Rocksmith - Playstation 4

delorean

Not sure if this is the right place to post - please feel free to move me Mods!

Anyone else with this game experiencing latency between playing a note on the guitar and it sounding out?

If I wasn't bald, I'd be pulling my hair out trying to get this working

olafgarten

That used to happen on my old Laptop because it was really slow, but a PS4 should be able to handle it with a low latency easily.

It could be somewhere else in the signal chain, is it connected directly to a TV? Also what model TV, if it has a game mode try turning that on.

delorean

olafgarten said:

That used to happen on my old Laptop because it was really slow, but a PS4 should be able to handle it with a low latency easily.

It could be somewhere else in the signal chain, is it connected directly to a TV? Also what model TV, if it has a game mode try turning that on.

Yeah, tried Game mode, buit no joy. 

It's a fairly recent TV (about 18 months old), one of the Samsung S-UHD Quantum ones. 

The audio is routed to a sound bar and sub, so I tried splitting the audio from the video using an optical cable straight from the PS4 Pro to the soundbar (instead of throwing everything down the HDMI) - this helped reduce the latency a LOT. 

However it's still unplayable on faster/more intricate tracks because there's still latency there

Garthy

Nope, none at all on a PS3.

simey83

Is there lag when connected to the TV directly, and using it's speakers?

Cheers

delorean

simey83 said:

Is there lag when connected to the TV directly, and using it's speakers?

Cheers

Yup, still there - again, it's significantly less when using the optical cable rather than just the HDMI on it's own, but it's still there.

stickyfiddle

IIRC there is an issue with latency in the PS4 version specifically. Not sure if there's any easy fix but worth a google. 

This all looks a good idea: 

http://community.eu.playstation.com/t5/Party-Music-Dance/Rocksmith-2014-PS4-A-how-to/m-p/22692814

skunkwerx

Wonder if your sound bar has latency adjustments available to play with?

olafgarten

Another option is an A/B pedal and playing through a real amp

Sporky

skunkwerx said:

Wonder if your sound bar has latency adjustments available to play with?

If it has it'll only make it worse - it can delay the sound but it can't bring it forward.

This is because the video processing in the tellybox takes time to do its scaling, so you can delay the sound to match up with the video frame.

delorean

olafgarten said:

Another option is an A/B pedal and playing through a real amp

Hmmmm... that's an interesting idea!

Haych

I bought RS on PS4 for my lad as he seemed quite keen in the idea. I quite fancied having a go too but the latency makes it unusable for me. The laddo is just starting out so it’s less of an issue for him and to be fair it brought his playing along very well so it wasn’t a wasted investment. 

I was never able to fix the latency issue though. I just thought it was down to the guitar/usb cable. I have very bad memories of the Alesis usb guitar cable, the latency on that product was laughable. 

skunkwerx

Sporky said:

skunkwerx said:

Wonder if your sound bar has latency adjustments available to play with?

If it has it'll only make it worse - it can delay the sound but it can't bring it forward.

This is because the video processing in the tellybox takes time to do its scaling, so you can delay the sound to match up with the video frame.

Ahhh. Oops. 

MentalSharps

I have an ABY from Bright Onion Pedals that I use with Rocksmith so I can play with my amp and it works a treat, definitely recommend it.

And using a loadbox I can bring the amp sound into the PC and mix it with the game audio to play silently at night. Great fun!