Using PS4 Linux and the AMDGPU-PRO driver Hector Martin has managed to get Vulkan software running on a PS4.
The Dolphin Emulator team has recently shared a new statement to clarify the situation. The software is unfortunately not releasing on Steam.
Well, they wouldn't risk it.
Sure they could try to bury Dolphin in legal shenanigans, but they always run the risk of losing like previous lawsuits against this kind of software. And the ramifications of that would be disastrous for a company like Nintendo. That said, Dolphin not pushing their luck is also a smart direction.
I really wish we adjusted our laws that if a product is off the retail market for 5+ years, it gets put into open emulation arena to maintain the content. And Disney shouldn't be allowed to vault content away from the world as well.
Who am I kidding? These people run the world. What we see is decided by them.
I'm not surprised, especially when you know how blood thirsty Nintendo's lawyers are, then again, for anyone who wants the emulator, they can probably add it with extra steps to Steam's Retro Arch or Steam Deck anyway.
Someone want to explain the down votes? It doesn't make sense when I've only spoken facts.
Why would anyone need Steam to run Dolphin anyway? It works fine as a standalone download.
Because it would open Dolphin up for easy access for all SteamDeck users, and Steam users will allow online multiplayer mods to be easily implemented for a larger community.
Things can only get better, right?
Yes. But this is day one support from AMD. Let’s see how things are in 2-12 months.
In that time, Nvidia will not stand still, they will keep improving their ray tracing technology as well. I have a feeling nvidia will keep the advantage for the foreseeable future.
@Ristul
There is a peak performance limit (with diminishing returns the closer one gets to the limit) and AMD is likely a lot further from that limit with day one optimization than nvidia is with 2 years of optimization. So it’s likely the gap can only go down. And I’m not an AMD guy. Just pointing out the obvious.
Looks like I made the right call getting the 3080... phew. I know ray tracing isn't the be all and end all but when the cost is so close its good to know that I got the more capable card. Also RTX and dlss are frickin awesome!
me too. I had preordered an ASUS Strix 3080 but it took a while for the order to finally ship to me. Contemplated cancelling and then holding out for the 6800 XT. But glad I stuck it out. It will be a while before AMD can match Nvidia in the ray tracing department. And like you said, DLSS is pretty amazing.
I look at you in anger as I got stuck with a 3060 Ti, but it'll hold me over until the 5nm RTX 4000 series which is what I'm really looking for lol. Congrats on the 3080.
"Stuck with" you say! I chuff in your direction, sir! I look at you in anger as I actually wanted a 3060Ti, but couldn't manage to get my hands on one. Signed up to EVGAs notification system and all, still no dice :-(.
I kid, of course. I'm still stuck on my GTX 1080, so feel good about what ya got :-p.
Still mostly happy with it, surprisingly, but I'm ready for the upgrade now at a little over 3.5 years. I like sticking to the $400 price range on GPUs, so that's how I'm looking at this. That even though the xx60 series is 2 rungs lower in the product stack than my xx80 series, it provides a huge rasterization uplift in the same pricing tier and includes some extra bells and whistles.
RT and DLSS will be great on the few games that support it, but I'm still mostly looking at pure rasterization at this point. That said, Nvidia is still the better bet right now for similar money (unless you need the bigger frame buffer - 16GB on all AMD cards is nice in our 4k/high texture future). They currently have the more mature RT implementation, and DLSS can make a huge difference - but even more so, if there's any chance the rumors of DLSS 3.0 allowing for basic abilities on any game that supports TAA, that's a bet worth taking on RTX. At least until AMD shows what their solution is.
Same here...I think the 20 series was not fast enough for proper Ray Tracing, which is why I gave it a skip, but the 30 series is where it is going to start exploding. It is finally fast enough and we are going to see the support grow exponentially from here on out. Give it a few years and the majority of AAA games will have a Ray Tracing option.
Im gonna stick and still get the 6800xt cheaper on price and it and its very close to the 3080 in terms of performance without raytracing. As much as it looks good on raytracing mode but i just wait be4 it becomes the new normal so im just happy to play everythink on very high/ultra at a smooth framerate
Vulkan has come to Rainbow Six@ Siege's PC version, and it's bringing a major performance boost to modern graphics cards.
Yes but it's not like it will have any benefits this way, it's just an exploit, not an actual feature.
Pretty cool.
And knowing sony. They will just send a update to remove it. We all remember what happened with Other OS
People really are too cheap to pay for new games aren't they?
That's awesome!
I mean, I have my Wii U modded and it runs all my GameCube and Wii from SD card. Best of all they run natively, and native Wiimote support for the Wii games.
I do uses Dolphin on my PC though. Which is probably more powerful than my PS4 Pro (though not by much, it's kind of geared towards emulation with less cores but higher clock speed)