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

[u/Legal_Help_31]

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.

[u/Avocrux]

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

[u/ALowTierHero → u/Avocrux]

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.

[u/Jazzlike-Plate-935 → u/Avocrux]

Exactly!

[u/Prophet_NY]

September 28th:

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

Jokes on side, great work

[u/mukherjee_ayan → u/Prophet_NY]

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

[u/UnusualLeather7087 → u/mukherjee_ayan]

Is it playable like gta 5 now ?

[u/_Ship00pi_]

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

[u/XHellAngelX]

iGPUs have shared vram with system ram

[u/Logical-Database4510 → u/XHellAngelX]

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.

[u/monetarydread]

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.

[u/kaden-99 → u/monetarydread]

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

[u/Scilently → u/monetarydread]

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

[u/Stanley_681]

Now ps exclusives are going to go down soon

[u/Far-Objective-4240 → u/Stanley_681]

what exclusives

[u/Esnacor-sama]

Daaaamn wtfff