Rollout has started - if you're on Android you'll automatically be updated within a week.
PPSSPP 1.8.0 fixes several bugs and substantially improves compatibility with various hardware. Support for mobile PowerVR GPU in Vulkan has been added, fixing many instances of broken display. Here's a full list of major changes:
- Avoid crash when starting PPSSPP due to bad AMD Vulkan drivers (#11802)
- PowerVR Vulkan display corruption fixed (#11744, #11747)
- Naruto Shippuden 3 hang fixed (#11780)
- Fixes to various lighting bugs (#11567, #11574, #11577)
- Fix control issue in Sonic Rivals and Rock Band (#11878, #11798, #11879)
- Significant performance improvement in Earth Defense Force 2 (#11172)
- Fix "real clock sync" setting (helps with latency for music games - #11813)
- More speed in FF4 effects and other generated curves (#11425)
- Support for resizing Vulkan on Linux (#11451)
- Improved support for GLES on Linux/IoT (#11507, #11537, #11541, #11632, #11746, #11806, #11845)
- Percentage based frameskipping (#11523)
- DXT accuracy improved, fixing thick white line in Gran Turismo sky (#11530)
- Fix Motorstorm freeze on non-Windows (#11618)
- Faster block transfer in some games like Digimon Adventures (#11531, #11553, #11776)
- Blending optimizations and improvements (#11543, #11620)
- Improve D3D11 rendering issues (#11584)
- Change default graphics backend to D3D11 or OpenGL (#11621, #11658)
- Remove some outdated settings (#11665, #11666, #11667)
- Fix remote disc streaming with ipv6 (#11689, #11700)
- Vulkan: Workarounds for some driver bugs for 5xx series Qualcomm GPUs (#11691, #11694)
- Fix some Qt port issues with recent performance improvements (#11720, #11807, #11808)
- UWP Xbox One: fix X/Back button confusion (#11740)
- Fix Formula 1 2006 timing issue (#11767)
- Fixes and workarounds for some vertex range culling bugs that broke a few games (#11785, #11859), and disable it on older GPUs (#11712, #11773, #11787)
- Android: Allow putting PSP storage on custom paths like SD cards (#11812)
- Corrected vocp instruction, fixing models in Artdink games (#11822, #11835)