bc160201983/Uncharted-The-Nathan-Drake-Collection-PC-port

Run the PS4 Uncharted: The Nathan Drake Collection (CUSA02344: Drake's Fortune, Among Thieves and Drake's Deception) natively on Windows. The game's own x86-64 code runs directly on the PC; a runtime supplies the PS4 system libraries, and a Vulkan renderer executes the PS4 GPU work.

By BilalReloaded (YouTube, GitHub), October 2026. What changed and when: CHANGELOG.md.

No game files are in this repository or its builds. You need your own copy of the game (the dumped CUSA02344 folder). This project is not affiliated with Sony, Naughty Dog or Bluepoint Games.

The Collection menu, switching between the three games, saves, audio (music, speech, effects), cutscene movies and controllers work. Details and open issues: analysis/STATUS.md; plan and test list: analysis/PLAN.md.

Launcher (Uncharted Launcher.exe)

• A card per game; settings are kept per game.

• Quality presets:

  Preset	Render resolution	Frame rate	For
  Low	720p + FSR 1 to the screen	60	weak GPUs (about twice as fast as 1080p)
  Medium	1080p (as on PS4)	60	most PCs
  High	1440p	60	fast GPUs
  Ultra	4K (Drake's Fortune: 1620p + FSR 1)	up to 120 (experimental)	very fast GPUs

  Every preset queues 2 frames: the next frame is prepared while the GPU draws the last one.

• Display: windowed, borderless or exclusive fullscreen; render resolution 720p, 900p, 1080p, 1440p, 1620p or 4K; FSR 1 upscaling; RCAS sharpening; FPS counter.

• Performance: frame rate limit 30 / 60 / 120 (60 is the PS4's; 120 is experimental, and faster rates break the games' movement, so they are not offered); frames queued; background shader compilation; multithreaded rendering (experimental).

• Keyboard and mouse: mouse look (sensitivity, invert Y), right mouse aim, left mouse fire, WASD, and every action remappable per game in the Controls tab (two bindings per action, keys or mouse buttons). Controllers (DualSense, DualShock 4, Xbox) work at the same time.

• Game update 1.02 is used automatically when it sits next to the game folder (see below).

• Log and save folders, desktop shortcut, shader cache reset, game folder selection, links to the author's YouTube and GitHub.

In game: Insert or R3 + L2 opens the menu (display mode, frame rate, sharpening, overlay).

Under the hood

• Native execution of the three game executables; the Collection's game switching (LoadExec).
• shadPS4-derived Vulkan renderer with a persistent shader/pipeline cache, asynchronous shader compilation, and fixes for this game: GPU-written constants synced back to the CPU, MUBUF ADDR64 loads (character shadows), direct memory access for the tiled lighting, depth/stencil aliasing, CPU writes next to GPU data without stalls, GPU ray-cast results returned to the game (Drake's Fortune's bullet impacts, blood and decals), tolerant handling of garbage descriptors.
• Render resolution patch: the games' display settings and memory map are rewritten for the chosen resolution; cutscene movies are scaled to it and their conversion shader adjusted.
• FFmpeg-based video decoding (Videodec2), ATRAC9 audio (LibAtrac9), SDL3 window and controllers.

• Frame rate in the heaviest Uncharted 2 scenes is about 40-45 FPS at any resolution: the PS4's GPU command processing runs on one CPU core here (3,000-5,600 draws per frame). Lighter scenes reach 60. More optimization is planned.
• Multithreaded rendering (experimental) with "Frames queued 2" can still end Uncharted 2 with the game assert m_gfxEopTick after a few minutes. Use multithreaded rendering with 1 frame queued, or leave it off (the default).
• Drake's Fortune renders at most 2880x1620 (its memory layout) and upscales to 4K; turn on FSR 1.
• Frame rates above 120 are not offered: the games' movement breaks (Drake's Fortune at 160 FPS dropped Nate through the world).
• Uncharted 3 has had less play testing than the other two.

1. Download Uncharted-windows.zip from the latest release on the Releases page (or a newer build from the Actions tab, latest successful run → Artifacts), or build it yourself (below). Extract it anywhere.
2. Start Uncharted Launcher.exe. On the first Play, select your game folder: the dumped CUSA02344 folder (the one holding eboot.bin and sce_sys, often called uroot).
3. Recommended: update 1.02 (Bluepoint's stability, movie, audio and gameplay fixes). Extract the update next to the game folder, named like it plus -patch (for example CUSA02344-patch, with or without its uroot folder). The launcher's Advanced tab shows the version in use.
4. Pick a game and a preset, press PLAY. The first start of each game prepares files and compiles shaders: expect a slow first load and some stutter until the cache has filled.

Requirements: Windows 10/11 64-bit, a GPU with Vulkan 1.3 and a current driver (NVIDIA, AMD, Intel), 16 GB RAM recommended, a 4-core CPU or better. Saves, logs and settings stay in the analysis folder next to the launcher.

Updates (from version 0.1.1): the launcher checks the releases when it starts and shows UPDATE TO x.y.z when there is a newer one. It downloads the package, checks its SHA-256 against the release, replaces the program files (saves, settings and the shader cache stay) and starts again; if anything fails, the installed version is put back. Advanced tab: turn the check off, or check now.

GitHub Actions builds every push to main (build-windows.yml). To build locally, from an MSYS2 CLANG64 shell:

pacman -S --needed git patch \
  mingw-w64-clang-x86_64-{toolchain,cmake,ninja,pkgconf,python} \
  mingw-w64-clang-x86_64-{vulkan-headers,vulkan-loader,vulkan-memory-allocator,glslang} \
  mingw-w64-clang-x86_64-{sdl3,fmt,boost,robin-map,xxhash,ffmpeg,zydis} \
  mingw-w64-clang-x86_64-{spirv-tools,spirv-headers,spirv-cross}
git clone --recursive https://github.com/bc160201983/Uncharted-The-Nathan-Drake-Collection-PC-port.git
cd Uncharted-The-Nathan-Drake-Collection-PC-port
gow3_pc/build.sh                 # the runtime: gow3_pc/out/gow3-probe.exe
tools/package_windows.sh         # dist/Uncharted-windows(.zip); needs a Windows Python 3.10+
                                 # with Pillow (PYTHON_HOME)

To run from the source tree: Start-Uncharted.cmd (launcher), or python tools/probe_uncharted.py --boot --seconds 0 --game <game folder>.

tools/release.sh 0.1.1 publishes version 0.1.1: write its text in tools/release-notes/v0.1.1.md first. The script sets tools/VERSION, pushes the source and the tag v0.1.1; GitHub Actions then builds the package and publishes the release with Uncharted-windows.zip (about 20 minutes). The launcher offers newer releases as updates.

• Uncharted port, launcher and game fixes: BilalReloaded (YouTube, GitHub), 2026. The fixes and their dates are listed in CHANGELOG.md; the commit history shows each change.
• The runtime started from the gow3_pc project (whose internal names, such as GOW3_* settings, it keeps) and the shadPS4 video core.
• Third-party code: FSR (AMD), imgui, magic_enum, miniz, xbyak, LibAtrac9, FFmpeg, SDL3.
• Licensed under the GNU GPL v2 or later (see gow3_pc/LICENSE). The Windows package carries LICENSE.txt and a licenses folder with the license of every bundled library (licenses/THIRD-PARTY.txt lists each DLL package with its version, license and source).

You are welcome to use these fixes in your own port. The GPL asks that you keep the copyright and license notices and publish your source code under the same license when you distribute your build. Beyond that, a request: credit this project and link back to it (https://github.com/bc160201983/Uncharted-The-Nathan-Drake-Collection-PC-port, by BilalReloaded) in your README or release notes, so people can find where a fix came from.