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Vulkan
5 articles tagged Vulkan across reviews, guides, and comparisons.
GuideThe Jailbroken PS5 Now Runs Switch Games Natively. The PS3 Half Is Five Months Old.
A Switch emulator now runs as native PS5 homebrew, no Linux involved. PS3 emulation on PS5 is real too, but it runs under Linux and Digital Foundry tested it back in May. The thing that actually changed this month is a Vulkan driver.
2026-09-30
GuideThe Simpsons Game Recompiled Nearly Halved Its Steam Deck GPU Time in One Update
Version 0.0.6.0 made the native renderer default and cut a captured Steam Deck frame from 14.6ms to 8.1ms of GPU time. The Deck is not an afterthought on this project. It is the main test platform.
2026-09-29
GuideAnyPS5 Turns PS5 Games Into Native PC Binaries. It Just Shipped Its First Release.
AnyPS5 is not a PS5 emulator. It rewrites PlayStation 5 executables into native Linux and Windows binaries. A week ago it had no releases and one anonymous game drawing a logo. It now has two releases and a named game running at 60 fps.
2026-09-23
GuideRPCS3 Just Found 37% More Performance. If You Play on a Handheld, You Get None of It.
A 90 line patch worked around an NVIDIA driver bug that had been throttling RPCS3 for years. Gran Turismo 5 gained 40 fps and dropped 2.3GB of VRAM. Every handheld gets exactly zero of it, and the reason is worth understanding.
2026-09-19
GuideFEX, Box64, Proton, DXVK: What Translation Layers Actually Do
FEX, Box64, Proton, DXVK, DXMT, Rosetta, MoltenVK. Every guide to running PC games on ARM throws these names at you at once. Here is what each one does, why they stack, and why every extra layer costs you frames.
2026-09-11