PS5 emulation just took one of its biggest leaps yet, with the KyTyPS5 emulator now running the Demon's Souls remake at 10 to 18 FPS. That is roughly a tenfold jump from where it stood only a day earlier, when the game was barely limping along at 1 to 2 FPS on high-end hardware like a Ryzen 7 9800X3D paired with an RTX 4080.
The update comes from DSOGaming, which has been tracking KyTyPS5's progress closely. The site puts the improvement at around 800 percent in a single release. That sounds like a stretch until you remember the emulator only recently managed to get past the character creation screen without crashing.
Demon's Souls is not the only title showing gains. Astro Bot is apparently running at around 11 FPS too, and this is reportedly the first time footage of it in motion has surfaced. GTA 5 remains playable to varying degrees as well, so three major PS5 games now technically run on PC, even if none of them are close to a smooth experience.
DSOGaming has also attached a video showing Demon's Souls chugging along at around 10 to 18 FPS on KyTyPS5, which is a huge leap. Some people online have floated the idea that AI-assisted code is behind the sudden jump, though there is nothing confirming that either way.
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If improvements continue to be this speedy, the developers behind KyTyPS5 think 30 FPS could be within reach by the end of 2026. That would still fall well short of a buttery smooth experience, but it is a big turnaround from just a couple of months ago, when reaching a character creation screen felt like the milestone worth celebrating.
