# Killzone Shadow Fall: a native Windows port with Vulkan graphics

> Killzone Shadow Fall for PC runs the PS4 game's code directly on a Windows CPU and translates its graphics to Vulkan at runtime. Its launcher points to a user-supplied version 01.81 game dump containing eboot.bin; the author reports campaign playability in a public beta.

- 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/lesca-191204/killzone-shadowfall-pc>
- Primary source: <https://github.com/lesca-191204/killzone-shadowfall-pc/blob/4ae4791b4f0264073589ef90459acc0229b262c1/README.md>
- Catalog page: <https://awesomerea.org/resources/killzone-shadow-fall-pc-case/>
- Record JSON: <https://awesomerea.org/resources/killzone-shadow-fall-pc-case/record.json>
- Chinese version: [简体中文](https://awesomerea.org/zh/resources/killzone-shadow-fall-pc-case/index.md)

## Requirements & limits

- **Prerequisites:** Windows 10 (1903+) or 11, 64-bit, with a Vulkan 1.3 GPU and 16 GB RAM.
- **Prerequisites:** A user-supplied Killzone Shadow Fall version 01.81 dump containing eboot.bin; CUSA00190 is the tested version.
- **Testing evidence:** The author has not tested AMD GPUs or Intel CPUs.
- **License:** GPL-2.0.

## Primary sources

1. <https://github.com/lesca-191204/killzone-shadowfall-pc/blob/4ae4791b4f0264073589ef90459acc0229b262c1/README.md>

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