bc160201983/Uncharted-The-Nathan-Drake-Collection-PC-port v0.8.3

Uncharted: The Nathan Drake Collection PC port 0.8.3 (beta)

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Uncharted: The Nathan Drake Collection PC port by BilalReloaded
(YouTube, GitHub).
Support the work on Patreon.

The launcher offers this update: press UPDATE TO 0.8.3 next to PLAY. Still on 0.6.1 or older
(the launcher does not open)? Extract the zip below over your port folder once.

This update is about crashes: GeForce cards losing the graphics device in Uncharted 1 and 2,
Uncharted 3's crash after the museum, games that froze or closed after playing a while, and a new
crash report option that names the exact spot where the graphics card stopped.

Crashes fixed

• GeForce, "device lost" while playing (#350 #362 #353, and maybe #316 #314 #277): two of the
  games' skinning shaders run in groups of 1024 threads, and on NVIDIA cards such a group needs a
  whole block of the graphics card to itself, which can make the card fail under load. They now
  run in groups of 256, with the same result.
• Uncharted 3, the crash after young Nate leaves the museum (#292 #295 #354 #328): a shadow
  shader reads how many samples to take from the game's data, and a bad value made it loop until
  the graphics card was reset. The count is now limited to what a shadow ever needs.
• Games freezing with no error: a lock in the port's memory code could wait for itself when a
  game thread wrote a reply into memory the graphics card was watching.
• Games closing after playing a while (#362 #330 #335 #341): when part of a memory range was
  given back, the pages next to it were missing for a moment, and a game thread touching them
  closed the game. Those threads now wait for that moment to pass.
• Long sessions: "code is too big": the space for small code the port writes for each shader
  only ever grew, also for identical code. Identical code is now shared.
• Two rare crashes on broken game data: a broken texture description could make the port
  allocate memory until it ran out, and a texture-cache list could be read while it changed.

For crash reports

• If a game still closes with "device lost": create the text file
  analysis\uncharted-user\test-env.txt in the port folder with the line GOW3_GPU_BREADCRUMBS=1,
  and play to the crash once more. The game runs a little slower, and boot.log then names the
  shaders the graphics card stopped in. Please attach that boot.log (delete the file afterwards).

Performance

The same saves at 1080p with a 120 FPS limit, 0.8.2 -> 0.8.3, average frame rate:

No problems in any run.

Full details in CHANGELOG.md.

Known issues

• Movie cutscenes freezing while the sound goes on (#226 #262 #270 #177): not fixed yet. If it
  happens, please attach the hang-*.txt file the port writes next to boot.log.
• Uncharted 3, chapter 8 "The Citadel": crash (#247 #296 and others): a file of the game is
  missing from those dumps (ss-area2-breakable-buildings-controller-1.bin). Check game files
  in the launcher shows it.
• NVIDIA: "device lost" after some time in Uncharted 2 and 3 (#316 #314 #277 #76 #224 #249):
  not solved yet. If it happens, please attach your boot.log.
• Game version 1.00 without update 1.02: most of the port's fixes need update 1.02. Support for
  1.00 is being worked on.

Install (new players)

1. Download Uncharted-windows.zip below and extract it anywhere.
2. Start Uncharted Launcher.exe and select your game folder (your dump, for example
   CUSA02344, with eboot.bin and sce_sys). Update 1.02 is recommended: next to the game
   folder named like it plus -patch, chosen in Advanced -> GAME UPDATE, or copied into the
   game folder.
3. Pick a game and a preset and press PLAY. Graphics cards with 6 GB of video memory or more
   are recommended; for 2-4 GB cards, try Save video memory (experimental).

No game files are included. You need your own dump of the Collection. Not affiliated with
Sony, Naughty Dog or Bluepoint Games.

GNU GPL v2 or later; the zip's licenses folder lists every bundled library. DLSS and DLAA use
NVIDIA DLSS (nvngx_dlss.dll, under NVIDIA's license in licenses/nvidia-dlss); NVIDIA, RTX and
DLSS are trademarks of NVIDIA Corporation. Installing from .pkg uses PkgTool from LibOrbisPkg
(LGPL-3.0). Add to Steam: Steam is a trademark of Valve Corporation.