The Playstation 4

ARogan · 2015-06-16T21:08:14.000Z

So I did some more research and reading. Apparently firmware 2.50 doesn’t play nice with hard drives > 2TB. So yeah Nyko is recommending you use drives 2TB or smaller which kind of defeats the entire point of the data bank. Apparently the enclosure is fine. It’s the sony OS that gets unstable with these larger hard drives. Every amazon review on the data tank basically says the same thing. For me after re-downloading all my games I noticed I could no longer sleep the ps4. It would always crash and do a repair on power up. So for now after days of messing around with this crap I swapped back to my 1.5TB internal drive. I’m trying to decide if it’s worth returning the Nyko data bank or keep my fingers crossed that this gets resolved in a future ps4 firmware. It’s possible that the back/restore works fine if the drive you are restoring to is <= 2TB.

So for now I would stay FAR AWAY from the Nyko Data Tank.

dgallina · 2015-06-16T22:03:42.000Z

That’s even worse. Hopefully your old drive still has the data and you can swap it back in and move along.

RickH · 2015-06-17T06:38:16.000Z

ARogan:

So for now I would stay FAR AWAY from the Nyko Data Tank.

Yeah, it appears to be useless – the money you’d save going with a 3.5" 2TB drive, you’d spend on the aftermarket enclosure. 2TB 2.5" drives are not plentiful yet, but they are reasonably affordable. I paid $80 for mine.

ARogan · 2015-06-17T08:13:54.000Z

My original 1.5TB 2.5" was still intact so yeah swapping back took 5 min and I’m back up and running. I really just wish sony would let you use external usb 3.0 drives. They are fast enough and work great on my xbox one.

While I’m harping on the ps4 OS I hit another odd thing. I could no longer select screenshots to share. Apparently this is tied to having too many upload notifications. So I went into notifications and manually deleted 100’s of upload notifications ONE BY ONE (and download ones too just in case) and now it all works again.

WhollySchmidt · 2015-06-17T08:23:36.000Z

ARogan:

My original 1.5TB 2.5" was still intact so yeah swapping back took 5 min and I’m back up and running. I really just wish sony would let you use external usb 3.0 drives. They are fast enough and work great on my xbox one.

While I’m harping on the ps4 OS I hit another odd thing. I could no longer select screenshots to share. Apparently this is tied to having too many upload notifications. So I went into notifications and manually deleted 100’s of upload notifications ONE BY ONE (and download ones too just in case) and now it all works again.

You can just “mark all as read”, can’t you? Or am I thinking of a different notification area than the one causing you problems?

ARogan · 2015-06-17T08:58:56.000Z

Wholly Schmidt:

You can just “mark all as read”, can’t you? Or am I thinking of a different notification area than the one causing you problems?

In the new notifications section there is a mark all as read though I’m not sure if that is the same as deleting the notification. I’ll have to give it a try once more build up.

Profanicus · 2015-06-17T19:24:56.000Z

Gordon_Bleu:

Has anyone installed an SSD into their PS4? Does it speed up loading times noticeably? Specifically with Witcher 3, which has almost unbearably long load times.

Can’t answer that for PS4, but I can say that I cleared some space and switched The Witcher 3 over to the SSD in my PC last night, and the load times were much faster - especially fast travel loads, which were in the realm of a second or two.

WhollySchmidt · 2015-06-23T08:45:38.000Z

Is there a per-game setting for when the PS4 will try to upload your saved games to the PS+ cloud storage?

There are only a couple of games I’d like to use that with (for when I go back and forth between the PS4 and PS3), but auto-uploading the save file seems to be an all or nothing setting as far as I can tell. And games like GTAV and Driveclub will eat up that allotted storage, and then you start getting notifications every time you play another game that it failed to upload.

It’s a small thing but a nuisance. Any workarounds or settings I’ve overlooked?

RickH · 2015-06-23T09:21:41.000Z

Wholly Schmidt:

Is there a per-game setting for when the PS4 will try to upload your saved games to the PS+ cloud storage?

IIRC, the PS3 is opt-in per game, the Vita is manual upload, and the PS4 is auto-upload. But I could be wrong on that, I know I manually backed everything up when I upgraded the HD.

hepcat · 2015-06-23T09:26:53.000Z

Wholly Schmidt:

Is there a per-game setting for when the PS4 will try to upload your saved games to the PS+ cloud storage?

There are only a couple of games I’d like to use that with (for when I go back and forth between the PS4 and PS3), but auto-uploading the save file seems to be an all or nothing setting as far as I can tell. And games like GTAV and Driveclub will eat up that allotted storage, and then you start getting notifications every time you play another game that it failed to upload.

It’s a small thing but a nuisance. Any workarounds or settings I’ve overlooked?

That also has been bugging me. I can’t log into my ps4 anymore without seeing a failed upload notice for a witcher 3 save.

ARogan · 2015-06-23T09:39:46.000Z

http://manuals.playstation.net/document/en/ps4/settings/autoupdate.html

You can also specify for each game whether to automatically upload saved data under (Settings) > [Application Saved Data Management] > [Saved Data in System Storage].

I’ll have to try this when I get home.

hepcat · 2015-06-23T09:41:13.000Z

Excellent, thanks ARogan!

jsnell · 2015-09-15T12:34:11.000Z

The new PS4 version being spotted in Europe now, less noisy and using a lot less power.

Eurogamer.net

PlayStation 4 CUH-1200 'C-Chassis' review

After early first sightings in Japan, the new CUH-1200 series PlayStation 4 - or C-Chassis - is now starting to circulate UK stores. With little fanfare fro…

baren · 2015-09-30T14:08:13.000Z

Is anyone setting up a Qt3 community on PS4?

biosc1 · 2015-09-30T14:41:13.000Z

jsnell:

The new PS4 version being spotted in Europe now, less noisy and using a lot less power.

http://www.eurogamer.net/articles/digitalfoundry-2015-playstation-4-cuh-1200-c-chassis-review

Oooo…I’m hoping to grab one around Christmas. I hope the newer quieter model is out, locally, by then.

lordkosc · 2015-09-30T15:07:24.000Z

Very nice, I’ll be all over one of these once they bundle it with Uncharted 4. :)

RickH · 2015-09-30T15:19:24.000Z

biosc1:

Oooo…I’m hoping to grab one around Christmas. I hope the newer quieter model is out, locally, by then.

My son got the Taken King special edition and it was a newer model. The easiest way to tell is whether the front panel buttons are actual buttons (new) or the non-moving capacitive buttons (old).

WhollySchmidt · 2015-10-01T14:31:52.000Z

baren:

Is anyone setting up a Qt3 community on PS4?

Nobody had set anything up when I checked yesterday. I couldn’t directly find a way to search for communities, though I didn’t look for very long, I’m sure that’s in there somewhere. But there was nothing from Qt3 in the list of communities my friends had joined.

So I guess I’ll make one tonight? Or someone can? I also don’t know exactly what it accomplishes, but if nobody’s got one going by the time I get home this evening I’ll create one.

LockerK · 2015-10-07T08:15:57.000Z

Strong rumors that there will be a $50 price drop announced soon – whether it’s for the holidays a la the Xbone last holiday or permanent is unclear.

Equisilus · 2015-10-07T15:26:47.000Z

Anyone have any tips on a good (not expensive) Bluetooth keyboard to use with the PS4, preferably one with a trackpad? I was going to jump on a cheap wireless one, but I don’t want to use up another USB port with a permanent dongle for wifi. Not in a rush for one, but it’d be a nice addition.