Should I be worried about how much the laser is moving in my PS3?

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I've never heard such a racket on any other game. It's constantly loading something even though I have auto install turned on and been in the car and on the same track loads of times before.

When it's doing this it seems to all slow down on track at the same time. Online is worse as it seems to be constantly loading something in the lounge when everything should be idle.

Just to clarify, I think it's the little sliding part that the laser is on that the sound is. I don't know the technical name for it. I can't see it on my machine because it's an older big one, but I've seen it on the newest slim machines.
 
I've noticed the same phenomenon on my PS3. It's a newer slim one. I made the switch after burning out two CECH01As (YLODs) with GT5. I haven't noticed any pattern with when the system is reading the disc (ie. Making the 'disc read' sound we're talking about). It's been a slight concern of mine, but I haven't noticed any systematic lags on or offline. There just seems to tone more animation slowdowns in GT6 than I remember in GT5. My system seems to make the noise pretty constantly during racing in GT6.

Hypothesis: adaptive tesselation requires disc to be read frequently as other cars fill a larger portion of the screen. To test this hypothesis, compare identical races with one change: 1) all premium model cars, 2) all standard model cars. Possible confound: even standard model cars get adaptively tessellated (?).
 
There's an option to install the game on your hard-drive somewhere in the depths of the menu system. Remember the old game installed about 15Gb of info onto your HDD so it didn't have to read from the disc. That should both decrease load times and reduce laser movement noise. I'd do it on mine however I've got an orginial 60GB and don't have the space. How Old School am I!
 
SciroccoRich
There's an option to install the game on your hard-drive somewhere in the depths of the menu system. Remember the old game installed about 15Gb of info onto your HDD so it didn't have to read from the disc. That should both decrease load times and reduce laser movement noise. I'd do it on mine however I've got an orginial 60GB and don't have the space. How Old School am I!
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There is no option for full install in GT6.
 
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SciroccoRich
There's an option to install the game on your hard-drive somewhere in the depths of the menu system. Remember the old game installed about 15Gb of info onto your HDD so it didn't have to read from the disc. That should both decrease load times and reduce laser movement noise. I'd do it on mine however I've got an orginial 60GB and don't have the space. How Old School am I!
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Lucky you: no YLOD (yet) and backwards compatible. I miss those days. I fried 2 old, fatty PS3s with GT5.
 
Do a time trial and it still is reading a lot so it's not just not other cars in a race.

Obviously the download version doesn't have this issue.
 
SciroccoRich
There's an option to install the game on your hard-drive somewhere in the depths of the menu system. Remember the old game installed about 15Gb of info onto your HDD so it didn't have to read from the disc. That should both decrease load times and reduce laser movement noise. I'd do it on mine however I've got an orginial 60GB and don't have the space. How Old School am I!
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I've not found it. Can you let us know exactly where the option is.
 
I'll have a look when I get back in the morning. On nights tonight. I'm not sure if I mis-read something then, because I'm sure I read something about installing GT6 game data package. Like I said, I could be mistaken but I'm pretty sure I saw something of this nature.
 
SciroccoRich
http://www.gran-turismo.com/us/gt6/manual/#!/save_load/autosave


It appears that it does it automatically for you anyway.
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It apparently does it in small portions. For example if you go into a track for the first time it will install that track so the next time you go into the same track it will load quicker.

But to be honest I think there is an issue with the installing.

I have to date around 4gb installed and I'm 100% complete. Granted I've not been to every track and bought every car but I still think this is quite low.

In fact I might actually have been to 99% of the tracks.
 
I'm really not sure how it works to be honest. I know a single layer Blu-Ray only holds 25GB of data (not sure if the PS3 supports dual layer) but what I don't know is how much data the Graphics of a track takes up. When you think that there are c. 1000 cars on the disc, each car has the graphic modeling, physics, saved configurations etc. etc. I'd bet that they take up the vast majority of the data. For the main part I'd think that the tracks would be about 2-3Gb of space about 15-20Gb would be taken up by cars and the rest game data, and structured programming. But this is just guesswork. I can't be sure obviously. Also, you said that you've been on 99% of the tracks, which I'm not arguing with you on. But have you been on 99% of the tracks in every weather condition at every time of day? That's where a huge amount of storage will be aswell.
 
SciroccoRich
I'll have a look when I get back in the morning. On nights tonight. I'm not sure if I mis-read something then, because I'm sure I read something about installing GT6 game data package. Like I said, I could be mistaken but I'm pretty sure I saw something of this nature.
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You did.
You either let it AUTO INSTALL as it goes, or you turn AUTO INSTALL off which I've not heard of anyone doing.
 
If you want to install it faster, set the demo settings to infinite and 10 seconds each. That way it will load up the different tracks and cars and install them, run it for 10 seconds, then do a 2nd set. I do this for about an hour or so when I got the game.
 
SciroccoRich
I'm really not sure how it works to be honest. I know a single layer Blu-Ray only holds 25GB of data (not sure if the PS3 supports dual layer) but what I don't know is how much data the Graphics of a track takes up. When you think that there are c. 1000 cars on the disc, each car has the graphic modeling, physics, saved configurations etc. etc. I'd bet that they take up the vast majority of the data. For the main part I'd think that the tracks would be about 2-3Gb of space about 15-20Gb would be taken up by cars and the rest game data, and structured programming. But this is just guesswork. I can't be sure obviously. Also, you said that you've been on 99% of the tracks, which I'm not arguing with you on. But have you been on 99% of the tracks in every weather condition at every time of day? That's where a huge amount of storage will be aswell.
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You can tell exactly how much gb the game is by going to the PS store and have a look as you go to buy it.

It probably says on the box as well.
 
JEMcG
You can tell exactly how much gb the game is by going to the PS store and have a look as you go to buy it.

It probably says on the box as well.
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Yeah, like I said earlier. Stuck in work and they've blocked the PS store and I don't have my box with me so I was guessing based on the size of a single layer Blu-Ray.
 

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