Tips and tricks to boost your PlayStation 5

Sony has been the market leader in games for many years and the PlayStation 5 is one of the most incredible consoles ever released. Still, it is possible to make several modifications to your settings and make it even better and more your way of playing. So without further ado, let's see tips and tricks. for you to boost your PlayStation 5.

Increasing controller battery life

O DualSense 5 it is without a doubt one of the best controls ever made by Sony to date, but it lacks, and a lot, in terms of battery life. To ensure that the time between recharges drops slightly, you can determine how long it will stay on in standby mode. Follow the steps below:

• Locate the gear in the upper right corner of the PlayStation 5 screen and enter settings;

• Go to the “System” option;

• Look for the option “Energy Saving”;

In the third option, choose how long the controls will be turned off: 10, 30 or 60 minutes.

Resolution or performance mode

The PlayStation 5 allows you to choose between playing with the resolution mode, which sacrifices the frame rate per second to bring out the best in graphics settings, such as Ray Tracing, for example, or with the performance mode, which guarantees a higher frame rate per second. second, to the detriment of resolution.

Some games allow the player to make their choice within the game itself, but it is possible to leave it defined in the settings, if you want. To do this, follow the steps below:

• Enter “Settings”;

• Go down the options until you reach “Saved data and game/application settings”;

• Go to “Default game settings”;

• In the second option, choose between “Game default, Performance mode or Resolution mode”.

Types of captures and transmission

If your big kick is taking pictures in games or even sharing great feats with friends, such as, for example, detonating a squadron alone while playing Fortnite, it is possible to do this on PlayStation 5. In addition, there are several settings available to let your sharing with your face.

Go to settings;

• Look for the last option: “Captures and transmissions”;

• There are now two options available: Captures and streams;

In Captures we can configure a series of things, such as mapping the buttons and defining whether it will be easier to take photos or record videos;

• In the second option, we can configure the gameplay time that will be recorded;

• Finally, if the last option is activated, a capture confirmation will be presented on your screen.

In Transmissions, we can define the video quality among the available options: 1920×1080 at 60 fps, 1920×1080 at 30 fps, 1280×720 at 60 fps and 1280×720 at 30 fps;

• The second option gives us the possibility to include the voice chat in the image captures;

• The camera option allows you to configure your image;

• In overlays we can define whether the chat will be displayed on the screen or not;

• The second option turns on the activity display;

• The third option gives us the chance to choose where this overlay will be displayed on the screen: in the lower right corner, centered right, upper right, lower left, centered left or upper left;

• And finally, the last option activates the automatic reading of messages sent in the chat.

control the notifications

If you're like me and hate receiving notifications when you're playing, you can control which ones appear on your screen and also for how long. The first thing to do is go into settings:

• The first option allows notifications to appear as pop-up;

• The second enables a preview;

• The third whether a characteristic sound will be made or not;

• Finally, we can control how much this pop-up will be on the screen.

From there, there are several options that can be turned on or not according to your will, such as, for example, winning a trophy, invitation to games and many others.

Avoiding Spoilers

This option only works for games produced for the PlayStation 5 and is responsible for showing spoilers in game-related images, such as shares and the like. This can happen both with images taken by other players and by the developers themselves.

• To activate this option, go to Settings;

• Go to “Saved data and game/application settings”;

• Select the “Warning of Spoilers” option;

• Activate the option on the screen that opens.

Leave control with your face

It is possible to configure your control and leave it with your face and also define the intensity of the trigger effect, the intensity of the vibration and many other characteristics.

• First go to “Settings”;

• Go to the “Accessories” option;

• Select the option “Control (general)”;

• Now just configure all the options so that they are according to your will.

Avoid unwanted contacts

The most annoying thing is getting messages or attempted calls from people we don't want in our social circle. The PlayStation 5 allows only certain people to have access to your information and also who may or may not contact you through the platform.

• To do this, first go to “Settings”;

• Then go to “Users and Accounts”;

• Go to “Privacy”;

Now you can decide a number of things, such as appearing in searches made by other players, appearing as a friend suggestion, who can see your friends, your game history, who can interact with you in a game, players who have been blocked and many others. So the ideal is to take some time and read all the options and leave your face.

Finally, here it is also possible to define which data will be captured by Sony, whether in voice collection or with targeted ads.

How to turn on the VRR

O VRR (Variable refresh rate, or Variable Refresh Rate) allows the PlayStation 5 to properly adjust the refresh rate against the number of frames in real time.

• First enter “Settings”;

• Go to “Screen and Video”;

In the third option “VRR”, it is possible to leave it on automatic or off. We can also enable VRR for games that don't support the technology, which will improve video quality, but its results may be unexpected.

In the “Screen and Video” option, we can also make a series of other configurations, such as defining what the game screen resolution will be, if the refresh rate will be at 120 Hz and many others.

Setting the difficulty.

If you're the type of player who hates fiddling with the options to set the game's difficulty level, the PlayStation 5 can automatically set that option for you.

• Enter “Settings”;

• Now go to “Saved data and game/application settings”;

In the third option “Predefined game settings” we can predefine not only the difficulty, but also a number of other things. Among the available difficulties we have the easiest, easy, normal, difficult or hardest.

Furthermore, we can configure the type of camera that will be used in first or third person games, if subtitles will be active, what audio will be used and the types of online sessions available. Just remembering that this is only valid for PlayStation 5 games that accept these settings, ok?

Configuring the subtitle size

Some games have very small subtitles, which can interfere with some people's gameplay. To solve this problem, we have pre-activated some settings that can solve this problem.

• Enter “Settings”;

• Go to the “Accessibility” option;

In the first option, “Display and sound”, there are several settings available. We can increase the size of the default text, make it bold, in contrast and others, according to your preference.

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Text proofread by: Pedro Bomfim (10 / 05 / 23)