A comprehensive list of games that are only problematic on AMD/ATI graphics cards

[mattbuc]

I just started using this emulator, Google brought me here 'cause I was looking for some fixes to play Tekken 6 on my PC. Well, from what I've read in the OP, it seems for us AMD users it's a bit difficult, isn't it? There have been any improvement since 2003? I mean, how's the current situation? I'm having many issues with Tekken 6, already got two BSoD every time I start a battle.

Is there a list where I can see how many games are currently playable? I also tried to play Tekken 6 on Android, there things seem to be better, however FPS is pretty low during battles, characters and movements are kinda slow.

[LunaMoo]

This thread is kind of outdated and most of those issues were only happening on very old hardware back from the "ATI" times.

To sum it up - AMD gpu's vs ppsspp should be divided to two separate cases:
- very old gpu's(HD4000 series and older aka all pre dx11 gpu's) which always had very poor OGL drivers and lots of those are completely broken, users of those cherry picked driver called 11.11a as "best one", probably not bug-free either,
- new gpu's which also have(or had / wasn't checking for a while;p) buggy OGL drivers starting from "crimson" series(of the driver), I belive your Tekken problem is exactly that. Modern GPU's that are old enough to have earlier drivers have a very easy workaround of copying pre-crimson OGL driver dll's into ppsspp directory, you could just grab those files from this user post or find a pre-crimson driver for your gpu and use that:].

If your gpu is too new to have older drivers or too old to have any quality drivers to begin with;p, as long as you use windows you can always use D3D backends as AMD is just as good as Nvidia with those.
- d3d9 is kind of outdated and I would only recommend it on very old systems,
- d3d11 on the other hand is pretty great, in some cases much better than OGL, both with performance and quality, but it's also new and still has few issues in some games that doesn't happen on other backends as can be seen here.

[mattbuc]

Fixed it by putting Direct3D 11 instead of OpenGL, now it runs like a charm, the only problem with these emulators are the controls, for games like Tekken or Dragon Ball it's better to use a joystick.

[TkSilver]

(05-24-2017 05:42 PM)mattbuc Wrote:  Fixed it by putting Direct3D 11 instead of OpenGL, now it runs like a charm, the only problem with these emulators are the controls, for games like Tekken or Dragon Ball it's better to use a joystick.

It is not a problem since you have the choice to use any controller you want. Want to play Tekken with a dance pad? You can (probably not well). Want to use a PS1 arcade style joystick then all you need is the joystick and a usb to psx adapter. You will need to set the controls in PPSSPP's settings but that is it. Also unless you make a patch you can't easily alter how a physical psp would interact with the game. (ie. you cant make analog controls digital and vice versa, assigning the psp's dpad to an analog stick will not make it suddenly capable of detecting analog movements)