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@johnmiceterThat’s not on Apex or Respawn. It’s the way Playstation does it for all games. It downloads the update fast (depending on your DL speed of course) but the actual installing everything takes ALOT longer because of this
- 5 years ago@Koochi-Q I thought because of PS5s super fast ssd, we wouldn't have this problem anymore though. It sucks we still do.
- 5 years ago
@johnmiceterNo, it’s not related heavily to the SSD. I understand that you would think that tho.
Best example I can give off the top of my head is Winrar. If you have a .iso, .rar or any compressed extention file, you know the actual file is usually alot larger. When downloading this file... lets say it’s 500MB and it goes ‘boom done hun’ in 5 mins. You still have to unpack. The unpacking is usually the longest part (depending on size and your download speed when you were downloading the thing), cause it’s from an outsize source. Lets say the actual file is 3GB. It first has to unpack the data, then process it, run the file, install the content, verify that it works internally and presto, you have the files on your computer.
This is in stark contrast to just downloading a file you can instantly run (which you would think a game would do).But in terms of updating, it’s basically the same process as the former but looking at individual files and replacing them. Just like when you have to match duplicate work files with each other and you have to sift them from a large pile xD.
Hope I cleared some of it up. It’s just the ps version of doing everything. Will they change the process? They might, but for now I don’t see it.
- 5 years ago@Koochi-Q I think it's just for PS4 games and how they are handled. So loading a PS4 game like Apex on a PS5 will still do the copy phase.
I haven't noticed any of my native PS5 games doing this, even PS5 versions of PS4 games like Control.- 5 years ago@ArchAngeL-PCX PS5 still does it but faster, as the article points out. Might also be the case due to what you said about size being a factor.
- 5 years ago
@Koochi-QCould be the size. The fact I haven't noticed it means it's at the least much faster.
The other thing I noticed is the PS5 doesn't seem to reserve extra space needed for a download, then copy. On PS4, I always had to keep 80-100 GB available for downloads or it wouldn't do it. I assumed that was room needed for the copy process.
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