How Is This Even Playable?

[crashban96]

Not trying to shame or be an ass, but it's a serious question. How does anyone play this on PS4? It's not even 30 fps, its like sub 20 half the time, and oh god the load times are ridiculous. I would like to hear others experience cuz I envy anyone who can tolerate the ps4 version.

Edited April 3, 2023 by crashban96

[Akrioz]

I sometimes play it on PS4 when my PS5 is not available but it is just to do dailies. The amount of pop-in and lag is ridiculous, especially in Sumeru. You start any timed thing and you better to open a map and wait for 5-10 seconds for it to load up, because the clock is running but nothing even spawned yet. I don't understand why they just refuse to make graphics a bit worse so it could run better.

It's kinda bearable but I wouldn't recommend to play it on base PS4. 

[Tosmasta00]

Simple solution is to have an SSD inside your PS4 it did cut the load times down by a ton.

[shadaik]

On 3.4.2023 at 2:35 PM, crashban96 said:

Not trying to shame or be an ass, but it's a serious question. How does anyone play this on PS4? It's not even 30 fps, its like sub 20 half the time, and oh god the load times are ridiculous. I would like to hear others experience cuz I envy anyone who can tolerate the ps4 version.

EU version, but I do play on a PS4, a base one at that. Not a single problem with it. But then again, I don't count counting the frames per second among my hobbies and really, 30 is fine for just about anything. I really don't get the obsession with that number. It's not like the game's becoming a slideshow on PS4. Load times are fine if a bit annoying, but I've seen way worse (Skyrim, anyone?).

[StarWolf3000]

It was pretty rough before the 1.4 or 1.5 update, basically after a native PS5 version was released, some of it's optimizations were backported to the PS4 version.

 

I'm playing it on a daily basis on a PS4 Pro, without an SSD though, which would significantly improve loading times and reduce lags and offer a more stable 30 FPS than without an SSD.

 

Even opening the map would take a couple of seconds, while since 3.6 or the current 3.7 it opens almost instantly. Teleporting takes between 3 to 12 seconds, depending on the distance, though currently teleporting from anywhere in Teyvat to the Serenitea Pot will take the most time so far, regardless how much stuff you have placed.

[Sikutai]

On 3.4.2023 at 2:35 PM, crashban96 said:

Not trying to shame or be an ass, but it's a serious question. How does anyone play this on PS4? It's not even 30 fps, its like sub 20 half the time, and oh god the load times are ridiculous. I would like to hear others experience cuz I envy anyone who can tolerate the ps4 version.

 

We all agree with you, the Playstation 4 version is actually unplayable. I'm glad I waited for my PS5 before starting the game. There are worlds between the two versions.

[StarWolf3000]

1 hour ago, Sikutai said:

We all agree with you, the Playstation 4 version is actually unplayable.

Minus myself, since there might even be a difference between Base and Pro PS4, and I'm using the latter. It's very playable on that one, even if not on the same level than the PS5 version.

[Sikutai]

23 minutes ago, StarWolf3000 said:

Minus myself, since there might even be a difference between Base and Pro PS4, and I'm using the latter. It's very playable on that one, even if not on the same level than the PS5 version.

 

I have a PS 4 Pro and you know it too because I've posted it here many times.