Ps4 patch copying after download

If this is happening to you, we explain why and how to fix it. For additional reading, you might want to catch up with our PS5 complete guide for the total lowdown on the console. Additionally, we let you know what benefits an SSD could bring to your PS4 in terms of better loading and copying times.

Noted for future reference. Thanks for the replies, makes sense. I was annoyed with it but it seems that it's a good thing. User Info: Larni Eli posted This never used to be the case before, not sure which update introduced it but now whenever a game update download, it starts copying, which takes quite a while It used to just download and install.

Why the copying part? That rat bastard. How do I change my name? User Info: oo7demonkiller. Since update 5. I should also mention during preparing to download aka copying the ps4 is actually still downloading the patch just without a progress bar, because what you see during the downloading phase with a progress bar is the new files or data of the latest patch but because each new patch contains the changes from the older ones as well so what looks like a 3 GB download might be in reality 12 GB you just don't see the rest download.

Overwatch is the only game I'm playing at the moment and have noticed updates for on PS4, don't think I've noticed any others getting patched in this time. It's on an external HDD, thought that may have been the issue but friend said he was getting the same message Thought I was going crazy at first install times are bonkers now.

Is Destiny on a external HDD? Nope on the internal. Same exact thing is happening with my friend as well. Also internal. So it looks like it happens on both internal and external installs.

Sweet just wanted to narrow that don't wasn't sure if my mate could tell or not since I hooked up an external for him. Only article I've found so far after some searching today since got another game doing it today didn't end up having time to play by the time this was done. Think people having the issue are having a hard time finding complaint threads or reporting about it or then it even coming up in google search results with the keywords "PS4 Copying Updates".

I have just spoken with their support. This is a new process and this is how it will be from now on.. Perhaps it is only games signed on the new SDK for 5. The games that I updated were older and probably from the old patch method, which would maybe explain why I didn't have the issue.

Could be onto something here Will have to watch for more updates to come and see how they apply. If anyone else notices this would be good to post in here with other games affected.

I just noticed this, for Fri 13th and Star Trek Online, didn't think anything of it, as it didn't seem to affect the storage beyond the usual game overwrite. Dunno not a playstation guy, but seeing more of that with steam games. Happened with GT Sport and the 1. Very odd. Not to go too off topic, but how is GT Sport?

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