Red Dead Redemption PC Emulator is Making Slow Progress

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Emulation efforts to get the PlayStation 3 version of Red Dead Redemption up and running on PC are making slow progress, but it’s still progress. Today the RPCS3 group, the team behind the “world’s first” open-source PlayStation 3 emulator on PC, released a new video of Red Dead Redemption‘s PC emulation. While it’s running at very low frame-rates and features some extremely apparent bugs, it is running.

RPCS3 also provided a brief summary of its progress in the description provided with the video:

“Until just a few days ago Red Dead Redemption would only load up to the main menu and show a few frames before hanging. Some persistent users could quickly get ingame from there, but once again it would only show a few frames before hanging. With recent improvements to graphics emulation thanks to Jarves the game can now continue to run without hanging and we can finally go ingame and control the (sometimes invisible) character.”


All of that is to say the improvements made in emulating Red Dead Redemption are entirely due to direct improvements made to the emulator itself. This isn’t a mod where the developers are trying to fix Red Dead Redemption itself, but rather just issues emulating the PlayStation 3 on PC. The hardware is very different and it’s going to take a lot of time to get it right. And even then, the PC hardware necessary to emulate PlayStation 3 games may be beyond what the average enthusiast PC can put out.

Red Dead Redemption just happens to be the perfect example for RPCS3’s recent progress, but other games than Red Dead Redemption are running much better on PC. For example, Demon’s Souls was shown running on the emulator back in March. Since then, huge improvements have been made with games like Ni no Kuni, Naruto: Ultimate Ninja Storm, and Soul Calibur 4.



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Source: https://gamerant.com/red-dead-redemption-pc-emulator/

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TOXICPosted:

So hyped for red dead, just a shame its not being released until 2018.

SeamPosted:

Maybe soon PC players will finally get to experience the excellence of RDR

CykaPosted:

I can't wait for this to release so all the pc only players can once enjoy this great title.

k3rryPosted:

Wow, must be pretty hard to emulate something then, I mean I would assume so considering you're taking a game designed for one console and putting it on a different one.

SakonPosted:

I cant wait for this game!

EchoPosted:

I'm just dieing for RDR2 to come out. The hype's real

ProJimmyRustlerPosted:

I'm really impressed by this.
If you look at Xenia (Xbox 360 Emulator), their project has made alot of progress toward getting RDR to run on PC.
From the looks of it, the PS3 emulator has surpassed them by a lot.
Compared to the XBox 360 emulator, I would not consider this slow progress.
Nice to see the work that both have made though.

MajPosted:

The hype is real. So excited for RDR

VatasyPosted:

Cant wait until they get it fully working, hopefully you will be able to do multiplayer.