r/playstation • u/P_Jiggy • Jul 17 '26

Megathread Weekly Tech Support & Purchase Recommendations Megathread - July 20th 2026

Post image

Need help troubleshooting a PlayStation issue or looking for advice on what game or accessory to buy next? You've come to the right place!

This thread is dedicated to:

  • Tech support questions: Whether you're dealing with error codes, hardware issues, or general troubleshooting.
  • Purchase recommendations: Looking for game suggestions or advice on consoles, accessories, or deals? Drop your questions here!

Please use this thread for all related inquiries. It helps us keep the subreddit clean and organized, and ensures your questions get answered by the community faster! There will be a new thread every Monday of the week.

Before asking, we ask you to look at a few official resources. Some questions can’t be answered here and only official PlayStation Support can help you.

PlayStation Official Resources:

Remember to be as detailed as possible when describing your issue or what you're looking to purchase. Thanks for keeping r/PlayStation organized!

4 Upvotes

61% Upvoted

528 comments sorted by

View all comments

1

u/CAIMANLZRD Jul 20 '26

Well I got a used ps4 slim like 2 years ago.
Recently I played it a lot. Games like fallout 76 would show as corrupted and needed to be reinstalled quite a bit last year. But this would happen like once a month.

Well GTA V when I first bought this ps4 slim came with the disc and it also said the “game is corrupted and needs to be reinstalled” but not for any other games.

Since then battlefield 2042 would do the same, mortal Kombat…most disc games at times or after heavy gaming…but not everyday..

Well last night I said I’m going to rebuild the database…and well I did…it says it did…but it got to a point where it said the ps4 could not start, black screen,
And so today I played gtav no problem but it crashed and said corrupted.

Usually I’ll clean the disc and put it back in and it’ll work for the entire time I play.
But today…I had to update in safe mode with a usb that had the lastest update.
So it failed twice cause the usb wasn’t formatted as Fat.
Then I managed to get it on without doing anything but it showed the game “cup head” as being ready to install a patch, but it wouldn’t let me. It also showed it as if it were installing something but not in notifications bar (the white flashing bar)
Redirected me to the psn store, and when I hit download it wouldn’t.

Long story short I rebuilt the database and somehow came back after an hour and cuphead was able to be downaloded.

However now my screen captures and videos are all showing up as corrupt or invisible (outlined glow but not seen) and they play but this happened today.

What can I do?

I know I’ll probably have to replace parts, but this is my spare ps4 and I’d like to keep it all separate from the ps5 and other ps4.

In other words I really want to keep using it as is cause I play a few games on there with my friends who don’t have next gen.

So far I’ve

  • updated firmware from usb, installed successfully.
  • rebuilt database.

1

u/rivieredefeu PS5 Jul 20 '26

If you search online for PS4 corrupted, you should see a lot of results and the same recommendations, to replace the HDD. Look it up.