Playden

More Direct3D 12 games start, The Witcher 3 among them, and Unreal Engine 5 games use Direct3D 12 by default. Choose a game's language and version whe installing, get its DLC, and updates. Frame generation shows up to four times the frames a game draws. New runtime kit 0.15 brings the latest prospero-win: rumble, the PS5 keyboard in games, USB mouse wheel and fixes for games that ran out of memory or file handles.

Warning: Beta of alpha software. Betas can have new bugs. Playden signs in to your real Steam account and reads and writes your Steam Cloud saves. Read Before you use it first.

Downloads

• File · What it is
• playden-ps5-0.9.0-beta.2.zip · The Playden app (the FAKE77031 folder), the console tools (tools/), the README, the compatibility list and the license files.
• playden-kit-0.15.zip · Runtime kit 0.15. Playden downloads it by itself; you need this file only to install the kit by hand.
• playden-update.json · Used by Playden to update itself and to find its kit. You don't need to download it.

Getting the beta (from 0.7.0 or newer): turn on Settings › Updates › Beta updates, then Check now. Playden updates the app and runtime kit 0.15 (430 MB). Make sure console storage has at least 8 GB free first (PS5 Settings › Storage). Your sign-in, games, saves and Game settings are kept.

After the update: games set up with kit 0.13 or 0.14 show "Kit update available" on their page. Play updates their runtime first, then starts the game. Until then they keep running on their old kit from PS5 Home.

Updating from 0.6.0 or older: update to 0.8.0 first (see its notes), then turn on Beta updates.