/vr/ - Retro Games

I have RetroArch on a gaming PC for upscaling retro and having two sets of shaders makes everything better.

I've used runahead on Battletoads NES which was OP and does work, but I play more 32-bit era games so I keep that off.

Beetle PSX HW means life, Kronos has Saturn 2x upscaling, Flycast is straight up DC HDMI without dithering, Parallel RDP/RSP is now the most accurate N64 emulation and the upscaling is legit instead of the monstrosity that was HLE.

On a fresh PC the first thing I do is configure controls and change video driver to vulkan. Then enable integer scaling and core provided options and proceed to install reshade vulkan onto RetroArch. If I'm not in fullscreen I'll set up a 1280x960 window size and use crosires reshade to fill the 4:3 window manually with the "aspect ratio" shader instead of ever turning integer scale off.

I stick to 2x upscaling for PS1, Saturn, N64 and bsnes HD, but 4x can be nice. I also like to disable bilinear filtering on the N64 VI options to keep things crispy and on some N64 games I'll disable VI anti aliasing for the same reason, simply nice options to have.

Synchronize to G-Sync so you get the exact console refresh rates on your monitor or output to VGA via switchres.

Now you're playing with power.