to check where you have the game installed, go to settings - storage : should go to a menu that shows save data, console storage, external storage, and cloud storage. check the external storage to see if Stray is there. if its not, its already on the main console storage. if it is, highlight it - press options - select "move to console storage". once it has fully moved, shut down the system completely and then bring it back online. should help.

It might help to also make sure the extra visual settings are turned off on the system, the HDR or any of the color enhancing options. optimize your playstation in a way that all the settings are at the lowest visually but highest for performance. ray tracing in the game and the gamma tracing in the game itself could also be turned off to help the system from being overloaded

Playing the ps4 version on the ps5 is roughly the same amount of time but the PS4 itself is built weird (unless you’re into IT, it won’t make much since for me to explain, but it’s a file organization issue) but basically the console itself takes 30-45 seconds to reach the data in the correct file. This is for every ps4 game as its a console issue not a game issue. The longer the game is on, the more files loaded, the more data the console had to sort through, the longer loads you experience. I hope this helps, sorry there’s not much “ fixing” best bet is to run the game immediately after turning the ps4 on and not going through files prior to playing.

PS: if you are interested in this YouTube “ps4 bottlenecking”.

PSPS: make sure you have the game installed on the internal hard drive and not an external. Removes some data pathways

Oh, thank you. The rules said “the frame when “there you are” appears. Ill make sure to time it correctly from now on.