RPCS 3 sees major performance improvements with the Vulkan API

The team behind the best Playstation 3 emulator, RPCS 3, has released a new video, showing some major performance improvements that have been made in its graphics emulation. This video shows a number of PS3 commercial games running via the emulator’s Vulkan renderer.

 

Going into more details, the team showcased six games: Catherine, Demon’s Souls, Atelier Ayesha: The Alchemist of Dusk, Ice Age: Dawn of the Dinosaurs, Digimon: All-Star Rumble and Tekken Tag Tournament HD.

 

As you will see, Atelier Ayesha: The Alchemist of Dusk received the biggest framerate improvement. The game was unplayable prior to the Vulkan API update, running at only 7-8fps. With the Vulkan update, the game now runs with more than 30fps. Simply wow.

 

Enjoy the video!

 

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But video can't show the real improvement. It can be simply rendered without realtime :)



Solar

Oh wow, makes me realise I haven't been paying any attention to PS3 emulation ever since I turned my attentions to the excellent work being done by the Cemu team (Cemu is a WiiU emulator in case anyone wasn't aware). I'll have to take a closer look at this, thanks very much for the news!

Cheers!