PC5 2.3.2

PC5 2.3.2 can start the programs a game starts, a new setting you turn on yourself, and lets a game read its files exactly as it asks.

Install

• ProsperoStore: update PC5 from its page in the store.
• PC5's own updater: Settings › System › Update now, or Update now when PC5 asks as it opens. It downloads only what changed when you have the version before, otherwise the whole app. PC5 restarts by itself when the update is installed.

New

• Programs a game starts (Settings › In games): some games start a second program while they run: a setup that installs files the game needs (Visual C++, DirectX, .NET, PhysX), or a built-in web browser's own programs, when the game's menus are web pages. On a PS5 a game can't start another program, so these games stopped early or went on without what they needed. With this setting On, PC5 starts those programs for the game, each as a program of its own, hidden: nothing of them is on the screen, and the game goes on once they're done. It's new and off by default: keep elfldr loaded (PC5 already uses it), and if a game then waits for one of them forever, turn it off again. Please report what it does for your games.
• Read a game's files as asked: PC5 reads a game's files in bigger pieces than the game asks for, which loads games faster. For a game that says its own files are damaged, WINE_PS5_READ_AHEAD=0 in its environment (PC5's web page › Games › env.txt) reads them exactly as the game asks, to tell whether PC5 or the copy is at fault.

Which games run

See the game compatibility list, made from players' reports and issues. Got a game running? Use Report it works (a game's △ › Manage, or PC5's web page), or add it here: the form takes a minute.

Reporting a problem

Please report problems as an issue on GitHub, not in ProsperoStore's comments:

• A game doesn't run for a game.
• A problem with PC5 for PC5 itself.

Attach the game's zip from /data/prospero-win/logs/: an issue-…zip, or the game's newest log-…zip when nothing crashed. The form asks for it, as the cause can't be found without it. △ on PC5's crash message, or a game's △ › Manage › Report a problem, opens the form for you, filled in.

If an update from PC5 fails, the message says why. Turn on Settings › System › Keep all logs, try again and attach PC5's own log. See Logs and debugging for what an issue may ask for.

Not supported

• Games that need a store's launcher or client running (Steam, EA app, Ubisoft Connect, Rockstar Games Launcher).
• Anti-cheat, games that need kernel drivers, and DRM-protected games.
• .NET programs that mix .NET and C++ (C++/CLI).
• 16-bit Windows and DOS programs.
• Recording or saving video from inside a game.
• Frame generation for DirectDraw games and games drawn without 3D, and HDR output.