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KytyPS5 (PS5 Emulator) can now run GTA V at 60fps for few minutes before crashing
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Weird.
That's how the PC version was at launch for me.
And you'll need 1 whole data center to run the emulator.
The PC running it has a Ryzen 7 9950X3D CPU and an RX 7900 XT GPU
Seems very CPU dependant.
That's pretty typical of emulators.
To be fair it shouldn't take too much CPU as ps4/5 emulation relies a lot on translation rather as emulation because ps5 is just zen2 apu
That was what I was gping to build before prices went crazy 🥲
Isn't PS5 x86?
On a normal PC that's more like specialized virtualization rather than emulation. It should run decent.
It’s emulation. The CPU architecture is only one piece of the puzzle. The PS5 runs a custom operating system with custom graphics APIs and unified memory.
Isn't Proton solving the same problem though?
Yes. But Proton has the advantage of working with well documented APIs on both sides. All the PS5 stuff is proprietary and has to be reverse engineered, that’s why it doesn’t work so well.
Maybe i am not understanding well but all this seems just a translation layer to me
The problem is that you don't really know from what you're translating.
But why does that make a difference? Regardless of whether you reverse engineer an API or have the full documentation available, when you translate from it to something else, you're building the same thing: an API translator. It doesn't change whether it's an emulator.
Traditionally, "emulator" refers to hardware emulation. APIs are reverse engineered, mocked, translated, etc. all the time, but we don't call it "emulation".
Even simply mimicking the behavior of a unified virtual memory space is not called "emulation", unless there are hardware-specific quirks that need to be emulated (which may very well be the case for PS5 caches, I don't know).
Ok, so if it's translating to a reverse engineered API, it's emulation. But if it uses the proprietary documentation and does the same exact translation it....wouldn't be emulation anymore? What part are we saying is being emulated again?
You don't really need to emulate stuff, you need to reimplement the APIs, and those aren't well documented, at least not publicly.
I didn’t say anything to that effect
I'm trying to understand, what is being emulated?
You said it's emulation because it handles ps5's graphics APIs and unified memory. I noted that proton is also translating vulkan to another graphics API. You said it's different because the api we're targeting is proprietary and needs to be reverse engineered, implying that is the distinction. Right?
So then doesn't that imply that if we did the same thing, but without needing to reverse engineer anything, it would now be an apples-to-apples comparison with what proton is doing?
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It's a mix - some functions are emulated but the CPU functions can be largely just passed through
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Emulation of a system running x86_64 on an x86_64 system is like moronic Inception.
The issue is the proprietary graphics API needs to be emulated. Also OS calls.
Capitalism is amazingest
Genuine question, why is this downvoted? Or am I dummy?
Same boat. Because a company abusing a hardware standard so much you basically have to emulate things, is the result of capitalism.
I'd guess it's downvoted because the quote has no relevance whatsoever to the discussion
Beats me. If the USSR had won the Cold War and taken over the world, we'd all have way better games consoles AND they'd be given out for free to everyone who asked.
You still had to pay for shit in the USSR, you just had less options and high demand items like cars could have a years long wait list.
Fuck cars and fuck USSR
ya .. I might have been trolling a little bit 😁
Probably a bot
PS4 and PS5 emulators I don't think any of them actually emulate the CPU at least. This is more like QEMU and WINE, sort of. They do emulate some stuff like parts of the firmware, memory management, input/output systems, Graphics API.
The first PS4 emulator that got in-game with a few 2D titles was literally just a modified version of QEMU as a proof of concept. Only ran on Unix based operating systems because the PS4 runs a modified version of FreeBSD.
And how many fps does it run after the crash?
I can barely play for 5 minutes without crashing the car.
Since PS5 is actually x86 isn’t this more like a VM than an actual emulator?
Looking forward to SAMTIME referring to this as the "Kittai PS5"
Wtf is going on with the generic compatibility list?
I should pirate GTA VI and try to play it on this.
Isn't that the kinda thing that got yuzu and ryujinx switch emulators in trouble (totk)
From what I understand, the developers of those emulators supposedly supported piracy.
When gta 6? I hope before PC release
Granted. PC release coming in 2049
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