God of War III Remastered running natively on Windows, playable start to finish
Hey all. I've been working on a Windows port of God of War III Remastered and it's now playable from start to finish, at high framerates (~144 FPS average at 1080p on my setup).
GitHub: https://github.com/FelipePrado0/gow3_pc
How it works, to be upfront: the PS4 is x86-64, so the game's original executable runs directly on the CPU, and a runtime written for this game replaces the PS4 system libraries. The GPU side is shadPS4's video core (heavily modified), translating the PS4 GPU commands to Vulkan. So the CPU side is native, the graphics are translated.
This was developed with Claude Opus 5.5 as a coding assistant. Tested every build by playing, and the full source is on GitHub.
What works
- Saves, audio, cutscenes, controller + keyboard
- 240 FPS engine patch
- Shader cache loads in the background, no compile stutter
- Launcher with patches, mods, remapping and save backups
- In-game menu: cheats, orb/damage multipliers, enemy health bar, FSR 1, perf overlay
Tested on
- Ryzen 5 5600X, RX 6700 XT, 32 GB DDR4 (my setup)
- Ryzen 5 3600, RTX 2060
Known issue: some textures break at render resolutions other than 1080p. Working on it.
If you try it on other hardware, a report with your GPU and user\last_run.log on GitHub helps a lot.
Credits
This project stands on the work of:
- deadinside28: bloodborne_pc, the original native port
- Supermedo: bloodborne_pc for Windows, the fork this project comes from
- cuesta4: shadPS4 fork focused on God of War III (branch eltutz), whose blend, depth/stencil and image aliasing fixes this port uses
- shadPS4 team: the shadPS4 renderer
- kvicken and cuesta4: resolution, texture fix, 120 FPS and skip videos patches, building on the PS3 patches by illusion0001 (ps4_cheats#145)
- Celogamez: cheats, adapted from the GoldHEN Cheat Repository
Also uses LibAtrac9, FFmpeg, SDL3, Dear ImGui, sirit, xbyak, Vulkan Memory Allocator, FSR-Vulkan and more. Full list in the README.
Links
GitHub (GPL, source + release): https://github.com/FelipePrado0/gow3_pc
Feel free to fork it and open PRs. Contributions are very welcome.