Bloodborne on PC without emulation!

FINAL UPDATE: This is not actually a native port, tho the developer aims to make it more close to one. It runs better than ShadPS4 anyway.

For the past year I was struggling to play with ShadPS4 on my PC, because I have pretty old hardware. I don't think this project is a native port (UPDATE: the project title says it is), but it's definitely not emulation either. It works really well!

It's currently only on Linux but I've heard the developer is working on Windows builds.

I should thank the developer very much for this fantastic work. Finally I can play this game with ease :)

Please visit the project repo and support the developer with a star
https://github.com/deadinside28/bloodborne_pc

My PC specs:
CPU: Intel i5-9400
GPU: AMD RX580
Memory: 16 GB

(As you can see there is some mini stutters but I can tweak the FSR and other settings to make it better, but I'm sure with newer hardware it won't even happen.)

UPDATE: I passed the questions and criticisms on to the developer at this link. If you’re interested, follow along.
https://github.com/deadinside28/bloodborne_pc/issues/9

u/BruhMamad — 11 days ago

Fextra you better be fixing your wiki instead of playing Elden Ring knock offs dawg 😂🥀

u/BruhMamad — 2 months ago

GTA VI | Normal V.S. DLSS 5

I know the game isn't out yet and even if it was, it would be just on consoles. But I have hacked Rockstar so I have a PC build of the game. I enabled DLSS 5 and took this beautiful screenshot. Hope you enjoy!

u/BruhMamad — 2 months ago

List of Possible First Bosses

So I was thinking that how amazing the world design of this game is. The best of FromSoftware IMO. I listed all the bosses that you can encounter first after defeating Assylum Demon and ariving at Firelink Shrine.
Obviously Assylum Demon is the very first boss of the game but in this post the term "first boss" is refering to bosses after it.

Darkroot Garden and Darkroot Basin are gonna be used in lot of the routes, so I'll write their 2 routes now. Next times, I'll just write "Darkroot Garden" or "Darkroot Basin" for the sake of simplicity.

Master Key is required for both of the routes.

  • Easy Route: Undead Burg ➜ Havel's Tower ➜ Darkroot Basin ➜ Darkroot Garden
  • Alternative Route: New Londo Ruins ➜ Valley of Drakes ➜ Darkroot Basin ➜ Darkroot Garden

1. Taurus Demon

This is the intended first boss of the game. most of you if not all followed its route in your first playthrough.

Route: Undead Burg ➜ Top of Havel's Tower

2. Bell Gargoyles

Master Key is required.
Route: Darkroot Garden ➜ Undead Parish ➜ Top of Undead Parish Church

3. Stray Demon

There's two ways to do it:

  • You can do a jump trick from Firelink Shrine to go directly to Undead Asylum. Unforunately I didn't found a YouTube video of that to put its link here.
  • Master Key is required. Route: Darkroot Garden ➜ Undead Parish ➜ Unlock the Elevator ➜ Snuggly's Nest

4. Moonlight Butterfly

Master Key is required.
Route: Darkroot Garden ➜ Done!

5. Great Grey Wolf Sif

There's two ways to do it. For both, Master Key is required.

  • Get 20K souls and buy Crest of Artorias from Andre. Then go to Darkroot Garden and open the door. Alternatively you can kill Andr- Nevermind...
  • Route: Darkroot Basin ➜ The Long Ladder Past the Hydra

6. Capra Demon

Master Key is required.
Route: Darkroot Garden ➜ Undead Parish ➜ Get the Basement Key near the church gate ➜ Go down the stairs near Sunlight Altar's Gate ➜ Drake Bridge ➜ Lower Undead Burg

7. Chaos Witch Quelaag

Master Key is required.
Route: New Londo Ruins ➜ Valley of Drakes ➜ Blighttown

8. Pinwheel

Just the normal path, down the catacombs.

9. Four Kings (Almost)

This isn't actually possible. You have to kill Sif first in order to get the Covenant of Artorias ring. I put it in the list because you can actually drain the water in New Londo Ruins and go to the boss fight, but you will die immedaitely. However we can count this as a possible second boss fight. It's really mind-blowing that you can fight one of the end-game bosses as your second boss.

I think this shows that why Dark Souls 1 is uniquely beloved by many. Its world design is fantastic!
Thank you for reading. Please let me know in the comments if I missed something.

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u/BruhMamad — 2 months ago

Unpopular Opinion: I like run backs

I don't mean some crazy ones like Bed of Chaos. But generally I think putting a bonfire/checkpoint right before the boss fight is lazy. I love when there's a genius shortcut from the starting bonfire to the boss arena, like No Man's Wharf in DS2, and Dragonslayer Armour in DS3. Also sure, having to deal with enemies before a boss is pretty annoying, and it's nice to feel safe before the boss. but sometimes I consider them as one of the challenges of the boss itself. If they're made balanced and thoughtfully, they could be fun.

u/BruhMamad — 2 months ago

Update on my opinion about the difference in Dark Souls games

In the last post I said I'm playing DS3 and I'm in Anor Londo. Well now I just finished the base game w/ all the bosses.
Man it was a fantastic and mind-blowing experience.

I'm still on my words, Dark Souls 1 is unique. But this is for sure a masterpiece too; just a different one. They're both S tier for me and will be in my heart forever. Also sorry DS2 fans, I didn't like it this much. But I promise I'll play it once more later, maybe I'll change my mind.

Anyways, the bosses, the environments, the level design and so many more were all PEAK. Thanks god I have the DLCs to play because I still need more of this game.

(Sorry for bad English, I'm not native)

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u/BruhMamad — 2 months ago

Is Arch safe to use now?

I have used Arch before and I loved it.

Currently I'm using Bazzite, it's a great distro. But I dislike somethings about it like the immutability.

Also it's slower on a HDD than other distros for whatever reason I don't know.

So I decided to switch to CachyOS. But the recent news of malware and viruses in the AUR packages worried me a little bit. Is the situation really bad?

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u/BruhMamad — 2 months ago

Why is Dark Souls 1 more iconic and memorable to me?

Hi.
I've finished Dark Souls 1 about 5 times. Dark Souls 2 once and right now playing Dark Souls 3. (Currently in Anor Londo). It's a great game, very well made and enjoyable. It's the most polished one imo.

But I feel like the most places and bosses are generic, even tho the weapons, the enemy movesets and sometimes even the level design is improved and better.

I don't know if it's that Dark Souls 1 was my first one, and I finished it way more times or something about this game is really different. I can't tell. Maybe it's because you finish DS3 levels one by one, but Dark Souls 1 is interconnected and you visit each area many times for different purposes.

Also I had a similar feeling about Sekiro. Played it only once but I loved every second of it and there's at least one memory of each part of it in my mind.

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u/BruhMamad — 2 months ago

I have no life (serious post)

Guys today I defeated Ishin (The one that's inside Genichiro)
I was so happy and proud of myself
But then I got snapped back to reality and realised that my personal life situation is shit
So I'm kinda terrified and hopeless and sad right now

Uhm also yeah this post is serious but I just wanted to say this to someone but I thought main subs aren't suitable

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u/BruhMamad — 3 months ago

I have some bad news for Mortal Shell fans

See, if the developers of Mortal Shell are gonna truly getting inspirations from Dark Souls series, it's guaranteed that the best Mortal Shell game is already determined: The second one. And there is absolutely no hope for the third game. As everyone knows the first one was janky and mediocre, and with my argument being said, the third one is also gonna be trash just like Dark Souls 3. The only thing you can do is praying for developers to follow their own seperate way instead of Miyazaki's and FromSoftware's.

u/BruhMamad — 3 months ago

How to make a LLM based on some books?

Hi. I have a small programming background but I'm completely new in ML, Is that possible to make a language model that has has read and knows everything about some books related to a topic, NOT from scratch? What techs and tools does it need? Is it only possible with local models or also APIs?

Sorry if this is a stupid question, I just wanna get the idea of how this works.

Thank you

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u/BruhMamad — 3 months ago

Annoying Pixel Strokes on Some Objects

https://preview.redd.it/p1m2dus4qpdh1.png?width=1920&format=png&auto=webp&s=c782fc9a76881c8777e89a794e45f07186cbe7a6

https://preview.redd.it/p220emloopdh1.png?width=1920&format=png&auto=webp&s=654316c026a5caa7a2d2a2f05b83f73f72ad898c

I have finished the game once on Windows, I had never this problem. Now on Bazzite, I opened the game once for testing just after installation. Also that time I didn't have this problem. But it currently exists and is so annoying.
Some information I remember:

ShadPS4 Version: 0.9.0 and 0.12.5
Mods: Vertex Explosion Fix, Boczekek's FPS Boost, Reduced Physics, Intel SFX Fix

Bazzite Version: 44
OpenGL and Mesa Version:

OpenGL version
 string: 4.6 (Compatibility Profile) Mesa 26.1.4

CPU: Intel i5-9400
Graphics: AMD RX580

Something that might be important: that first time that the game was running well, I hadn't updated Bazzite yet.

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u/BruhMamad — 3 months ago
▲ 21 r/Steam

Linux gaming is real!

https://preview.redd.it/3nnodrl990dh1.png?width=1920&format=png&auto=webp&s=54f291409defb3fd67495b9bcd4d09e0b00a1453

I was thinking about how Linux has improved in gaming recently. I thought maybe I should try it too!
There are many options for distros, I went for Bazzite and so far I'm loving it.
Currently tested the games in the screenshot and everything works pretty well.
Also I have a small dual-booted Windows (about 20% of my storage), only for some online games that their anti-cheat doesn't work on Linux.

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u/BruhMamad — 3 months ago

Is this installation error important?

I get this error while installing, but bazzite is completely installed and works out of the box. Should I be worried about this?

u/BruhMamad — 3 months ago