GT5 slow on PS3 Super Slim?
- Thread starter Nielsen
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- Adrian, Mich.
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If you bothered to read what I posted in post #14, I did just that. However, like I previously stated, none of the reviews I seen were negative regarding performance. They were all towards the design aspect, which I can understand. From what I've read and experienced so far, there was no performance upgrades or downgrades from the normal slim. The only things that changed was the design, performance is the same as the slim.
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- Chad
- kennylmao
With the flash drive, the loading times will be faster than a regular HDD. But I'm afraid GT5 will be the only game you'd be playing as the game data is quite hefty if I remember correct.
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- Murica
- BasedAckbar
I tend to find those negative reviews of the PS3 slim due to design to be pointless.
People don't buy PS3 to stare at them do they?
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sumbrownkid
Well when the slim came out... I looked at it and was disappointed. Looked as if a person just took 10 mins into designing it and said here you go.
I love my fat it is about to have its 6th birthday and I am happy. I am keeping it as long as I can. I have no doubts about it lasting many more years because i am very careful and anal about it (anal meaning I clean it often). Even my mom when their original 60gb died last year(they kept it in a in closed TV stand which in the end caused it to die) she bought a slim i was on the phone while they were opening the box. When they looked at it they said I quote "looks like a cheap piece of ****". Which it honestly does. I told them they should have token better care of the fat hahha.
But me yeah looks do play apart in what I look at.
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- Adrian, Mich.
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I never said they did so just relax. I was only giving the information that I found. Also, there is more to design than just cosmetic. The door to the CD/DVD bay for example, which I agree that it is flimsy and of poor design.
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- hardvibes
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I didn't say I read negative things about performances, other than what the OP wrote.
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Nielsen, consider taking your new super slim PS3 console back and getting another one. By reading all the posts here, it sounds like you just got a bad unit. The retailer should be happy to help, and you won't be out anything except for some more data install time. With the possible exception of the generally bad appearance/design of the super slim, you should see improvements across the board compared to the slim you had last.
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- Adrian, Mich.
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- CargoRatt
Not sure about that but that does remind me of two new features (design) that I like about the new super slim. The hard drive is easily reachable from the side panel now and the lens are also easy to get to now via that flimsy ass door, lol. No more taking the whole PS3 apart if you need to clean the lens which I do regularly.
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- Adrian, Mich.
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When I go to get my old one repaired, I may look into having it upgraded with a better hard drive. Anyone have any suggestions on agood hard drive for the normal PS3 slim. Also, how about the blu-ray lens or are all the replacements pretty much the same as far as quality goes. Any advice would be greatly appreciated.
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- z06fun
I ran into the same thing, I noticed my super slim seemed very slow when I got it. So I did a bunch of testing, comparing it to a regular slim. The short answer is, I changed the hard drive to one of these and it ran much faster than a slim with its standard drive it came with from sony, and in fact ran just as fast as a slim with an SSD. This is the drive I used (7200 Rpm):
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16822136278
For all my super slim vs slim testing, for both systems I had:
Same game game save (large 4mB save)
Both off line
Both on same 4.31 FM and 2.09 version of GT5
Both running original GT5 disk
Both had all game data pre-installed (so 9+ GB GT5 game data on Hard disk)
Both hard disks/PS3s had no other games installed
Things I compared between the 2 systems side by side were game startup time, std car garage load (800+ cars), and nurb track load time. With the super slim using its original 250mb drive, or a 60gig seagate from a FAT PS3, or a 160 gig toshiba from a slim PS3 (all original sony drives) the super slim was always quite a bit slower than a standard slim. Game start up was always something like ~15 seconds slower. At one point I even swapped the drives between the slim and super slim and it seemed to make no change, super slim still much slower.
The thing that made a huge change was changing the slim to the above listed western digital 7200RPM drive, it must have a much faster seek time since GT5 tends to use many many small files and seek time becomes very important. Maybe the 16mb cache is helpful here also. With this 7200rpm drive it then became much faster than the slim, and in fact it ran as fast as another slim I have that has an SSD. The 2 machines literally seemed to do everything identically, I was not expecting that at all. For the final test, I put an SSD in the super slim and it still seemed identical to my slim with an SSD.
So moral of the story, super slim running one of the typical PS3 5400rpm drives is slower than a slim on the same drive, not sure why when it seems to match a slim when both are on a faster drive. This would not be the case if it was a difference in blu-ray reading speed or something.
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Those looking in swap to an SSD might be disappointed if you're expecting the speed increases akin to what you see on PC titles. It's been tested quite a bit on GTP, and even in GT5 where most of the data is installed you're not going to see huge decreases in load times because the Blu Ray laser tends to be the limiting factor. Not going to be much (if any) faster than if you use a 7200RPM, though it will be notably quicker than the cheapo OEM hard drives (especially if the Super Slim drives are even worse than the default drives in older systems, as z06fun's testing seems to suggest).
z06fun nailed it, I was having the same issue with the ultra slim, swapped out the hdd for the one that was in my old fat that died and viola almost as fast as the old original 60 gig ps3. I also cleaned the disc and the blu-ray optics to be through....but yeah back up to speed. I'm pretty effin pissed that I even have to OWN an ultra slim....much less replace Sonys crap components right out of the box, my original went ylod about 4 times and I got sick of fixing it. Oh well back racing ...all good 
Musolini187
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I would like to add something, some games like COD boII and gt5 are slow to begin with.
In the case of gt5, it's gotten slower for some reason. I think it has something to do with either sony or pd, not the ps3 system in itself.
Lets not forget the programming in gt5 and boII is ass to begin with. Both games have a ridiculous amount of loading time and loading in general. Simply unacceptable if you ask me.
In the case of gt5, it's gotten slower for some reason. I think it has something to do with either sony or pd, not the ps3 system in itself.
Lets not forget the programming in gt5 and boII is ass to begin with. Both games have a ridiculous amount of loading time and loading in general. Simply unacceptable if you ask me.
dr_slump
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GT5 is actually a hundred times faster than at the beginning.
Get the original GT5 game (not the academy, xl or whatever) and then reinstall the gamedata without any patches - sloooooooooow.
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Why can't it? There are smart phones and tablets out there now that can give the PS3 a run for its money in graphics.
It's the same processor, same RAM, same GPU, same everything. They are just using a more efficient production process, so they run cooler, so Sony can bunch everything closer together and make the case smaller.
It's the same processor, same RAM, same GPU, same everything. They are just using a more efficient production process, so they run cooler, so Sony can bunch everything closer together and make the case smaller.
Tired Tyres
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- DaveTheStalker
Who in there right mind would play GT5 from version 1? HDD speed makes a difference too. My Fat 500gb had a 7200rpm, it was fast as snot on a cold winters day. But it also had read errors 70% of the time while booting. I have a White Super Slim PS3 and it doesn't seem any slower. The only slow thing that is an annoyance is populating a grid in Seasonals.
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- Dry7123
Me and my girlfriend have run into numerous amounts of problems with her new 500gb super slim. It always seems to "hiccup" or "skip" whenever it goes into pushing the games limits when playing assassins creed 2, brotherhood and revelations. (ie multiple character movements during fight scenes or cutscenes). It also didnt load the character voices on lots of missions on hitman absolution. The part where you try to get your silverballers back from the hot shot daughter during the shooting contest, neither the dad or her made any voice communication what so ever during their introductory cutscenes. I also happened to notice when I play GT5, the photomode location times were noticably slower on her superslim as apposed to my regular slim. (Same gt5 disc & patch). Even some problems from the past are exposed horridly. Remember that glitch when racing on Nurburgring 24hr and the track didnt always load sometimes when racing in the morning? So it just looked like you were just racing on air? Yea, that problem is occuring not only a lot, but also being visably worse.
Seeing these problems are really making me second guess on buying a new ps3 superslim. My old 150gb's blue ray died last christmas and I've been pondering on either upgrading, or just getting a brand new one all together. The thought that the ps4 being released holiday 2013 is also hindering on my mind so maybe upgrading isn't worth it after all.
Seeing these problems are really making me second guess on buying a new ps3 superslim. My old 150gb's blue ray died last christmas and I've been pondering on either upgrading, or just getting a brand new one all together. The thought that the ps4 being released holiday 2013 is also hindering on my mind so maybe upgrading isn't worth it after all.
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- TAM-Spencer
I have a slim 250Gb and GT5 had been getting slower and slower, My menus and loading screens were getting stupidly slow, every time i was looking to see what friends were online it would take an eon, reformatted the whole system and re installed GT5 and it now runs like new again
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