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[FTF]

Should be before the middle of March.

Ah damn, a month or so isn't too bad I guess. Got ahead of myself there.

 

[MarkRenton]

This update finally fixed my issue that I was having when closing the youtube app. sometimes it would take upwards of 10-15 seconds to close. I would say the OS feels a bit more snappy now too, and i rebuild database every other month.

 

[Jailer of Hope]

Great so that means I can continue downloading games on my internal drive til the new firmware comes out..and once I get the new hard drive and I connect it to the PS4 PRO I can transfer those games to the external storage and then delete them from the internal drive..just wanted to be sure I could do it..now on to the question that I have about the wallpaper..I have seen lots of great wallpaper posted here for the new firmware..how would I go about putting one on the PS4 once the update comes out? I see that some people have posted wallpaper along with their ps4 themes not sure how they were able to do that

I'm not in the beta but people were saying there is no copy option, only move option. So you don't have to worry about deleting anything after transfers.

 

[Spiral Insanity]

The next public firmware beta will have so many more signups.

 

[Lakerchick4life]

I'm not in the beta but people were saying there is no copy option, only move option. So you don't have to worry about deleting anything after transfers.

Oh OK even better..so once its moved it will be removed automatically from internal good news..that way I can continue downloading my games til the update comes out then move them to internal..now as far as the wallpaper is concerned Ive seen people post wallpaper here to be used on the PS4, how would I be able to put it on my console and I see that some wallpaper already has a really nice theme behind it so you can use your own wallpaper on top of a theme or are these themes already available on the PSN network

 

[endlessflood]

Oh OK even better..so once its moved it will be removed automatically from internal good news..that way I can continue downloading my games til the update comes out then move them to internal..now as far as the wallpaper is concerned Ive seen people post wallpaper here to be used on the PS4, how would I be able to put it on my console and I see that some wallpaper already has a really nice theme behind it so you can use your own wallpaper on top of a theme or are these themes already available on the PSN network

You add a custom wallpaper in the themes menu, by selecting "Custom" as your theme option. When you do that you get given the default icon set unfortunately (so it differs from the PS3 in that you can't have custom theme icons with your own wallpaper).

In terms of getting a wallpaper on there, I've done it two ways:

1. Using the PS4 web browser to go to a site with images (e.g. the new NeoGAF thread dedicated to PS4 wallpapers), clicking an image to make it full screen, hiding the mouse pointer in the bottom right corner, and then taking a screenshot; or
2. Visiting a PSN Community (e.g. the new NeoGAF Wallpaper community), selecting an image to make it full screen, pressing up on the d-pad to hide the overlay, and then quickly taking a screenshot.

Bear in mind that option 2 seems to introduce a little bit of compression, so the quality might not be quite as good as option 1.

 

[biglittleps]

Should be before the middle of March.

Sony actually release updates just before their big game release. We have Horizon Zero dawn end of this month, so I would expect final release before that.

 

[HIGH DEF JEFF]

Love HDD support
Like 3D blu ray VR support
Hate new notifications layout

Whatever at Boost support. I toggle it on and off on my Pro for the games people are raving about and see no improvements.

 

[MarkRenton]

Love HDD support
Like 3D blu ray VR support
Hate new notifications layout

Whatever at Boost support. I toggle it on and off on my Pro for the games people are raving about and see no improvements.

The improvements are very real. I'm sorry you can't see them

 

[HIGH DEF JEFF]

The improvements are very real. I'm sorry you can't see them

Turning R6 into a screen tearing mess is not an improvement.

 

[Hockeyguy412]

Love HDD support
Like 3D blu ray VR support
Hate new notifications layout

Whatever at Boost support. I toggle it on and off on my Pro for the games people are raving about and see no improvements.

Must not own battlefield 4 if you don't see a improvement

 

[HIGH DEF JEFF]

Must not own battlefield 4 if you don't see a improvement

Tested Metro 64 player Conquest.
Looked fine /ran fine with boost on and off

 

[madmackem]

Turning R6 into a screen tearing mess is not an improvement.

I'd take it over locked 30fps mode any day.

 

[endlessflood]

Tested Metro 64 player Conquest.
Looked fine /ran fine with boost on and off

Maybe try one of the big outdoor maps with vehicles rather than the infantry-only subway map.

 

[boujeejamboree]

Money never bought an ounce of time.

 

[Shane89]

Love HDD support
Like 3D blu ray VR support
Hate new notifications layout

Whatever at Boost support. I toggle it on and off on my Pro for the games people are raving about and see no improvements.

replace your eyes.

 

[todesengel1432]

blog.us.playstation.com/2017/02/03/ps4-system-software-update-4-50-features-detailed/

Omg external hdd support megaton.

External HDD Support
Upto 8tb

Custom Wallpapers

Quick Menu Refresh

Simplified Notification List

Post on PlayStation Network Activity Feeds

3D Blu-rays on PlayStation VR

Oh my goodness. It's a shame It took Sony almost five years to provide External HDD support, when the Xbox One had it since day one.

 

[AbandonedTrolley]

Oh my goodness. It's a shame It took Sony almost five years to provide External HDD support, when the Xbox One had it since day one.

Yeah certainly a shame but it's here now, Sony probably had their reasons, one of them probably making sure their OS was secure enough to not allow it to be exploited. Something Microsoft engineers would have much more confidence in I'd imagine.

 

[timmyp53]

You add a custom wallpaper in the themes menu, by selecting "Custom" as your theme option. When you do that you get given the default icon set unfortunately (so it differs from the PS3 in that you can't have custom theme icons with your own wallpaper).

In terms of getting a wallpaper on there, I've done it two ways:

1. Using the PS4 web browser to go to a site with images (e.g. the new NeoGAF thread dedicated to PS4 wallpapers), clicking an image to make it full screen, hiding the mouse pointer in the bottom right corner, and then taking a screenshot; or
2. Visiting a PSN Community (e.g. the new NeoGAF Wallpaper community), selecting an image to make it full screen, pressing up on the d-pad to hide the overlay, and then quickly taking a screenshot.

Bear in mind that option 2 seems to introduce a little bit of compression, so the quality might not be quite as good as option 1.

What I do is just message myself or bro from the ps app.

Go on your phone find a 4k wallpaper send it on ps message app and open it up on ps4.

This way you don't have to deal with bad compression and the silly game of zooming in on Web browser or options' two annoying habit of information screen continuously popping up at the bottom of screen when looking at screenshot .

 

[massucci]

Turning R6 into a screen tearing mess is not an improvement.

You can't pretend flawless performance in all games with boost mode. I mean, the hell of complain is that. Sony won't give any boost at launch, now at least we can choose.

 

[Shao Kahn Brewing a Stew]

You can't pretend flawless performance in all games with boost mode. I mean, the hell of complain is that. Sony won't give any boost at launch, now at least we can choose.

That and screen tearing is less issue with the console and more with running R6 with vsync off.

 

[massucci]

Oh my goodness. It's a shame It took Sony almost five years to provide External HDD support, when the Xbox One had it since day one.

My guess, probably at the time it was impossible to them provide such features without avoid that someone copy the whole game work in a different ps3 or just locking the access to the game via original user account.

 

[Unknown?]

Oh my goodness. It's a shame It took Sony almost five years to provide External HDD support, when the Xbox One had it since day one.

Is this a joke post?
1)PS4 is only 3years and 3 months.
2)Xbox One didn't have it since day one.

 

[MoneySings]

Does anyone know if they fixed the memory leak with Dynamic Themes?

I reported it to them when the PS4 Pro came out. Basically, if you select any dynamic theme, then load up The Division or Destiny (the two games I noticed it in), the frame rate was much lower and it seemed laggy to play. Changing it back to a static theme sorted it out.

 

[madmackem]

Oh my goodness. It's a shame It took Sony almost five years to provide External HDD support, when the Xbox One had it since day one.

It's took ms years to do some of the things ps4 had since launch too it's how the industry works.

 

[mitchman]

I signed up the same day as it was announced and still haven't received an invitation. Sony, why you do this to me? :-/

 

[Maintenance]

Is there any subreddit for the burner account thingy? Since the thread got locked.

A fellow gaffer helped me, thanks

 

[BigEmil]

Turning R6 into a screen tearing mess is not an improvement.

R6 latest patch runs it at unlocked framerate, not even a 60fps cap the boost mode sometimes pushes it over 60fps that's why
Every other game has improvements

Does anyone know if they fixed the memory leak with Dynamic Themes?

I reported it to them when the PS4 Pro came out. Basically, if you select any dynamic theme, then load up The Division or Destiny (the two games I noticed it in), the frame rate was much lower and it seemed laggy to play. Changing it back to a static theme sorted it out.

Never heard of that before. Does M0dus know about this? He creates the dynamic themes in gaf

 

[PLASTICA-MAN]

According to this: http://www.justpushstart.com/2017/02/ps4-4-50-firmware-limited-1-external-hdd/

You can use only one external HDD in the beta.

 

[MoneySings]

Never heard of that before. Does M0dus know about this? He creates the dynamic themes in gaf

Probably not - my membership here was only accepted a few days ago (9 months wait lol)

I replicated it many times and uploaded a video - Sony apparently forwarded it to their developers. I haven't tested it in months though...

 

[Kensation]

Does anyone know if Boost Mode is active in apps as well? If so, I'm all for per-application enabling for BM. Pretty sure I don't need it for Netflix.

 

[holygeesus]

External SSDs really work beautifully. I love how well designed the system is, in regard external HDDs. Seems Sony have put a bit of thought into it during all these years of waiting. Along with the Boost Mode addition, this really is as good a firmware update, for any system I can recall owning.

 

[EdReedFan20]

According to this: http://www.justpushstart.com/2017/02/ps4-4-50-firmware-limited-1-external-hdd/

You can use only one external HDD in the beta.

Huh. I never even considered someone would want to use multiple. I mean 8TB (the limit) is more than enough for most people. I suppose you might want a second one for back-up purposes, though.

 

[LordOfChaos]

Huh. I never even considered someone would want to use multiple. I mean 8TB (the limit) is more than enough for most people. I suppose you might want a second one for back-up purposes, though.

Or you own multiple hard drives smaller than 8TB already. I for one have terrabytes of scattered storage.

 

[Jailer of Hope]

External SSDs really work beautifully. I love how well designed the system is, in regard external HDDs. Seems Sony have put a bit of thought into it during all these years of waiting.

Eh it's a huge step forward but it's still pretty limited in some areas. Even existing restrictions are further highlighted with the addition of externals, such as copying install data and cloud saves.

 

[holygeesus]

Eh it's a huge step forward but it's still pretty limited in some areas. Even existing restrictions are further highlighted with the addition of externals, such as copying install data and cloud saves.

What restrictions? Copying takes minutes and cloud saves are working fine here.

 

[Jailer of Hope]

What restrictions? Copying takes minutes and cloud saves are working fine here.

You can't actually copy, just move. Disc installs and PSN installs are treated differently (this is probably why there is no copy function). Cloud saving isn't automatic but still behind a pay wall.

 

[holygeesus]

You can't actually copy, just move. Disc installs and PSN installs are treated differently (this is probably why there is no copy function). Cloud saving isn't automatic but still behind a pay wall.

Interesting. I have only moved my disc installs so didn't realise they differed to digital. Not being able to copy is not an issue surely as why would you need two copies of the same game on one system taking up space? I would also never expect to have the benefits of cloud saves without paying a sub considering the space they take up. They do offer the option to back up saves to disc too so options are there.

 

[Drahcir]

I signed up the same day as it was announced and still haven't received an invitation. Sony, why you do this to me? :-/

Can anyone (in the US) confirm if Sony is continuing to send out invites to the beta? Just wondering since the sign-up page for the beta on the US site is still active, but the EU site is closed.

 

[Jailer of Hope]

Interesting. I have only moved my disc installs so didn't realise they differed to digital. Not being able to copy is not an issue surely as why would you need two copies of the same game on one system taking up space? I would also never expect to have the benefits of cloud saves without paying a sub considering the space they take up. They do offer the option to back up saves to disc too so options are there.

Copying is useful, for instance, when you want to grab an install from a friend or family member to save on bandwidth. Even if it's not a digital purchase, it can save time to get a patched install and just pop a disc in when I'm ready to play. Cloud saving on xbox is free, automatic, and unlimited. I think I can still count on Sony to make some changes since they did increase the cloud storage capacity a while ago, but I'm not always subscribed to PS+.

 

[3rdamention]

Oh my goodness. It's a shame It took Sony almost five years to provide External HDD support, when the Xbox One had it since day one.

Thank you for waiting 5 days to point this out. I assume you said the same thing in the Xbox Updates threads when they recently got Bitstream Audio and Dolby Atmos support when Sony had it from Day 1?



This companies give and take all the time. Someone is always going to be first.

 

[icespide]

Oh my goodness. It's a shame It took Sony almost five years to provide External HDD support, when the Xbox One had it since day one.

Xbox One did not have External HDD support on day one. it came with an update in May 2014

 

[shouamabane]

The console wars have waned pretty far.

 

[Lakerchick4life]

What I do is just message myself or bro from the ps app.

Go on your phone find a 4k wallpaper send it on ps message app and open it up on ps4.

This way you don't have to deal with bad compression and the silly game of zooming in on Web browser or options' two annoying habit of information screen continuously popping up at the bottom of screen when looking at screenshot .

So I can just go on my PS App, go on this forum and find a pic(For example the Zelda wallpaper that someone posted earlier) and send it as a message to myself is that the best way to have the image and not have it be pixelated

 

[Brofield]

I'm pouring through my unread emails hoping I got the invite and just missed it.

Are we getting ready for the recommended external harddrive thread? I was about to upgrade my stock 500GB drive to a FireCuda, but is it worth it if I can just get a 4TB LaCie USB3.0 with external power source? It has 7200rpm and only $180CDN

 

[Samus4145]

I've said this already
I have this
https://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B00Y25XFGK/
With both PSVR and a 2TB Samsung HDD hook up to the back

So I bought this off the US Amazon site. It prompts me that my HDD needs to be connected directly to the PS4. I guess it may differ depending on the HDD used? I am using a WD 4TB Passport.

 

[jkh33]

Does disabling power to the USB ports while in rest mode mess with a USB powered external HDD from doing suspended games or downloads to the external HDD?

 

[Karspankey]

Does disabling power to the USB ports while in rest mode mess with a USB powered external HDD from doing suspended games or downloads to the external HDD?

I've been having this problem and you know what, you're probably right. Totally forgot about that option.

Update: I already had my power settings set to never turn off USB power so that isn't it. Shoot

 

[juventino]

Is there any subreddit for the burner account thingy? Since the thread got locked.

We had a discord group going for the burner accounts when the thread went to shit, not sure if anyone from that group can help. PM FuzzyAssassin, he and a couple others were in charge of the process on discord

 

[juventino]

Does disabling power to the USB ports while in rest mode mess with a USB powered external HDD from doing suspended games or downloads to the external HDD?

Yes it does, if you disable the power to USB ports the external can't function