The essential piece of hardware in the equation is, indeed.
That said there are also some pretty damn cool differences about it, though some are pretty stupid. Two things are essential to playing Red Dead Redemption on PC: the Windows 10 operating system, and an Xbox One.Yes, you read correctly.
The ps4 also has specific drivers for its graphics chip in such distros as well, and actually runs pcsx2 pretty well. First off, whatever os the ps4 is based on runs off of modified freebsd, meaning it shares a lot of vulnerabilities with it, such that people have loaded Linux onto them through exploits in the web browser. The ps4 is a similar story, however it has some cool things about it too.
XB1 at this point is pretty much a PC it even runs windows 10. Unfortunately there are still some major differences between the 2.
It's not worth spending 60$ replacing a Bluetooth adapter when you can probably find the console around the same price.ĮDIT: you will probably want to dump all of your games yourself, which requires either a supported bd drive or a cfw ps3, as getting games online is not legal, and is probably a minefield. If you don't want to set it up, just buy read dead on ps3 (legally you should also own it before downloading a rom for it), get a long cable/wired controller, and call it a day. Next up and arguably coolest, the ps4's southbridge is actually an arm processor connected to the CPU via pcie 4x, and would be what I would want most to become prevalent on PC's (unfortunately this may fall into the management engine crap where you can't see what it's doing and hackers can wreck shop with it)Īs for emulators, it's probably always at least worth trying to get it to run, however because the ps3 has a different architecture than a pc, there's always likely to be tremendous overhead. First off the internal hdd goes from sata to usb into the southbridge, and the only sata device is the bd drive. That said there are also some pretty damn cool differences about it, though some are pretty stupid. I have no doubt the emulators will nail this down in given time but for now, I'd honestly say Rockstar Games titles would most likely be one of the last sets to be checked off as fully playable and compatible wise.Click to expand.Unfortunately there are still some major differences between the 2. Since the engines at that point still have all this coding baggage and bullsh*t tricks to just get it to work in a passable manner on PS3 means emulating it now is ALSO going to emulate that baggage which means it's more difficult to get running in a stable condition. To sum it up, the better a game ran on PS3, the easier it will be to emulate here now, Rockstar Games were NOT PS3 focused under these builds of RAGE, they were Xbox 360 and then ported to other platforms, that only changed from Max Payne 3 onwards, but GTA IV, MCLA, EFLC and RDR all ran worse and at a lower resolution on PlayStation 3.
You have to keep in mind, sadly in this case, these emulators work best of games that are designed to make use of PlayStation specific hardware/methods, that's why their recent showcase of games having great progress was all PS3 Exclusive titles.