I was expecting 40+ frames in the game at all times, with occasional dips to 30. 40+ is so much better than 30 consistent.

Sorry Juub, but the game is unlocked 30 FPS. I just didn't notice it as much, plus I have no idea how DF came up with the 'locked at 30' jargon. I replayed a bit of Killzone 3 and the game remained at 30 FPS and then I switched to the second input for my PS4 and SoM ran much smoother, probably an extra 10 frames or somewhat. I also tried Soulcalibur V then switched to PS4 SoM and the difference between 60 FPS and 40 FPS respectively was quite noticeable.

U wot m8? It's an LG LW65 200 Hz, pretty sure that something worth 2.5k should be running my games nicely except for a bit of input lag. I'll retry SoM with my monitor and see what kind of FPS I get on it.

I heard that it was above 45 FPS by the IGN reviewer for this game, my friend says it runs close to 60 FPS on his PS4 and when I tried it out a game convention, I was impressed by how good the FPS were over my PS3 games. Unfortunately SoM remains at a steady 30 FPS on my PS4, whether it's in extremely taxing areas or when I'm literally face up against a mountain, and I really wasn't expecting this, even DS2 on the PS3 speeds up in empty areas. Guess the frame-rate isn't unlocked on my game, any ideas to a workaround?

On another note, this game looks amazing, dat Dark Ranger cape has graphics better than real life.

The first DLC is accessed by going to a small door you'll see after the Rotten boss fight, go in there and activate the shrine.

The second one is accessed by going to the primal bonfire room after the Old Iron King boss fight. You'll know it when you see it.

The third one is accessed by going to the Shrine of Winter (after defeating all 4 primal bosses or 1 million soul memory) and activating the shrine in the center after the locked gate.

All the bosses in this game are cheap in some way, and the spider is cheap with that laser beam and the tiny spiders. Wait for Freja to shoot that beam in a sort of 130 degree in front of her and then move in to whack her head with some strong weapon. Then retreat and wait for her to do that again, otherwise move in to attack after she does the all-legs-smash. Just don't get cocky and wipe out the smaller spiders, they're more troublesome than Freja herself.Also helps to keep your equip load under 50% for this fight, that little extra speed helped me solo her.

So there is no 860M configuration which is 4 GB and Maxwell?

Thinking of picking up a Lenovo Y50 and it comes in two configurations, the GTX 860M Kepler or Maxwell. Now this one would be easy to guess because the Kepler is 4 GB and the Maxwell is 2 GB, but there are people who say on the internet that they got have an 860M Maxwell with 4 GB. I'm not sure whether there is an 860M Maxwell with 4GB, but I wanted to make sure that I get the 4 GB Maxwell instead of 2 GB Maxwell if there is one. Checking the GPU would be a matter of going to GPU-Z, but unfortunately I can't install it on the display units in the stores, so is there any other way to see if the card is a Maxwell or Kepler?

I'd ask the store helper, except that they're almost illiterate in hardware terms and they don't even know that an MQ processor stands for quad core and HQ is not octa-core. All they do is tell me they got an extended warranty available and the processor is an i7 (which, according to them, is always better than an i5 xD). Also, is there really an 860M Maxwell with 4 GB configuration, or just 2 GB?

The controller I got with my PS4 works perfectly fine as long as it is plugged in with the cable, but it's been over a couple of hours, and the battery icon still shows that it's charging. As soon as I remove the wire, it goes dead and switches off and pressing the PS button has no effect. I can plug it back in with the wire, and it starts working again, but I don't have any idea what could be wrong. Have I paired it wrong? Or does it take hours and hours to charge the first time you plug it in? Any advise would be really helpful here.

There now. The store has all PS4s with the same layout, and they said they aren't going to bother contacting Sony just because I made the mistake of buying from their 'authorised retailer' store (well, not literally but you get the idea). Douchebags. I don't hate the PS4, I'm just disappointed considering it's been out over an year and still has nothing worth offering more than my PS3. I guess I bought it too soon.

I recently upgraded from a PS3 to a PS4, because there was this hot deal where I got a PS4 with an extra controller and 3 games for the price of a base PS4. The 3 games I got were Destiny, GTA V and FIFA 15. Now I know Destiny is a crappy game, but I needed to get a shooter meanwhile I wait for BF4 Premium, and I wasn't even going to play it that much, just focusing on GTA V (selling FIFA 15 for Shadow of Mordor).

My first problem was that I bought it from a reputable store (the only authorised Sony retailer here) and yet I got the Asian one (I live in the Middle East currently) which has the X and O buttons reversed. My friends who got it from other stores don't have this problem, and I'm pretty used to X being the proceed button on the PS3. I took every damn precaution and yet ended up getting the wrong console, and there is no workaround at all to this problem, but I guess I'll get used to it.

Everyone praised GTA V to no end for its better graphics and the first person mode, but it's almost a joke. The screen looks around 20% neater because of the slightly better textures and 1080p, but otherwise there really is no point moving up from the PS3. First person mode is as bad the as first person mod for Dark Souls 2. it doesn't feel at all like an FPS. I thought maybe the first-person thing would be an incentive to play through the stellar story again, but I just can't play the same game from scratch with a gimmick mode. The pop-in is still bad, and distant objects still look horrible. How is this even a remaster?

Sony made me pay for PS Plus, and yet I get a service worse off than the free PS3 one. Download speeds are horrible. I could get a 2 GB file done on my PS3 within an hour (40 MBps internet) but a 200 MB file took me 30 minutes to get done, with the download stopping for a few seconds after every 5 MB downloaded. PS Network is more down than up these days. I just feel like plugging my PS3 back in and continuing Ni No Kuni and Uncharted 3.

Bought the PS4 for Bloodborne and The Witcher 3. How do you people even make the most out of this console?

Well, I certainly didn't expect so many people to look at these new requirements the same way I did. I'm gonna pick up something I read the other day for those who mentioned that the PS4 has 8 GB of shared RAM:

The PS4 does not have all 8 Gigs of RAM available to it. Only 5 to 5.5 are available to games. Not only that, but within those 5.5 Gigs you also need to hold game state data, where as on PC, that stuff can be kept in system RAM, only textures and level assets required for rendering need to be on the GPU buffer.

This is pretty much true, so like with last gen, I expect the graphic settings on the PS4 to fall down from the current 'high' to somewhere near 'low' equivalent of PC within the next few years (with the XbOne only god knows where lel) because as someone pointed out earlier, the current-gen consoles were outdated on release. Still gonna have to buy one though, because as was the case with Crysis 3 and AC Black Flag, the graphical setting on the PS3 was far lower than the 'Very low' setting on PC, but I could still enjoy the game without having to spend so much money on upgrading my old rig.

@mladenmoraca: I'm pretty sure it can play NBA 2K15, but I think there is a specific thread dedicated to "Can I run it?".

Recently we got to see the minimum requirements for AC: Unity and The Evil Within. Both of these require a good quad-core at their minimum and they both require a high end video card to run. But their minimum requirements are higher than what the PS4 and Xbox One have to offer. Let's take for example, an Alienware 14 from 2013:

i7 4700MQ 2.4 Ghz (quad-core)GTX 765M (very mid-end but surprisingly good)
16 Gigs of RAM

All price-troll discussions aside, the Alienware 14 is obviously more powerful than a PS4. You could max out Skyrim at 1080p at around 50-60 FPS 3 years ago. Now, you can barely run The Evil Within at a constant 30 FPS (and it doesn't have almost any graphical options). I don't even know whether it can run Unity at 1080p on its lowest settings. But the PS4 and Xbox One can do it. Shadow of Mordor requires SIX Gigs of VRAM, and most of us don't even have that much power, and an AW 14 can barely pull off 30 FPS on High 1080p. Even my desktop, an i5-2500k with a GTX 670 seems to be slightly underpowered for these games, and I got it for as low a price as I could just last year. I should be getting 60 FPS maxed out on Lords of the Fallen, but I don't, and this might be the case with DA Inquisition too.

My point? I believe that developers are pushing minimum requirements way too high. It's as if they don't really bother optimizing their games and believe that everyone has a hexa-core lying around to run their games. Even space requirements are becoming absurd. Unity requires 50 GB of free space. It just shows lack of proper optimization ie. compressing their audio and textures. People can even run SoM ultra textures on 2 GB of VRAM instead of 6 GB. I think the best solution would be to create a thread where people can post their system specs and what graphical options they can opt for with 30 FPS (and 60 FPS for those who can handle it) for all new games because I'm pretty sure many of us here can't afford to upgrade every year and developers are lying to us just to promote their games as graphical marvels and the current-gen consoles as wonder machines.