I'm playing it right now and while it crashes on occasion and my GPU ( 2060S ) can't handle 1080p/60FPS it's playable in 900p/60 FPS. I crash sometimes but that's life.
I stumbled across this video just to see if your experience with the emulation mostly matched up with mine after 100%-ing the game again, and am glad to see that I didn't notice anything vastly different. Something I wanted to note though is that there is a fix to (mostly) stabilize the framerate during the Ebrietas fight, since the frame drops and crashes are caused by a bug with the SFX in the boss arena. There's a mod by Diegolix29 that includes a standalone download to fix the SFX bug. Also, I wanted to ask since you seemed to have the same experience as me when it came to crashes, does your ShadPS4 log occasionally mention that it couldn't locate particular files in the game folder? I looked and I definitely don't have the files it tries to find from time to time, but it never seems to be a problem. I just am curious if anyone else is seeing these error messages because I would like to know if I could've messed up dumping the ROM onto my USB-drive.
Thanks for the comment is exactly the type of comment I love. I also get failed to open the file at path/blah logs. I think your dump is correct. I would need to be a much better dev to diagnose the random crashes. It not loading a file could be the reason for a crash but it could also be that it did a call to ram for the file and didn't receive the info it needed and crashed.
If anyone has the audio problem when it suddenly drops from the game crashing. Just simply load up the game, enter into your character and manually exit to the main menu. Then close the emulator and load up the game again. The audio will be fixed every single time.
Doesnt work with the GOTY edition PKG file (Just says "File doesnt appear to be a vaild PKG file"), is there some workaround? it has worked on older versions pre 0.4 , so the file cant be the problem.
I wouldn't know sorry. I haven't tested all the PKGs the Internet has to offer. Did some quick Googlefu and found nothing of use. You can check PKG files with fpkg is all I found. There is a more updated nightly version of shadps4 can try that version.
Isn't there some windows redistributables that you need also? my game keeps freezing my entire pc and i have it setup the same way you do on an rx6800xt + 7800x3d
same. I'm still struggling with it. no one in these videos seem to have encountered this but there are a bunch of people online dealing with it too. have you found a solution?
@Watchlist_king I can't pinpoint what made it work for me but if you're on windows have you tried using the 0.5.1 version? Not only that but I uninstalled the Microsoft c++ runtime programs and reinstalled them fresh, "repairing" them didn't help at all it seemed.
game was running great until i encountered my first crash about 2-3 hours in. audio files were bugged when i relaunched. i replaced the audio files as you suggested and it completely wiped my save. if i will have to repeat this step every crash, how do i maintain my progress?
Saves aren't stored anywhere near sound files but if you right-click your bloodborne game you can locate them. From there you can back them up or check if they really got deleted. Sorry to hear your save file vanished.
@@SliceofKrisyea I’m not 100% sure what happened. My sound files were restored, so I’m pretty confident I followed things correctly. when I relaunched the emulator, it was like everything was reset from the beginning. The “saves” file was empty so idk. Thanks though
still unplayable unless clearing the SFX folder, still crashes on blood effects (aka you hitting a monster or vice versa). Im running the latest ShadPS4 0.5, CPU is i5 14600, RTX4070.
I have played the entire game on my system, your system seems fine not sure why you are getting issues. I am guessing you have tried this on a previous version. Did you do a full clean install of the PKG files? Are you trying to do 4k resolution? What about OS are you on win 11 or 10? I am using just default latest win 11 OS. These are just me being curious as to why yours is crashing.
my shad ps4 wont open and im losing it, as soon as i select the game folder i made it just never opens. i have newest c++. is it cuz im on windows 10??? ahhhh
I do not have win 10 install atm. Are you using x86 version of windows? Or x64 could be an issue there. Beyond that I do not know. It is very bleeding edge this emulator, I am sure there are lots of compatibility issues.
@ upgrading to windows 11 right now lol hopefully it’ll work? Just frustrating that the emulator GUI won’t even open. I got the qt version and tried past shad versions.
Been trying to read up the problems on the reddit. There is a save file going around with all the different starting classes just at iosefka clinic which might help. www.nexusmods.com/bloodborne/mods/190
The bloodborne PKG files? Because sharing of the game files is illegal. If they stopped going after ROM sharing websites we'd gladly share them again. Over the past year three really decent romshare sites have been shutdown or sued and 3 different emulators have also been forced to stop development.
Alt f4 works, but if you don't want it telling you that it didn't close correctly you need to exit to the title screen first then alt f4. I'll let you in on a souls secret it auto saves whenever you do an action that changes your player state or the world i.e you pick up an item or kill an enemy.
@@SliceofKris Thank you for telling me the well known secret ;) I have only played a short bit of Bloodborne, I stupidly played with 2 very large dogs, who chased me down and ended me very easily, so I am yet to see how well the save occurred, it should be the last pick up though, of which there have been plenty. Game was running fine, aside from sounds (attack) not occurring, while other sounds (voices etc) seemed fine. Hoping that will have somehow sorted itself out when I restart though. I find it surprising that they have not made the stop button work, but that is common with emulation, so I guess there is good reason.
@SappigeKiwi sorry should have explained that. You add the emulator to your steam library as a non-steam game, and then launch the emulator via steam. It worked for me with my switch pro controller. Also, I believe shadps4 does support xbox on its own. I used steam because I use switch controllers, but I would try the emulator on its own first and see if that works for you
Just tested it, the 1440p 21:9 crashes when you take or give dmg, but the 1080p 21:9 seems to run fine I can take and give dmg no problem. I am sure there are nexus mods that might help with this if not now in the future. Make sure you hit f11 to go full screen otherwise it looks weird and during load screen/main menu you get grey bars where the extended screen go ingame.
Can't stand this shit. Every time I try to download the file from a certain website it downloads an exe and I'm afraid to open it so I delete it. Its from a website that many people use and I can't figure it out
I love Piracy. Now i can lose my mind to horrors beyond imagination
thank you for the honest assesment of how playable it is ATM, guess Ill wait a couple of months
Mine was running fine until 2 massive dogs killed me, maybe check out some of the other install guides? Phobia and Oxford King perrhaps?
It’s 100% playable start to finish 60fps with a few select mods.
I'm playing it right now and while it crashes on occasion and my GPU ( 2060S ) can't handle 1080p/60FPS it's playable in 900p/60 FPS. I crash sometimes but that's life.
yo shout out to the heros spendng god knows how long developing emulators for free for the people man. KING SHIT
Thank you for another great video.
I stumbled across this video just to see if your experience with the emulation mostly matched up with mine after 100%-ing the game again, and am glad to see that I didn't notice anything vastly different. Something I wanted to note though is that there is a fix to (mostly) stabilize the framerate during the Ebrietas fight, since the frame drops and crashes are caused by a bug with the SFX in the boss arena. There's a mod by Diegolix29 that includes a standalone download to fix the SFX bug. Also, I wanted to ask since you seemed to have the same experience as me when it came to crashes, does your ShadPS4 log occasionally mention that it couldn't locate particular files in the game folder? I looked and I definitely don't have the files it tries to find from time to time, but it never seems to be a problem. I just am curious if anyone else is seeing these error messages because I would like to know if I could've messed up dumping the ROM onto my USB-drive.
Thanks for the comment is exactly the type of comment I love.
I also get failed to open the file at path/blah logs. I think your dump is correct. I would need to be a much better dev to diagnose the random crashes. It not loading a file could be the reason for a crash but it could also be that it did a call to ram for the file and didn't receive the info it needed and crashed.
If anyone has the audio problem when it suddenly drops from the game crashing. Just simply load up the game, enter into your character and manually exit to the main menu. Then close the emulator and load up the game again. The audio will be fixed every single time.
Doesnt work with the GOTY edition PKG file (Just says "File doesnt appear to be a vaild PKG file"), is there some workaround?
it has worked on older versions pre 0.4 , so the file cant be the problem.
I wouldn't know sorry. I haven't tested all the PKGs the Internet has to offer. Did some quick Googlefu and found nothing of use. You can check PKG files with fpkg is all I found. There is a more updated nightly version of shadps4 can try that version.
@ thanks, ill try 👍
My bloodborne just crashes on start with an error message saying the "ErrorDeviceLost". Any solutions?
Isn't there some windows redistributables that you need also? my game keeps freezing my entire pc and i have it setup the same way you do on an rx6800xt + 7800x3d
Shadps4 immediately closes after trying to run Bloodborne, tried several pkgs to no avail.
same. I'm still struggling with it. no one in these videos seem to have encountered this but there are a bunch of people online dealing with it too. have you found a solution?
@Watchlist_king I can't pinpoint what made it work for me but if you're on windows have you tried using the 0.5.1 version? Not only that but I uninstalled the Microsoft c++ runtime programs and reinstalled them fresh, "repairing" them didn't help at all it seemed.
@Watchlist_king also try running shaps4 exe as admin from your computer's search bar.
@Watchlist_king hey have you seen my first reply?
@krzysztof7374 nah man ive been looking up and down this comment section and im not seeing what youre talking about brotherman
i downloaded both base game and 1.09 update file but firmware is 4.0, how do i make it 4.5 pls help
game was running great until i encountered my first crash about 2-3 hours in. audio files were bugged when i relaunched. i replaced the audio files as you suggested and it completely wiped my save. if i will have to repeat this step every crash, how do i maintain my progress?
Saves aren't stored anywhere near sound files but if you right-click your bloodborne game you can locate them. From there you can back them up or check if they really got deleted. Sorry to hear your save file vanished.
@@SliceofKrisyea I’m not 100% sure what happened. My sound files were restored, so I’m pretty confident I followed things correctly. when I relaunched the emulator, it was like everything was reset from the beginning. The “saves” file was empty so idk. Thanks though
where do i get pgk file i have no ps
Those are the minimum specs for the emulator, not specifically for emulating this game
I know but I still am curious, plus it is help for people struggling to know if it is their rig or something else.
How do I find that page?
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I cannot share the pkg files for legal reasons you will have to google bloodborne with old hunter dlc pkg files. Best of luck!
roms fun
Hey did u figure this out? Im havbing some poroblkems with it
still unplayable unless clearing the SFX folder, still crashes on blood effects (aka you hitting a monster or vice versa). Im running the latest ShadPS4 0.5, CPU is i5 14600, RTX4070.
I have played the entire game on my system, your system seems fine not sure why you are getting issues. I am guessing you have tried this on a previous version. Did you do a full clean install of the PKG files? Are you trying to do 4k resolution? What about OS are you on win 11 or 10? I am using just default latest win 11 OS. These are just me being curious as to why yours is crashing.
my shad ps4 wont open and im losing it, as soon as i select the game folder i made it just never opens. i have newest c++. is it cuz im on windows 10??? ahhhh
I do not have win 10 install atm. Are you using x86 version of windows? Or x64 could be an issue there. Beyond that I do not know. It is very bleeding edge this emulator, I am sure there are lots of compatibility issues.
@ upgrading to windows 11 right now lol hopefully it’ll work? Just frustrating that the emulator GUI won’t even open. I got the qt version and tried past shad versions.
Steam OS future is our only prayer to save us from the windows hellscape
@@SliceofKris windows 11 fixed it! sad tho the sound mod isnt fixing the sound bug now
anyone knows the best location to download bloodborne from?
got it, but how do i get the pkg files? i really dont know much about emulating games
roms fun
@@rogerss19 i cant find the update file on that site
@@turbotegs2102 it is in the same zip archive, you must install it too in shadps4 and it automatically detects the update
my game crashes when i use some kind of item i think its a healing item
my game will crash whenever it goes to character creation, sometimes it crashes at cutscene right before character creation not sure why
Been trying to read up the problems on the reddit. There is a save file going around with all the different starting classes just at iosefka clinic which might help. www.nexusmods.com/bloodborne/mods/190
after choosing path for games shadps4 windows does not appear only the black CLI window also i can see shadps4 is running in task manger
Did you download the QT version?
same
When I click on download on the shadps4 website I just get an error
Might be ddos lots of activity ATM for the emulator. The hug of death from gamers loving it more than server capacity can handle try again later.
Why doesn't anyone say or put where the game file is located?
The bloodborne PKG files? Because sharing of the game files is illegal. If they stopped going after ROM sharing websites we'd gladly share them again. Over the past year three really decent romshare sites have been shutdown or sued and 3 different emulators have also been forced to stop development.
@SliceofKris and how do people find places with those files that are safe?
@@Phantompzq Safe and piracy never go hand in hand.
What is the correct way to exit/close the game?
Alt f4 works, but if you don't want it telling you that it didn't close correctly you need to exit to the title screen first then alt f4. I'll let you in on a souls secret it auto saves whenever you do an action that changes your player state or the world i.e you pick up an item or kill an enemy.
@@SliceofKris Thank you for telling me the well known secret ;) I have only played a short bit of Bloodborne, I stupidly played with 2 very large dogs, who chased me down and ended me very easily, so I am yet to see how well the save occurred, it should be the last pick up though, of which there have been plenty. Game was running fine, aside from sounds (attack) not occurring, while other sounds (voices etc) seemed fine. Hoping that will have somehow sorted itself out when I restart though.
I find it surprising that they have not made the stop button work, but that is common with emulation, so I guess there is good reason.
I can get the game to run but when i get to the main menu i cant click anything. Anyone have a fix?
use a controller. It's a ps4 game, it won't let you click with a mouse
@bluehero2can i use an Xbox controller or is it only compatible with ps4? And if so, can I use an adapter to change it?
@SappigeKiwi if you run the game via steam then any controller supported by steam should work
@bluehero2 how do you run the game via steam? Isn’t it on a separate “software”. The emulator doesn’t run on steam does it?
@SappigeKiwi sorry should have explained that. You add the emulator to your steam library as a non-steam game, and then launch the emulator via steam. It worked for me with my switch pro controller.
Also, I believe shadps4 does support xbox on its own. I used steam because I use switch controllers, but I would try the emulator on its own first and see if that works for you
I heard ultrawide is buggy, is that true?
Just tested it, the 1440p 21:9 crashes when you take or give dmg, but the 1080p 21:9 seems to run fine I can take and give dmg no problem.
I am sure there are nexus mods that might help with this if not now in the future. Make sure you hit f11 to go full screen otherwise it looks weird and during load screen/main menu you get grey bars where the extended screen go ingame.
Is there KBM support?
You'd have to explore mods I don't think there is native support
For some reason the PKG I got didn't have the 1.09 update just the 1.0 version.
Might be able to find them separately but usually they are packaged together try looking for one that says it has the old hunter dlc
@SliceofKris I found the right one thank u I downloaded the wrong one on the list at first
@@TheDoughnut94 mate can u send the link pls
@@SliceofKris A GOTY version can work then to get the dlc no ?
Someone else was having issues goty version of bloodborne PKG best you can do is try!
Who else is having the issue where your weapon just... fucking vanishes from your hands? Very annoying.
also stats screen is busted and the game shows that I have 99 bullets & potions, but I don't.
Can't stand this shit. Every time I try to download the file from a certain website it downloads an exe and I'm afraid to open it so I delete it. Its from a website that many people use and I can't figure it out
Which site? If it's trusted there should be no problem.