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[Team Andromeda]

I don't belive this for a second

 

[YOU PC BRO?!]

Probably gamers that were unfortunate enough to pick up the 1st iteration of the original SKU. It's the one I have and it runs a little hotter than the original due to a much smaller heatsink. I think the subsequent revision runs much cooler as it had a stealthy die shrink to 6nm.

 

[TheRedRiders]

Air con? Bish I live in England, it's an open window and a fan.

yup haha

 

[Ozriel]

"So if you guys plan on buying any new games in the near future for a day 1 PS5 make sure you clean it out thoroughly"

Day 1 ps5 was out in 2020

Pretty much means she didnt clean it since then.

Slob

Slob?
Willing to bet 99% of consumers don’t open their consoles to clean the fans.

 

[Kamina]

Set myself a reminder to clean my PS5 before playing FFXVI.

 

[GymWolf]

Maybe try inside your ps5?

 

[ArtHands]

Cleaning consoles? I have never ever cleaned any of my consoles and never had any problems.

According to some folks here you’re a slob

 

[ManaByte]

Not that this didn't happen, but I doubt this is happening.

Sounds like a rumour straight out from the ps3 days.

No patch required is true. You don’t need it.


You guys really believe this bs? The console still draws 200 watt. It’s not overheating on a boss lol.

I don't belive this for a second

One of the outlets that reviewed the game explains in this video that it happened to them on every boss fight and WHY it happens (there’s so much shit going on in the fights), but sure ignore that and focus on a Tweet if it makes it easier for you to dismiss it.

4:34

 

[Roxkis_ii]

I've never had any issues with my ps5, but this looks like a good excuses to clean it up just in case.

 

[rofif]

One of the outlets that reviewed the game explains in this video that it happened to them on every boss fight and WHY it happens (there’s so much shit going on in the fights), but sure ignore that and focus on a Tweet if it makes it easier for you to dismiss it.

on every boss fight?
1 outlet?

gtfo. Demo didn't flinch for me and it had multiple bssfights.
A game cannot make the console hotter. It's still 200 watts.
It's summer

 

[ManaByte]

Demo didn't flinch for me and it had multiple bssfights.

There were two in the demo. The Eikon fight at the end of the Prologue and then the end of the challenge portion. That’s what they refer to as boss fights.

 

[ManaByte]

A game cannot make the console hotter.

I don’t think you know how things work. With nearly 50 years of game consoles, I can assure you no matter what that wattage of a console a game can cause it to over work and thus overheat.

 

[Puscifer]

Suzi Hunter ran into this issue as well. Recommended everyone inspect the PS5 fan and give it a quick clean before playing the game.

I think Sony having it spin at a low RPM to keep it quiet wasn't well thought out. Should be spinning around 13-1500 RPM, games are going to
o get heavier out only makes sense.

 

[Yoboman]

Just put you PS5 in a bucket of water

 

[rofif]

I don’t think you know how things work. With nearly 50 years of game consoles, I can assure you no matter what that wattage of a console a game can cause it to over work and thus overheat.

There is nothing complicated about it.
It can go up to 200watt and thats it

 

[Stafford]

 

[Gudji]

Pre-order cancelled.

 

[Team Andromeda]

One of the outlets that reviewed the game explains in this video that it happened to them on every boss fight and WHY it happens (there’s so much shit going on in the fights), but sure ignore that and focus on a Tweet if it makes it easier for you to dismiss it.

I forget we're in the YouTube Gen. Maybe the reviewer's house is a sh9t hole and he doesn't look after his PS5.

 

[RoboFu]

on every boss fight?
1 outlet?

gtfo. Demo didn't flinch for me and it had multiple bssfights.
A game cannot make the console hotter. It's still 200 watts.
It's summer

A game cannot make a console hotter?

 

[Loxus]

There is nothing complicated about it.
It can go up to 200watt and thats it

Dude dislikes the PS5 for some reason.

Sony did a piece in Road to PS5 why games wouldn't overheat the PS5.

"We supply a generous amount of electrical power and then increase the frequency of GPU and CPU until they reach the capabilities of the system's cooling solution.

It's a completely different paradigm. Rather than running at constant frequency and letting power vary based on the workload. We run at essentially constant power and let the frequency band vary based on the workload.

We then tackled the engineering challenge of a cost-effective and high-performance cooling solution designed for that specific power level.

In some ways it becomes a simpler problem because there are no more unknowns, there's no need to guess what power consumption the worst case game might have."


So based on Mark Cerny's words, the only possible way to cause the PS5 to overheat is inadequate ventilation.

 

[PanzerCute]

No issue after 16 hours, and my PS5 is not in the best shape.

People just don't clean their console I guess.

 

[TheRedRiders]

This does make me curious about the developer efforts in optimization.

There was a rumor a few years ago that Santa Monica were not happy with the PS4's optimization capabilities i.e lack of control over polygons/triangles being rendered or culled. This was apparently one of the reasons God of War ran so hot on PS4 Pro.

The PS5's new feature set. more specifically Primitive Shaders allow a fully programmable approach to triangle rendering, and allow developers to have a much tighter and flexible control over the workloads which are being issued to the CPU and GPU.

 

[RAIDEN1]

A game that ALREADY pushes the Playstation 5 to its limits? Who knew?

 

[Puscifer]

on every boss fight?
1 outlet?

gtfo. Demo didn't flinch for me and it had multiple bssfights.
A game cannot make the console hotter. It's still 200 watts.
It's summer

What are you talking about a game can't make a console hotter lol. Certain games are going to hit resources differently, that's just a given, doom eternal at 4K heats my processor up like crazy

 

[ManaByte]

Dude dislikes the PS5 for some reason.

Sony did a piece in Road to PS5 why games wouldn't overheat the PS5.

"We supply a generous amount of electrical power and then increase the frequency of GPU and CPU until they reach the capabilities of the system's cooling solution.

It's a completely different paradigm. Rather than running at constant frequency and letting power vary based on the workload. We run at essentially constant power and let the frequency band vary based on the workload.

We then tackled the engineering challenge of a cost-effective and high-performance cooling solution designed for that specific power level.

In some ways it becomes a simpler problem because there are no more unknowns, there's no need to guess what power consumption the worst case game might have."


So based on Mark Cerny's words, the only possible way to cause the PS5 to overheat is inadequate ventilation.

Y’all are taking the thread as an attack on the console. Square not optimizing their game correctly and QA giving it a pass has nothing to do with the hardware.

 

[Fbh]

Having the console overheat in a Ifrit/phoenix themed FF is some Rockstar/Kojima type attention to detail.

Hats off to Square.

Oh well at least there's going to be one benefit to it being like -8(C°) outside and my heating barely being able to keep up

 

[geary]

Next Gen Hardware behavior...

 

[RoboFu]

Dude dislikes the PS5 for some reason.

Sony did a piece in Road to PS5 why games wouldn't overheat the PS5.

"We supply a generous amount of electrical power and then increase the frequency of GPU and CPU until they reach the capabilities of the system's cooling solution.

It's a completely different paradigm. Rather than running at constant frequency and letting power vary based on the workload. We run at essentially constant power and let the frequency band vary based on the workload.

We then tackled the engineering challenge of a cost-effective and high-performance cooling solution designed for that specific power level.

In some ways it becomes a simpler problem because there are no more unknowns, there's no need to guess what power consumption the worst case game might have."


So based on Mark Cerny's words, the only possible way to cause the PS5 to overheat is inadequate ventilation.

Every individual cpu manufactured has a different peak temp. Usually you do test to get the lowest temp threshold out of a bunch and then set your targets accordingly.

But that doesn’t mean you will never have any to overheat if you put a constant load on it.
You can get slight differences in cooling applications as well that can add to this.

Any slight deviations during the manufacturing process can lead to a lower heat threshold.

And we know that the heat threshold was pushed so high on the ps5 that they had to move to a Liquid Metal thermal solution.

Either way it’s completely possible for any processor to overheat today.

 

[RoadHazard]

More like summer and poor ventilated consoles are overheating. My room is hot as fuck right now but my console is well ventilated, no overheat issues here with the demo or the full game.

Exactly. The PS5, with the way it's always running at a fixed power level rather than fixed clocks, shouldn't really be able to overheat just from a game being demanding I think? But of course variations between units, high ambient temperature, etc, could still allow that to happen.

 

[STARSBarry]

This is a creative choice.

 

[Loxus]

Every individual cpu manufactured has a different peak temp. Usually you do test to get the lowest temp threshold out of a bunch and then set your targets accordingly.

But that doesn’t mean you will never have any to overheat if you put a constant load on it.
You can get slight differences in cooling applications as well that can add to this.

Any slight deviations during the manufacturing process can lead to a lower heat threshold.

And we know that the heat threshold was pushed so high on the ps5 that they had to move to a Liquid Metal thermal solution.

Either way it’s completely possible for any processor to overheat today.

Did you even read what Mark Cerny said?

Power = Heat.
The PS5 runs at constant power, frequency varies and the cooling is designed around that constant power.

PS5 chip does not consume more that that set power, so a game can not cause the PS5 to overheat.

 

[Ronin_7]

Clean your Consoles maybe?

 

[Bojji]

That's some atrocious optimization.

Consoles are power limited, game can't overheat console WITH CORRECTLY WORKING COOLING SYSTEM.

 

[Agent_4Seven]

It's getting hot out here....

Spoiler

 

[LordCBH]

A report of one person having overheating issues is causing some of you weirdos to jump the shark and doom post. It’s one fucking person who had a dirty as fuck PS5.

 

[skit_data]

I think hot weather, dust buildup and/or keeping the console in a confined place is more likely when it these cases since it doesn't seem to be an issue affecting everyone.

On the topic of wether the game itself would be a contributing factor I really have no idea but from what I've understood of Cernys talks about the console it shouldn't lead to a complete shutdown of the console. It's pretty funny btw, the only game that make my PS5s fan rev up is XCOM 2, I don't what it is about that game tbh because it's running in BC mode and should have a pretty huge overhead both in terms of compute and thermals.

 

[solidus12]

It’s pretty easy to remove the fan and clean the heatsink and the inside of the console without voiding the warranty

 

[SportsFan581]

Hopefully nothing widespread. Nothing worse than a game that can brick consoles, though it has happened before. I'm sure a patch will come right away if this isn't just a case of someone running their PS5 from a closed cabinet.

 

[EverydayBeast]

Ps5’s cooling provides just that, cooling.

 

[Krathoon]

I have had no problems. Played through the demo with no problems.

Where are you putting your PS5s? I got mine behind the tv with lots of air. I would leave it outside the cabinet. It is more like a PC tower.

 

[TGO]

I find it hard to believe when Call of Duty hasn't achieved this yet.

 

[Auto_aim1]

Three warnings so far. Third one caused hard shutdown. If your room temp is under 25c you should be fine.

Yesterday I played for 9 hours in a row and it was fine.

 

[MarkMe2525]

Pretty cool hot, right?

I immediately thought of this, but there was no way I was going to post it.

 

[OverHeat]

Somebody called me?

 

[MarkMe2525]

This may have been answered already, but is there any correlation between the version of heatsink and the likelyhood of this happening? Please correct me if I am wrong, but doesn't the smaller heatsink allow for better air circulation?

 

[TehGoomba7s]

People really out here exposing how filthy their setups are then blaming a game lmao

 

[Esppiral]

That's some atrocious optimization.

Do you really think the console overheating is a software issue? Lol

 

[Rocco Schiavone]

Won't happen on my console.

 

[MarkMe2525]

Do you really think the console overheating is a software issue? Lol

It very well could be. Software controls the hardware.

 

[Esppiral]

It very well could be. Software controls the hardware.

The cooling system is NOT controlled by game software....