A poster on the official PlayStation forums has recently come up with a technique for squeezing a few extra frames out of the PS3. How can you do this? Apparently, you don't even have to add any other pieces of hardware, but merely manage a few settings within the system's upscaler and HDMI audio.

According to play.tm, the poster's "suggestions are based around reducing the load put on the poor little PS3 by the upscaler and HDMI audio. He claims that this enabled him to get a better framerate in Skate and Madden." So in order to get the respective improved performance, this is exactly what you need to do:

BD/DVD Upscaler = Off
HDMI 24fps = Off
HDMI Audio = Bitstream
PS2 Upscaler/Smoother = Off
Disable System Display Notify
Mediaserver = Off
All other automatic setting = off

Of course, you need ass-kicking games to see the difference or real bad ones and no games for the PS3 really fit the two categories, but we'll fire up our PS3 to see whether this information is accurate or not. More than that, most of the PS3's games already run at astronomical frame rates so for those, you'll actually need professional tools to notice any difference.

And while this exact combination of settings may very well do the job of adding a few frame rates, this will surely take the edge off other aspects (not saying which 'cause we don't know anything about this yet).

Honestly though, with such a small array of titles featured for Sony's next generation console, who even bothers experimenting with it, when thousands of gamers out there would throw it out of the window not having enough games to run on it? A very passionate PlayStation fan� that's who...

In fact, if this piece of information proves to be legit, that combination of settings will come in very handy to FPS gamers in the future, considering that the PS3 gets a few more titles of the genre.