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SPDX-FileCopyrightText: 2024 shadPS4 Emulator Project
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SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0-or-later
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# shadPS4 Quickstart
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## Summary
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- [**PC Requirements**](#minimum-pc-requirements)
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- [**CPU**](#cpu)
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- [**GPU**](#gpu)
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- [**RAM**](#ram)
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- [**OS**](#os)
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- [**Have the latest WIP version**](#how-to-run-the-latest-work-in-progress-builds-of-shadps4)
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- [**Install PKG files (Games and Updates)**](#install-pkg-files)
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- [**Configure the emulator**](#configure-the-emulator)
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## Minimum PC requirements
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### CPU
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- A processor with at least 4 cores and 6 threads
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- Above 2.5 GHz frequency
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- required support AVX2 extension or Rosetta 2 on ARM
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### GPU
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- A graphics card with at least 1GB of VRAM
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- Keep your graphics drivers up to date
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- Vulkan 1.3 support (required)
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### RAM
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- 8GB of RAM or more
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### OS
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- Windows 10 or Ubuntu 22.04
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## How to run the latest Work-in-Progress builds of shadPS4
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1. Go to <https://github.com/shadps4-emu/shadPS4/releases> In the release identified as 'pre-release' click on the down arrow(Assets), select your operating system of choice (the "**qt**" versions have a user interface, which is probably the one you want. The others are SDL versions, which can only be run via command line).
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2. Once downloaded, extract to its own folder, and run shadPS4's executable from the extracted folder.
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3. Upon first launch, shadPS4 will prompt you to select a folder to store your installed games in. Select "Browse" and then select a folder that shadPS4 can use to install your PKG files to.
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## Install PKG files
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To install PKG files (game and updates), you will need the Qt application (with UI). You will have to go to "File" then to "Install Packages (PKG)", a window will open then you will have to select the files. You can install multiple PKG files at once. Once finished, the game should appear in the application.
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<img src="https://github.com/shadps4-emu/shadPS4/blob/main/documents/Quickstart/2.png" width="800">
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## Configure the emulator
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To configure the emulator, you can go through the interface and go to "settings".
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You can also configure the emulator by editing the `config.toml` file located in the `user` folder created after the application is started (Mostly useful if you are using the SDL version).
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Some settings may be related to more technical development and debugging.\
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For more information on this, see [**Debugging**](https://github.com/shadps4-emu/shadPS4/blob/main/documents/Debugging/Debugging.md#configuration). |