# inFAMOUS First Light: rehosting the PS4 game on Windows

> inFAMOUS First Light is rehosted on Windows by running the PlayStation 4 game's x86-64 code directly on the PC processor. A replacement PS4 runtime supplies system-library functions, and a Vulkan renderer handles graphics; the player supplies the original game dump.

- Type: Case study
- Targets: Game
- Category: Independent reconstruction cases
- Relationship: Independent reconstruction project
- Sources reviewed: 2026-11-06
- Added to the catalog: 2026-11-09
- Original resource: <https://github.com/VantageEX/infamous-first-light-pc>
- Primary source: <https://github.com/VantageEX/infamous-first-light-pc/blob/467822b09789aadbd8426c57f6d604bad96ea06f/README.md>
- Catalog page: <https://awesomerea.org/resources/infamous-first-light-pc-case/>
- Record JSON: <https://awesomerea.org/resources/infamous-first-light-pc-case/record.json>
- Chinese version: [简体中文](https://awesomerea.org/zh/resources/infamous-first-light-pc-case/index.md)

## Requirements & limits

- **Prerequisites:** A dump from the user's own PS4 is required; the tested dump is CUSA00897 EU base game 1.00.
- **Prerequisites:** Windows 10 or 11 64-bit, a Vulkan 1.3 GPU, and an AVX-capable CPU are required.
- **Limits:** The author describes an early playable build with first missions working and known graphics and performance issues.
- **License:** GPL-2.0 license.

## Primary sources

1. <https://github.com/VantageEX/infamous-first-light-pc/blob/467822b09789aadbd8426c57f6d604bad96ea06f/README.md>

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