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I think I regret buying a PS3?

It's like this. I money to buy a badass gaming computer, but instead I bought a PS3, Sony Bravia HX75 3D TV and some games. Seeing how nice PC games look maxed out and generally how laggy games are in the PS3, I regret buying it but it's far too late to do anything about that.
I thought "hey, PS3 games are optimized for it and will run smoothly and hassle free." Bull****. Most games I played lag and freeze. GTA IV lags worse than on my old craptop and I even tried logging out of PSN.
What to do? Is there the slightest comfort in this?
EDIT: I have the slim 320gb version and I play using discs and have turned off the image correction features on the tv to reduce input lag. The TV is 200hz in normal mode and 400hz in 3D mode.
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If I had to guess I'd say it might have something to do with the fact that Blu-ray discs only play at 72hz.
I have never run into anything like that on my PS3 (the original 80gb fat model with PS2 compatibility).

I have had both, fat(sold) and slim(currently using), and the console freezes about one a month(due to scratchy disk, never happened with downloaded games)...
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Is there something wrong with my PS3 or some setting I have changed? I've seen lots of people playing their slims using discs and playing on 40 to 50 inchers with 100hz+ and it plays fine? Or maybe they play from the drive?
What if I jailbreak the damned thing and make a full disc backup?
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Theshawty said:
Is there something wrong with my PS3 or some setting I have changed? I've seen lots of people playing their slims using discs and playing on 40 to 50 inchers with 100hz+ and it plays fine? Or maybe they play from the drive?
What if I jailbreak the damned thing and make a full disc backup?
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You can't. If your firmware is up to date (which it must be to log onto PSN) then you are unable to use GeoHotz unlock. Sony patched the vulnerability.

063_XOBX said:
You can't. If your firmware is up to date (which it must be to log onto PSN) then you are unable to use GeoHotz unlock. Sony patched the vulnerability.
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Ok, well fine then. How come almost all games lag so much? I mean, all it was ever designed to do was playing games, not rendering 3580x2600 3D movies while having Spotify and YouTube running. Surely, the cell processor and the 7900gt (or whatever GPU the PS3 runs) should be fine to play the games with the decent graphics?
Or are lazy developers to blame? I read the PS3 was harder to code for than the disgrace otherwise known as xBox 360?
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The PS3's ram is split up into like 6 cores (if I recall correctly) which is what makes it harder to code for.
As far as the lag I can't say exactly what it is. Are there any scratches on your discs? Is any game running properly? If every single game isn't working it might just be your PS3 having a defect.

Mine doesn't lag so its an isolated problem with your setup. Just chiming in to let you know that isn't normal for PS3.
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I have a slim and fat ps3, when I use them allot they will freeze maybe every month or every other. But I don't lag, I have FAST internet. And I've never had lag playing offline.
As for the PS3 being harder to dev for, that's true, initially. But we are past the point of that really mattering now. The devs have had the console long enought to know what to do with it.

All my discs are only weeks old and therefore scratchless. Is there any comfort in the PS3 since I did have money for a PC?
Maybe there's some bad setting?
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Theshawty said:
All my discs are only weeks old and therefore scratchless. Is there any comfort in the PS3 since I did have money for a PC?
Maybe there's some bad setting?
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Can you elaborate on how what games are laggy when?

WiredPirate said:
Can you elaborate on how what games are laggy when?
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GTA IV - randomly all the time
Skyrim - same as GTA
I'm away from home and can't look through my games collection but this mainly goes for all games that feature a big open world and got a ton of stuff you can do. Linear games lag sometimes too but not as much.
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Try deleting all game data from the hard drive and trying again.

This might explain why Skyrim lags.

Guess that'll teach me to never buy a console again.
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Xbox baby, I have 2 xbox's and 1 ps3 and by far xbox is far superior, xbox live rules
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You should seriously consider taking it back or trying to get the warranty honored. This is not a normal issue and shouldn't be treated as one.
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flashallthetime said:
Xbox baby, I have 2 xbox's and 1 ps3 and by far xbox is far superior, xbox live rules
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How's the RROD working for you? Or the paid multiplayer? If you're going to troll at least be clever.

Theshawty said:
Guess that'll teach me to never buy a console again.
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Eh... I wouldn't say that. It's a good investment. You get a top of the line gaming PC and in two years you can't run the newest games well at all. These consoles came out SIX years ago. That is your money's worth, and I've had zero problems. I'll say it once again, you have an isolated problem. The problems you're getting aren't normal. They wouldn't release games that lag terribly because it's not like you can upgrade the hardware in the PS3.
flashallthetime said:
Xbox baby, I have 2 xbox's and 1 ps3 and by far xbox is far superior, xbox live rules
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Let's not turn this into a fanboy flame war. The OP can't do anything about his purchases now, so your comment adds nothing to the table. The PS3 has far extensive media playing capabilities and the online is free. The only plus I've seen for Xbox is that it "has a better online gaming community" which is completely opinionated.

You say the problem is isolated. What have you narrowed it down to? I guess I slightly overrated the lag issue. It lags though and more so than I find normal. Is there any possibility this could be anything else than a hardware fsult?
How does input lag show? When I'm home again, I'll hook it up to my brand new Acer monitor (100hz) and see how it plays. Somehow I suspect that this is some form of input lag.
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It's an isolated issue as in it's isolated to your PS3. It's not something normal or even something that is a well known issue. I've never had it once in almost 5 years.
Try to troubleshoot it if you want but I recommend just saving yourself the stress and swapping it out for another PS3 from wherever you bought it from. If they won't work with you call Sony and find out what they can do for you.

[Q] Question about this phone

Hello all,
I am considering to buy this phone.
But i have one question about it.
On the intel site it says this CPU has HyperThreading technology, does android uses this technology?
Because i saw a few reviews and they killed the RAZR i about performance...
Could somebody awnser my question.
Greets,
Youri

Well, the phne have the best performabce i have see!
2 months on my own, im a app adict and no lag!!!
Im in love whit it,
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THe razr i is quite performant. On surfing the atom is just great.
In fact, the HT is a "logical dual core". That is to say, that the cpu is available to do twice action in the same time, if all the unit of the cpu are full.
But it's not a real dual core.
It's enouth to have a fluid experience. And the intel cpu has a great battery life.
If you compare the atom to a S4 pro with 4 cpu, in some task or bench, it would be far...
In fact, intel has improve the vm too, so all the test depend on when it is done.
The gpu of the razr i, is not the biggest. it is correct. So that depend of why you shoose the razr i. For playing, you could find better.
For surf, and battery life, it's a great phone that we could find for 300€ (with the ODR). And for this price, there is not a lot of opposition.

Oke thanks for youre awnser.
I see a topic about Apps and Games.
Are there many Apps and Games incompatibel? Apps like 'Whatsapp, facebook, twitter, meme generator, XDA app Skype etc.?

AW: [Q] Question about this phone
Its not for games. If you want to play get another phone.
Most apps run perfectly fine, I don't think that there is a really important app that doesn't
The performance on browsing and app starting is as good as iPhone and n4, all games I tried from capable Devs run fine with no lag, e.g. mw4.
You get less details on some games though.
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[Q] Xperia Z vs games

Hi,
Iam going to buy Xperia Z. Are the games like GTA VC (on maxed out), Max Payne, etc. run smoothly on this phone? Thanks for answers.

They run okay. Reading a bit on those ports gives me the impression that they all run wacky on high end devices.
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I haven't played any of the games on the XZ but when NFS Most Wanted still worked on the XZ I could play it without any problems... beside 1.
When the phone becomes to hot while gaming, the game will become a bit slower, I can't really call it lagg, because everything will keep working, but just be a bit slower. That will happen for like hmmm 30 seconds max? After that the game will become fluid again.

Dsteppa said:
I haven't played any of the games on the XZ but when NFS Most Wanted still worked on the XZ I could play it without any problems... beside 1.
When the phone becomes to hot while gaming, the game will become a bit slower, I can't really call it lagg, because everything will keep working, but just be a bit slower. That will happen for like hmmm 30 seconds max? After that the game will become fluid again.
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Thermal throttling. The phone gets hot and the chip underclocks itself for the time being hot.
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kije12345 said:
Hi,
Iam going to buy Xperia Z. Are the games like GTA VC (on maxed out), Max Payne, etc. run smoothly on this phone? Thanks for answers.
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I've never really played any of those games on my xz but I do play real racing 3 ,and temple runs with no noticeable problems
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Dsteppa said:
I haven't played any of the games on the XZ but when NFS Most Wanted still worked on the XZ I could play it without any problems... beside 1.
When the phone becomes to hot while gaming, the game will become a bit slower, I can't really call it lagg, because everything will keep working, but just be a bit slower. That will happen for like hmmm 30 seconds max? After that the game will become fluid again.
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When I play nfs, it becomes really slow at one point for quite some time. The timing is still normal but the graphic looks like it is in slow mo. Sometimes
It lasts for like 30 secs sometimes it lasts throughout the game.
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joejoe23 said:
When I play nfs, it becomes really slow at one point for quite some time. The timing is still normal but the graphic looks like it is in slow mo. Sometimes
It lasts for like 30 secs sometimes it lasts throughout the game.
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yeah, that's right same here.
Are you still able to play the game while you're on 4.2.2?

Modern Combat 4 seems to play ok, although i have only tested it for around 5 mins.

Dsteppa said:
yeah, that's right same here.
Are you still able to play the game while you're on 4.2.2?
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Yes. I only downloaded that game after 4.2.2.

joejoe23 said:
Yes. I only downloaded that game after 4.2.2.
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I see did you change anything else beside the build.prop?
What build.prop did you use?

NFS
I also have NFS without any lag without any problem play it about 30min no lag no problem little heat up to 42degree.

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I see did you change anything else beside the build.prop?
What build.prop did you use?
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Didn't change anything. Im on monx dark rom.
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atif_afzal said:
I also have NFS without any lag without any problem play it about 30min no lag no problem little heat up to 42degree.
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I can confirm that with the latest update the phone runs cooler and smoother. I'm playing NFS Most Wanted since a few weeks and before it was like 70% of the time lagfree, now it is more like 95%. Even after 30 minutes of playing or more. Before, it would start to lag within a minute or so!
Definietly worth to upgrade to .244 firmware!

Laggy and choppy gameplay in Simpsons Tapped Out

I've been experiencing significant issues while running this game, to the point of being unplayable. After a little digging, this is an issue across several Samsung tablets, all using the Exynos 5 Octa. I can confirm this isn't a high DPI issue either, because the game ran just fine on my Note Pro 8.4 with a Snapdragon 800 Processor.
Sigh... they put out a flagship product and put their buggy processor in it. I don't know if this has skewed my perception of the tablet, but I also seem to be noticing unexpected lag in other apps as well-- including the XDA Premium app.

Have you installed Nova Launcher?

Sounds like an isolated I issue. I'm playing SHADOWGUN EADZONE , NBA 2014, Badlands, MC4 and so far I'm getting excellent game play.

mitchellvii said:
Have you installed Nova Launcher?
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Yes, this is with Nova installed. It seems like it's probably a combination of a poorly coded came and some quirk with the SOC.

cpete47 said:
Yes, this is with Nova installed. It seems like it's probably a combination of a poorly coded came and some quirk with the SOC.
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My guess is the game doesn't know how to deal with an octacore processor.

cpete47 said:
I've been experiencing significant issues while running this game, to the point of being unplayable. After a little digging, this is an issue across several Samsung tablets, all using the Exynos 5 Octa. I can confirm this isn't a high DPI issue either, because the game ran just fine on my Note Pro 8.4 with a Snapdragon 800 Processor.
Sigh... they put out a flagship product and put their buggy processor in it. I don't know if this has skewed my perception of the tablet, but I also seem to be noticing unexpected lag in other apps as well-- including the XDA Premium app.
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I'd suggest contacting the developers using examples of working games such as the other user mentioned. Sometimes the devs respond by email especially if an issue can hurt sales. Also a review on Google Play can get attention too but first try the email route.
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3DSammy said:
I'd suggest contacting the developers using examples of working games such as the other user mentioned. Sometimes the devs respond by email especially if an issue can hurt sales. Also a review on Google Play can get attention too but first try the email route.
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Exact same issue with my Galaxy Note 10.1 2014 edition. EA dug in to a certain extent, but eventually the ticket died. To be honest I was sick and tired of dealing with them by that point. IIRC almost a month had passed.
What a sh*t situation!

yeah they cant check every game and app to see if it runs super smooth. And gaming is not on the top 10 list for this tablet.
Nvidia, Amd, same kind of thing.

That sucks one of the reasons I returned my 2014 note :/ but hey I don't play it anymore I wonder of its a game issue or exynos issue

Beans you shouldn't be playing games...... You should be working on ROMs lol!

Modern Combat 4 sucks on this tab, my kd is suffering badly. I truly hate this tab and pretty sure its going back. Sad thing is I'm sticking with a Tab 2 7 because I think its better. I'm sure that's the kind of customer responses Samsung likes.....
I got the update on the 27th when I initially powered it up but didn't install the update until I became hopeful it would cure the lag.... Wishful thinking. IT WAS MORE BLOAT.

Mrdaviso said:
Modern Combat 4 sucks on this tab, my kd is suffering badly. I truly hate this tab and pretty sure its going back. Sad thing is I'm sticking with a Tab 2 7 because I think its better. I'm sure that's the kind of customer responses Samsung likes.....
I got the update on the 27th when I initially powered it up but didn't install the update until I became hopeful it would cure the lag.... Wishful thinking. IT WAS MORE BLOAT.
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The only labor intensive apps I have tried are Real Racing 3 and GT racing, they seem to run fine for me on the 8.4"
Maybe I'll give MC4 a shot to see what my experience is.

I've been having the same lag issue in Simpson's Tapped Out on my Tab S, Galaxy S4, and Nexus 7 2012. All 3 different SoC's, but same lag issue. I'm going to go out on a limb and say its a game issue. Zen Pinball plays beautifully, as does NFS Shift, PvZ 2 and everything else I've thrown at the Tab S.

I have the same problem on my 8.4 tab s.
The game runs smoothly on my Samsung Galaxy S4 phone and Asus Transformer TF101 tablet.
I opened the case 14146643 with EA. Let's see what they responds...

A real test is GTA:SA.
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funb0b said:
A real test is GTA:SA.
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I've only tester simple games to date (TSTO, Dungeon Keeper, etc). Will try some more challenging ones in the following days.

Arghhh just got my tab and it does the same. Tapped out lags so hard you can't even tap anything lol
Hope they fix this issue...

Does Simpson tapped out lag from the start? I just tried it out and set up a new game. Played it for about 30 mins and it didn't lag or get choppy once.
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simacca said:
Does Simpson tapped out lag from the start? I just tried it out and set up a new game. Played it for about 30 mins and it didn't lag or get choppy once.
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It's working OK with a new game, but once you log in to your Springfield, everything gets slow. I'm maxed out in level and my city is big and crowded...

dcoulombe said:
It's working OK with a new game, but once you log in to your Springfield, everything gets slow. I'm maxed out in level and my city is big and crowded...
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Ah ok, I understand now.
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Has anyone tried running Roblox on this?

Has anyone tried to run Roblox on this new Fire? If so, what are your experiences re: quality settings, lag, etc?
I'm...uh...asking for my son.

This would be interesting to know bought this tablet for my brother and I know he loves roblox.
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Tablet seems to run games just fine. Even cpu/gpu intensive ones like Gangstar 4 and Dead Trigger.

I don't play Roblox but I just downloaded it and tried a couple games and it seemed to work fine. It got a little bit warm but not hot. I, however, was burned in lava.

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Tablet seems to run games just fine. Even cpu/gpu intensive ones like Gangstar 4 and Dead Trigger.
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I don't play Roblox but I just downloaded it and tried a couple games and it seemed to work fine. It got a little bit warm but not hot. I, however, was burned in lava.
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Thanks guys
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ixijimixi said:
I'm...uh...asking for my son.
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That's sarcasm, right???
I'll test it out in a bit. I can't remember my alt's password (Raymonf) so I'll just use my main I guess. Which I also don't remember.
Will edit this in ~30 min.
Well, figuring out my password was easy. Most games seem to run at 40-50fps. It's really hard to find a good game to test because it's not 2009 anymore, so that number is a little off if you're used to playing more expensive games (in terms of performance).