PlayStation 3 emulation devs work around an Nvidia bug for up to 37% faster performance — open-source coders reach out to Nvidia to over uncovered bug
The developers of RPCS3 have found a workaround for an Nvidia driver bug and are touting up to 37% performance gains.
The open-source PlayStation 3 emulator RPCS3 developers have discovered a workaround for an Nvidia driver bug that could result in up to a 37% increase in gaming performance on certain PC configurations. In a recent test, the emulator showed a 20% increase in FPS when running Red Dead Redemption on a 13900K + RTX 3080 setup, and a 25% boost with a 9800X3D + RTX 5090 setup.
AMD GPU drivers are not affected by this Nvidia driver bug, so no change in performance is seen with those setups. The RPCS3 team has reached out to Nvidia regarding the issue, but their attempts to establish a communication channel have been unsuccessful. Despite this, they continue to advocate for proper driver bug reporting from Nvidia.
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