Now that the PS3 has more than a handful of games to its name, framerates have become the latest thorn in its side. I’d be tempted to blame all of this on lack of commitment from developers – I’m looking at you EA – but then even games like Heavenly Sword suffered from pretty jarring stutters from time to time. Clearly, there are other things snarling up the system too.

One poster in the PlayStation forums has a solution that may make some of those shakier titles run a little smooth. All you have to do is switch around some of your menu settings:
“Set the BD/DVD upscaler set off, HDMI 24fps off, HDMI audio set on bitstream, PS2 upscaler/smoother set off.Disable system display notify/ mediaserver off / all other automatic setting set to off / internet disable if not multiplaying and other setting etc will all help improve framerates.”

Early reports suggest that this will yield some visible improvements to game performances, but not necessarily in every single game. Obviously, it’s far from an ideal solution – particularly if you actually want to use things like the Media Server, the upscalers, etc – but at least it’ll do something for you while we wait for future Sony patches to get to the root of the issue. Speaking of patches, we haven’t had any for over a month now so hopefully there’ll be something big out in time for Xmas.

Source
GamingToday

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