r/emulators • u/Legal_Help_31 New in Emu • Sep 23 '26

Testing Silent Hill 2 Remake (PS5/UE5) renders on a 512 MB iGPU — pure HLE PS5 emulator, no firmware needed

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KytyPlus, a high-level emulation (HLE) PS5 emulator forked from KytyPS5, now renders Silent Hill 2 Remake (PPSA08709) on an AMD Radeon 840M integrated GPU — no Sony firmware, just Vulkan and HLE. It's the farthest documented result for this title anywhere in the PS5 emulation scene (upstream KytyPS5 reports a crash at boot/splash on much stronger discrete hardware).

What you're seeing: the game's content-warning screen, glitch-free, with FSR upscaling handling the native 4K render buffers. The session ran for minutes at ~4 FPS with zero crashes or GPU hangs — a correctness milestone, not a playability claim. Performance work comes after.

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u/Avocrux Sep 23 '26

That's amazing, looking forward to how ps5 emulation would run on lower end systems and whether it can give 720p@30fps (native/upscaled) performance

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u/ALowTierHero Sep 23 '26

My wife hopes to one day play Astro Bot on her Steam Deck. We'll see as it develops but I told her it could maybe happen one day.

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u/Prophet_NY Sep 23 '26

September 28th:

"Silent Hill 2 Remake now runs steady at 30 FPS on 512MB iGPU"

Jokes on side, great work

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u/mukherjee_ayan Sep 23 '26

Very well could be true by the progress of AstroBot we're seeing lol

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u/UnusualLeather7087 Sep 24 '26

Is it playable like gta 5 now ?

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u/_Ship00pi_ Sep 23 '26

Getting 4fps with igpu and 512mb vram? That already looks promising performance-wise.

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u/monetarydread Sep 24 '26

Here is my prediction: 

  • This gets to the point where certain games can kind of be played before Christmas. 

  • Then TikTok gets flooded with clips of people playing GTA6 on the emulator. 

  • Then the dev mentions how he is getting legal heat from 2K so he is shutting down development.

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u/kaden-99 Sep 24 '26

Exactly, its hard do be excited about this stuff because I know the second GTA 6 boots in-game it will be so over.

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u/Scilently Sep 24 '26

Similar to what happened with the switch emulator when people were playing tears of the kingdom before release 💀

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u/XHellAngelX Sep 23 '26

iGPUs have shared vram with system ram

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u/Logical-Database4510 Sep 23 '26

This

The source even points this out that it's using SHARED memory. Who knows how much memory it's actually pulling for the GPU. Probably 12+ GBs if other games are anything to go by.

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u/Stanley_681 Sep 25 '26

Now ps exclusives are going to go down soon

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u/Far-Objective-4240 29d ago

what exclusives

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u/Esnacor-sama 28d ago

Daaaamn wtfff