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PS4 install times?

Posted on 12/5/14 at 4:25 pm
Posted by TooFyeToFly
Atlanta, Georgia
Member since Nov 2012
1228 posts
Posted on 12/5/14 at 4:25 pm
I just bought GTA 5 on the Playstation store and the install is impossibly slow. I'm talking 5% in an hour maybe. Is there anything I can do to speed this up? The download wasn't this slow.
This post was edited on 12/5/14 at 4:26 pm
Posted by Gnar Cat21
Piña Coladaburg
Member since Sep 2009
16836 posts
Posted on 12/5/14 at 4:27 pm to
i don't think there's anything you can do. it's a massive game and it just takes a while to install. or are you talking about downloading it digitally?


5% an hour doesn't sound right though
Posted by oauron
Birmingham, AL
Member since Sep 2011
14509 posts
Posted on 12/5/14 at 4:32 pm to
quote:

or are you talking about downloading it digitally?

Has to be this.
Posted by TooFyeToFly
Atlanta, Georgia
Member since Nov 2012
1228 posts
Posted on 12/5/14 at 4:34 pm to
Right, it's a digital download.
Posted by Macintosh504
Leveraging Salaries University
Member since Sep 2011
52515 posts
Posted on 12/5/14 at 4:44 pm to
Get better internet and if you have shitty Internet don't buy it digitally ..... Took me maybe 45 minutes to download gta digitally
Posted by DieDaily
West of a white house
Member since Mar 2010
2644 posts
Posted on 12/5/14 at 4:46 pm to
That does seem ridiculously slow. I bought it on disc and I want to say the entire install took about 45 minutes or so. It sort of does 2 installs. One install where it loads data off the disc while you are in the PS4 main menu. And then when you run the game for the first time it does more installing while it cycles through GTA images and there is a percentage in the bottom right.
Posted by Gnar Cat21
Piña Coladaburg
Member since Sep 2009
16836 posts
Posted on 12/5/14 at 4:54 pm to
so you're downloading it not installing it. yea if your internet is weak then it will take a while to download 50 gigs or whatever it is


is your ps4 hard wired to the internet?
This post was edited on 12/5/14 at 4:55 pm
Posted by TooFyeToFly
Atlanta, Georgia
Member since Nov 2012
1228 posts
Posted on 12/5/14 at 5:12 pm to
No the download already finished, it's the install that has been taking forever. I'm on the apartment complex's wifi and it's never really been this bad.
Posted by FranMully
New Jersey
Member since Aug 2013
1317 posts
Posted on 12/5/14 at 5:17 pm to
Took me 20 minutes on my college's internet which is about average I'd say
Posted by Gnar Cat21
Piña Coladaburg
Member since Sep 2009
16836 posts
Posted on 12/5/14 at 5:19 pm to
i just don't think the install has anything to do with the internet, could totally be wrong. someone correct me if I am
Posted by TooFyeToFly
Atlanta, Georgia
Member since Nov 2012
1228 posts
Posted on 12/5/14 at 5:22 pm to
That was my thinking too
Posted by Gnar Cat21
Piña Coladaburg
Member since Sep 2009
16836 posts
Posted on 12/5/14 at 5:24 pm to
you could replace the hard rive with an SSD?
Posted by Tactical1
Denham Springs
Member since May 2010
27104 posts
Posted on 12/5/14 at 6:17 pm to
It took about 5 hours and some change to install Grand Theft Auto V

That was the digital copy.
Posted by TooFyeToFly
Atlanta, Georgia
Member since Nov 2012
1228 posts
Posted on 12/5/14 at 6:18 pm to
So you think its a console problem?
Would rest mode speed up the install?
This post was edited on 12/5/14 at 6:26 pm
Posted by Gnar Cat21
Piña Coladaburg
Member since Sep 2009
16836 posts
Posted on 12/5/14 at 6:56 pm to
No idea if it is a console problem. I bought the disc version and it took about 35 minutes to I stall for me


Looks like tactical said his took 5 hours which seems ridiculous. That sounds like the install and download time to me. IBe only bought a couple of games digitally (arse creed 4 and killzone) and they took no where near that long to install. What are you sitting at now?
Posted by TooFyeToFly
Atlanta, Georgia
Member since Nov 2012
1228 posts
Posted on 12/5/14 at 7:00 pm to
16% after probably four hours. No download has ever been this slow.
Posted by musick
the internet
Member since Dec 2008
26125 posts
Posted on 12/5/14 at 7:16 pm to
Just got my bundle in and from the disc it's been installing 35 mins and its at 60%
Posted by TooFyeToFly
Atlanta, Georgia
Member since Nov 2012
1228 posts
Posted on 12/5/14 at 10:02 pm to
Im thinking about shutting it down and redownloading but I don't want to lose my 20 percent which took all night.
Posted by Sl4m
Baton Rouge
Member since Apr 2012
3717 posts
Posted on 12/6/14 at 8:57 am to
All of my downloads and installs have been extremely quick on the PS4 but whatever the issue you're having is seems to be GTA related, it took a very long time to download and equally as long to install.

Not sure what the problem is but Ive seen this complained about over various places online where its rare to hear anything like this with other games.
Posted by TooFyeToFly
Atlanta, Georgia
Member since Nov 2012
1228 posts
Posted on 12/6/14 at 11:22 am to
I redownloaded the file last night which took about an hour. Then i started the install and left it on throughout the night. Its been about 11 hours and its on 78% percent. Even though that's slow, it's much faster than it was yesterday.
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