Xenia (Emulator)

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Xenia

Developers
	Xenia Team
Release dates
Windows	Early access

Key points

Emulator for Xbox 360

Open-source and is still actively developed.

General information

Xenia Website

Xenia Source Code (GitHub)

Availability

Source	DRM	Notes	Keys	OS
Official website

An experimental build, known as Xenia Canary, is available with performance improvements and additional features, including Game Patch, ZArchive files (.zar) and Achievement support. These features are not present in the master build and may or may not fix certain games. It is highly recommended over the master build.

Essential improvements

Start game directly from command line

This bypasses the UI window on startup and boots directly into the game, making it suitable for desktop shortcuts and non-Steam game entries.

Use path\to\xenia.exe path\to\game --fullscreen command line argument

Game data

Configuration file(s) location

System	Location
Windows

Save game data location

System	Location
Windows

Video

Xenia - Main window

Graphics feature	State	Notes
Widescreen resolution		All Xbox 360 games support 16:9 natively.
Multi-monitor		Not natively supported by any game, and no mods exist for this to date.
Ultra-widescreen		Not natively supported by any game, but some games have third-party 21:9 mods available.
4K Ultra HD		Set the resolution scale factor to 3 in Xenia's configuration file. Some games may not render correctly with this option.
Field of view (FOV)		Only available if the game natively offers a FOV slider. Third-party FOV mods may exist for some games.
Windowed
Borderless fullscreen windowed		Use a program such as Borderless Gaming while running in windowed mode. See Borderless Fullscreen.
Anisotropic filtering (AF)		Some games use a low level of anisotropic filtering out of the box as they did on original hardware. Higher levels can be forced in the graphics driver control panel.
Anti-aliasing (AA)		Some games use 2x MSAA out of the box as they did on original hardware. This built-in antialiasing can be disabled in Xenia's configuration file, but its level cannot be changed. See glossary on forcing anti-aliasing for alternatives.
High-fidelity upscaling		FSR 1.0
Vertical sync (Vsync)		See Vsync
60 FPS		See Framerate.
120+ FPS		See Framerate.
High dynamic range display (HDR)		See the glossary page for potential alternatives.
Ray tracing (RT)
Color blind mode		Depends on the game.

Framerate

High Framerate
Navigate to C:\Users\(yourusername)\Documents\Xenia, open xenia-canary.config.toml Find vsync = and set value to false, find vsync_interval = and set value to 16 (This value caps framerate at 78. Play around with value to achieve lower or higher values.)

Borderless Fullscreen

Run Xenia in borderless fullscreen windowed mode
Download Borderless Gaming Add to BG's run list, ensure BG is running whilst running XENIA

Input

Keyboard and mouse	State	Notes
Remapping
Mouse acceleration
Mouse sensitivity
Mouse input in menus
Mouse Y-axis inversion
Controller
Controller support
Full controller support
Controller remapping		Depends on the game.
Controller sensitivity		Depends on the game.
Controller Y-axis inversion		Depends on the game.

Controller types

XInput-compatible controllers
Xbox button prompts		All games already have Xbox 360 prompts.
Impulse Trigger vibration

Generic/other controllers

Additional information
Controller hotplugging
Haptic feedback		Depends on the game.
Digital movement supported
Simultaneous controller+KB/M

Audio

Audio feature	State	Notes
Separate volume controls		Depends on the game.
Surround sound		Depends on the game. Most of them use Dolby Digital.
Subtitles		Depends on the game.
Closed captions		Depends on the game.
Mute on focus lost
Royalty free audio		Depends on the game.

Localizations

Language	UI	Audio	Sub	Notes
English				Depends on the game.

Other information

API

Technical specs	Supported	Notes
Direct3D	12
Vulkan

Executable	32-bit	64-bit	Notes
Windows

System requirements

Windows
	Minimum	Recommended
Operating system (OS)	7	10
Processor (CPU)	64-bit x86 processor with AVX(2) support.	4th generation or later i5/i7 64-bit x86 processor with AVX(2) support.
System memory (RAM)	4 GB	6 GB
Hard disk drive (HDD)	11 MB (for Xenia) or 10 MB (for Xenia Canary)
Video card (GPU)		GTX 980 Ti or later

Support for Windows 8.1 and lower is limited. Don't expect anything to work.