Not sure about how much power they consume. But yeah, mine uses the usb port. There are some I think you can buy that have their own power cord, but I'm not positive.
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Not sure about how much power they consume. But yeah, mine uses the usb port. There are some I think you can buy that have their own power cord, but I'm not positive.
batmandarkknight
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does anyone want my 7 day trial?
Monty Mole
Member
I knew someone was going to respond with this. I hate the linearity of CoD and BF. As I said, I've been playing FPS games since Wolfenstein and I loved all the secret rooms and exploration involved back then. But that isn't the problem with KZ, it just feels poorly designed, whereas games like Wolfenstein/DOOM/RotT/DN3D etc had subliminal design (they were like the Mario of FPS games). I wouldn't call KZ deep by any stretch of the imagination - you don't have to dig through audio logs, notes and hints at all as none of those will help you out. You just have to walk around aimlessly until you find 'the crash site', or 'the bunker' and then shoot some shit. Or press 'up' on the D-Pad and follow. Not exciting or rewarding.
Regardless, I know my opinion will go against the grain but I had to vent and I spent 3 hours playing Killzone last night and wondered why I'd bothered. Today is Resogun and SM3DW day. And it will be glorious.
When is Sony going to release the Europe sales data ?
Monday.
Melchiah
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Just checked few local stores, and there was only one flat cooler, and it's 25.9dB, which is louder than most of them. I'm not exactly thrilled about the idea of that fan noise being added to the PS4's own fan.
Yeah, it's definitely going to make extra noise.
PiPSmallie
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Me please I would be very happy
Must your system, mine was super quick.
Monty Mole
Member
Haven't play Knack yet, but the UI is always completely instant for me. I did upgrade to SSHD though.
IAmRandom31
Banned
Maybe the game was still installing in the background?
My UI is incredibly fast. Maybe 1/4th second wait between hitting PS button and going to UI, switching to another app and then double tapping back into the game. No wait.
I dunno about anything else, but didn't you see that huge plume of smoke right after you zipline down for the first time? Doesn't that kinda make it obvious where the crash site is? Or were you distracted by the airship lol
I think I must have just timed it bad, it's fine now but I was downloading every free thing I could at the same time, so installing something in the background might have made it slow to a crawl. The first 3 attempts all did that and now it's smooth as butter again. Cheers.
Agreed, Shadow Fall is awesome!
Library is like your download list. You can redownload from there if you delete digital stuff.
batmandarkknight
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PiPSmallie
Member
Thank youpm'ing you know.
I've had mine on a shelf in an open entertainment center and sit probably 5-6 feet from it with no problems. Not silent but with the stereo at even a lowish level I don't really hear it.
It's not whisper quiet. I'm aware it's there and the fan definitely ramps up when pushed but it's a powerful launch console in a small package.
It doesn't bother me and I'm loving it so far.
Shit, I just noticed there's a very annoying noise coming from my speakers. As there is no noise at all when I plug them into my notebook, the problem must be my monitor. (My speakers only have Cinch ports, so I've plugged them into the 3.5mm headset port of my monitor)
As a workaround, I've turned the volume in the settings of the monitor to the maximum and turned the speaker volume down. Now it seems to be fine.
I knew that, I'm just surprised there seem to be no options at all.
As a workaround, I've turned the volume in the settings of the monitor to the maximum and turned the speaker volume down. Now it seems to be fine.
I knew that, I'm just surprised there seem to be no options at all.
About as quiet as the Wii U, so I barely notice the noise at all. Same as the Wii U, loud when it's doing things from disc and quiet when not.
Ovek
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One is silent the other was louder but now sounds like a jet engine (I can literally hear it in the other room) even on the xmb.
batmandarkknight
Member
Me please I would be very happy
Thank you
no problem.
you have your ps4 and killzone? wanna play a few matches?
LiquidMetal14
hide your water-based mammals
Mine picks up during moments when it's not being as stressed and during games it's not as loud. Then again I have a PC with 8 case fans that is not necessarily built for silence. Noise is the least of my concerns with PS4 though.
It was disable to support the launch server load
FullMetaltech
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it was disabled to lightern the psn overload on release day. they should have it back up soon.
Pop
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Only time it ever makes noise is the couple of seconds to read a disk. Completely quiet any other time.
FloatingDivider
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So there's an issue with ps4 and bitstream(dts)/(dolby) over optical. The audio for some games starts stuttering like crazy while installing, it sounds like a chopper but with fragments of game audio instead of non descript whooshing. Tried it on 2 different ps4's with different audio systems (mine and a buddy) and it happens quite consistently within a minute or two from starting to play a game while still installing. It seems fine post install but it sort of renders the feature unusable to me.
N30RYU
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and you can play BF4 remotely on the vita using your uk account?
So a possible faulty?
I take it the PS4 is supposed to make that clicking switch sound whenever it's turned on and off?
Also I'm falling in love with the controller, it feels great. Worthy successor to the Xbox 360 controller (haven't tried the X1's yet, I'm sure it's just as great). And it was genius to allow people to connect their head-phones straight into the controller to use as a sound system. Can you do this on the X1? I hope so.
Also I'm falling in love with the controller, it feels great. Worthy successor to the Xbox 360 controller (haven't tried the X1's yet, I'm sure it's just as great). And it was genius to allow people to connect their head-phones straight into the controller to use as a sound system. Can you do this on the X1? I hope so.
Ein Bear
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Have to say, I'm finding myself quite disappointed with the visuals in Killzone.
It just seems very uneven. Some stuff looks great, but then something off in the background will catch my eye that looks a bit crappy. I've just beaten that level from the Feb reveal, and the sprawling cityscape that looked so amazing in a blurry livestream actually looks pretty rough in 1080p.
Doesn't help that the art style is really bland too, in comparison to KZ2/3. I fired up the first level of Killzone 3 this morning, and whilst the lower resolution was immediately noticeable, in terms of visual cohesiveness and style, I honestly though it looked better than Shadowfall.
It just seems very uneven. Some stuff looks great, but then something off in the background will catch my eye that looks a bit crappy. I've just beaten that level from the Feb reveal, and the sprawling cityscape that looked so amazing in a blurry livestream actually looks pretty rough in 1080p.
Doesn't help that the art style is really bland too, in comparison to KZ2/3. I fired up the first level of Killzone 3 this morning, and whilst the lower resolution was immediately noticeable, in terms of visual cohesiveness and style, I honestly though it looked better than Shadowfall.
Yeah, old phat PS3's do this too. Not sure if the slimmer ones did or not.
Stealthcobra
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batmandarkknight
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Man the wifi of the ps4 sucks. im getting 60-70% when the router is literally outside my room.
super-famicom
Member
My replacement PS4 arrived and was able to boot up and install the update with no problems! Played a little bit of Resogun, now installing some games! Woohoo! Next gen is finally here for me!
Ein Bear
Member
Do you have a disc in there or anything?
Mine seemed alarmingly loud at first too, but it turned out it was still installing Killzone. Now I can't hear it at all, and my console is only a couple of metres from my bed.
LiquidMetal14
hide your water-based mammals
We should start getting some ideas in probably less than 24 hours with numbers coming from chart tracking.
Interesting. Mine is only 8 metres away from the router on the same floor and I'm only getting 62%. Where as my PS3 would be on a 100%. I hope this isn't a potential problem in terms of net quality?
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