Wipeout Pure and fantastic firmware 3.11

[Frances_Penfold]

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That's my impression as well, Rapier. The 333 Mhz official unlocking in recent firmware is supposed to ONLY be for new games that are specifically developed to take advantage of it.

So I'm curious about the 266 Mhz unlocking, and how it appears to be affecting performance of Pure. Perhaps it some other feature of the firmware that is affecting Pure?

At this point, is it more appropriate for TT'ing for racers to stick with older firmware (and slower speeds) or go ahead to take advantage of the 266 Mhz?

For the time being I'm gonna stick with firmware 2.8 until more information is known about 3.5 and 3.52, better safe than sorry!

[lunar]

All the people still Time Trialing are taking full advantage of 266mhz, so you should too, I suppose. We always had an agreement that any official update is fair play. Frances, I have no idea why we got the cpu/speed increase after 3.0, but apparently not on 3.5. I agree it is a curious thing.

Sony did say that 3.5 wouldn`t affect old games` speed, and I agree I think that`s the way it is.

[Frances_Penfold]

Thanks, Lunar, sounds good

If the reports about 3.52 continue to be positive I'll go ahead and upgrade from 2.82. Either way, I don't think I pose a serious threat to the top pilots around here

[Mad-Ice]

Mmmm, so I guess we still don't know for sure at which speed the processor is running with FW 3.52!

Well I will stay on the safe side with FW 3.01.

[Rapier Racer]

I had a chance to do some further testing, it seems that 3.52 works fine for multi player but crashes during offline single player tournaments (freezing) on Delta and Gamma randomly. So I guess you'd need to choose between the excitement of Kai or em, offline mode against the timid AI, single races seems to work ok offline.

[Frances_Penfold]

Thanks for the info, Rapier!

To be fair, I experience random game freezes with firmware 2.82 somewhat regularly, in particular with the Omega pack (single races, time trials or tournaments). So 3.52 may not be any worse than what I am running.

What about problems with textures or with some tracks ALWAYS not working? Nothing like that, eh?

[Rapier Racer]

So far I've not noticed any problems with track textures, I cannot speak for the omega pack I will not race it so can't say if it works with 3.52 or not.

[zargz]

Why won't you race it ?

[Rapier Racer]

Because I can't stand the site of it and all its cartoon em, jokeness, I hate Omega pack and its ships more than the rest of this forum hates Wipeout Fusion.

[zargz]

I like the look of the prototype tracks in wo3 (am I the only one?),
also in pure (the cyber tracks) and I've seen the Omega tracks on multiplayer VDOs
they look cool to me so I'll give them, and all other tracks, a chance.

[Tomahawk]

Soooo... I've updated my PSP to official FW 3.52 now and.... *drumroll* ... it WORKS!

I successfully hosted and played through a non-kai multiplayer SR on exostra run (which always crashed since I upgraded to 3.11 or higher). I'll try some kai tonight to see if really everything works fine now and I'll race some single player over the weekend to see if my game crashes randomly, too, like RR said. I'll post my "testing results" here.

[stin]

He just don`t like Omega cos he does not like the fish or just cannot handle to get beat!

Seriously, it is a good packs but I do prefer 123Klan track.

stevie

[Lance]

I like the look of the prototype tracks in wo3 (am I the only one?),...

As a group, those have always been my favourites. They give the purest racing feel of all. I love the prototype style.

[Tomahawk]

A swift report on my experiences with official sony FW 3.52: I've successfully raced a whole delta tour and a whole gamma tour without crashing on kai multiplayer. I've also raced a lot of single player races (tournament and single race) and my psp didn't freeze even once! It really seems that this latest firmware from sony has fixed our problems with pure's download packs.

[stin]

Omega?

stevie

[Mad-Ice]

I am really happy for all of you that had so many problems with this FW 3.11 and above.

[Tomahawk]

Omega?

Who really wants to race that pile of neo psychedelic crap called "omega pack", stevie? Haven't tested it yet, but I've never experienced any problems with the omega pack or the classic2 pack even on 3.11, so I'm fairly sure it should work just fine.

[Rapier Racer]

Course Omega will work, that was something that really pissed me off about 3.11. It totally screwed Gamma and effected Delta but Omega worked perfectly, just another little slap in the face lol

[q_dmc12]

Wow man, you have issues..........uhh...but I mean that in the nicest possible way.

[Asayyeah]

I am glad that they fix that shitty bug especially for players we missed on Kai.
Happy to see you back in Kai Tom & Dan