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Help Thread for the DEV Team to fix the Issues with the PS4. Please share your Issues
Hello DBD Community,
The last patch broke the Game on PS4 with heavy performance issues and I hope that this thread will help the DBD Team to find a solution for the Problems. I created this Threat so that all the Information and Feedback we have for the DBD Team is in one place and not scattered around the forums.
Please list down your Issues with the Game Performance on PS4.
Be specific and share your experiences.
For Example:
System: PS4
Issue: Frame rate drops. Stuttering gameplay. Massive Lags when <insert here what happened>
Map: Backwater Swamp
Survivor/ Killer: Meg/ The Blight
Time: 6pm
If you have Video Footage awesome, if not try to describe it as good as possible.
Please don't post any hate messages to the DEV's or the MOD's. Be respectful and let's find a solution together to get a fix for the problems as soon as possible.
Thank you!
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I've been playing on and off since Clown came out, but I don't think I've ever seen the PS4 frame rate getting this bad. Here's the first 50 seconds of the only killer match I played post-patch
I don't really know what to say. It's really disappointing for this issue to pop up right around the Halloween event
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Yeah, had a rough Mother’s Dwelling match
Lery’s and Shelter Woods were hideous😔
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Mirrors Edge has zero randomized elements and was a linear line from A to B. It also barely had any textures. Just white and red walls. And no direct online features. It was very low on processes.
And EA is a predatory publisher. You can be guaranteed that the original dev team was cannibalized and their bones made into a necklace.
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The new COD runs better than this on Xbox One.
There is zero reason that DBD cannot run at a bare minimum of 30 FPS on Consoles.
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I just played Deathslinger on Pale Rose and Badham.... It didn't go well lol. I played Wraith earlier and it went back and forth between doable and really bad stuttering. I hope this gets addressed soon, it's just about unplayable at this point. Kudos to any of us trying to play killer on PS4 💪🏼
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For me survivor is even worse.
Especially on ormond.
I never really had performance issues before but this time its a big oof
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It's worse than what I expected. I thought everyone was doing that forum thing but hell no my matches are like slide shows it's unbelievable.
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the game is stuttering with high-end PCs so it is an optimization problem that devs have to deal with
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I also spotted that the Meg in the clip didn't make any noise when falling the 2nd time and she doesn't have BL lmao. So sounds are still bad this patch as well.
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At this point I'm more surprised when sounds do work as intended.
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The fact that you think Mirror's Edge not having randomized elements or being linear had literally anything to do with DBD's terrible performance in comparison is ######### hilarious. Having randomized tiles on your map isn't some performance hit, that would be ridiculous. If anything that would increase load times as the map is generated, explaining DBD's hilariously long load times despite the maps being tiny with barely any assets, even on the fastest SSDs around.
And being linear makes no sense. DBD is even simpler than linear: it's basically one medium-sized enclosed space. You don't move to new areas or anything.
On top of that, there's no physics, almost nothing is interactable, there's no dynamic elements at all aside from breakable doors/pallets, which all use identical models, the game looks like ass even on ultra at 4k but runs worse than the best looking games on the planet, there's only 5 players in a match yet it's outperformed by huge open maps like CoD: Warzone or Battlefield that have over a hundred players, everyone firing different weapons, loot to find, destructible environments, vehicles, etc.
There is no excuse. BHVR has made far too much money for this to be a cutesy little indie turd running like ass anymore. They need to hire some top-tier professionals and get this game into ship-shape. I guarantee this game, coded and designed properly, would easily hit 60 FPS on current-gen consoles. As the game is now, I can also guarantee it will not hit 60 FPS on next-gen consoles.
The friggin' mobile version hits 60 FPS solid. It doesn't look amazing, but it's the same core game. I literally think we'd be better off if they used that as a base to redesign the "real" versions of the game, just enhance the visuals and get rid of the mobile UI.
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Just played a PS4 match on Midwich (worst map in the game) and yeah, it's way worse. I love my new slideshow simulator.
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@Peanits @Almo @MandyTalk any updates?
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That's...
I wouldn't be playing if i was on PS4 exclusively.
Can't stand such FPS drops.
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And now I've learned that my PC used to run DbD worse than PS4. I feel some cross-platform kinship somehwere inside my shrivelled heart.
And it really didn't go away with a hardware upgrade, so don't cross your fingers for the next-gen consoles.
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System: PS4
Issue: Extreme Frame Rate drop + Game Stuttering when using the Blights new Halloween Outfit.
The whole game had massive Lags.
The Collision did not work correctly and the Power of Blight had sometimes a delay of 1 Second + when multiple Survivors where on Screen.
Map: MacMillan
Killer: The Blight
Time: 7pm
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Just be an xbox gamer. Problem solved. JK but I don't actually get frame drops, I get MASSIVE lag spikes though. The game freezes for a solid 3 seconds before anyone can move again. It's also pretty annoying when I'm right behind a survivor and then 1 second later they're way in front of me. But tbh, I'm not very surprised.
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Have they even acknowledged anywhere that they understand its going on ?
I have been looking but NOwhere do I see that they even think it's a problem. That is worse then the problem existing at all, please talk to your "community". That's why you have so many FOG WHISPERS / community managers etc. A simple " We know we messed up and are working to fix it" would go a LONG LONG way
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The console has had fps problems since the time of the dinosaurs, but now it's much worse. If you're on a gen it's fine, aside from the classic laggy skill checks. But any amount of movement of your character, and you get abysmal fps drops. It's literally running at like 10 frames a ######### second. Now imagine that in loops. I'm surprised I still have the will to play.
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Considering you only have 32 posts, I pity you.
A few patches ago, the same thing happened: Lots of hate on the forums because the devs refused to acknowledge console FPS for weeks on end. I wouldn't expect it to be acknowledged for awhile.
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Guess I'll just have to speak with my money then. Lucky there is a lot to play right now, shame cause at its core DBD is fun game.
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From what I've seen, no.
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Well acknowledging the problem is admitting they made a mistake. Admitting they made a mistake lowers trust of consumers, which lowers the chances of cosmetic purchases. For a company that ses to be devolving into only caring about making money, of course they won't acknowledge the problem. Just pat each other on the backs when they make a new skin amd xharge people for it
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I'm certain they know about it. The trick is getting them to actually "do" something about it.
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I tried making a discussion asking what they were going to do about it. but they merged it with a topic just reporting the issue.
I wanted acknowledgment, as well as a what going to happen because of it, I wasn't just reporting the issue.
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In the last stream, devs have said that the fps issue is mainly for players playing in 2k/4k lol...
While players playing in those resolutions have a 2080Ti that has a 50% usage...
Lol, this problem doesn't come from ultra HD but it looks like they don't even know what they are talking about...
Why don't they hire a small team of developpers t hat know how to use the engine and to optimise games with it ?
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A Mod asked for a video showing the fps problem occurring after the 4.3.0 update in a post about it yesterday (10-20-20), and was given a 5 min video example. So, yes they definitely know, but I can't find any acknowledgement or the previous post.
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How much do you think they want? Can we bribe them?
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I tried to play today to see if the event would bring me back after the horrors of MMR.
I used Dead Hard, the game became a goddamn slideshow, and then I died.
On Xbox One S.
Yikes.
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On McLean stream last night he had "performance issues being reported on ps4" on his ticker of known issues. I could've missed it but I didn't see him actually talk about it.
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Ok, I know that it is already said... but the PS4 version, after the last update has become unplayable.
The framerate is awful; full of stuttering and the worst thing is that you can't survive the struggle on a hook; you would miss a botton pressure and eventualy die due to the ######### frame rate.
Thanks for ruining your own game.
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It's intentional. It's halloween, so they decided to make the game more scary.
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Wow, everyone apparently loves how cutting edge a massively empty game like Mirrors Edge has to offer.
Next time someone compares this game to Sonic the Hedgehog I'll listen with an open mind.
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Hey everyone. Wouldn't it be crazy if people could bring up issues with this game without just being childish and rude and insulting the developers? Y'all are so annoying. Props to the OP for being civil, yawn to everyone who's always like "THIS ISSUE HAS EXISTED FOR DAYS THESE DEVS ARE GARBAGE THEY DONT CARE ABOUT ANYTHING THEY DONT EVEN--grow up you entitled children, good lord
THAT SAID. Framerate is unplayable on ps4 survivor :(
Glad it's an update issue (relax kids, these things happen on updates even with big developers). I had to replace my hard drive and I was worried it was janky.
It's truly incredible how often people are like "why doesn't this very small team of developers just fix things immediately or spend a bunch of money and resources they obviously don't have to hire a bunch of people to do it for them!?"
Patch era of gaming has made some serious whiny entitled gamers, man... zzzz
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My entire system crashes as soon as I get to the loading screen saying it's overheated. This does not happen in other games. I read that this was due to an uncapped fps issue at the loading screen. Has this been fixed? I try spamming X button to get through that screen but it crashes before I can get through. I have tried reinstalling the game, clearing data, initialising my PS4 but it just keeps happening. Please fix this.
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All maps. All killers. All survivors. Frame rate stuttering. Killer unplayable.
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Hey, if you still got problems with the PS4 Framerate, please try updating your Firmware to 8.0. That might fix it! If this doesn't work, please ping me and I will get back to you.
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Hello Myers I am someone that is not that savey when it comes to lingo or things would you be so kind to explain how we update firmware please. Or someone here to could kindly explain to me how to go around doing this. Thanking you kindly 🤞
🐷💖
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On my ps4 Pro it only stutters at the very start when the camera automatically spins round.
The overheating problem and jet engine fan noise are still an issue, the vents are clean and this is the only game that causes this issue.
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Hello! Please check this out:
https://www.playstation.com/en-us/support/system-updates/ps4/
https://support.playstation.com/s/article/PS4-System-Software-Update-Information-1?language=en_US
I hope this helps.
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Exactly, can run every modern game at max settings, 144FPS/RR. I go on Dbd and frames are everywhere.
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Isn't everyone already on the 8.0 update? The update was required for online play and this game is online play only. So every ps4 player experiencing issues are already updated to the latest software because if they weren't they wouldn't be able to play.
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Yeah that's why I was confused tbh lol plus didn't know the lingo lol gonna check later and get back to Myers on it. But sure I am updated tho.
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We've had people say they weren't updated ye. There was an update on the 14th October 2020. I'm mainly relaying the info more than anything else :)
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The others have mentioned it but every PS4 user should be on 8.0 firmware unless there is some kind of crazy workaround.
Either way I can confirm I'm on the most current firmware patch and still experiencing framerate issues. It's at it's worst at the start of the match but also happens periodically throughout, with some killers like Doctor causing more framedrops than other as well as perks like sloppy/thana and such also causing frame drops.
Certain maps also cause dips in frames notably the indoor ones.
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Um the dev team isn't small anymore. And yeah, screw those entitled Playstation players who are LITERALLY UNABLE TO PLAY THE GAME THAT THEY PAID FOR because the framerate makes it unplayable. And no this DEFINITELY doesn't happen with big developers, not on this scale. It's unacceptable at this point, they've been working on the same game for 4 years and nothing has changed. Fix one bug in one patch, make 100 more in the process.
Gonna edit this and say I shouldn't have caps-locked, but insulting people who are currently very frustrated with the state of the game and come on the forums as a way to either vent or alert the Devs of major issues isn't the way to go about this
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This exact issue happened with Xbox1x's (no other models of Xbox) when Blight came out. Couldn't even start up the game until the following patch a week later.
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Why is nothing being done about this? What a joke. The game needs a hotfix now. All maps affected, game unplayable on PS4. This needs urgent attention now
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As others said, you need to update to latest firmware to play online games on ps4. Myself (ps4 original) and brother (ps4 pro) both are still having performance issues from the recent patch on top of the normal performance issues console already experiences with DBD (see https://forum.deadbydaylight.com/en/discussion/187573/console-optimization/p1 for examples of "normal issues").
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