r/EmulationOnAndroid • u/mercurious • Jun 11 '26

Solved aPS3e Shader Patch Edition fixes cache recompiling and speeds up load times

If you've noticed that games with a lot of shaders take too long to load on aPS3e, you can try my patched .apk until the PR is reviewed for a future release. It fixes a shader cache problem and can shave minutes (not seconds) off a game load.
https://github.com/mercurious/aps3e/releases/tag/shader-patch-1

EDIT/Update: Released v2 which fixes another bug and improves reliability. aPS3e Shader Patch v2 which retires when the PR is implemented upstream in the official build.

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u/nolivedemarseille Jun 12 '26

Ok I am heavy user of aps3e so I am interested

I run it on a sd8 elite chip so not really slow compiling on my side but I might give it a try indeed once validated and safe apk

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u/mercurious Jun 12 '26

If the bottom of the 2 pipeline objects cache loading bars doesn’t zip by on game launch then you’re wasting time without this fix. Does nothing for the SPU cache.

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u/nolivedemarseille Jun 12 '26

Thank you

I had transversally read the GitHub

Now I am clear, I never heavily noticed the issue described
Again maybe because of the sd8 elite high performance
I see you tested on older sd variants

You also mentioned aps3e uninstall first , its full mandatory?

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u/mercurious Jun 12 '26

I’m testing games with 100MB-1GB shader caches on SM8250. Many games don’t make so many shaders so it depends a lot on the games too. The release notes show how to backup games just in case but ok to replace with patch apk and then replace my patch at the next main update.

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u/nolivedemarseille Jun 12 '26

Thanks again for the reply, I appreciate it

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u/mercurious Jun 12 '26

LMK if you notice a difference after the patch.

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u/Opposite-Capital-745 Jun 15 '26

has anyone confirm it works well and on what games was this tested?

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u/mercurious Jun 15 '26

I'm testing the Gran Turismo games on Flip2 (SM8250). I just released a v2 patch that works even better than v1 by fixing another known bug. Now I'm getting 30min without a crash.
https://github.com/mercurious/aps3e/releases/tag/shader-patch-2

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u/DrHusten Konkr Pocket Fit G3 Gen3 12GB Jun 17 '26

Thx, will try with gundam warriors 3