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Uncharted: The Nathan Drake Collection native Windows port

Runs the PS4 Uncharted: The Nathan Drake Collection’s own x86-64 executables natively on Windows: a runtime supplies the PS4 system libraries and a shadPS4-derived Vulkan renderer executes the GPU work. The port adds a per-game launcher, resolution patches and modern upscaling, and its status table reports all three games playable with listed open issues. It is a compatibility-runtime port rather than a decompilation, and its results remain project-reported.

Requirements and limitations

  • Reviewed at the commit of release v0.2.3 (2026-10-18); v0.1.0 was published on 2026-10-15. README reports Drake’s Fortune, Among Thieves and Drake’s Deception playable, with the Collection menu, game switching, saves, audio, movies and controllers working. Known issues include a Drake’s Fortune grenade-launcher fault, cropped ultrawide views, single-core GPU-command limits on slower CPUs, experimental multithreaded rendering and less play-testing for Uncharted 3. The original game code is run with local patches, not rebuilt from recovered source.
  • Supply your own dumped copy of the PS4 game CUSA02344, the folder holding eboot.bin and sce_sys; game update 1.02 is optional and recommended. README says no game files are in the repository or its builds, and the preparation script patches the game executables locally for resolution and update handling. The project disclaims affiliation with Sony, Naughty Dog and Bluepoint Games, and the games keep their own rights.
  • Play needs 64-bit Windows 10 or 11, a CPU with AVX, F16C, BMI1, MOVBE and LZCNT (Intel Haswell or newer, or any AMD Ryzen), a Vulkan 1.3 GPU and about 6 GB of free RAM, with 16 GB recommended. Local builds use an MSYS2 CLANG64 toolchain with CMake, Ninja, the Vulkan stack, SDL3, FFmpeg, Boost and other listed packages, plus a Windows Python 3.10+ with Pillow for packaging. GitHub Actions builds the Windows package on each push, and the launcher’s updater checks release SHA-256 digests.
  • Evidence is play-testing and diagnostics: STATUS.md records native runtime tests for fibers, services, video decoding, buffered input and clock timing, with the cause and user confirmation of individual fixes. README frame rates come from the author’s RTX 5080 and integrated Radeon tests plus one player report. The CI workflow builds and publishes packages without automated game tests. This collection read the sources without running the port or any game.
  • README declares GPL v2 or later. The runtime started from FelipePrado0’s GPL-2.0 gow3_pc and the shadPS4 video core, and the TAA camera approach credits SuperMedo’s GPL v2 Uncharted port. Packages bundle third-party libraries; NVIDIA’s DLSS DLL, fetched by a build script from NVIDIA’s DLSS repository, stays under NVIDIA’s license. STATUS.md mentions REA only as unable to decompile the prepared ELF on Windows and names no AI model; the post’s Claude attribution comes from a third-party account, so no AI or REA workflow is established.

About this entry

Type
Case study
Category
Independent reconstruction cases
Relationship
Independent reconstruction project
Targets
Game

Sources reviewed

The description was reviewed against primary sources. This does not establish runtime testing, security auditing or verified compatibility.

Primary sources

  1. README.md GitHub · bc160201983/Uncharted-The-Nathan-Drake-Collection-PC-port · Revision dfc9fb6
  2. analysis/STATUS.md GitHub · bc160201983/Uncharted-The-Nathan-Drake-Collection-PC-port · Revision dfc9fb6
  3. analysis/PLAN.md GitHub · bc160201983/Uncharted-The-Nathan-Drake-Collection-PC-port · Revision dfc9fb6
  4. CHANGELOG.md GitHub · bc160201983/Uncharted-The-Nathan-Drake-Collection-PC-port · Revision dfc9fb6
  5. gow3_pc/LICENSE GitHub · bc160201983/Uncharted-The-Nathan-Drake-Collection-PC-port · Revision dfc9fb6
  6. .github/workflows/build-windows.yml GitHub · bc160201983/Uncharted-The-Nathan-Drake-Collection-PC-port · Revision dfc9fb6
  7. tools/package_windows.sh GitHub · bc160201983/Uncharted-The-Nathan-Drake-Collection-PC-port · Revision dfc9fb6
  8. tools/fetch_aa_files.sh GitHub · bc160201983/Uncharted-The-Nathan-Drake-Collection-PC-port · Revision dfc9fb6
  9. .gitmodules GitHub · bc160201983/Uncharted-The-Nathan-Drake-Collection-PC-port · Revision dfc9fb6
  10. https://github.com/bc160201983/Uncharted-The-Nathan-Drake-Collection-PC-port/releases/tag/v0.2.3