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AnyPS5 system requirements

What a PC needs to run a game converted by AnyPS5, what testers actually used, and where the Steam Deck, Intel CPUs and Macs stand.

The short version

The project itself has published one reference result: the 2D platformer Dreaming Sarah runs at 60 fps on a GTX 1050 Ti with an i5-7500, and at 36 fps on a laptop with Intel HD 620 graphics and an i5-7200U. Big 3D games are a different matter: they are limited by how complete AnyPS5 is, not by your PC, and today run at a few frames per second to around 30 even on top-end cards.

Why it needs an x86-64 PC

AnyPS5 does not translate the game's processor code. The PS5 has an 8-core AMD Zen 2 CPU, the same instruction family as a desktop PC, so the converted game runs its code directly. That is what makes it fast, and also why ARM machines (Apple silicon Macs, most phones, Snapdragon laptops) cannot run it without a translation layer.

The graphics side is translated: PS5 shaders are compiled for the console's AMD RDNA 2 chip, and AnyPS5 rewrites them to SPIR-V for Vulkan the first time a game uses them. That is the stutter and black screen you see on a first run.

Intel processors

Some PS5 games use instructions only AMD chips have. Convert those with --to-intel (a tick box in the command builder) and they run on Intel CPUs. If an instruction cannot be converted the relinker says so and stops, instead of producing a game that crashes later.

Windows: page file

A PS5 game sets aside a large pool of "direct memory" for graphics. On Windows AnyPS5 reserves the whole pool when the game asks for it, up to 13,824 MiB per game. If RAM plus page file cannot cover that on top of everything else running, the game stops with create direct memory backing … failed. Let Windows manage the page file size, or set it larger, and close other heavy programs.

Linux

Use the Linux build of the relinker and the prx-linux libraries. With AMD or Intel graphics (Mesa drivers), give your user access to /dev/udmabuf by adding it to the kvm group and logging in again; without it some memory is copied instead of shared, and certain GPU writes fail with BDA access failed. The NVIDIA proprietary driver does not use it.

Steam Deck and handhelds

On paper the Steam Deck is a good fit: an x86-64 AMD Zen 2 processor with RDNA 2 graphics, the same families as the PS5, running Linux with solid Vulkan drivers. So the Linux build is the one to try, in desktop mode. As of 11 October 2026, though, nobody has posted a Steam Deck test of a real game in the project's threads, and the games that reach gameplay already struggle on desktop graphics cards. Treat it as an experiment for small 2D games like Dreaming Sarah or Balatro for now. The same applies to Windows handhelds such as the ROG Ally and Legion Go.

Mac

The relinker itself builds and runs on macOS, including Apple silicon, and can produce an x86-64 macOS program (--macos, with --to-rosetta for Apple silicon). Running games on a Mac is not officially supported yet, and the long-running macOS support issue is still open. It is not impossible, though: on 10 October a tester reported Balatro at about 33 fps on an M1 Pro MacBook through Rosetta and MoltenVK (Vulkan on Metal), with one change of their own (report). Treat that as a proof of concept, not a setup to copy.

What testers actually ran

Every PC and result reported on the game pages, collected in one table. Most of these runs used testing branches with extra fixes; follow the report link for the details.