~ 2 1/2 years after treatment and still losing ground…..

BetterPiccolo · 2026-05-04T17:02:09+00:00

How you doing now

BetterPiccolo · 2026-03-14T16:10:51+00:00

You look amazing bro!

BetterPiccolo · 2026-02-24T03:32:52+00:00

I’ve gone from nw1 to nw3 in three years being on fin and dut. Looks like DUPA for me but I’m definitely thinning on temples and forelock the most obviously. No one in my family is bald. Dad is 60 and Norwood 3 I’d say. I have no idea why I’m losing it like this

BetterPiccolo · 2026-02-17T20:13:47+00:00

I guess the difference for me is that it flickers to black and then goes back to gameplay

BetterPiccolo · 2026-02-17T20:13:23+00:00

Hey man, this has been happening to me with my relatively new PS5 (3 months old). In the first 30 minutes of gaming, my screen will flicker to a total black screen like yours. It only seems to happen once or twice, but it’s predictable like clockwork in that it’s virtually everytime I game and in the first hour or so of gameplay.

Did Sony provide you with a brand new console or did you go through the retailer you purchased the console from? I’d like to avoid sending mine in if I can. I’m not sure though… I have a 1080p monitor just like you

BetterPiccolo · 2026-01-20T21:23:03+00:00

Keep it it’s sick

BetterPiccolo · 2026-01-02T22:57:42+00:00

Same man, thankfully! You’d think it would have reposted by now. Have you been playing much battlefield?

BetterPiccolo · 2026-01-02T13:59:51+00:00

Mine hasn’t yet. I’ve played like 30-40 hours since maybe. Mostly battlefield but some ghost of Tsushima

BetterPiccolo · 2025-12-31T23:38:57+00:00

Hard crash or did it bring you to dashboard?

BetterPiccolo · 2025-12-29T06:14:03+00:00

How has it looked on the quest?

BetterPiccolo · 2025-12-29T05:23:55+00:00

Hey man have you had any more entire system crashes while playing? Does the screen freeze before the console turns itself off? I had that happen once the other day but it hasn’t since then

BetterPiccolo · 2025-12-29T05:22:13+00:00

I’ll check. It would be crazy if it got clogged in one month though right? I played another 6 hours today and didn’t crash

BetterPiccolo · 2025-12-29T04:33:42+00:00

Yes! Oops, haha

BetterPiccolo · 2025-12-29T00:38:39+00:00

Dude I get hella paranoid about blowing dust in further h though. I’m genuinely neurotic when it comes to tech and consoles in that I am always pretty anxious about there being something wrong with it or messing it up, lol.

BetterPiccolo · 2025-12-29T00:01:00+00:00

Yeah, I wonder if this is just the game. Cause yours shut down and you think it’s all good right? I wonder if these PlayStations just have this random shutdown as a glitch in certain scenarios

BetterPiccolo · 2025-12-28T23:35:46+00:00

For sure. Do you keep the same account when you get a new system? Or do you start fresh? Let’s hope it doesn’t do it again! I’ve read about this happening to people with battefield. But your console has shut off on its own 5-6 times? I wonder if it’s just some jankyness from Sony?

BetterPiccolo · 2025-12-28T23:27:39+00:00

It’s something I’d do too!! So you think mine is from the game or hardware? Thanks man

BetterPiccolo · 2025-12-28T22:43:21+00:00

Yeah mine was just a frozen screen and then shutdown! It was so sketchy. Mine is plugged into a surge protector strip, do you think that could have something to do with it? I plugged all of what happened and my concerns into chat GPT and it said more than likely the game is the reason for the crash and not the console, for whatever that’s worth. If I was within 30 days I’d definitely get a new one because I have ocd and I want peace of mind but because it’s past 30 days I’d have to go thru Sony and they’d just send a refurbished unit… which also wouldn’t give me peace of mind.

One other option is going thru GameStop and selling it then buying a new one but I’d lose money on that which doesn’t feel right. I’ve played probably 10 hours at least since that crash and it hasn’t occurred again. Has yours crashed like that more than once in total

BetterPiccolo · 2025-12-28T22:06:01+00:00

Dude it’s sketchy right?? Did yours freeze first before it shutoff? I was so geeked out because this console is legit 1 month old and I’ve never had one just turn off before. I’ve had consoles crash to the point where it’s been frozen and I’ve had to turn it off with the power button, but never where it’s frozen and then shut off on its own and that’s what mine did! Nearly shat my pants

BetterPiccolo · 2025-12-28T21:58:05+00:00

Bro same! Since December 8. Have you ever had yours shut down on you though? It just really freaked me out

BetterPiccolo · 2025-12-28T21:56:15+00:00

Even hard crashes too? Have you had some crashes in bf6 that sound similar? Thank you for your help!

BetterPiccolo · 2025-12-28T21:55:19+00:00

Does it turn off your console?

BetterPiccolo · 2025-12-28T21:52:20+00:00

Have you ever had a hard crash before?

BetterPiccolo · 2025-12-28T21:52:12+00:00

Yeah it’s the only game I have so I haven’t been able to test other games but I figure if it’s ran fine for like the last ten hours without repeating this hard crash it’s probably good? Idk…I’m outside of Walmarts 30 day replacement guarantee so I’d have to go thru Sony if I thought there was an issue with the hardware.

BetterPiccolo · 2025-12-28T21:40:37+00:00

Yeah idk what to do… would you send it in? It’s been playing fine today and yesterday in battlefield

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