God of War 3 Launcher - alpha 6

What's new

• New: Start game without loading shaders in the launcher. The game starts at once and builds each shader the first time it's needed, instead of first loading the whole shader cache (by now about 3 minutes). After loading a save or entering a new area, some objects can appear a moment late.
• Fixed: the game could freeze in a fight after a longer session (the picture stopped and the controller kept vibrating).
• Fixed: crashes from running out of memory in later areas, for example right after saving, in the City of Olympia or on the Path of Eos. The app now needs far less memory: about 1 GB instead of 2 GB at the launcher menu, and about 3.5 GB instead of 4.5 GB in play. A leak that grew by several hundred MB per hour of play is gone.
• If a texture still doesn't fit into memory, older textures are dropped and loaded again later, instead of the game stopping.

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Alpha for the Xbox Series X|S in Developer Mode (not the Xbox One). It contains no game files: you need your own dump of God of War III Remastered (tested: CUSA01715).

Install

1. Unzip on a PC.
2. Device Portal → Add → the .appx and the package in Dependencies. If Dev Home lists the app as an App, set its type to Game.
3. Copy your dump (the folder with eboot.bin, sce_module, sce_sys and dvdroot_ps4) to a USB drive (any folder; the app looks in \dumps\GodOfWar3 by itself and otherwise asks you to choose the folder once) or to the console's internal storage anywhere under D:\DevelopmentFiles (found by itself).
4. Start God of War 3 Launcher: Prepare (once), Precompile shaders (once, recommended), then Start game. The menu shows the game folder it uses; Choose game folder lists the dumps the app found and can browse a USB drive.
   Start game first loads every shader the game has used so far (longer the further you play); Start game without loading shaders starts at once and builds each shader when the game first needs it, so some objects can appear a moment late after loading.

In the game, RS + LT (click the right stick while holding the left trigger) opens the menu.

Installs over earlier builds and keeps your saves and settings. Credits