Dying Light 2 is one of many examples of enchancing resolution with pssr and suffering around 20-30 fps, game was running at around 100fps on the og, now it’s like 70-80.

If it’s a hfr mode I want it to be hfr at the expense of the resolution, there is a huge performance cost to pssr it seems

I have done some comparisons between my PS4 PRO, PS5 and PS5 PRO consoles, all of them are launch day editions.

PS5 menu: ~31 dB
PS5 PRO menu: ~31-32 dB
PS5 ingame (PS4 game): ~33 dB
PS5 ingame (PS5 game): ~36-37 dB
PS4 PRO (menu): ~38-39 dB
PS4 PRO (ingame, standard ps4 game): ~38-39 dB (about the same as in the menu)
PS5 PRO ingame (PS4 game): ~44-45 dB
PS5 PRO ingame (PS5 game): ~46-47 dB
PS4 PRO (enhanced game, max noise level): ~53-54 dB, but usually it's more like ~51-52 dB

IF YOU HAVE A BETTER WAY THEN I WILL ADD IT/IMPROVE THE WAY I FOUND.

If you were trying to buy a game on an account in a different region from yours and realized you couldn’t you are at the right place.

Background: PlayStation made it so that one must have a credit card or debit card aligned with a billing address of the country that the account was tied with. You either have to buy overpriced/sketchy gift cards for the country or just give up.

How I found the Solution: I was trying to buy the DLC for Witcher 3. I got the disc for it almost 10 years ago and it was regionally locked to the Middle East. I did my research online and figured out that I needed a middle eastern account along with a gift card for said account. After I made the account (selected UAE), I looked online for gift cards I could buy but was horribly disappointed with the mark up of 20-30% along with a terrible exchange rate. I kept trying to no avail, tried PayPal, fake billing address etc. I just randomly went on the PlayStation website and logged it as the UAE account just to see if there was any possible way. And the first option for payment popped up as Apple Pay and long story short it worked.

Solution: Requires Apple Pay or other Wallet equivalent (eg samsung pay but haven’t tried)

Step 1 (optional): IF YOU ALREADY HAVE AN ACCOUNT IN A DIFFERENT REGION THAT YOU ARE TRYING YOU USE THEN SKIP. If you are in the same situation as I was then first you have to figure out the regional code for the disc (there’s a guide online just search up “regional codes ps discs”) and then make an account according to the region. Try to select a country that is more 1st world as you will generally get a better exchange rate with your currency.

Step 2: Log in on the playstation website (the app was not working for me so try to use the website) on a device with the digital wallet in my case it was Apple Pay. Afterwards search for your game/dlc and look for payment options

Step 3: Select Apple Pay or equivalent in payment options if it doesn’t show up then maybe change browsers or try the app but generally it should worked (I used Brave browser on my phone)

Step 4: Directly create a payment card on your browser (important) you can’t link a preexisting wallet to the option for some odd reason. But it should say something along the lines of “Payment Card” and should look different from a normal debit card in your apple wallet.

Apple Pay will do the conversion for you and since it’s Apple Pay I’m pretty sure PlayStation is blocked from seeing the original region and allows it through. I would have to assume Apple Pay masks your payment and shows it as the region you are making the purchase from because it makes no sense why they randomly allow Apple Pay.

Step 5: Buy it and add it to library on your phone.

Step 6: if doesn’t show up DO NOT PANIC!!! I got very scared when it didn’t show up for me but since mine was a bundle I had to go to my phone and add it to library separately (it became free though).

Step 7: If it doesn’t show up in your Library go to the PlayStation store on your PlayStation and look it up. Even if it’s not in your library either it will say available for download or will just say free/0.00$.

Step 8: If it still doesn’t show up then try activating your ps4 as primary ps4 and recover licences on all your accounts. For DLCs You might also have to go to the game and go down to the add ons and individually click on the down arrows for every add on and it should download again.

Thanks for reading and I hope this helped someone as I could not find another sorta guide similar to this if there is and I missed it then oops I just wasted a lot of time!!

I just wanted to make a quick post to all the people who are on the fence about getting a ps5 pro. I was definitely skeptical at first and didn’t really see much of a difference in the content they were showing off online, compared to the OG ps5. After testing it out on several games over the last two days, I have completely changed my mind.

I noticed a night and day difference between what the games looked like on the original ps5. This is coming from the games I tested, such as The last of us part 1 and 2, Spider-Man 2, stellar blade, resident evil village, RE4, Dying Light 2 and both horizon games. The ability to have a stable 60 fps+ and ray tracing/ higher graphical fidelity Is awesome. In my opinion, the Modes offering 60 fps+ with PSSR and a lower resolution, look better visually than the true native 4K graphics modes. I feel like you will see the best benefits out of a good display with 120hz and VRR software. This will allow you to have a greater experience with higher frame rates.

Overall after playing on it, I personally think it is worth it if you can afford it. You can also trade in your old PS5 to gamestop too for some money off, or Best Buy is offering 24 month 0% financing if you pay the minimum of $29 a month. That would give you 2 years to figure out how to get 700 which for a good amount of people I feel could be done. Anyways if you are on the fence I would definitely say it is worth it. With The way they have made these older/newer games look on it, I can’t wait to see what they do with the new games coming out soon and in the future. They are going to look amazing.

You need about 1/4 second delay after confirming a letter before you change selections. Otherwise, the character you moved to will be selected.

How the hell is this not annoying enough to not be fixed? Know your controller? Know where letters are? Ya going to fast. You just tried to spell “sun” by starting with “t” you dunce.

Just got my PS5 Pro today. Sending my old PS5 to really good friend that can't get one. Can't wait to hear his reaction. Mailing to him hopefully Tuesday. Wanted to keep new controller, but don't wanna give up my God of War controller.

I was having a discussion about this with some friends this evening and wondered what others thought. If you could bring back any game/franchise from any genre of Playstation, what would you most like to see?

My choice would be Wild 9 from ps1, as it's still one of my favorite games ever.

With the old PS5 you could not manually record in 4K resolution if you were playing a game in 120fps.

The PS5 Pro now allows for this functionality.

Hard to describe what I am looking for, but think of maybe World of Warcraft but like controller focused and less complicated? A souls-like but not as sweaty / hard? Something like a hack and slash where I can kill mobs and level up / get gear? Last similar thing I played like this was New World. Suggestions appreciated :) Can be single player

The picture is highly unstable, the whole frame is flickering in a lot of places simultaneously any given moment.

The edges are flickering also at movement, shadows are absent in npcs, it looks bad just in general

When I press the share button the video freezes but the inconsistensies it has does not, it’s really jarring, obviously wrong output.

https://youtu.be/tMV4_OXq-6s?si=LF_d5yvfS9hlXQ4m

https://youtu.be/yhtuefigubQ?si=WkDeAPXBc7qTQUA0

Just wanted to point out, the PS5 PRO landed here, sadly no one is yet selling any disc drives or the stand, but to keep things short and sweet, the ps5 pro is retailing now for $980 U.S.D and that is without any official warranty or official support from sony, only seller warranty and that is worth nothing.

So yeah, if people in the first world or well off people are complaining about $700, then imagine our shock to see it for almost a grand here.

Also i am very much excited to see how much the drive will cost, or if they gonna do a bundle of it with the ps5pro for maybe $1200 USD or something.

Also to compare, the Ps5 retailed for $760 USD on release, i only managed to get it on day 1 since i was saving up for it for around 2 years.

I am looking for some games that are easily picked up / put down, like for parents with little ones while they are sleeping, etc. Something that I don't really have to think / listen to too much to keep up with the story, something not to sweat, but still something that feels "satisfying" or "grindy" to keep me engaged. THX :)

My sister is 23. Growing up we never really let her play with us because we were very impatient about gaming. And we wouldn’t give her time to learn. Grown now I feel so bad about it, and we get along great and everything, but I would love to find a good game for her that will really break down how to play, but something she will also enjoy. She tried the marvel game and that was great for her (even tho it’s sucked) but she didn’t like the sneaking around the park with Khan mission. I was thinking about introducing her to Spider-Man starting with the first one. It’s definitely not an easy game and would probably take some trial and error. But if anyone has better suggestions or agrees that’s a good one. Please let me know. Thanks!

Here's my Black PS5 Pro.

https://imgur.com/gallery/rqnGaUn

I installed the bottom larger plates from a PS5 Slim kit, and painted the top smaller plates.

I wanted to go with a PS4 style where the smaller part was a glossy black in contrast to the matte black body. I figured if I didn't like it I can just paint the larger bottom plates after to match.

The final color was actually much closer to the stock color than I thought so it's hard to tell the difference in my dark theater/game room.

Either way I'm happy because I couldn't look at that white, especially after selling my blacked out original PS5.

Plasti-Dip Gloss. 6 coats front and back. 30 minute dry time between coats. Switch spray patterns each coat. Spray edges every second coat, before applying main coat. Last two coats were slightly thicker. Keep can in warm water.

https://imgur.com/gallery/pagK5cF

I don't have a ton of spray painting experience although I am pretty handy at most things. They turned out perfect. You can't see one imperfection.

I just want to point this out, in case people are unaware of this. I recently made a post about yakuza like a dragon infinite wealth. I bought the pro simply to make the game run at a stable 60 FPS. The game would chug pretty hard when I was in a heavily populated area. Pretty much everyone that commented on my post said that they had never even noticed dips in the frame rate at all. Turns out, since my TV does not have VRR, there were times where it would drop to 30 FPS or so. I haven’t seen a single framed dip since I started playing it on the pro.

Hopefully this will be informative to someone that’s on the fence. I’m going to guess that people without VRR televisions may get more of a boost from the pro than those with the TV that has VRR!

Well, just a quick observation since I got the console yesterday. I had the first ‘fat’ one and compared to that the Pro is nearly as tall yet is considerably thinner (well, obviously) and sleaker which all in all makes the Pro for me quite appealing.

The lack of the disc drive may be a bummer for a lot of people but in terms of looks without it is the way to go. The drive doesn’t disturb the clear lines and symetrical look.

One thing though is that even with the extra vents you don’t get the felling that it is a pro machine but somehow it makes for the definitive look of a Sony console.

On a side note for those interested: since having it obviously I was going to check the performance of my games so yesterday was quite a long day yet the console was for me as silent as the first one was even after blasting it for hours so I’m quite happy with that.

Anyone have any idea what the long term viability of the disk drive is? I mean in terms of its functionality going forward. For those who are unaware, on first install the disk drive needs to register to your PlayStation and this requires an online connection. A recent update for the ps5 somehow delinked people’s disk drives in error and they had to be reauthenticated.

My worry is say in 30 years if I were to use my ps5 and a physical game and the disc drive fails to work due to it not being registered with the console. Sony will eventually turn off online functionality for the ps5 and I don’t want to be stuck not having access to my physical games due the disk drive requiring an online connection on first install.