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The PSP emulator, PPSSPP [Official Site], recently had a pretty big release which now defaults to Vulkan as the main renderer. They also enabled a shader cache for Vulkan too, which should help smoothen a few games out.

This is great, especially since PPSSPP is free and open source under the GPL and you can check it out on GitHub.

They didn't just work on improving their Vulkan support, as the OpenGL backend also gained proper multithreaded support to give a speed boost too. Useful for those where Vulkan doesn't quite work right just yet.

This release also comes with various other performance improvements and bug fixes. They mention Retroarch support like it's new, but looking around it seems that's been a thing for a while which is confusing.

Great to see another emulator pushing forward to keep a platform alive. I don't really do any emulation personally, but it's great for those that do.

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Tags: Emulation, Vulkan
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mrdeathjr Jun 4, 2018
However vulkan have issues

Various issues stay in 1.7.0 development for solved case resize windowed using vulkan

But in middle of this, them add opengl multithreading acccording devs this shows performance improvement

OpenGL backend now properly multithreaded, giving a
good speed boost.


In my case stay running good

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=StmdROzXE3Y

System Specs Used in Test

Nvidia Drivers 396.24 (run package from nvidia drivers homepage)

Xubuntu 18.04 x64 - Kernel 4.15.0-22 generic (ubuntu mainline) -
CPUFreq: Performance

CPU: Core i3 8350K Tri-Core (Coffelake 14nm) 5.0Ghz +
CoolerMaster Hyper T4

MEMORY: 8GB DDR4 2400mhz (4x2) Mushkin (dual channel: 37.5
gb/s)

GPU: Gigabyte Nvidia Geforce GTX 1050 OC (GP107 14nm: 640
Shaders / 40 TMUS / 32 ROPS) Windforce 2GB DDR5 7000Mhz
128Bit (110Gb/s)

MAINBOARD: ASUS Z370-P

^_^


Last edited by mrdeathjr on 4 June 2018 at 5:08 am UTC
RTheren Jun 4, 2018
Nice. Haven't used it for years though. Might give it a shot
Yaumeister Jun 4, 2018
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Anyone know whether the Flathub version is official?
haspadar Jun 4, 2018
What game is on the screenshot?
tuubi Jun 4, 2018
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Quoting: velemasWhat game is on the screenshot?
That was a quick search: Monster Hunter Freedom Unite. :)
haspadar Jun 4, 2018
Quoting: tuubi
Quoting: velemasWhat game is on the screenshot?
That was a quick search: Monster Hunter Freedom Unite. :)
Thanks :)
Typijay Jun 17, 2018
I think this is even greater news on phones. Games are finally playable now on a low-end SnapDragon 400 phone, where on a mid-range SnapDragon 615 two-three years ago couldn't get a good framerate and so resulted in constant audio lag. (SD615 got close when I dropped it to 2x rendering res and heavy frameskip, but the audio was still crackly enough to keep me away).

These aren't vulkan enabled chipsets either, but it's likely due in no small part to the Opengl multithreading.

On the PC Side: (I'm on RX 560 with Mesa 17.2)
Vulkan seems to hold framerate slightly higher with the same settings enabled, OpenGL seems to drop harder when it does.
However, the buggy fullscreen/window resizing is a point of contention, and the audio slowdowns are not noticably better
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