PS3 FW 2.80 increases memory - PS3Hax Network

Pirate · 07-27-2009

The latest PS3 2.80 Update (optional) adds more than what you can find in the changelog. Naughty Dog's Sam Thompson confirmed stated that more RAM memory was made available by the reduction of memory consumption from the consoles operating system.

The memory reduction mainly is important to game developers, when asked what improvements were made to the latest Uncharter 2 Multiplayer (Beta), he replied:

Naughty Dog is constantly working to improve every aspect of the gameplay; be it animation, lighting, sound, texture fidelity. You know if you look at the game itself with the 2.80 engine update, you know we're adding more memory, so we get a lot more utilisation of the SPUs, so we increase our optimisation of the Cell processor as well."

"So we've got from the engineering side all the way up to texture fidelity, artists adding in even more...I mean there's really not a singular aspect that's not been improved in the game," Thompson added.

The PS3 memory was reduced to about 74mb at firmware 1.80, currently the new reduction amount is not known, but is getting closer to the Xbox 360's 32mb.

tech3475 · 07-27-2009

Great....so now devs will force us to upgrade to 2.80 with the open remote play inhibition.

Still, I suppose the games will run better.....I just hope sony put a hypervisor vulnerability somewhere to make up for it.

Ihatecompvir · 07-27-2009

There has to be an exploit hidden somewhere in this.
Since I don't have a PS3, I'm updating(sucks that I don't have wireless internet anymore and my PS3 is in a different room, well, not really) and trying some old Proof of Concept things.

jaasumbra · 07-28-2009

Great news. I'm still not updating until the ORP issue is fixed though

gliitch · 07-28-2009

Could this open up possibilities for a speedier linux? XD unless the os is untouchable from the linux side?..

jorg · 07-28-2009

probably not most likely applies to game mode only

jmuuss · 07-28-2009

Originally Posted by Arne Meyer (Naughty Dog Community Manager)

This was just a typical blunder with all the info and people coming up to us constantly at the PS booth at San Diego ComicCon. He was actually referring to Naughty Dog Engine 2.0 updates we made. We had just been making sure at the event that all the PS3s brought in were on FW 2.80, since that is what that build needed to run on, so I have no doubt it was top of mind.

So it wasn't a memory upgrade, just an engine update..

David562 · 07-29-2009

Yeah... They just improved the coding and stuff... Hope they made a mistake when they did this!
:D

thefoolnz · 07-30-2009

PS3 FW 2.80 increases memory!

then why am i still forgetting stuff then?

cyan · 08-02-2009

weird, microsoft that usually make memory hogger OS can produce less memory requirement for console.

07-27-2009	#1
Pirate Join Date: Feb 2007 Posts: 6,930 Likes: 370 Liked 7,989 Times in 1,233 Posts Mentioned: 568 Post(s) Tagged: 0 Thread(s)	PS3 FW 2.80 increases memory The latest PS3 2.80 Update (optional) adds more than what you can find in the changelog. Naughty Dog's Sam Thompson confirmed stated that more RAM memory was made available by the reduction of memory consumption from the consoles operating system. The memory reduction mainly is important to game developers, when asked what improvements were made to the latest Uncharter 2 Multiplayer (Beta), he replied: Naughty Dog is constantly working to improve every aspect of the gameplay; be it animation, lighting, sound, texture fidelity. You know if you look at the game itself with the 2.80 engine update, you know we're adding more memory, so we get a lot more utilisation of the SPUs, so we increase our optimisation of the Cell processor as well." "So we've got from the engineering side all the way up to texture fidelity, artists adding in even more...I mean there's really not a singular aspect that's not been improved in the game," Thompson added. The PS3 memory was reduced to about 74mb at firmware 1.80, currently the new reduction amount is not known, but is getting closer to the Xbox 360's 32mb.

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Ihatecompvir Member Join Date: Sep 2008 Posts: 177 Likes: 16 Liked 6 Times in 3 Posts Mentioned: 0 Post(s) Tagged: 0 Thread(s)	There has to be an exploit hidden somewhere in this. Since I don't have a PS3, I'm updating(sucks that I don't have wireless internet anymore and my PS3 is in a different room, well, not really) and trying some old Proof of Concept things. __________________ YouTube - PrizeRebel - Free Rock Band DLC, Wii Points, XBL Points, PSN Cards!

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jorg Member Join Date: Dec 2007 Location: The lions den Posts: 474 Likes: 24 Liked 34 Times in 24 Posts Mentioned: 0 Post(s) Tagged: 0 Thread(s)	probably not most likely applies to game mode only __________________ 3®D®lCH

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tech3475 Member Join Date: Jul 2008 Posts: 248 Likes: 5 Liked 19 Times in 17 Posts Mentioned: 1 Post(s) Tagged: 0 Thread(s)	Great....so now devs will force us to upgrade to 2.80 with the open remote play inhibition. Still, I suppose the games will run better.....I just hope sony put a hypervisor vulnerability somewhere to make up for it.

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jaasumbra Member Join Date: Feb 2008 Location: DK Posts: 477 Likes: 119 Liked 65 Times in 43 Posts Mentioned: 0 Post(s) Tagged: 0 Thread(s)	Great news. I'm still not updating until the ORP issue is fixed though

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gliitch Member Join Date: Aug 2008 Location: Nibelheim, Mako Reactor Posts: 837 Likes: 80 Liked 280 Times in 119 Posts Mentioned: 16 Post(s) Tagged: 0 Thread(s)	Could this open up possibilities for a speedier linux? XD unless the os is untouchable from the linux side?..

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David562 Member Join Date: May 2008 Location: Lakewood, California Posts: 406 Likes: 32 Liked 25 Times in 14 Posts Mentioned: 0 Post(s) Tagged: 0 Thread(s)	Yeah... They just improved the coding and stuff... Hope they made a mistake when they did this! :D

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cyan Apprentice Join Date: Jan 2008 Posts: 9 Likes: 0 Liked 0 Times in 0 Posts Mentioned: 0 Post(s) Tagged: 0 Thread(s)	weird, microsoft that usually make memory hogger OS can produce less memory requirement for console.

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