Shader-PC author: Half-Life should run too, but GPUs are terrible at emulating CPUs

Michael_Moroz_ · x · 2026-10-17

In a follow-up, Michael Moroz notes that games like Half-Life should probably work on his VRChat fragment-shader setup at the current pace.

He also shares a practical caveat for anyone replicating it: you need a pretty beefy GPU — GPUs make terrible CPUs and are especially bad at emulating them, with clock speed and latency mattering far more than core count.

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Shader-PC author: Half-Life should run too, but GPUs are terrible at emulating CPUs

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