Better Amphetamine Plugin v3.2, GPU XBAR added
The good thing about knowing where to look for the news is that you can easily keep the people informed with (sometimes) minimal work. The bad thing about it is that now, there is what can easily be described as an avalanche of releases, updates and drama (which here at wololo.net, we try to keep as far away from the blog as possible) that it can be hard to keep up, sometimes. For the most part however, as someone who enjoys doing this, it becomes slightly easier. This time I am here to report on another update to BeatPlay‘s Amphetamine fork.
What is Better Amphetamine Plugin?
Better Amphetamine Plugin is the work of wololo forums user BeatPlay and is a fork of the reworked Amphetamine plugin by Rinnegatamante which itself was a fork of TheFloW’s original plugin. What the original plugin was meant to do was allow you to overclock the CPU of your Vita, but now with Henkaku R6 you can also slightly overclock your GPU to allow for better performance in games. Remember this will only work on games by Vitamin or MaiDumpTool
Changelog for Better Amphetamine Plugin v3.2
- add GPU XBAR(Crossbar) frequency(need advanced setting)
- add config for advanced setting and accurate frequency
- add battery temperature
- add game TITLE_ID
Instructions for using Better Amphetamine Plugin
- How to install it:
- Copy amphetamin.suprx to the ux0:plugins/ folder
- Create a game.txt inside the same folder
- Inside that file put this line: ux0:plugins/amphetamin.suprx 1 and save.
- When inside a dumped game, press SELECT for a few seconds to bring up the overclocking menu.
- How to use the new file:
For advanced setting, create a file named
config.txtand put it intoux0:/data/amphetamin. You should use common editor but not Windows default notepad.exe(You can use wordpad.exe, Notepad++, EditPlus, Sublime Text, Atom or more, Which use\nfor linebreak). The file content must be:freq_accurate=0 show_advanced=0
freq_accurate: 1 to enable accurate frequence(5MHz per select)
show_advanced: 1 to enable advaned setting(currently has XBAR clock setting)You can also download that
config.txtfrom release page. You can also transfer it to PSV and use VitaShell to edit it.
Download Better Amphetamine Plugin
To download Better Amphetamine Plugin all you need to do is go to the thread in the /talk/ forums and download the precompiled version. If you don’t want to go to the forums, here is the direct link so you don’t have to overwork yourself. Don’t forget to give BeatPlay any feedback you might find relevant!
Enjoy the release everyone.
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I second that, KARASVCXA666! …. badum tss.
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If you don’t want drama and claim to write ‘news’ perhaps you should stay more neutral instead of b*tching about Sony and how they ‘failed’ all the time.
right
I don’t claim anything and I never did, so please don’t put words in my mouth I never said.
Also you seem to fail at distinguishing what is “drama” aka “the fuckery between entitled users and fed-up developers” and what was simply getting frustration off my chest at the utter incompetence of Sony that thought that it would be successful selling a console simply using brand name. Plus, I don’t *** half as much as a /vitahacks or /vitapiracy user. So I’m pretty happy with that.
But hey, constructive criticism and all isn’t it? 😀
–‘The good thing about *knowing where to look* for the *news* is that you can easily *keep the people informed* with (sometimes) minimal work.’–
–‘then we here at Wololo.net should probably *report* on it’–
News, informed, report. Hmm…
–‘Sony has made many boneheaded decisions with the Vita. So much so that the Vita stops being a console and almost becomes a disaster, an exercise in how to do every single thing wrong when releasing hardware’–
–‘projects that can help us dirty gaijin bask in the glory of games that were never released in the West. Games like Phantasy Star Nova, Nights of Azure and Tales of Innocence R may never see an actual Western release because of how poorly the Vita sold in this side of the world, because Sony suffers from both utter marketing incompetence and a second syndrome I like to call “greedis extremis”’–
These bits of text doesn’t inspire neutrality or objectivity and only fuels drama in comments. While you might think nothing of it, for some people reading it’ll invoke feelings of incorrectly justifying their piracy or wares usage, claiming they’re being wronged by Sony. Many who’ve claimed the Vita has no games didn’t buy game software in the first place, but these same people were the first to request wares on various outlets. I know people who bought extra hard disks with the sole purpose of filling the thing up with pirated PS Vita content –money that could’ve been spent on digital game sales.
wololo.net as a site has been around for a long time, posting various updates on the Sony handheld scene. As such the brand name carries quite a bit of weight.
Continue writing like you currently do but don’t claim to write news, or raise your level until you can confidently say you do.
Quotes copied from stuff on first 2 pages, can’t be bothered digging through more.
Again, never loads for me… Sigh
Did u added it to plugins.txt “hacker”?
Thats just a PSN avatar… And yes I did :/
has anyone used the GPU overclock on Borderlands 2 yet? And if you have does it improve the framerate a decent amount?
ABSOLUTELY! im playing that now and WOW! what a difference it makes. it still gets choppy sometimes but its a HUGE improvement.
What about Chronovolt? That one had like 3fps, does it get any better on an overclocked GPU?
Yeah. This gpu overclock does wonders.
Soul Sacrifice works at nearly 60fps.
Lost Dimension had like 15-20 fps now its nearly full speed too.
Senran Kagura also wprks full speed now even with *** tons of enemies.
Do these new releases let us play psp iso/cso? Iv been trying to play THP Project 8 for the longest time on TN-V11 3.36. When i start the game it checks for mem card data for a sec, then gives me an error, then i have to start over. Any fix on this or should i update to Henkaku 6.60?
As far as I know, henkaku 6.60 doesn’t offer you play iso/cso ” YET” but there are lots of great stuff coming that its slightly turning amazing!
This one never worked for me. Previous releases all worked.
Seems like this update somehow broke compatibility with Gundam Breaker 3 (Asia English obviously); which is odd since all the previous versions worked with it.
Hi I love this little plugin you made, I mainly use it to check my battery life rather than overclocking but still wonderful.
Just thought I would mention though, today while playing FIFA 14 I brought up the plugin display and left it on for like 15-20 seconds and then all of a sudden FIFA 14 crashed! Came up with an error message (forgot to take note of the error code sadly) and I had to click OK to close the application.
Just thought I would mention it as a possible bug.
Cheers!
P.S: I was using the latest version of the plugin when it crashed!
I don’t understand, how does the XBAR overclocking works if you cannot display the overclocking menu in the XBAR ?
yeh i only got it to work on my psp 3000. Great Game though if only it could have made it to the big screen. (Vita screen)
I wonder if there would be any advantage to the overclocking GPU in RetroArch? I’d assume a lot of the workload is just forced on the CPU but…