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[Cao Cao]

Took 1 hour to install from disc.
This is the future?

brb playing old games
brb no installing
brb no patches

 

[SJRB]

Is it installing from the disc or is it actually downloading the game files and you just have shit internet?

 

[baphomet]

Yea, it didn't take anywhere near that installing from disc plus downloading the updates.

Maybe 15 minutes.

 

[Slicker than your average]

Looks like a download to me.

Op lives in a cardboard box with 2mb adsl

 

[Elios83]

Took 1 hour to install from disc.
This is the future?

I'm afraid installing from discs is in no way classifiable as the future
Getting a FTH 1Gigabit connection at home is.

 

[Skifi28]

This is the future?

Sounds like the present to me.

 

[Three]

Took 1 hour to install from disc.
This is the future?

brb playing old games
brb no installing
brb no patches

6 minutes left until you can play though.

 

[Mr Hyde]

Copying and installing discs to PS5 is so fucking slow. Forbidden West took forever to get going. Luckily, I got the Switch keeping me occupied during those dark waiting times.

 

[Wandering Leopard]

 

[SLB1904]

Can't relate op. Sorry to hear that

 

[nikeboy94]

Who cares. We all know read speeds from optical discs aren't great, but it beats having to download 80GB on the internet if your internet sucks ass. No one's saying physical games are the future, it's just a way of letting us own our purchases.

 

[RoadHazard]

When you install from disc it includes downloading any patches and combining those with the data from the disc. The disc install won't complete until all updates are downloaded and applied.

ONLY installing from disc is pretty snappy (usually just a few minutes before you can start the game), but it's rare that there are no day 1 updates nowadays.

 

[GymWolf]

This is why i laugh my ass off when people talk about plug&play being an advantage of consoles over pc.

 

[Beechos]

I dunno about ps5 but installing/downloading while playing a game cripples the process on xbox..

 

[Dr.Morris79]

Call of Duty Black ops Cold War = 248 GB

You've had it too easy Xeaker, it seems

 

[sankt-Antonio]

This is why i laugh my ass off when people talk about plug&play being and advantage of consoles over pc.

Bad take. Install went super fast on my side. OP has 1990s internet connection.

 

[LeftThumbstick]

It’s only 80GB though?

 

[GymWolf]

Bad take. Install went super fast on my side. OP has 1990s internet connection.

I have pretty fast internet and it is never super fast, unless we gave wildly different meaning to the term "super fast"

Unless you have one of those incredibly rare 100gb per second internet connection, it is hardly super fast.

I can download 100 gb in less than 10 min on steam, not the absolute best but probably better than 90% of worldwide internet connections.

Consoles being slow af to copy games from disc is not a secret or a rare thing to read inside forums, let's not act like it is a surprise for someone or downright false please.

 

[sankt-Antonio]

I have pretty fast internet and it is never super fast, unless we gave wildly different meaning to the term "super fast"

Unless you have one of those incredibly rare 100gb per second internet connection, it is hardly super fast.

I can download 100 gb in less than 10 min on steam, not the absolute best but probably better than 90% of worldwide internet connections.

Consoles being slow af to copy games from disc is not a secret or a rare thing to read inside forums, let's not act like it is a surprise for someone or downright false please.

It taking an hour is not the fault of slow disc speeds.

 

[GymWolf]

It taking an hour is not the fault of slow disc speeds.

An hour is probably his fault, but i would never consider 15-20 min "super fast" or plug&play.

So yeah, the advantage of consoles where you just put the disc and play immediately is a thing of the past, even if you don't care about day one patch.

 

[ArtHands]

I bought the disc version so I will suffer the same fate.

 

[balls of snow]

I just play overwatch 2 while it does its thing.

 

[sankt-Antonio]

An hour is probably his fault, but i would never consider 15-20 min "super fast" or plug&play.

So yeah, the advantage of consoles where you just put the disc and play immediately is a thing of the past, even if you don't care about day one patch.

Well it's still plug and play in the end. With preload you are basically faster than in the times of cartridges.

Compared to PC and messing with settings and ini files, gfx drivers, correct DLSS settings etc. Especially if you want to do things like four player couch co op. What a nightmare that was to set up on PC, holy shit. One hour for console install is not the norm, something is wrong here.

 

[Certinty]

OP is in for an even bigger shock if he gets Modern Warfare II on disc.

 

[casablanca]

Why does this take longer then my full (82Gb) download and ready to play (~10 min on 1gb fiber) ?

 

[nani17]

I blame the Gaf mods for this.


I'm hoping on the blame the mods bandwagon

 

[Dick Jones]

I bought the disc version so I will suffer the same fate.

Turn off WiFi on the console and disc install. Turn on WiFi when done.

 

[GymWolf]

Well it's still plug and play in the end. With preload you are basically faster than in the times of cartridges.

Compared to PC and messing with settings and ini files, gfx drivers, correct DLSS settings etc. Especially if you want to do things like four player couch co op. What a nightmare that was to set up on PC, holy shit. One hour for console install is not the norm, something is wrong here.

Most people on pc never touch ini or some other time wasting stuff, let's not act like you need a master degree to play on pc, i'm an absolute noob that ask the stupidest questions here on gaf and i have zero problems with 90% of games, even less when i'm gonna have the new build that can just bruteforce everything at 4k60 without a sweat..

With a decent pc and some experience you already know what to change in the setting to get to the game in a couple of minutes.

 

[GymWolf]

Turn off WiFi on the console and disc install. Turn on WiFi when done.

So installing the disc first and then downloading the patch? I'm gonna try it, thanks.

 

[Dick Jones]

So installing the disc first and then downloading the patch? I'm gonna try it, thanks.

I imagine that might speed the process. I'm a digital man so I can't confirm.

 

[Heimdall_Xtreme]

Took 1 hour to install from disc.
This is the future?

brb playing old games
brb no installing
brb no patches

82 fucking Gigas!!!!!???


Literally installed this game, Horizon, Demon souls, The last of us 1, Final Fantasy VII Remake ... With that, the PS5 Factory SSD destroyed ???

 

[TheTony316]

This is why i laugh my ass off when people talk about plug&play being an advantage of consoles over pc.

I have both and yes, consoles still have an advantage over PC when it comes to ease of use.

 

[TheTony316]

Weird, took me about 15 minutes.

 

[Heimdall_Xtreme]

Call of Duty Black ops Cold War = 248 GB

You've had it too easy Xeaker, it seems

Chingue su mauser Activision... Only with 2 games of them... The SSD of PS5 Its full??

What a crap.

 

[//DEVIL//]

Who is gonna tell op and the rest of people here if you are installing from the disc, then disable the internet till it’s done then download the update from the net ?

If you are doing them both you will be playing the next day . Sony is just awesome like that since ps4

 

[GymWolf]

I have both and yes, consoles still have an advantage over PC when it comes to ease of use.

Overall yes, sure.

 

[ChrisB]

Who is gonna tell op and the rest of people here if you are installing from the disc, then disable the internet till it’s done then download the update from the net ?

If you are doing them both you will be playing the next day . Sony is just awesome like that since ps4

This is the practice that I do with disc installs I thought it was common knowledge, but obviously not.
Both consoles have this flaw not sure what the process is behind it but my XB does the same.

 

[Lucifers Beard]

15 minutes for me and I was able to play whilst the rest installed. Make a cup of tea/coffee or do something useful while you wait.

 

[REDRZA MWS]

I buy digital and it was blazing fast (AT&T Fiber). Maybe 20 mins or so.

 

[Godot25]

If you have great internet connection (1Gbit optic fibre) there is literally no reason to buy discs anymore. Because you can download game faster then it will install from disc

 

[K' Dash]

That’s not the future, that’s you in the past downloading the game with 1997 dial up.

 

[REDRZA MWS]

If you have great internet connection (1Gbit optic fibre) there is literally no reason to buy discs anymore. Because you can download game faster then it will install from disc

And since you are t playing off the disc anymore, it’s an installation disk. Ppl think they “own” it because they can hold onto something physical. If Sony/MS ever shut servers down or leave the business your discs are waste.

 

[drotahorror]

Bad take. Install went super fast on my side. OP has 1990s internet connection.

200Mbps is now 90s internet? What 90s did I grow up in where we had 56k??

 

[Tiago Rodrigues]

Took 1 hour to install from disc.
This is the future?

Actually...it's the past.
It took me like 15 minutes to install everything from the digital store, lmao.

You either want the future or discs...it's your call.

 

[lh032]

it took around 30 min for me i think

 

[lh032]

This is why i laugh my ass off when people talk about plug&play being an advantage of consoles over pc.

i think when they meant plug and play, they meant the convenience.
Yea it takes time (its the same for PC as well) but you just pop in the disc/ or download from digital and the system does everything for you.

 

[SlimySnake]

6 minutes left until you can play though.

Yes but my ps5 disc drive was moaning so loud that i couldn’t hear anything else so waited the whole hour to let it finish.

The funny thing is that i just got 1 gig internet and a fancy modem router and i couldve downloaded this 100 gb game in 10 minutes tops.

This is because of the poor read speeds of the bluray drive. It will happen for every game.

 

[TheThreadsThatBindUs]

If you're installing from a disc, the console having an SSD won't magically make the disc drive faster. So not sure what you were expecting.

Next time buy it digitally.

 

[Topher]

Is this your first time using the drive in your PS5? God of War R isn't going to install any faster/slower than any other game on disc except due to size of the game.

 

[MidGenRefresh]

I didn't time it but yeah, it took a long ass time. I had to install the game, download and install the patch, download and install system update and download and install controller update.

2+ hours in the game. The wait was worth it!