Swordpdf/PS5SX2 vk-285-187

PS5SX2 2.30

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PS5SX2 2.30 (build vk-285-187)

Everything from the test builds since 2.20 (183 to 187) in one version. After updating, restart your console once so the new disc helper (171p) loads.

Frame generation and display

• 60 → 120 fps on original PS5s below firmware 9.00 (it was stuck at 40/80 there). On a 4K TV on that firmware the extra frames are made at 1080p and scaled up (the empty file flags/fgfullres keeps the TV's size).
• Lower delay with frame generation: frames go to the screen straight from the CPU. Lower input delay without frame generation too.
• No more 30-230 ms freeze each time frame generation starts (after loading screens and pause menus).
• Frame generation keeps up after you change the upscale; faster motion search at 4K.

Speed

• EE recompiler: cheaper code checks and memory accesses, in every game.
• GPU timing that nothing used is off: one less GPU step per readback, which should help readback-heavy games, most on firmware below 9.00 (the empty file flags/gputiming turns it back on).
• Games start about 0.4 s sooner; disc games another 0.5-2 s sooner (the drive's speed is no longer measured at every start).
• Games that flood the log (God of War, Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets, Mercenaries, Midnight Club 3) no longer stall writing it.

Shelf and app

• L1 + R1 + touch pad goes straight back to the shelf again, without the home screen in between.
• The launch picture is in the release again (starting from the home screen showed black), and the shelf comes up sooner.
• The old front covers are back.
• Starting a game while the shelf is still reading new games no longer waits for the scan (it could take up to 5 minutes).
• Big libraries: a game file whose read hangs is skipped and remembered, even after a console crash, so the scan never gets stuck on it again.
• System update fetches the installer when it's missing.
• The Reload PS2 Disc tile is gone (the empty file flags/disctile_reload brings it back).

Saves and stability

• .mc2 / .bin memory cards are written to disk 2-3 s after each save, and a killed session's saves are recovered at the next start.
• An emulation error no longer freezes the game for good: a message says what happened, and L1 + R1 + touch pad goes back to the shelf with your memory cards written.
• A rare wrong-thread bug right after loading a savestate is fixed.

Discs, ISOs and the disc helper

• ISO on a USB drive: a failed read is retried (and the file opened again) before the game gets a read error, and the cause is logged.
• Scratched discs: one bad read no longer slows loading for the rest of the disc.
• PS5 drive: the 8x speed patch runs only on firmware 11.40, where it was tested.
• Disc helper 171p: its clean-up never touches PS5SX2's own folders any more (PS5SX2 could start without /data, so without BIOS, saves and settings, until a console restart), and it stays quiet while the console shuts down or rests. The app tells you once when a newer helper needs a console restart.

Download

• PS5SX2-vk-285-187.zip: the app (eboot and files). The installer and System update install it for you.
  SHA-256: de9feb7e1c0b600bb22776988b99a731ee2c22662c1f3516e95625d68eedfb60
• PS5SX2Installer.elf: the installer (1.5, unchanged). Send it once and it installs this build; after that, use System update in the app.
  SHA-256: efdec4f8d968ef4a7c1880e75d26b96d212a042a6c208de46f0a859609f6224c
• PS5SXHelper.elf: disc helper 171p with the /data mount (only for ShadowMount+ 1.7beta3).
  SHA-256: e98906788909cab909f22b75fedbeeb8d41a1adb49166e92d98b3f7536c8a2cd
• PS5SXHelper-no-data-mount.elf: the same without the /data mount, for ShadowMount+ 1.7-beta5fix1 or newer (the app starts this one itself).
  SHA-256: 1d85c21611de6c7ab51859b850c2c886fbd16855e58968b9ae47b042dbc4438a