For those of you continuing to have Grand Theft Auto IV lockups on your PS3 even after the May 7th Rockstar patch... tough noogies. The latest 2.35 firmware won't specifically help. Sony says that the "minor update" will "improve stability of some PS3 titles" -- then clarifies that GTA IV is not part of the vagary. Nevertheless, Sony does say that they "have a identified a solution that should resolve the issue." So buck up Niko and get on the horn with Sony, God knows the police won't help.
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Joystiq, thanks Warren and Luis C.]
Read -- GTA IV freezing / not loading help
Read -- 2.35 firmware
posted May 15th 2008 1:06AM
Where abouts in the game do people experience freezing?
It is usually at the first loading screen for me before I even get to play.
Be you wish you had got that 360 now dont you? Especially now the new ones have an incredibly low fault rate.
ah yes.. those indestructable never freezing xboxes.
"new ones have an incredibly low fault rate"
yes. it is amazing how incredibly reliable "new" things can be. more reliable than old things for sure... you must be proud of your proprietary mess
GTAIV never crashes on my 360 :D
It doesn't have a chance of crashing, cause you can't get past the "red ring of death."
troll away, xbot, but Rockstar's press release confirmed that the game has some problems on 360s and on launch PS3s. On the PS3, all you have to do is turn off the internet until you've saved a game, then turn it on and you're good to go.
And I don't think a 360 zealot would claim reliability should be the deciding factor in choice of console. You have better arguments than that (such as Bioshock).
Yeah the red ring of death got me last month =/
But the good people at microsoft fixed my console in a Jiffy =D
Its frozen on my 360 about 3 times... been alright for the last couple of hours of gameplay though. :)
@Jimbo wow you playslaves are getting feisty. You shouldn't be upset over your problems. I have the Falcon which have a 90% success rate so I guess I need not worry about RRoD. Though the ps3 getting it's first AAA exclusive
a year and a half after release sounds troubling. Also, I'm pretty happy knowing I'll get some extra enjoyment out of my copy of GTA4.
I just bought an xbox 360 (i.e its brand new) and have played GTA 4 non stop since the release date and it has NEVER crashed...
PS3 pwned? yes. :D
O BTW GTA4 on xbox live basically increases its value 1000000000 times, I guess you ps3 owners wouldn't know about that... losers...
:D (let the flaming begin)
It freezes on my 360 after extended gameplay, making me think it is a heat related issue. No other games have ever freezed. For me, it usually freezes while driving around the city.
Last night when this happened, before it froze it glitched for a second, then all the cars in the neighborhood - including my own - were floating 2 feet off the ground. Just going about their business, floating along. It was pretty funny. Then about 2min later, it froze.
Odd. It's the only game on my Ps3... and it's been playing just fine for many, many hours.
Still no problems at all with my PS3 or with GTA4 for that matter.
-Knocks on Wood-
the problem is extremely limited, and if you've been able to play for a while, it's pretty unlikely you will have a problem. If you're using the wired connection and a launch PS3, you might have problems if you turn on your wifi connection. If you've been using your wifi connection, you can probably rest very easy.
I read the word vagary as vagina the first time through
Well done.
Too bad the author misused the word. It means "extravagance". It does not refer to something that is vague.
Whadya want a medal?
1. an unpredictable or erratic action, occurrence, course, or instance: the vagaries of weather; the vagaries of the economic scene.
Yeah, it means random or erratic not vague.
Thanks alot engadget. I could have misused the word and been subjected to social ridicule had it not been for Chris and his plethora of vocabularied erudition.
Anyone notice that the PS3 version of GTA IV has a few extra artwork scenes before the game starts? Is that on purpose?
longer load time would be my guess
I hope this doesn't break anything for otheros... goodness knows we don't need any more problems.
i never seen any of my games crash on the ps3, but on my 360 demos/any games installed on the hdd mainly ffxi online tend to crash
anyone else find that they cant play divx/xvid with the new update?
works fine for me... i wish it had WMV support :(
I'm sure it does, but you have to activate it in the preferences menus.
Well, I just recently bought a 40gb PS3. Played GTAIV for awhile and all was well. Randomly when I tried to load it one day it acted like normal and started showing the artwork while loading and then it just froze up, artwork kept changing but would not load into the game.
I figured it was something to do with the files it installs so I deleted the 3GB+ of data and rebooted the game. It reinstalled everything and then loaded right into the game, kept my save, and no problems since then.
I had exactly the same problem. It turns out that PSN connection was causing the problem. I just unplugged ethernet cable (or disconnect the wireless connection) on my PS3 and it was fine. They recently issued 1.01 patch so they might have solved the issue now.
It already has WMV support, but it doesn't support WMV DRM protected files
I got no problems, except i noticed my ps3 gta4 is blurry vs my cousins xbox360. i noticed that it seems to get dark alot too! but my cousins 360 has had 2 failures already lol. ill stick with the ps3!
owning a 360 is awesome. if it fails, you get a chance to play that new MMO while you wait for it to be repaired...it's called Outside. it's sooo sweet.
Hooray! Hooray! its a corporations day ! hahaha nice I love it....
Boney M
They'll fix it sooner or later, just not now. Unfortunately, it is one of the most popular titles.
Odd, not had one single issue with GTA IV. A friend who replaced his HDD says he sometimes gets dropped frames (noticeable) but I haven't seen any of that either. Also I have kept auto sign in on.
Want to put a 320GB in PS3, but after hearing about these issues I'm going to leave it for a while.
It froze twice during the combined roughly 80 hours of playtime between me and my brothers. I just finished it tonight. It's a pretty rewarding feeling.
The only problems I've had is online. When I try to start a deathmatch I get the message, "The connection was lost" or something like that. I got the update and it still boots me out of MP. Any ideas?
I'm so happy I got this game on my 360. My friend had the same freezing problems, but he traded in his ps3 version for the 360 version and he no longer have any more problems. Also, he probably did that because of that DLC as well. It's rumored to be a city and that will sure be awesome, if true.
360 version is inferior, how does it feel playing the gimped 360 version?
@ Jake
You ignorant bastard.
After purchasing it for my xbox360 and total of 25 hours of play time, my console RRoD on my. :( Now i will start over on my ps3 version and hopefully will not break on me.
Perhaps it's time to re-spin the PS3 as 'a blu-ray player that also does some games somewhat', what with the lower resolution textures constantly and the crashes now.
Of course that would mean you can't call it the PS3 anymore because the P is play, but you can insert 'blu-ray' and make it PBRS3 play-blu-ray-station, perhaps make the 3 into 1 too since it's the first one that plays blu-ray, making it PBRS1.
I thought console gaming was the wave of the future and PC gaming was dying.....
*SNICKER*
PC forever!
Damn it, I need a patch or something.
My 60gb PS3 was running it just fine until I finished the first Little Jacob mission and then it would freeze randomly.
Now just last night, it won't even boot up the game! It either gives me a cannot start error or freezes during the intro. Now the game is unplayable.
Is it the disc or a hardware problem because it went from freezing to now cannot even launch the darn thing.
Too bad its my only PS3 game so far, I can't try other PS3 games on it but my PS2 games are still working.
This isn't good at alll!!
i had the freezing problem, to fix it, just turn the internet off, then it should load. I finally went and deleted the data (not game saves) let it re install with the internet off, and then turned the net back on, i haven't had a problem since
To anyone else who's confused about what the issue is now, there were two freezing problems. One had a workaround of this very simple approach (disable internet/PSN/etc) until they released the 1.01 patch which fixed that. The other is MUCH more serious - the PS3 hardware itself has some problem. Sony hasn't come out and said that, but they are _replacing_ our PS3's as a result (not the game but the PS3 itself, even out of warranty - that would be the "solution that should resolve the issue" that they were referring to). Rockstar confirmed they had not tested GTA4 on the original PS3 hardware with the EE chip, so it seems related to that. In any case, if you get more than 30 minutes into the game, you're probably not experiencing this issue (most of us only get about 5 min into the game before it locks up so hard you have to manually flip the PS3's power).
No, my console is better.
Ok. I Dont understand what's the problem with GTA IV and the PS3, but i got a PS3 1st generation buy in novembre 2006, and i have play GTA IV for average 50hours since i got it and i have never see any problem of loading or whatever
GTA IV run very nice on my ps3
i get this lock up issue every now and then, but i just take the game out and blow on it for a while, and then it works
Only had it freeze once on my 360, while loading a mission. Speaking of which, does the hard drive install on the PS3 eliminate or at least reduce the loading times? It's extremely annoying.
I just wish they'd fix NHL08 once and for all!! The online play has NEVER worked properly. I wonder if SONY realizes my friends and I (and countless other Canadians) are considering going with the XBOX360 just so we can have a decent online game of NHL08 ??
PS3 will probably have more problems with multi platform release than 360 because most developer uses 360 to developer games and later port into PS3 (and wii). That's the advantage of being out early when developer begin stacking up on next gen tools.
While I've had no problems with lock-ups in GTA4, I have noticed the Divx playback has seems worse. Did the new firmware break something?
I own both a 360 and PS3 and I have to say GTA4 hasn't locked up or crashed at all for me. Guess you guys are having bad luck is all. I have both GTA4 versions neither have crashed.
I've never had any problems with my PS3 freezing. Certainly not during GTA4.
For a software house that has enjoyed so much success to release a game like that without proper QA... unbelievable. This isn't about Sony or about MS. It's not about which console is better. It just showed how bad the developers really are.
i have a ps3 and haven't had any freezing issues, but as for all these people coming in here trying to wage a ps3 vs. 360 war, show me a game on both consoles where the 360 version runs better or looks better, and show me how your 360 is even a better price deal, considering all your games are on regular dvd discs, you can't watch hd movies, oh well you can but hd dvd is dead, you pay for online services, and pretty soon your games will have to be on multiple discs because some systems don't have hd's and regular dvd's just don't cut it, fuck your 360, i sold mine for a ps3.
well....ik this is a really late reply...but....
there are a few 360 games tht already have multiple dics.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lost_Odyssey
thats the only one i could find atm. i remember one about a blue dragon or something, too?
ps3 rules....
Okay, 90% success (or 10% failure) is not good stats for the Xbox... that still puts it 9.9% behind PS3...
And for everyone claiming ridiculously juvenile things like "it hasn't frozen once on my 360, PS3 = pwned"... well, hasn't frozen on my launch PS3, nor any of my friends... I still am not stupid enough to claim victory from this small sample though... that would take an idiot.