wow.
Next year the 3700X will wipe the floor with both the 9700K, 9900K and whatever the 10700K/10900K Intel i7/i9 will be.
I mainly use my system for gaming, the 2700x is worse than the 8700k/9700k for gaming its single threaded performance is barely above a 4790k, we dont know nothing about the 3700x yet and i could not wait, im from Europe and i was in New York for black friday and even the 9700k had a nice discount and also 32gb ram. So no i dont feel like i was ripped off i saved around 250$ if i would have bought the cpu and ram in my country.
And i wanted the 8700k but it was out of stock.
If i go with the mentality of waiting and waiting for the next best thing i would never upgrade.
Instead of being salty you could just say congratulation on finally updating my old system from 2012.
On one hand, 2700X has the same IPC as Coffee Lake. It’s just that Coffee Lake has higher clock speeds (between 0.8-1.1 GHz more), so it’s faster from that point of view.
From all leaks so far, next gen Ryzen will have faster IPC AND higher clocks than current Ryzen, while Intel will most likely either still be stuck on Skylake IPC with 0.1 GHz higher clocks or launch Cannonlake, which will have the same clocks, but still less IPC improvement than Ryzen 3000, so that will actually place them at an IPC deficit. Sure, those slightly higher clocks will most likely still place Intel slightly ahead in single thread performance, but at the same time, you are paying i7 prices when you can get an “equivalent” next-gen R3/5 with that performance or you can get next-gen Ryzen 7 at LESS THAN i7 prices that will be faster than the current i9 9900K of today.
And all leaks pinpoint for 3700X to offer *more* than i9 9900K number of cores and threads at UNDER i7 9700K prices.
However you spin it, it wasn’t a good decision at all to buy a CPU today, even more so from Intel.
Like i said i could not wait,i was in the usa for black friday and the prices are still better than my country even without the black friday discounts, and i i did my homework, i was very close on getting a ryzen 2700x but after reading benchmarks and youtube video showing gaming performance between 5-20% compared to a stock i7 3770 in cpu bound scenarios in gaming and emulators(my 3770k was even overclocked) it was not worth it so i paid an extra 100 bucks but at least i see a significant improvement even in gpu bound games, i dont experience anymore framedrops in games like bf1 and a much higher average fps,gta 5 got a 30fps improvement in all situations i had not idea how much my 1080 was bottlenecked until i upgraded.
I even managed to sell my old cpu+mobo+ram for 200$ so in the end i managed to not come out dry of this expense.
In the end, you got an upgrade. So enjoy ^.^
Cryio, don’t bust his “America-effect” buddy lol, let the dead bury the dead, so to speak.
I paid 700$ for the cpu and 32gb ram ddr4 at 3200mhz, i would have paid around a 1000$ in my homecountry, america effect or not i still had a good deal buying those parts in the USA instead of my country or even anywhere in Europe
And using “let the dead bury the dead” quote? How condescending of you.
I’m just pulling your leg man 🙂 Merry Christmas chief!
Merry christmas to you as well
Funny how people managed to get a real working PS3 emulator first instead of Xbox360.
I guess no one cared about X360. Maybe due to lack of exclusives. Same with PSVita.
x360 is fully virtualized environment at hardware level. even more than that! its well multi-threaded in case of late games. meanwhile PS3 was singlecore pixel shader 3.0 (DirectX9.0C) ancient cr@p.
I was pretty sure ps3 was using some kind of modified opengl while it was the 360 that used dx9 and some early features of dx10
There’s something off about the emulation but I can’t quite put my finger on it.
I think its the shadows
and shadows are unfiltered making them rough up close, all particle effects are missing (muzzle flash, bullet tracers) and the water is missing its 3D wave deformation. it seems that in order to get it to run the modders have to deactivate a ton of features currently.
lol, please stop posting here on DSOG, Mr. Luckynumber8. enough of your BS comments.
didn’t your mom suck your D*** yet ? Lmao, she must be hungry who**** for sure.
you are nothing but a pile of sh..i….jh
pcmr! lol
What good is this is it still doesn’t support M&K? Hes still using a controller to play the game. Piss on that. Need a mouse or this is just a complete waste of time.
Might be a while before they can break away from using DX12.