RCPS3 Emulator - runs SCIV & SCV on PC!

Psykai said:
This looks amazing. I've wanted a way to play/record Soul Calibur games for the longest time (and SCVI on PS4 will finally allow me to do so) but when I tried emulating the PS2 games, it had horrendous, unplayable lag (and I have a pretty high quality PC). I have no idea how this could work so much better than a Ps2 emulator but I'ma give it a shot :)

EDIT: Yeeeaaah after spending hours downloading/installing etc. it ran at like 3 FPS. Total waste of time. It does work though so if you have a NASA-standard computer then have fun XD
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Are you just trying to run it with just the CPU, or do you have the GPU involved as well? A PS2 emulator shouldn't be murdering a decent PC. I've gotten EPSX2 to run better than that on a Core 2 duo system before...
 
To be honest I'm not very tech-savy when it comes to emulation and I have zero patience so if I can't fix it in a few minutes I generally give up, lol. I'm not really sure what GPU even is, lol. I assume it's graphics related?

The only game I've ever managed to get working at near 100% speed is .hack Infection. Pretty much every other game has differing severities of lag but fighting games seem to be the worst offenders (the old Naruto Ultimate Ninja games are unplayably laggy too).

I just assumed PS2 emulation isn't in a reliable state yet but since SCVI was announced I thought I'd give it one more shot.
 
PS2 emulation (PCSX2) was also slow on my computer.... until.... guess what? I used a semi-decent graphics card/GPU. Now SCIII/AE mod works perfect! Demul is now also good for SoulCalibur DC.

PPSSPP (SCIV BD) and Dolphin (SCII) did not depend on my graphics card/GPU - can work pretty good with any on-board graphics - even on Android. SC1 Android proper is not available anymore but can be downloaded and installed unofficially (see Youtube videos) - need to relax your security settings otherwise it will not run.

For Arcade SC1 need use MameUI64 - actually runs too fast due to a speed bug - but there are 2 fixes available: either change display mode to GDI to slow it down or edit the soulclbr.ini settings to change the speed to about 0.8:
# CORE PERFORMANCE OPTIONS
autoframeskip 0
frameskip 0
seconds_to_run 0
throttle 1
sleep 1
speed 0.8
refreshspeed 0

Going back to PS3 emulation, SCII HD Online (NPUB31366) is also available for RPCS3 emulator;

Xbox emulation, unfortunately, is not quite there yet re: SC.
 
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WuHT said:
It came straight from one of the developers, not some random blogger giving anecdotal "evidence".
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It's also just how emulators work. Even for a while the PCSX2 and Dolphin emulators were generally considered not particularly viable due to the constraints caused by how much of the emulation is being done on the CPU side. I have literally the most powerful graphics card you can buy on a consumer level, and I still don't run RPCS3 at full speed. This goes beyond anecdotal, this is just the facts.
 
Von_Blackhardt said:
It's also just how emulators work. Even for a while the PCSX2 and Dolphin emulators were generally considered not particularly viable due to the constraints caused by how much of the emulation is being done on the CPU side. I have literally the most powerful graphics card you can buy on a consumer level, and I still don't run RPCS3 at full speed. This goes beyond anecdotal, this is just the facts.
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What graphics card you got?
 
Psykai said:
To be honest I'm not very tech-savy when it comes to emulation and I have zero patience so if I can't fix it in a few minutes I generally give up, lol. I'm not really sure what GPU even is, lol. I assume it's graphics related?

The only game I've ever managed to get working at near 100% speed is .hack Infection. Pretty much every other game has differing severities of lag but fighting games seem to be the worst offenders (the old Naruto Ultimate Ninja games are unplayably laggy too).

I just assumed PS2 emulation isn't in a reliable state yet but since SCVI was announced I thought I'd give it one more shot.
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If you can run an emulator and get your graphics card taking some of the work off the CPU, (that's usually the DX9-12 mode) it should run a lot better.

In the case of the emulator this thread's about, I just tried it out with my other PC. A Ryzen 1700 (at stock settings, have to see if an OC makes a huge difference) paired with a GTX 1070. It ran the game at a playable framerate, but it didn't feel anywhere near 60fps. The sound was also super scratchy. It's cool that it runs at all, but SCIV is definitely not 100% yet on that emulator.

Ok, tried it with the CPU at 3.8ghz. It definitely ran smoother at that setting and the sound actually worked as it's supposed to. Story mode loves to randomly hang tho. Not surprisingly the emulator loves fast CPU cores. Looks pretty good at 1440p tho.
 
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Marginal said:
If you can run an emulator and get your graphics card taking some of the work off the CPU, (that's usually the DX9-12 mode) it should run a lot better.
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I'm not sure where to go to set this up. I went into the graphics plugin of my emulator but can't see any options or drop downs that say DX9-12. Is it something I have to setup on the PC itself (control panel?)
 
Psykai said:
I'm not sure where to go to set this up. I went into the graphics plugin of my emulator but can't see any options or drop downs that say DX9-12. Is it something I have to setup on the PC itself (control panel?)
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PCSX2 = Config menu > Video (GS) > Plugin settings... (choose DX11 Hardware)
pcsx2.jpg


RPCS3 = Configuration menu > GPU... (chose Vulkan)
ps3.jpg

Most other settings can be left as default.
 
Psykai said:
I'm not sure where to go to set this up. I went into the graphics plugin of my emulator but can't see any options or drop downs that say DX9-12. Is it something I have to setup on the PC itself (control panel?)
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In PCSX2, you choose the video, then select plugin settings. That should let you pick DX if you have any graphics acceleration in your PC.

Also this may be helpful
 
How come all these emulator gameplay videos always have such awful gameplay? SC isn't even hard to play, but the people doing these demos don't even try.
 
Yeah I don't mind not being able to run PS3 (I still have that hooked up to the TV, but I have family staying over and hogging it so thought I'd try alternate methods, lol)

It'd be nice to get Ps2 emu working though because my Ps2 is pretty much dead (and lack of wireless controler is annoying). Anything I can do with the CPU or do I just not have enough memory to run it? I have an 8GB of Memory which I thought should be plenty.
 
Psykai said:
Yeah I don't mind not being able to run PS3 (I still have that hooked up to the TV, but I have family staying over and hogging it so thought I'd try alternate methods, lol)

It'd be nice to get Ps2 emu working though because my Ps2 is pretty much dead (and lack of wireless controler is annoying). Anything I can do with the CPU or do I just not have enough memory to run it? I have an 8GB of Memory which I thought should be plenty.
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The RAM's fine. It's the number of cores you have and the fact they both run fairly slow.
 
I was running it at 30-45ish fps in actual fights and 55-60 in CAS
|i5-7400 @3.00 GHZ | 8GB RAM| Nvidia GTX 1060|

I'm impressed with this emulator so far, give it a couple of years and it'll probably catch up to Dolphin and CEMU
 

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Norik said:
How come all these emulator gameplay videos always have such awful gameplay? SC isn't even hard to play, but the people doing these demos don't even try.
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I just uploaded one. Should be 1440p once it finally processes fully.


Of course it was me remembering how to play Cassie on the fly after not doing anything with the game for 4+ years... (There is a notable performance hit while I'm recording that I don't experience when playing normally BTW. Sound doesn't glitch etc when I don't have to share my CPU resources.)
 
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