Hey everyone!

**Deadly Premonition Recompilation 2.0 is out**, and this is probably the biggest update the project has had so far: **the native renderer is finally ready for proper testing.**

For anyone seeing this project for the first time: DPRecomp is a native Windows port of the **Xbox 360 version of Deadly Premonition**, built through static recompilation.

You provide your own PAL or US copy of the game, and it runs as a regular Windows application with things like **60 FPS, mouse look, FSR 3**, and other improvements.

Until now, the game's graphics were rendered through an emulated Xbox 360 GPU.

With **2.0**, you can instead use a **native DirectX 12 renderer**, which draws the game directly on modern PC hardware.

Some of you may have already tried earlier preview versions of it. At that point, there were some pretty obvious problems: the sheriff's station had a completely white floor, the whole image had this weird milky haze over it, the colours weren't quite right, and several major rendering features were still missing.

That's now been fixed.

The main directional light — basically the sun when you're outdoors — is working again. The **sky, reflections and colour rendering now look correct**, depth of field is working, and the native renderer can render the game at up to **4x internal resolution**.

It's not perfect yet.

There are still a few graphical issues here and there. For example, one mirror can occasionally show a doubled image, there's a lamp in one cutscene whose lighting can flicker depending on the camera angle, and I'm sure there are still a few things we simply haven't encountered yet.

But at this point, **2.0 should perform better than any previous release**, and this is genuinely the best version of the recompilation I've been able to make so far.

# How to try the native renderer

Download 2.0 and launch the game through the launcher.

The first time you start it, you'll be asked whether you want to enable the **native renderer**. Choose **Yes**.

You can switch back to the old renderer at any time through:

**Settings → Native**

I'd also recommend trying **Internal Resolution: 2x**. Depending on your GPU, you may be able to push it higher.

# What I'd really like feedback on

If you try 2.0, I'd love to know:

* how the native renderer looks compared to previous versions
* whether you notice any graphical problems
* your FPS with the native renderer **enabled and disabled**
* FPS at **1x and 2x internal resolution**, if possible
* your **GPU, CPU and graphics driver version**
* screenshots of anything that looks wrong, along with roughly where it happened

The best place to report bugs is GitHub Issues:

[https://github.com/LittleBitUA/DPRecomp/issues](https://github.com/LittleBitUA/DPRecomp/issues)

If possible, please attach the newest:

`logs\deadlyprem_XXX.log`

That helps a lot when tracking down problems.

You can absolutely leave feedback here on Reddit as well.

From this point onward, future updates will largely depend on what you find and what gets reported on GitHub, so **every report genuinely helps improve the project.**

# Download

[https://github.com/LittleBitUA/DPRecomp/releases/tag/v2.0.0](https://github.com/LittleBitUA/DPRecomp/releases/tag/v2.0.0)

Thanks to everyone who's been following, testing and reporting issues with the project.

**See you in Greenvale.**

Deadly Premonition Recompilation 2.0 is out — the native DirectX 12 renderer is ready for testing