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Quake III Arena

A VRChat World Now Runs Quake III Arena on a 256-Core RISC-V PC Emulated Inside a Pixel Shader, at 24 FPS on an RTX 5090

October 17, 2026 by mw
Bar chart of ShaderEmu game benchmarks on an RTX 5090: Doom 143.6 fps, Quake 92.5 fps, Red Alert 87.6 game frames per second and Quake III Arena 24.2 fps without the MMU

Developer Mykhailo Moroz’s ShaderEmu boots Linux inside a VRChat pixel shader and now plays Quake III Arena with VR controls and a player LAN. The project’s own benchmark: 24.2 fps on an RTX 5090.

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