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Browse All Windows Articles. OneDrive Windows 7 and 8. This is one of the major reasons why PS4 is running slow. So, when you tried everything above yet PS4 is still lagging and slow, you must suspect the hard drive. Just imagine how important it is. All your data is saved and processed on it. So, if this medium is not functioning well, PS4 will surely lag and maybe freeze as well.
How to figure out that the PS4 hard drive is the source of problem? Well, after you try everything possible to fix PS4 slowness, especially rebuilding the database and initializing PS4, yet nothing works.
Also, after you test the controller and confirm it works properly. At this point only, start to suspect the hard drive. In fact, the most common reason that causes the PS4 hard drive to not function the way it should is: bad sectors. Also, using the hard drive for too long without maintenance by carrying out FULL format once annually may cause the hard drive to degrade, thus PS4 lags.
You can read more details on PS4 hard drive failure and how to fix that the right way. In all cases you have to learn how to format PS4 hard drive on a yearly basis. This education is mandatory for all PS4 users to acquire this education.
If you do it regularly, at least once a year, the performance of the hard drive will remain on its peak level. We have published an article on PS4 internal hard drive format that will immensely help you learn more about this issue.
PS4 lags when a failure peripheral is connected to it. You have to perform a FULL format for it, not quick. Full format will eliminate any bad sector or system file errors on the specified disk.
Note that you have to connect it to a PC in order to perform the format operation. If your PS4 is only slow online, while it performs well enough offline, it might be the internet connection. If you have an original model PS4, it can only connect to the 2. Certain routers combine both bands into one SSID. If you receive an error on your PS4 that the signal is too weak, try enabling the guest network on your router and connecting the PS4 to that.
Slow connection speeds on your PS4 might be caused by interference. This is especially true if your PS4 is connected on a 2. Try turning off any other game consoles and computers on your network, plus devices like microwaves too. Try to move your system as close to the router as you can and see if that improves anything. In some cases the PS4 lags due to defective internal hardware. You need to seek help from a specialist in order to fix it for you.
Take your PS4 to a repair shop managed by an experienced technician. When the data stored in the CMOS memory chip gets corrupted for any reason, one of the symptoms of that is the slowness of PS4. After reading this article to this point, you may have already figured out the 3 common solutions for this situation. They are:. In case you need more elaboration, please do your own research online.
The Rebuild Database option does a defragment of the PS4, which can solve a whole host of issues on the PS4 and free up some much needed space, speed up your console and fix issues. The Rebuild scans the drive and creates a new database of all content, thus cleaning the disc drive.
This will make PS4 run faster and resolve performance issues. In many cases, when PS4 is lagging, doing this operation fixes it. Now, as to the specific steps for initiating a database rebuild, those are as follows:. If you own a gadget for a long time, you should factory-reset it every once in a while. Useless files accumulate, caches fill up with junk data and programs you never use start eating up valuable space.
Video game consoles are no exception, particularly since games are larger than ever and hard drive space is at a premium. You need first to go to Safe Mode that offers you a Quick or Full initialization. Either way, pick your reset style and confirm your choice.
Then, get ready to re-download all your favorite titles and apps, and restore your saved data. So, if you want to format PS4 internal hard drive, follow the steps below. Note that these steps are for Microsoft Windows OS. Once finished, connect the hard drive to PS4 again and perform a complete system software installation.
Therefore, make sure to download the PS4 system software installation package on an external storage device USB flash drive is recommended. This method often needs savvy to implement. According to users, it may take as little as 20 minutes to download a huge game on PC but take hours to download on the PS4. This is mainly because there is a flaw in how the console communicates with the PlayStation Network. You can let your PS4 run in Rest Mode to relieve the burden of waiting for a download.
The minimum requirements are: Download speed: 3 Mbps. Upload speed: 1 Mbps. The FCC has defined broadband, or fast internet, as internet with download speeds of at least 25 Mbps and upload speeds of at least 3 Mbps since However, there must be other reasons for slow speeds.
Otherwise, pausing and resuming a download should not help, which it often does. Sometimes dramatically so. Impressive analysis, thank you for sharing. I noticed on your graphs you were testing in the late morning, did you see a variability throughout the day?
My reason for asking is that in the US, netflix would often be the worst from to , I'm curious if you matched that pattern. That might indicate an overall network load correlation. The PS4 has a special chip that can download files while the rest of the PS4 sleeps, right? Probably some integration with that that's causing it.. This was covered in an earlier comment.
Downloads being handled by a coprocoessor was the original plan, but that's not what Sony implemented. Even in rest mode, it's done by the main CPU. My belief is that they've done this intentionally to prevent performance issues from downloading quickly, probably with a big issue being disk access from downloading so fast, as well as affecting latency for online games and CPU usage.
While using a local proxy is a good workaround the PS4 at least the original model can be almost unusable while downloading especially multiple downloads , causing both the games and OS to stutter and the controller to become unresponsive, taking 3 or 4 seconds to react to a button press. Sure, it could be that this is what they were going for. The static limit on the receive window means that your setup still ends up unusable due to the downloads being too fast, while other people have their downloads unnecessarily throttled to a speed far below the effective disk speed.
Without it, downloads would take hours, with it, minutes. Is it possible the latest system software 5. Can't say for sure without actually redoing the testing. Download speeds can vary for all kinds of reasons; the only way to be certain are systematic tests. But my feeling is that they haven't fixed it. At least I had an awkwardly slow download last week, after having forgotten to close a game.
But it could also have been just a coincidence. It all depends on your Internet connection. I live in the middle of nowhere and get 1Mbps. I can just about stream SD video as long as nothing else is using the connection, and so I applaud anything Sony are doing to throttle downloads when anything else is using the Internet connection. The problem here is that the Youtube or Netflix app is on is an awful way to detect whether somebody else is using the connection.
First, it has false positives due to including the cases where the app is actually active or not. If Youtube is suspended in the background, there's absolutely no way. Second, it has a ton of false negatives due to only looking at what's happening on that PS4 system. That's an absurd assumption: in the modern world a household will have half a dozen devices using the same internet connection. The current solution does not help at all for the case where I'm trying to watch a Youtube clip on my computer while the PS4 downloads something, or someone is trying to read a webpage on their phone, etc.
Like I wrote in the post, there are proper ways of doing this by looking at the actual network traffic patterns. The "what apps are kind of running" approach chosen for the PS4 is just totally broken. I don't know if it's just me but my Playstation 4 has had absolutely terrible internet speeds.
Nothing I've done has worked, and this has been a problem since the latest firmware update. Had zero problems, downloads started immediately and were consistent until they were finished. On the Playstation 4 the speeds fluctuate all over the place, sometimes it changes dramatically when I pause and resume. Then it slows down more and more until it becomes unbearable. Then there's the questionable sign in problem along with PSN overall being medicore in the past few months.
So how does an old, 12 year old console from the past generation give me better speeds and better consistency than a modern console that is supposed to be good? It's very frustrating. I'm this close to buying a new Slim PS4 model just to see if the download speeds and performance are any better.
Could please Test the slim version? I would like too see what has actually changed or improved on the Slim model. I am having very slow downloads speed on my PS4 that has wired connection to the router and nothing running in the background. Why have we gone from buying decent full games that download fast on ps3 to broken half a games and really slow downloading.
I am going off gaming completely just because if I want to buy and download a game I have to expect to play it the next day after I originally wanted to play it and then I just go off wanting to play the game. Was trying to download expansion packs for modern warfare was going to take 16 hours for 16GB install.
Closed all my apps running I forgot to close including Modern Warfare and Netflix As an antispam measure, you need to write a super-secret password below. Today's password is "xyzzy" without the quotes.
Why PS4 downloads are so slow. Posted on in Networking , Games. Background Before running any experiments, it's good to have a mental model of how the thing we're testing works, and where the problems might be. Maybe the client doesn't support the TCP window scaling option, while the proxy does.
Without window scaling, the receive window will be limited to 64kB. But since we know Sony started with a TCP stack that supports window scaling, they would have had to go out of their way to disable it. Slow downloads, for no benefit. Maybe the actual downloader application is very slow. The operating system is supposed to have a certain amount of buffer space available for each connection.
If the network is delivering data to the OS faster than the application is reading it, the buffer will start to fill up, and the OS will reduce the receive window as a form of back-pressure. But this can't be the reason; if the application is the bottleneck, it'll be a bottleneck with or without the proxy. The operating system is trying to dynamically scale the receive window to match the actual network conditions, but something is going wrong.
This would be interesting, so it's what we're hoping to find.
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