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God of War III Remastered for PC 2.1.2

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@FelipePrado0 FelipePrado0 released this 12 Oct 04:44
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A native Windows port of God of War III Remastered (PS4). The game's own code runs on your PC's processor and the graphics are translated to Vulkan.

No game files are included. You need your own copy of God of War III Remastered: CUSA01623 with the 01.02 update.
This project is not affiliated with Sony Interactive Entertainment or Santa Monica Studio. God of War is a trademark of Sony Interactive Entertainment.

What's new in 2.1.2

  • Fixed: the game no longer fails to start with prepare failed: 'charmap' codec can't encode characters when the game's metadata has non-Latin characters (for example a Japanese, Korean or Russian title in param.sfo).

This update keeps everything from 2.1.1 (Infinite Double Jumps, Unlock Very Hard) and 2.1 (persistent Vulkan pipeline cache, on-demand pipeline loading).

Validation and known issues

  • The preparation step was run on a real game dump with a Japanese title, both from source and inside the packaged God of War III.exe: 2.1.1 fails with the reported error, 2.1.2 completes.
  • An automated test writes a report with a Japanese title and checks the file is valid UTF-8.
  • New areas and effects may still cause temporary stutters.
  • Known issue: yellow or corrupted textures can appear in some areas, including at native 1080p. A fix remains under investigation.

Requirements

  • Windows 10 (1903 or newer) or Windows 11, 64-bit.
  • A graphics card with Vulkan 1.3 and an up-to-date driver.
  • Your own copy of the game (CUSA01623, version 01.02): the folder with eboot.bin, sce_module and sce_sys.
  • Persistent pipeline caching requires GPU and driver support for VK_KHR_pipeline_binary.

How to play

  1. Download gow3-windows.zip below and extract it to a folder.
  2. Open God of War III.exe. If Windows shows "Windows protected your PC", click More info, then Run anyway. The program is not digitally signed.
  3. Click Choose the game folder, then Browse next to Game folder, and select the folder with eboot.bin.
  4. Click PLAY. The first start takes longer while the game image is prepared. Previously unseen pipelines also need preparation.

Already on 2.1.1? Advanced > Check for updates installs 2.1.2 and keeps your saves and settings.

Next time, Play God of War III.exe starts the game straight away. Full instructions: README.

Credits

A fork of Supermedo's Windows port of deadinside28's bloodborne_pc, with God of War III fixes from cuesta4's shadPS4 fork and the shadPS4 renderer. Patches by kvicken and cuesta4 (from illusion0001's PS3 patches); 240 FPS adapted by Felipe Prado. Cheats adapted from Celogamez's GoldHEN cheats.

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