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[Hypereides]

Not planning to wait for the Pro at this point?

Don't see a real need for it to be honest. The standard PS5 will suffice.

 

[Nankatsu]

Had a weird issue with my controller.

Never experienced any controller drifting on my dual sense.

Booted up FIFA 24 and mid match I start noticing weird controller behavior when I was playing. Didn't bother much because I was winning and FIFA is one hell of scripted game sometimes.

Fast forward and went to FFVII Rebirth and noticed the exact same issue. Character moving was acting weird.

Wired the controller and the problem persisted.

I then reset the controller, turned off PS5's Bluetooth on advance settings and turned it back on. Did a system update that I had pending and appearantly the issue seems to be gone.

I said appearantly because I think I'm with phantom limb pain syndrome after experiencing the controller drift

 

[yurinka]

Had a weird issue with my controller.

Never experienced any controller drifting on my dual sense.

Booted up FIFA 24 and mid match I start noticing weird controller behavior when I was playing. Didn't bother much because I was winning and FIFA is one hell of scripted game sometimes.

Fast forward and went to FFVII Rebirth and noticed the exact same issue. Character moving was acting weird.

Wired the controller and the problem persisted.

I then reset the controller, turned off PS5's Bluetooth on advance settings and turned it back on. Did a system update that I had pending and appearantly the issue seems to be gone.

I said appearantly because I think I'm with phantom limb pain syndrome after experiencing the controller drift

Some good tips to fix the drift:
https://www.makeuseof.com/fix-drifting-ps5-dualsense-controller/

I just experienced it in Helldivers 2 when playing on PC, and increased the deadzone to 0.07 or something like that (can't remember the number) in the game settings and fixed it.

 

[Nankatsu]

Some good tips to fix the drift:
https://www.makeuseof.com/fix-drifting-ps5-dualsense-controller/

I just experienced it in Helldivers 2 when playing on PC, and increased the deadzone to 0.07 in the game settings and fixed it.

Interesting. Judging from the article description I didn't exactly experice controller drifting, because when left alone my controller didn't move at all.

What I noticed what when moving the sticks the characters started going in direction I was not pointing on.

Like if I had the sticks in a way the character should move left, I could feel on screen as if it was also forcing moving to the right. Really weird.

 

[yurinka]

Interesting. Judging from the article description I didn't exactly experice controller drifting, because when left alone my controller didn't move at all.

What I noticed what when moving the sticks the characters started going in direction I was not pointing on.

Like if I had the sticks in a way the character should move left, I could feel on screen as if it was also forcing moving to the right. Really weird.

As far I understand drifting is when you aren't moving to any direction but one of the analogs slightly moves, very litle, to some direction. Because when you did stop moving it did completely went back to the exact center. So putting a slightly bigger deadzone fixes it.

What you mention isn't drifting. Maybe it is that thing where you can inverse the camera in the settings of some games (or by default for all games in the console OS menu): if inverted, when pushing down the character/ship looks up when you push up the character looks down: like controlling an airplane.

If not inverted (normal controls), if you push up the character looks up, if you push down the character looks down.

https://www.gamesradar.com/ps5-invert-camera-settings-how-to-invert-camera-on-ps5/#:~:text=To get started, go to,/App Settings > Game Presets.&text=As well as being able,PS5 invert camera settings here.

As I remember in the PS OS you can also remap buttons and so on, so maybe you can fix it there too.

 

[Forth]

I currently have the slim version and was swapping the plates for the black version.
I don't use the disc drive so changed the slim to a digital console but what realised is that the disc drive was quite warm when I removed it.
Would running the slim as a digital console help with heat dissipation as there is no disc drive blocking that side of the board?

 

[jm89]

Some good tips to fix the drift:
https://www.makeuseof.com/fix-drifting-ps5-dualsense-controller/

I just experienced it in Helldivers 2 when playing on PC, and increased the deadzone to 0.07 or something like that (can't remember the number) in the game settings and fixed it.

I think deadzone increase should really be something available system wide. But then i guess it could end up negativley impacting games if the game dev devloped it with a certain value in mind maybe?

I have very minor occasional drift on my second dualsense, only noticed it on ff7 rebirth and gt7, but spiderman 2 zero drift probably due to the higher deadzone.

 

[yurinka]

I think deadzone increase should really be something available system wide. But then i guess it could end up negativley impacting games if the game dev devloped it with a certain value in mind maybe?

I have very minor occasional drift on my second dualsense, only noticed it on ff7 rebirth and gt7, but spiderman 2 zero drift probably due to the higher deadzone.

I agree, it should be something at OS level. Not sure if it's already available.

The deadzone needed to avoid drift is super small, so small that devs shouldn't notice it/care about it.

 

[Flintty]

I don't expect many, if anyone here to remember me (I barely post these days), but I've always been what you'd call a 'green rat' here, a PC gamer and Nintendo fanboy. I looked at getting a Playstation 4 and then 5 over the years, usually because one particular game took my fancy. But I always handwaved it saying I'm not buying a Playstation for one game. Well last week I realised that one game had grown into quite a list, so I bought my first ever Playstation! I used to 'borrow' my brother's PS1 to play games like Silent Hill, Resident Evil, MGS and Die Hard, but never owned one myself.

So yeah, I'm now in the PS club, and I have some catching up to do! PS+ has been a great start to try some of the games I missed out on. I've got Helldivers and I'll be picking up Stellar Blade today. One of the things always putting me off Playstation was the controller, and having put a few hours in, it's still a concern. The thumbstick placement will take a lot of getting used to, as well as remembering which button is which lol.

But the positives... Wow! The polish and quality of first party Playstation games/exclusives is something that Xbox really struggles to match. Yeah I'm a green rat but you'd have to be completely delusional to not see the difference. I've barely scratched the surface but I sit there playing Ratchet and Clank or Ghosts of Tsushima thinking, holy shit, why can't Xbox have games that look and feel this good? The fidelity is on another level. And going back to the controller, what Sony did with the trigger feedback is superb and makes the Xbox trigger rumble look dumb.

So yeah, looking forward to catching up on a decade of games, and mildly regretting not doing so sooner. Give me your suggestions!

But I'm still a green rat. Honest.

 

[nordique]

PS GAF

BUYING QUESTION:


I am having difficulty choosing between Helldivers 2 and Stellar Blade to purchase. Leaning towards Hell divers 2.

Any thoughts form people who have played both? (not just the demo)

 

[Zheph]

PS GAF

BUYING QUESTION:


I am having difficulty choosing between Helldivers 2 and Stellar Blade to purchase. Leaning towards Hell divers 2.

Any thoughts form people who have played both? (not just the demo)

Very different offering my man
Stellar Blade is a single player game with linear and semi open world segments with a nice mood and quite fun action packed fights. Around 30h i think
HD2 is a live service PvE game with tremendous action and a lot of fun, squad based missions (4 max) which will deliver a lot of hours of gameplay if you gets the bite

 

[Nankatsu]

Guys I need some help. I think my PS5 is dying out on me.

Played fine this morning but now it's constantly losing the hdmi signal back and forth.

Console boots just fine, I see the initial screen, signal goes out, TV goes pitch black, after 10s more or less signal gets back, and it keeps repeating this pattern.

Tested on a different port just now and it's working fine. Super weird.

Tested a different cable on the usual port where I always had the console connected it behaves fine if I have the console on 1080p. As soon as I start using Automatic ou 2160p it stars blinking again.

No idea what's going on. Seems like the issue is when displaying 4K, but TV is working flawlessly when displaying 4K HDR content on streaming platforms for example.

Any ideas?

 

[Giallo Corsa]

Guys I need some help. I think my PS5 is dying out on me.

Played fine this morning but now it's constantly losing the hdmi signal back and forth.

Console boots just fine, I see the initial screen, signal goes out, TV goes pitch black, after 10s more or less signal gets back, and it keeps repeating this pattern.

Tested on a different port just now and it's working fine. Super weird.

Tested a different cable on the usual port where I always had the console connected it behaves fine if I have the console on 1080p. As soon as I start using Automatic ou 2160p it stars blinking again.

No idea what's going on. Seems like the issue is when displaying 4K, but TV is working flawlessly when displaying 4K HDR content on streaming platforms for example.

Any ideas?

Just a thought :
- power cycle both your tv and PS5

- put PlayStation 5 into recovery mode, go to HDCP settings and try changing that (2.3)

Best of luck mate

 

[Nankatsu]

Just a thought :
- power cycle both your tv and PS5

Love you bro!

Had already power cycled the PS5 but didn't do that to the TV. It worked.

 

[Giallo Corsa]

Love you bro!

Had already power cycled the PS5 but didn't do that to the TV. It worked.

Shit, it worked ?
Glad to hear that brother, ain't nobody got time to fiddle with this shit constantly, it's friggin' frustrating...

Happy that it helped !
Cheers

 

[mitchman]

Guys I need some help. I think my PS5 is dying out on me.

Played fine this morning but now it's constantly losing the hdmi signal back and forth.

Console boots just fine, I see the initial screen, signal goes out, TV goes pitch black, after 10s more or less signal gets back, and it keeps repeating this pattern.

Tested on a different port just now and it's working fine. Super weird.

Tested a different cable on the usual port where I always had the console connected it behaves fine if I have the console on 1080p. As soon as I start using Automatic ou 2160p it stars blinking again.

No idea what's going on. Seems like the issue is when displaying 4K, but TV is working flawlessly when displaying 4K HDR content on streaming platforms for example.

Any ideas?

Sounds like the cable doesn't handle HDMI 2.1. 4k HDR for streaming platforms only uses HDMI 2.0.

 

[Nankatsu]

Sounds like the cable doesn't handle HDMI 2.1. 4k HDR for streaming platforms only uses HDMI 2.0.

I've been using the exact same cable for the past 2 years. This was the first time the issue happened.

Before power cycling the TV, I also used an identical cable that I use on my Nintendo Switch. and the issue persisted.

No idea what caused it, specially because I playing during the morning and everything worked just fine, but I suspect it was something TV related /port specific, because the issue only appeared to happen when I had the console connect to my EARC port.

 

[mitchman]

I've been using the exact same cable for the past 2 years. This was the first time the issue happened.

Before power cycling the TV, I also used an identical cable that I use on my Nintendo Switch. and the issue persisted.

No idea what caused it, specially because I playing during the morning and everything worked just fine, but I suspect it was something TV related /port specific, because the issue only appeared to happen when I had the console connect to my EARC port.

Did you check and make sure every port you used have the ultra HD/deep color/... enabled? What TV do you use?

 

[Nankatsu]

Did you check and make sure every port you used have the ultra HD/deep color/... enabled? What TV do you use?

It's a Sony XR65X90J. I have the TV for about two years (by the same time I bought the cables too) and this issue never happened before.

PS5 is connected to the EARC port as recommended.

 

[mitchman]

It's a Sony XR65X90J. I have the TV for about two years (by the same time I bought the cables too) and this issue never happened before.

PS5 is connected to the EARC port as recommended.

Ok, I assume that TV only has 2 HDMI 2.1 ports of which one of them is the eARC port. Try the other 2.1 port perhaps?

 

[Nankatsu]

What's up with the recently question marks appearing in your name profile if your name has accents?

It's been like this for over a month.

I can't display my name correctly... And I hate having my name without accents.

 

[Tiago Rodrigues]

What's up with the recently question marks appearing in your name profile if your name has accents?

It's been like this for over a month.

I can't display my name correctly... And I hate having my name without accents.

Yeah this is annoying and should be fixed quite easily right? Talking over a month sounds weird

 

[BadBurger]

A few questions about the Portal for anyone who owns one:

- Does it support remote power-on and power-off / sleep from the Portal itself?
- Does it have a standard 1.5mm or whatever headphone input?

 

[Giallo Corsa]

A few questions about the Portal for anyone who owns one:

- Does it support remote power-on and power-off / sleep from the Portal itself?
- Does it have a standard 1.5mm or whatever headphone input?

1) No.
Your ps5 has to be in sleep mode for it to wake up from a remote device.
So, say your ps5 is in sleep mode, a brownout happens and you want to RP : you're basically fooked since the console will be turned off.

2) It has a 3.5mm jack so you can plug in whatever headset you may have lying around.
Just a heads up though : volume output is kind of low.

Having said all that : don't buy one since it has the - now infamous - 59.94Hz stutter which is basically a Hz mismatch between the PS5 59.94Hz output and the portal's 60Hz screen.
Basically every 10 seconds or so, the games go from 60fps to 30fps for a few seconds and then back to 60, it's an incredibly shitty experience if you're sensitive to this kind of thing since it gives the constant feel that games drop frames continuously.
There's a good sticky on the ps portal's sub reddit which explains the whole thing if you're interested.

Just stick playing on a phone/tablet with a higher than 60Hz refresh rate screen and you'll be good to go since there's no frames dropped that way.

It's been 8+ months since the Portal's release and Sony not only hasn't fixed it but didn't even acknowledge it as a problem, at this point, something tells me that it's hardware related ( 60Hz screen + shifty SOC).

Edit : here you go

https://www.reddit.com/r/PlaystationPortal/s/F5YgbKmHxa

 

[adamsapple]

 

[BadBurger]

Setting up my Portal now

So exciting

Edit: Huge screen on this thing, and pretty good audio. Shame it's only 1080p but I get why

1) No.
Your ps5 has to be in sleep mode for it to wake up from a remote device.
So, say your ps5 is in sleep mode, a brownout happens and you want to RP : you're basically fooked since the console will be turned off.

2) It has a 3.5mm jack so you can plug in whatever headset you may have lying around.
Just a heads up though : volume output is kind of low.

Having said all that : don't buy one since it has the - now infamous - 59.94Hz stutter which is basically a Hz mismatch between the PS5 59.94Hz output and the portal's 60Hz screen.
Basically every 10 seconds or so, the games go from 60fps to 30fps for a few seconds and then back to 60, it's an incredibly shitty experience if you're sensitive to this kind of thing since it gives the constant feel that games drop frames continuously.
There's a good sticky on the ps portal's sub reddit which explains the whole thing if you're interested.

Just stick playing on a phone/tablet with a higher than 60Hz refresh rate screen and you'll be good to go since there's no frames dropped that way.

It's been 8+ months since the Portal's release and Sony not only hasn't fixed it but didn't even acknowledge it as a problem, at this point, something tells me that it's hardware related ( 60Hz screen + shifty SOC).

Edit : here you go

https://www.reddit.com/r/PlaystationPortal/s/F5YgbKmHxa

Well that sounds awful. I'll check back in and let you know if I have the issue.


Edit 2: man this thing needs mad software updates. I think I am on the fourth update now.

Edit 3: firing up Journey. Feels apropos. Looks and sounds good

Edit 4: On Resident Evil 2 remake now. This Portal gots the chops. Performing admirably. Game looks better than it does on my Deck

 

[BadBurger]

Keeps losing connection. I probably need to adjust my PS5 network settings

 

[BadBurger]

I had to do a full system reset after all of the updates and it seems ok now.

 

[Putonahappyface]

Does anyone know where I can buy a cheap UK PlayStation Plus Essential 12 month key please?

 

[Nitty_Grimes]

I don’t I’m sorry but I’m in the same boat. My extra tier runs out 1st December but I ain’t got £100 just to drop on that.

Well technically I do, but I’d rather not - hoping black Friday will give me a percentage discount but until then.

 

[Putonahappyface]

How much do you guys think my PS5 disc edition is worth please? Everything is like new and looked after.

Original PS5 disc edition: Horizon Forbidden West bundle (still have the original box).

Horizon forbidden west (physical) game

Two Galactic Purple dualsense controllers

Galactic Purple faceplates (original faceplates included)

Offical PlayStation dualsense charging station

 

[West Texas CEO]

Hello.

 

[Celcius]

Not a single post in here about the PS5 Pro yet?

 

[BadBurger]

Saw this linked on BlueSky, sounds nice. the PS5 UI and such may finally be creeping towards how good the PS4's was:

PS5 system update adds customisable Welcome Hub, personalised 3D audio & more | TheSixthAxis

There's a new PS5 system software update available now that's bringing some big (and some long overdue) features to the PlayStation 5 console, including a

www.thesixthaxis.com

How much do you guys think my PS5 disc edition is worth please? Everything is like new and looked after.

Original PS5 disc edition: Horizon Forbidden West bundle (still have the original box).

Horizon forbidden west (physical) game

Two Galactic Purple dualsense controllers

Galactic Purple faceplates (original faceplates included)

Offical PlayStation dualsense charging station

I'd say tally up the current costs of all of those things, then take off about 30%.

For example, I think you'd be hard pressed to find a private buyer willing to pay more than $350 USD for a used PS5 disc edition, even if it is in great condition.

 

[Tiago Rodrigues]

If i let my PS Plus subscription expire, how long does Sony keep my cloud saves?

Probably gonna let the Premium subscription end in October and then wait for Black Friday to renew at a discount like they usually allow us to do. So it's probably just a few weeks without PS Plus but i wanted to be sure they don't delete my files lmao. I think it's 6 months but not sure.

 

[Putonahappyface]

Saw this linked on BlueSky, sounds nice. the PS5 UI and such may finally be creeping towards how good the PS4's was:

PS5 system update adds customisable Welcome Hub, personalised 3D audio & more | TheSixthAxis

There's a new PS5 system software update available now that's bringing some big (and some long overdue) features to the PlayStation 5 console, including a

www.thesixthaxis.com

I'd say tally up the current costs of all of those things, then take off about 30%.

For example, I think you'd be hard pressed to find a private buyer willing to pay more than $350 USD for a used PS5 disc edition, even if it is in great condition.

It's up for £360.

 

[The_hunter]

Is the vertical stand and disc drive from the slim compatible with the PRO?

 

[Celcius]

Is the vertical stand and disc drive from the slim compatible with the PRO?

Yes

 

[Hotel Security]

If i let my PS Plus subscription expire, how long does Sony keep my cloud saves?

Don't know but can't you save them to a USB or external drive? Then just transfer them back once you sign up again?

 

[Nitty_Grimes]

Don't know but can't you save them to a USB or external drive? Then just transfer them back once you sign up again?

PS5 game saves you can’t do that.

 

[FrankWza]

Anyone know if the Pro nvme slot and location is identical to the Slim? I want to order a heatsink with pipe for it and the one for the PS5 definitely doesn't fit because it's external and set up differently.

 

[FrankWza]

PS5 game saves you can’t do that.

You can backup your console including savesand restore onto a new system. You need a formatted, compatible external drive

 

[Nitty_Grimes]

I didn't think you could move PS5 saves because of Save Wizard on the PS4 where you could mod your saves.

 

[adamsapple]

Is PSN down for anyone else at this time or just me?

edit: Nope, definitely not just me. Looks like a big outage.

 

[jataple]

hello, I am new in this forum, is this the official playstation OT? or this is just for only PS5 discussions? thanks

 

[Celcius]

Do they make dualsense controllers differently now?
During last black friday I bought a blue DS and the buttons feel different when you press them compared to my launch DS controller...

 

[GateofD]

against my better judgement of past experiences, I bought Sparkling Zero. another fighting game I'm gonna suck at and play less than 10 hours on, argh.