BuRR

This may have, no - most likely has been done before, but I wanted to share my own findings in relation to improving console performance in GT5.

The Playstation3 hardware is pretty much finite, with PD squeezing almost every ounce of performance out of the electronics in the little black box.

The only thing we can probably change or upgrade as users is the Hard Disk. I decided to stick my hand in my pocket and buy a 256GB SSD.... And to say I'm pleased with the results is a bit of an understatement!!

I've created a simple YouTube video with me starting from a PS3 dashboard view, and clicking through various menus in the game.

This video has not been altered in duration. All I've added is a bit of fade at the end, and a title at the beginning.

I'm interested to hear others' thoughts, and findings if they've also gone down the same route. Also, if anyone's able to post their speeds from stock hardware I'd also appreciate it.

The link is - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0UTYd...ature=youtu.be


In summary, the numbers are:

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Initial Loading

Main Menu Button Pressed - Intro Screen 0:00:28
Home Button Pressed - Main "GT5 Home" Screen 0:00:09

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Garage

Press "Garage" - Garage Screen displayed 0:00:01
Choose Car - Car Preview Loads 0:00:03

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Racing

Choose Track (A Spec) - Track Screen Loads 0:00:09
Race "Start" Pressed - Race "rolling start" displayed 0:00:20

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Online Dealership

Online Dealership Selected - Online dealership displayed 0:00:03
Car selected - Car displayed 0:00:01
Car purchased - Car pucrhase displayed 0:00:03
Car purchase dismissed - Home screen displayed 0:00:08

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New Car Dealership

New Car Dealership selected - New Car Dealership displayed 0:00:02
New car purchased - Car purchase displayed 0:00:06
Car purchase dismissed - Home screen displayed 0:00:10

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Used Car Dealership

Used Car Dealership selected - Used Car Dealership displayed 0:00:02
Car Selected (list) - Car displayed 0:00:02
Car purchased - Car purchase displayed 0:00:03
Car purchase dismissed - Home screen displayed 0:00:09

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Licences

Licences Selected - Licence Screen displayed 0:00:02
B1 Licence Selected - B1 Licence Screen displayed 0:00:08
B1 Licence "start" - Car displayed 0:00:11
Next Licence selected - Next Licence displayed 0:00:08
Next Licence selected - Next Licence displayed 0:00:08
Next Licence selected - Next Licence displayed 0:00:07
Previous Licence selected - Previous Licence displayed 0:00:07

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Special Events

Special Events selected - Special Events displayed 0:00:01
Grand Tour selected (1) - Grand tour cut-scene displayed 0:00:14

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Replays

Replay Selected - Replay Plays 0:00:16

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I'd be interested to hear others' thoughts and timings / figures for comparison.....

Shaun

You need to get out more!!!!

DJ Dunk

iTrader: (5)

I've heard of it more than halving the load times on GT5, looks like you're seeing a massive improvement I'd love one to speed up the Skyrim loading.

Ant

+1

BuRR

Unfortunately, I have to agree

Neanderthal

iTrader: (6)

I can't believe you went to the trouble of doing all that post-testing without first doing the tests with the standard box?
I haven't the time or inclination to time it on mine but suffice to say your SSD setup is waaaaay faster than the snoozefest that it is normally.

BuRR

I know, but I could just tell it was super fast compared to the old install. I still have it somewhere, but can't be arsed to put it all back.

Was hoping someone might post comparison figures... You never know.

It didn't actually take too long to do - basically as long as the video plays for. The timings were just grabbed from the video at key points.

53

iTrader: (41)

If only you could improve the lag on MW3 servers...

steve-s

What did you get and where from. cheers

BuRR

Mine's out of a DELL laptop - it's probably about 18 months old now so won't be the fastest of the bunch.

Here are a couple of new(ish) deals I found for you

£90 for 128GB

£160 for 240GB


**edit** £73 for 120GB

steve-s

cheers thanks for that

bioforger

iTrader: (1)

Impressive

Markyscoob

Sweet. might do mine after this.

Neanderthal

iTrader: (6)

Is it a simple case of whipping out the old one and putting the SSD in? it'll autoload the dashboard on the new drive?

BuRR

Basically..... (summarised)

Fire up the PS3 and attach a FAT32 USB hard disk to one of the USB ports. Make sure it's detected by the system.

Browse to the preferences, and into the System menu.

I chose the built-in backup option, and chose the USB drive as a destination. Took about 3 hours (60GB in my case).

When finished, Turn off the PS3 and whip out the old hard disk.

Put in the SSD and fire up the PS3.

The new drive should be recognised, and the PS3 will want to initialise/format it accordingly.

Once formatted, use the same external HDD to restore the data to the PS3 from the external HDD.


...that's it!

BuRR

£40 for a 60GB SSD here.