Bloodborne PC Windows Port v0.7.0

This release introduces NVIDIA DLSS Super Resolution support, dynamic in-game HUD button prompts matching your active controller or keyboard/mouse, a live in-game cheat and tweaks overlay menu, layout-aware controls (AZERTY/QWERTY), and critical crash fixes across the guest memory allocator, texture cache, and Vulkan swapchain presentation.

Major Implementations

• NVIDIA DLSS Super Resolution (Experimental) (116e1c2)

  • Added DLSS Super Resolution alongside FSR 3.1, FSR 4, and TAA (upscaler=dlss in bbport.ini, in-game overlay, or launcher).
  • Built via an MSVC C-ABI bridge (bbport_dlss.dll) using official NVIDIA NGX SDK libraries; integrates DLAA mode (preset=0) and render-preset selection (dlss_preset=0 for driver default, 10 for Preset J, 11 for Preset K).
  • Gracefully falls back to FSR 3.1 when running on non-RTX GPUs or when runtime libraries are missing.
  • Credits: Inspired by the original Linux port by @deadinside28 (bloodborne_pc).

• Dynamic In-Game HUD Button Prompts (466e30eb)

  • Replaced static PlayStation button prompts in key guides, tutorials, and HUD prompt atlases with icons matching your active input device (PlayStation pads, Xbox/generic gamepads, and Keyboard & Mouse).
  • Switches dynamically in real time whenever you move the mouse, press a key, or use a controller.
  • Preserves original game prompt textures when running unmapped controls or with prompts disabled (BB_BUTTON_PROMPTS=0).
  • Credits: Inspired by upstream input & prompt concepts from @deadinside28 (bloodborne_pc).

• In-Game Cheats & Tweaks Menu (b84dcb35)

  • Added a live, reversible cheat and debug overlay toggled via F4 (or controller chord L1 + R1 + Back/View).
  • Features 17 patches across 4 categories: Player/God Mode (Infinite HP/Stamina, No Death, Stealth), Items & Echoes (Infinite Echoes/Insight/Items), Combat & World (1-Hit Kill, Enemy AI Control, Disable Rally), and Visuals (Disable Motion Blur, Depth of Field, SSAO, Chromatic Aberration).
  • Uses safe memory protection boundaries with automatic rollback on error, verified instruction checks, and startup-gate protection. Choices persist cleanly under [Cheats] in bbport.ini.
  • Credits: Cheats definition sourced from Shiningami & bloo via shadps4-emu/ps4_cheats.

Minor Changes & Improvements

• Mouse Flick Lock-On Switching & Unlock Delta Cleanup (04dd4061)

  • Restored target switching when flicking the mouse while locked on.
  • Discards stale accumulated mouse motion and smoothing state upon unlocking, preventing sudden camera jumps.
  • Credits: @HatsyRei / 04dd4061.

• Monocular Aim Camera Mouse Look (87011f09)

  • Hooked the aim camera update routine, enabling smooth native mouse aim while looking through the Monocular.
  • Scales mouse sensitivity and acceleration to match zoom levels and camera speeds.
  • Credits: @HatsyRei / 87011f09.

• Item Storage Right-Click Interaction (e0a64d48)

  • Fixed an issue where right-clicking inside the Item Storage depository closed the screen instead of toggling between storing and retrieving (L2 action).
  • Preserves middle and side mouse button assignments while the mouse menu pointer is active.
  • Credits: @HatsyRei / e0a64d48 (following menu pointer groundwork from bbhost / @droogie & @DarkIzuku).

• System Hotkeys, Keyboard Layouts & Process Cleanup (26198d6a)

  • Added dedicated launcher configuration for system hotkeys: Overlay Toggle (Insert), Performance HUD (F11), Cheat Menu (F4), and Mouse Capture/Release (F1).
  • Added one-click AZERTY (ZQSD) and QWERTY (WASD) movement preset buttons in the launcher, with physical scancode mapping for consistent international keyboard behavior.
  • Re-architected game process shutdown to terminate child processes cleanly in the background without UI hangs.

• Critical Crash Fixes across Allocators, Texture Cache & Swapchain (7c0e5f0d)

  • Guest Heap Allocation: Initialized a dedicated thread-local bump arena for Dantelion2 DLTemporaryHeap during startup to resolve unhandled null heap crashes on CUSA03173 v1.09.
  • Asset Structure Copy: Restored destination registers and replayed asset copies cleanly to prevent downstream cascades.
  • Texture Cache: Added descriptor allocation checks and cache invalidation on texture deregistration to prevent use-after-free crashes.
  • Vulkan Swapchain: Handled surface out-of-date, suboptimal, and surface-lost return codes via clean swapchain recreation instead of asserting.
  • Patches: Removed duplicate out-of-bounds addresses beyond the ELF data segment from Bloodborne.xml.
  • Addresses #159, #160, #165, #166, #167, and related Discord crash reports.

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Requirements

• OS: Windows 10 or Windows 11 (64-bit)
• GPU: Vulkan 1.3 capable graphics card (NVIDIA GTX 10-series+, AMD RX 400-series+, Intel Arc)
• CPU: 64-bit x86 processor supporting AVX 1.0 or SSE4.2 (older CPUs without BMI1 are supported)
• Game Dump: Decrypted Bloodborne PS4 dump (CUSA03173, version 1.09) with eboot.bin and sce_module/libc.prx

Installation

1. Extract the release archive to a folder.
2. Run BloodborneLauncher.exe.
3. Confirm your decrypted 1.09 eboot.bin path on the Home dashboard.
4. Pick your GPU Adapter, game language, graphics settings, and controls.
5. Click Launch Bloodborne.

In-Game Hotkeys

• F1: Lock or unlock the mouse cursor.
• F4: toggle the in-game cheat/tweaks menu.
• Insert or L3 + R3: Open the in-game settings menu.
• F11: Show or hide the FPS and performance display.

Troubleshooting

• If the game freezes on startup or crashes when moving between areas, set prep_workers=1 or prep_workers=2 in the launcher or bbport.ini. Higher values use more CPU threads at once, which can overwhelm 4-core and 6-core processors.
• If the game crashes during intense combat, cap your frame rate to 60 FPS in the launcher. Higher frame rates work well on high-end hardware, but they increase physics and particle load.
• Avoid enabling conflicting frame rate mods at the same time. If you run into issues, try launching with only "Skip Intro" enabled first.
• If you notice visual glitches or crashes after an update, delete the cache folder in user/cache/CUSA03173/ so the game can rebuild shaders cleanly.

Note

• When reporting a crash, please click "Copy Diagnostics" on the launcher's Home tab and attach the latest bblauncher.log, andcrash log from the out folder.

Discord Server

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