Hell, sometimes just a visit to the PlayStation Store can be fraught with delays and spinning progress wheels. The true causes of this may not be provable or knowable, but one network specialist has taken a long look at the issue and has some recommendations that may help. The very short explanation is that closing all games and applications seems to work.
Juho Snellman, a systems programmer in Zurich, Switzerland, cautions that there may be other reasons for a slow download that are specific to a user's network or internet service provider.
This is a great circular firing squad where Sony could blame your cable company which can blame your router and back and then no one ever has to be responsible. But Snellman says he observed a jaw droppingly small 'receive window' when anything was running in the background on the PS4.
Snellman says he ran two tests, the first with the download running in the foreground but a Netflix application running in the background. When the Netflix app closed, the receive window increased significantly. So Snellman began a second test that introduced all kinds of different background functions to see what would happen. In one, the game Styx: Shards of Darkness idled in its title screen. That shrank the receive window to 7 KB. Snellman stresses this the artificial limit 'appears to only apply to PSN downloads' — i.
And, notably, running the console's built-in speed test will not reveal the reduced download capacity. For me, this is one of the most maddening things, to see a download is taking forever, to check what is wrong with my network connection and be told everything is A-OK. A receive window of 7 KB 'is an incredibly low value; it's basically going to cause the downloads to take times longer than they should,' Snellman explains.
Running an app such as Netflix or Spotify narrowed the receive window to KB, which is still 'a 5x reduction in potential download speed,' and playing an online match in a networked game closed it down to the 7 KB threshold. Putting the PlayStation 4 into its rest mode 'had no effect,' he writes. Complicating matters is that the PlayStation 4 doesn't always make it clear what programs are running.
Many users are accustomed to closing a game from the dashboard or being told the system is doing so when they boot up a new one while another is in the background, thinking that takes care of it. But other applications, like Spotify or a streaming video service, can keep on going. Whatever the blame, all kinds of anecdotal complaints and observations of the PlayStation 4's inconsistent download behavior have taken hold over the past four years.
Does putting the machine to rest help? Another way to potentially improve download speeds on your PS4 is to change your DNS server settings. This can sometimes improve the bandwidth available to your console, but is very hit and miss and will sometimes make no difference or even worsen the speeds you get.
The performance of DNS servers depends on so many different factors it is impossible to predict what will happen in each case if you change them. However, it is worth trying if you want to see if you can get files to download a little faster.
The process is covered in the above video. The tester does indeed find an improvement in bandwidth using different DNS servers; this may or may not be the case for other people who try this.
It requires reconfiguring the internet connection mostly as Default or Automatic, but changing to Custom just for the DNS servers and entering your own ones manually. Google DNS 8. Bottom Line — Your download speeds may or may not improve by changing your servers. It depends on a lot of different factors; see the video above for a detailed test of all three servers. The other two delivered worse bandwidth. Every situation will be different.
If you are looking for an even more advanced way of finding the perfect exact pair of DNS servers for your location, then you may want to use the free DNS Benchmark tool , which will run a full test from your computer of all available DNS servers in your area and rank them according to the fastest and most reliable ones.
You can then select the two top ranked ones and manually put them into your PS4 as we showed above. To use this tool you need to visit the website, download the free application and then run the DNS test. Gamers based in the US can use the quick test; someone based in another part of the world may want to run the fuller test that takes around half an hour and tests DNS servers from all over the world to find the two best ones for your location.
In some cases using Custom DNS servers can give a noticeable enough improvement in bandwidth to make it worth changing them. If you really like the results you get from using a certain custom pair of DNS servers, then you can even put them into your router so that all the devices in your house can use them. See here for an article how to do this for some popular routers. PS4 console: find purchases. Check PlayStation Store transactions. Select Game Library from your Games home.
The game will install automatically. Depending on the game, you may have the option to copy and play a portion of the game right away. To purchase and download add-ons, search for the game in PlayStation Store, select the game hub and scroll to the Add-Ons section. PS4 console: download games and add-ons.
Go to Library and select the Purchased folder. Select the game you want to download. Select Download. To purchase or download add-ons, select the game from your Library and scroll down to PlayStation Store. With a decent internet connection, downloading can take nearly a day if you keep your PlayStation 4 in rest mode and allow it to download in the background.
The majority of PS4 games are at least 20 GB in size, which is a lot of data, and if you cannot download a significant quantity of data at once bandwidth , the game will run slowly. In short, if you attempt to install a full-size or non-repacked game, the computer only needs to process the installation portion with minimum extraction; it means to install, you do not need to decompress.
Thus, it is the decompression phase that takes the most time. It will restore the game on your hard drive, and you will not require a disc. The simple explanation is that GTA V is an open-world game; although highly detailed, the software system is loading the entire stage. A game with a battle mode or multiple chapters can download much quicker, as each time, only a tiny amount of the game loads.
Rockstar Games may have also made adjustments and upgrades to the game, which means that when GTA V starts, it checks for and installs updates.
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