PPSSPP Adds Vulkan On Linux Support

[phoronix]

Phoronix: PPSSPP Adds Vulkan On Linux Support

The PPSSPP emulator project allowing Sony PSP games to be played on multiple platforms has now added Vulkan support on Linux...

http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=PPSSPP-Vulkan-Linux

[tildearrow]

Typo:

there is also GPU command intepreter performance improvements

(I might be wrong about the first one, but it's talking about many)

[perpetually high]

I started using PPSSPP two weeks ago. Such an amazing emulator, highly recommend. The graphics are literally current gen on God Of War, Twisted Metal, and Grand Theft Auto.

Excited for the Vulkan support.

edit: In case no one believes me: https://i.imgur.com/YTvvBZ4.jpg

[-MacNuke-]

I started using PPSSPP two weeks ago. Such an amazing emulator, highly recommend. The graphics are literally current gen on God Of War, Twisted Metal, and Grand Theft Auto.

Excited for the Vulkan support.

edit: In case no one believes me: https://i.imgur.com/YTvvBZ4.jpg

Well... current gen... no... this is a graphic level from year 2002-2005. GameCube/PS2 level. It does not look bad but it is everything but "current gen".

[pinguinpc]

Their PPA doesn't support 18.04

Try use retrogames ppa in my case works

https://launchpad.net/~samoilov-lex/...ntu/retrogames

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

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

[perpetually high]

Well... current gen... no... this is a graphic level from year 2002-2005. GameCube/PS2 level. It does not look bad but it is everything but "current gen".

Yeah fair enough. For me graphics have reached a certain point where I don't care anymore, it's "nice" enough for me to really enjoy the game. To each their own on that opinion though.

[perpetually high]

Their PPA doesn't support 18.04

Their daily PPA works great on 18.04, not sure which one you're using. To install:

$ sudo add-apt-repository ppa:ppsspp/testing
$ sudo apt update
$ sudo apt install ppsspp

[davidbepo]

vulkan support has been there for a while, in fact ive been using it, today it is just the first stable release containig it

[spykes]

Did anyone manage to get it working on Fedora 28 ?
I tried their Linux binary build (all of them), and I got a segfault everytime.

> ./PPSSPPSDL
I: VulkanLoader.cpp:290: Vulkan test instance created successfully.
I: VulkanLoader.cpp:324: Found working Vulkan API!
Vulkan might be available.
Segmentation fault (core dumped)