Recently, while Sony has yet to officially release a PC port, mod author gabdeg successfully integrated NVIDIA RTX Remix technology and the latest DLSS 5 into the PS4 exclusive masterpiece Bloodborne via the shadPS4 emulator.
Since its release in 2015, Bloodborne has been confined to the PlayStation 4 platform at 30 FPS. However, with recent advancements in the shadPS4 emulator, the game can now run on PC.
Modder gabdeg took it a step further, significantly remastering the lighting effects of this Souls-like game using NVIDIA's next-generation rendering technology.
Technically, the author did not adopt the traditional mod approach of forcibly converting the game to DirectX 9. Since modern games generally use programmable shader architectures, which are inherently incompatible with the fixed-function pipeline originally designed for RTX Remix, traditional DX9 conversions often lead to massive rendering call overhead, causing performance crashes.
To overcome this bottleneck, gabdeg adopted an advanced rendering strategy that separates static and dynamic elements. He converted the game's static environmental geometry into formats natively supported by RTX Remix, while dynamically streaming dynamic geometry, such as the protagonist and monsters, directly to the RTX Remix processing layer through the emulator.
This approach significantly reduces system load, making it possible to run complex ray tracing calculations within the emulator environment.
In the demo video, enabling DLSS 5 neural rendering significantly enhanced the detail richness of the Hunter's Dream and Central Yharnam maps. This AI rendering technology not only boosts frame rates but also uses AI models to reconstruct low-resolution textures, fixing common aliasing and noise issues in older console games, resulting in visuals nearly on par with next-gen remasters.
However, this project is still in an early technical verification phase, with no public download available yet, and the author has not provided a clear release schedule.
