

In addition to that, actively playing a game can cause game downloads to slow down. Some games will start off with the factor of 5, and then migrate to the factor of 100 once you leave the start menu and start playing. Some games will cause a difference of about a factor of 100. Not all applications are equal most of them will cause the connections to slow down by up to a factor of 5. This is why the speedtest might report much higher speeds than the actual downloads, even though both are delivered from the same CDN servers. The artificial limit applies only to the PSN store downloads.

Putting the PS4 into rest mode might or might not help, depending on your system settings. The exact same limit is applied whether the download progress bar is in the foreground or not. Just leaving the other applications running in the background will not help. Closing the other applications will remove the limit. ONLY difference is her video card is an Nvidia 6GB video card & mine is an Nvidia 8GB.If any applications are running, the PS4 appears to change the settings for PSN store downloads, artificially restricting their speed. My friend has an IDENTICAL PC to mine, same exact motherboard, same CPU, same onboard audio, she even has Windows 10 Pro same build version! Powerful PC. It's such a little simple awesome program, I want my friends also using it & not having to try something else. It's a big clue but still don't know why it only works perfect for them in Windows Safe Mode. The ONLY time it runs perfectly all the time when this happens is to use it in Windows Safe Mode & we're trying to figure out why. The numbers just hang or does very slow counting & the ONLY way to fix it is to keep closing PS4 Macro & Remote Play & trying again & again & again until it finally works for some reason, very random. This problem of PS4 Macro Recording or Playing files sporadically & very slowly is extremely annoying & hard to work out what's going on. This issue has been posted in this forum many times already but no answer. We have this same issue also, for me & some friends it works flawlessly & ALL the time, but for other friends it only rarely works properly.
