Since its launch in , the PS4 has seen two revisions: the "slim" and the Pro. The slim model simply packed the original's components into a smaller, quieter shell, while the PS4 Pro's upgraded specs added additional processing power to help games run smoother.
The PlayStation 5 will soon replace the all three models' now-outdated hardware, possibly even with backward compatibility for Ps4 and earlier PlayStation system games. In the meantime, PS4 owners are stuck with slow load times and slower updates. Many PS4 owners, while sitting through potentially hour-long copying sessions, likely wonder why the PS4 needs to copy updates in the first place. Often, a rather small patch for a game will download in almost no time at all, but then the PS4 enters the "Copying update file 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? Why are my downloads faster after this firmware update? Snellman attributes the latter to an update closing every open application after the system reboot. And Snellman posits that there are legitimate reasons for limiting the receive window.
But that doesn't excuse the limitations enforced by secondary apps like Netflix, he argues. And since they can keep running with the user unaware, here you have the problem.
That is as close to a layman's explanation as I can make of some very intricate networking terms and concepts. I recommend reading the whole thing for yourself to get a better understanding.
Your PS4 will now still continue to download files even when in rest mode, and in some cases this may make the download complete a little faster. The light on your console will flash orange when it is in rest mode. Pressing the power button or the PlayStation button on your pad will turn the console back on so you can check download progress. 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. It then copies across all of the data to the games folder.
It can be explained as follows: Files can become corrupted for a number of reasons during the download process. This way if the file becomes corrupted you just download the patch again.
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