Note: This update renames some commonly used config options such as d3d12_edram_rov and d3d12_resolution_scale.Conclusion Microsoft’s production of Xbox 360Īs mentioned earlier, Microsoft launched its Xbox 360 console in 2005. Please check the end of this post to see if you need to change anything in your config. Hello again world! It’s Triang3l, the graphics programmer of Xenia, with a new blog post - after almost 6 years since the last message, and while we’ve been silent here for all that time, it has been long enough for a lot of great things to happen in Xbox 360 emulation!īack in 2015, the list of games that could be considered “playable” was still pretty tiny - mostly including not very technically complex, primarily 2D games. Most games back then, if gameplay could even be reached in them, exhibited severe graphical glitches, ran at frame rates well below what can be considered not even “comfortable”, but just “motion” at all, and sometimes had CPU-side progression-blocking issues. Now, as of April 27, 2021, the game compatibility tracker, out of 1404 total tiles reported, contains the total of 1041 games - or 74% of the whole library of tested games - listed as playable or in-game, with 221 of them being playable near-flawlessly, and most games are able to reach their target frame rate on contemporary PC hardware! Xenia has constantly been evolving in all its aspects - the OS reimplementation, the CPU, audio processing, and of course emulation of the Xbox 360’s Xenos graphics processing unit. GPU emulation, in particular, has been a very fun adventure throughout all of the development of Xenia.

A GPU is an extremely complex device, encompassing many different kinds of functionality on all stages of the graphics pipeline. And the Xbox 360’s GPU specifically was a playground for experiments - it was developed near the end of the Direct3D 9 era, but still before Direct3D 10, and contained many features not standardized or even available at all on the PC, but when they ended up on the PC, the actual implementation could be significantly different it also included completely unique features.

Over the years, we’ve been trying various approaches to emulation of different components of the GPU, including a complete redesign of the entire GPU emulation architecture in 2018.

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