so much appreciation and love for everyone that made this possible, I'm on my second run in Bloodborne, and i can't be happier, but i wish i get to play God of war 3 remastered, the only game of the franchise that i haven't played yet, anyway thank you for all this amazing work y'all doing we appreciate you and we love you guys (by we i mean the ones that didn't help developing this because i don't know a thing about programing and all lol).

Bloodborne seems to be going well so far, and a lot of people have been able to clear through the game. I don’t know if this emulator was made strictly for bloodborne or for ps4 games in general, but would love if other games like shadow of the colossus or infamous second son could be worked on instead of just focusing on bloodborne. Do you think these games will ever run on this emulator?

shadPS4 is nearing 1.0 version. Most of topics in community is about Bloodborne. I'm very happy that I can replay my favorite From Software game with good graphics and 60 fps. But guys, it's really almost 1.0. Do we have other playable exclusive titles?

I understand that majority of playable games for this emulator has more todo with being "trickle-down" programming for Bloodborne. Where the developments main focus is improving upon the emulator so that it benefits bloodborne first and foremost, and if another game becomes playable as a result then its a bonus.
But I'm very surprised that SOTC still does not even launch, yet I know of 18 ps4 games that are able to launch with varying degrees of performance. Normally I wouldn't bring this up, but the reason I am is because:

SOTC could run really well for all we know

but we won't know until we get past the launch screen. Now I'm not well versed whats going on behind the scenes with shadps4, it could be a huge programming hurdle thatll take months, it could be something small that will take them 5 minutes, or maybe even something having todo with the legalities of it. If anyone knows the reason, definitely share it.

For those wondering about the performance on older hardware like mine, I'm here to confirm that you can play Bloodborne just fine with my specs or with similar hardware, mine are: i7-4790k (it's not overclocked), RX 580 8GB and 16GB of Ram, I'm playing it on 1080p at a solid 30 fps because my PC can't handle 60 fps with the emulator patch, however, I can get 60 fps just fine using Lossless Scaling from Steam, and that's how I'm playing it currently, I'm playing it at 60 fps and I have a couple of hours in and it's great, I'm using the diegolix29 build.

Not only that, my PC is currently running slower because I undervolted my GPU to get less heat and because my Power Supply isn't that powerful so I want it to be less stressed too, so my GPU is a bit less than the RX 580 right now, and I'm also using 99% of the CPU to get less heat as well, I changed my CPU from 100% to 99% in the power settings, so my CPU is slower and even with my less powerful specs, I'm still playing just fine at 60 fps almost all the time.

I'm still in the first area and fought the 1st optional boss Cleric Beast (Great Bridge), and so far this game is running great with my specs, with some crashes obviously which is a shame, I get like 1 crash around an hour or so, sometimes it doesn't crash in 2 hours, etc... I wished this emulator was more stable, but I couldn't wait any longer and started playing Bloodborne. I don't know if the fps will decrease later on in other maps, but so far in the 1st map I'm playing just fine with 30 fps and using Lossless Scaling to get 60 fps and it's solid, with a few dips here and there, but it gets to 60 fps right after.

I did notice however, that on rare occasions, the game starts to lag, I can't reproduce the issue, it just happens randomly, I'm playing just fine and suddenly I get around 26 fps and the game stays like that and feels sluggish, so with Lossless Scaling I don't have 60 fps anymore, I have like 52 fps. Every time this happens I just close the emulator and start it up again, and then it gets fixed and I can play again for a good while, this issue happens once every 45 minutes or so, sometimes it doesn't happen for hours, it's very weird. I don't know if it's a memory leak, or maybe it's something else, whatever it is, it has nothing to do with my specs since I can just restart the emulator and that specific issue gets fixed for a good while.

I'm currently using 2 mods: SFX intel Fix Particles v2 and Vertex Explosion fix, they are necessary, I don't know if I need to use other mods later on to fix whatever other issue the emulator has but so far, this game works great on my specs apart from those issues I described.

Been wanting to play the PS4 remake since 2017/2018.

I'm glad to see Bloodbourne working but when is Shadow Of Colossus gonna get some love <3

inFAMOUS Second Son™ + inFAMOUS™ First Light on shadps4 (Playable)

So I have been having issue where my game will stutter a lot and the framerate won’t stay at a consistent 60. I tried used an fps stabilizer and that hardly helped at all. I then tried 30 fps without the patch to remove input delay but the movement of the camera was bugging out and screen tearing a ton. I discovered that if I turn on motion blur and 60fps patch, I can have a somewhat smoother experience. The problem now is that I drop frames a lot more often and I still have the audio pops. I am not sure why my audio does that. I have an rtx 4060ti 16GB and an i5 9400f 2.60GHz cpu. I don’t believe I should be having frame drops like this to be honest and I’m not sure how to fix it. I don’t have any performance mods so that might be the issue. Please let me know if you know anything.

I may be out of the loop but what's the next game on the list, one post said sonic frontiers which is nice but idk if it's official, ik the devs try multiple games but what's the next big one? Also I wonder if VR emulation is even possible

Diego’s builds finally fixed the issue with the Linux builds not working. Now I can load into the game and actually play. Though there are a few issues. One the crashing/intermittent freezing seem quite prevalent, but that’s understandable given the nature of the project still being a wip. Also geometry will not load in quite a lot of the time, so you need to quit to the main menu and reload the save to hope that it loads in, if not then you need to restart the entire game and try that a few times till it loads in properly. Another issue I came across seems to be that when hitting certain points, shaders need to be complied if that would be the correct term, as the game will freeze but not crash, and after maybe a min or two will come back with geometry missing. Once this happens though a quick quit to main menu and back fixes it will loading back the geometry and game looking awesome. Performance is also pretty good all things considered and I hope we can get more optimizations in the future.

Edit: I do want to say the crashing happens a lot in terms of loading the save, at least for me.

Edit #2: ok so I figured out the missing ui elements issue I had. Literally just had to use the 1280x800 patch in shadps4, that’s it. Now on every load I get the ui to load correctly even with my Xbox prompt mod, which is awesome. Now really the only issue is the inconsistent performance, which I imagine will slowly get smoothed over eventually. Otherwise it’s amazing and I have beaten Amelia already.

I guess all the videos that we see every day on Youtube use a combination of patches and mods that make the game behave normally and be mostly playable.

Without mods the story is different. There is no sound and the main character is covered in bright yellow light as are all the surrounding light sources.

What I'm trying to say is that there is a disparity between the actual state of the emulator as is and what can be achieved with mods which require a certain degree of research and work.

In my opinion, new users users should know the above and avoid needless frustration.

That's it, I played the game when it came out but dumb of me deleted it, now I am waiting for the devs to make it playable through this emulator.

Question

I have a ryzen 5 7600x PC with 7900XT and 32 GB ram, will I be able to run bloodborne smoothly in the current version of the emulator?

Uncharted 1-3, Gow 3 and Infamous 1 and 2

Use the windows EVENT VIEWER app and check the source of the crash.

Personally I had such crashes, and first the issue were the MICROSOFT VISUAL C++ drivers.

Fixed that, then it still crashed, but then the new crash source was VULKAN. ShadPs4 requires VULKAN 1.3 compatible drivers (I had 1.2).

Event Viewer is your friend. I hope it helps. Cheers

I'm really excited about progress of the emulator but can't stand seeing the same three posts on this subreddit every day. I wasn't sure if anyone had any specific social media pages I can follow or updates or if there was a way to sign up for updates directly from GitHub.

I remember people saying PS4 emulation would be hard on PC, regardless of the x86-64 ISA, because the PS4 has a unified memory of 176 GB/s and some games utilize zero-copy (CPU/GPU processing common data sets with common memory pointers).

On PCs with discrete CPU/GPU you have the PCIe latency penalty, which prohibits zero-copy operations.

Can someone explain how this emulator deals with this issue?

I'm impressed by the progress in Bloodborne, but is there any chance Uncharted 4 will be really hard to emulate due to hUMA/zero-copy operations?

Thanks in advance.

(I've already posted this over on /r/BloodbornePC, also posting here for maximum visibilty).

You only need watch the first five minutes for a reasonable summary of the current situation but it's well worth watching all of the video:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xJgz3ERH6z8

This cuts through the crap that's being perpetuated by certain individuals who consistently make videos and tweets for clicks and end up over-hyping how well Bloodborne is running - this only leads to disappointment and puts more pressure on the main ShadPS4 devs.

Note that the creator of the video, fromsoftserve, is NOT one of the main ShadPS4 devs, he has though tinkered with the emulator for fun and created assorted mods and videos for various FromSoftware games over the past couple of years.

This project is great, we need video game preservation and I applaud everyone contributing to it. But let's face it, the biggest reason people are interested in this is because of games not released on pc, making a huge case for developers to port their games. Luckily, Sony understood this and port most of their games on pc now (not like in the 2010). I bought nearly all their release on Steam. But for instance one developer alone (Japan Studio) didn't port any game to pc so it's no wonder pc gamers want to play their games (bloodborne, gravity rush, sotc, tlg) and are fed up to be left behind nearly ten years later.

So everyone one main focus is Bloodborne for right now and i totally understand it but has anyone tried shadow of colossus remake?

of all the exclusives this is the one. any news on the progress for this?

do u guys think we will run tlou2 on shadps4 before pc release in 2025?