If this is happening to you, we explain why and how to fix it. For additional reading, you might want to catch up with our PS5 complete guide for the total lowdown on the console. Slow download speeds can be a frustrating thing for PS4 users, especially when downloading large files such as games or patches which can be many gigabytes in size. The download can seem to be taking forever. Is there anything we can do to speed it up? Here are some main reasons why downloads can take so long on the PS4, plus some fixes:.
By far the biggest factor on download speeds on any device is the quality of the connection to the router, and this is no different for the PS4. The main way of improving download speeds on your PS4 is to get off Wi-Fi if you are using it and try to get onto a wired ethernet connection if you can. Wired connections are always better than wireless ones for bandwidth and consistency, giving the best speeds possible.
See our article on this for more information, as well as our article on why Wi-Fi always tends to drop out the further you get from the router. Click here to view some longer ethernet cables on Amazon. If you are only using Wi-Fi because you are too far away from the router to run an ethernet cable directly, then a Powerline Adapter could be a good solution to this problem.
These are clever home networking devices which allow for a wired ethernet connection to your router, even when you are several rooms away from it. They consist of a pair of adapter plugs, one of which is plugged in and connected to your router, the other of which is plugged in and connected to your device.
The two plugs then communicate through the electrical wiring of the house to deliver a strong, wired, internet connection to any part of the home. They are plug and play devices with no complex setup or DIY and will work in any house where the circuitry is wired normally and in good condition.
Click here to view on Amazon. 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. This is another very common reason why PS4 downloads can go slower than expected — there are simply a lot of people using the internet at the same time in the home and more generally , and this can increase network congestion and increase the time it takes for downloads to complete. This problem is worse on Wi-Fi, because it is more prone to congestion.
A router can only handle traffic demands on Wi-Fi sequentially, in a queue based system, and not simultaneously. More devices connecting equals more traffic demands, equals longer downloads, as the router can only do so much at once and has to keep everyone happy.
However, there is a setting called Quality of Service or QoS, which you can try and use on your router to manage traffic and prioritize your PS4 on the home network.
This is a setting which can tell your router to handle all traffic demands from your PS4 first, before anything else.
It is mainly used to reduce ping on busy networks; nevertheless you can try it if you like to see if it also improves download speeds as well at busy peak times. 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. A properly organized database can load data faster, decreasing the chances of having your game freeze or experiencing frame rate drops.
Database rebuilding is a fairly simple task that should be done every few months — doing it once a quarter is best. The more frequently you do it, the less time the process should take. When you turn it on again, it will power on in a second or two rather than going through a 30 second or longer boot-up process.
It can download game updates and operating system updates in the background, so your games are always up-to-date. In short, Rest Mode makes everything more convenient. So, when PS4 copying update file is slow, try to log into Rest Mode and do the updating process there. The file system or filesystem organizes the data stored on the PS4 hard drive. It tells the PS4 operating system where files should be placed on the drive for retrieval or modification.
Formatting PS4 hard drive erases this file system completely and installs a new one in its place; all of the files on the drive are erased as well. Enthusiasts sometimes choose to reset, or format, the hard drive on their game console to improve the performance. To learn how to format the PS4 hard drive to restore its original performance, please visit this page.
Game consoles like PS4 do tend to slow down as the hard drive fills up. Some of this is unrelated to the hard drive; as they age, operating systems get bogged down with extra applications and files that slow down the PS4. However, hard drives do need empty space for virtual memory.
When your RAM becomes full, it creates a file on your hard drive for the overflow tasks. If you do not have space available for this, the PS4 may slow down drastically. An SSD has an extra layer tied into free space and speed. If your SSD is nearly full to capacity, the program must find partially empty blocks, which takes longer.
0コメント