Digital Dreams has shared a video, showing the PS3 version of Uncharted: Drake’s Fortune running on the PC with Reshade Ray Tracing. In order to achieve this, Digital Dreams used the Playstation 3 emulator, RPCS3. Moreover, it used Pascal Glicher’s Reshade Ray Tracing Mod.
Now before continuing, we should note that RPCS3 does not perfectly emulate Uncharted: Drake’s Fortune yet. As such, there are both graphical glitches/bugs and performance issues. Still, it’s really cool witnessing this Reshade Ray Tracing mod in really old games.
As we can clearly see, Uncharted: Drake’s Fortune benefits from Pascal Glicher’s Reshade Ray Tracing Mod. In case you weren’t aware of, the first Uncharted game on PS3 did not use Ambient Occlusion. Thus, the vanilla version looks really flat in a lot of scenes. Not only that, but you can easily notice the light bouncing that comes thanks to this Reshade.
Again, this Ray Tracing solution is not as ideal as proper/native Ray Tracing. As we’ve already reported, Reshade is only using depth information available in screen space in order to provide these “path tracing” effects. Furthermore, the Reshade does not know the light direction which may lead to some “inaccurate” effects.
Neverthless, and even though it’s not as great as native ray tracing, this Reshade can improve the graphics of older games.
Enjoy!
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rtx doesnt fix the horrible lighting around character models.
Cmon man its circa 2007 PS here, theres going to be some compromises and moreover exactly how much time can a team realistically devote to something like this?
NEVER fails, kids these days always find something to complain about. 😉
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Just googled that….I’ll have to take your word for it.
Man, this is just awesome.
The fact that we can not only bring games to PC that were never meant for it, but even enhance them so that they are even better than the original experience is crazy. Especially for a game that came out in 2007!
The RPCS3 devs are pretty amazing.
Err, even with the awkward frame rate and constant weird flicking throughout? It seems your comment was meant for some other game footage.
It’s an in-development emulator dude. Not only that but I was referring to the use of reshade to boost the visuals so they look better than the originals.
do you know how many yeas it took for ps2 emulators to run ratchet and clank properly?
It helps when you realise that a PC is not only emulating mad complex PS3 hardware, it’s managing to do it at native 4K resolution. This was originally just a 720p game.
The article points out the emulation is not yet perfected, but if you’re not impressed just by this technical feat then you don’t know anything about games…..
Still looks like it’s past its due date.
Even better if Sony port Uncharted Collection to PC,its an old game and i’m sure they will get some extra bucks from PC version. Everybody happy…
I wouldn’t mind having the Uncharted Collection on PC, I thought they did a good job and it was nice to play the 3 games at 60fps but it’s a shame that they didn’t remaster the multiplayer and co-op.
I guess people buy uncharted for its story campaign,not multiplayer. So maybe Bluepoint Games decided to scrap the multiplayer
They would have to get somebody to do it then. But do they hand it over to morons that will do a horrible job of an over decade old game because Sony obviously aren’t going to waste a single employee’s time currently at Naughty Dog to work on it.
They can outsource it to Bluepoint Games or Qloc..
Well hopefully this 13 year old game will be “better” one day because here and in 2020 it simply still is not. And yes, of course there is no point in getting a PS3 console now with PS5 out in 6 months lol.
I wish booting a game on RPCS3 was as easy as on Xenia emulator.