PS Vita: multiple games get a performance boost

Following his release of a significant VitaGL performance improvement, PS Vita developer Rinnegatamante has been updating several of his PS Vita ports. The first game to see the performance boost was VitaQuake III (with, in some cases, FPS going from 24FPS to 32FPS thanks to the change), but now we’re seeing many other games getting the upgrade as well.

What is VitaGL for PS Vita

VitaGL is an OpenGL wrapper on the PS Vita. This open source project (driven by Rinnegatamante) is massively used to port OpenGL games onto the PS Vita. From the project’s Readme:

vitaGL is an opensource openGL driver for PSVITA development. It acts as a wrapper between openGL and sceGxm and allows to use a subset of openGL functions with full hardware acceleration by translating the code to sceGxm equivalent.

As an end user, you generally don’t need to bother about this library itself, only to know that it unlocks the possibility to port many, many games, notably PC games, onto the PS Vita.

PS Vita Homebrew ports see significant improvements

Following VitaQuake III a few days ago, Rinnegatamante has now upgraded the following games with the new VitaGL library. Most of them should see speed and FPS improvements from this change:

• Cro-mag Rally Vita 1.1 (Download)
• Billy Frontier Vita 1.1 (Download)
• SoulCalibur Vita 1.1 (Download)
• VitaVoyager 1.0 (Download)
• Swordigo Vita 1.1 (Download)

According to the developer, VitaVoyager in particular is getting significant improvements from this change (which is probably why it earned its “1.0” label)

Source: Rinnegatamante