The thumbs of most GTA IV-owning PS3 gamers are probably red-raw by now, their only respite being the game’s inexplicable freezes. So you’d expect the latest firmware update for the console to fix the problem..?
Unfortunately, the answer is no. Al De Leon from Sony Computer Entertainment America said on the PlayStation blog …
I reckon a good proportion of all this talk of overheating and console unreliability is due to folk keeping their kit in scummy conditions. On the carpet / covered in fluff / discs out of cases / etc.
There are obviously legit cases, but - make no mistake - there are plenty of whiney scummers out there who abuse their kit.
I have the UK GTAIV on a HK 40GB PS3, and have only had one freeze in 45 hours of gameplay, and that was during multiplayer at the point were it goes back to the lobby after playing a race. And that was after the patch.
So no real big problems with it. Lego star wars is far more buggy in multiplayer ^^.
My copy locked up the second time I played it in the way Rob describes. It was the Saturday following launch, so now I'm not sure it whether it was the server issue mentioned by D, the uPNP problem mentioned by Joe K, or a single instance of terrible freezing problem that pushed the Microsoft loving AC to run off to XBOX.
Never had a repeat though, touch wood, figured Rockstar's patch had sorted it.
@TestMan - yeah, I'm a little disappointed with how badly it handle's the day to night and building shade lighting changes too. I think it's telling that Rockstar have made the brightness and contrast options so easy to reach within the menus. Annoys me a bit because GT5P has a really great into shade, out again eye adjustment effect that adds a great deal to the realism on the London Circuit. Maybe Rockstar needs to ask them how they did it.
@MarmiteToast - Naughty boy - You do know there's going to be a whole shed load of people trying that tonight. Me, I'll be disappointed if the game doesn't take it in it's stride - 'Who's this then?' 'A prostitute' 'Ohhh, Niko, I always wanted to try a threesome'.
Paris, because you know she's miffed they didn't include her on 'I'm Rich'.
60gb PS3, no issues at all throughout the entire game. Played for god knows how long without stopping.
@Mike Groombridge
"every one i know with a ps3 has had this problem but it seems it's only when there have there ps3 downloading something there have said. so one of my friends created new profiles for it with out the wifi set and it's all good"
Well they could just turn the Wifi off in their own profiles, or just not be downloading stuff all the time. There isn't that much to be downloading. Besides, whenever I run GTA4 the downloads stop.
@ Anonymous Coward • Friday 16th May 2008 08:36 GMT
MS pay you by the word for that post?
I know one person who had the 'save game' glitch, where by the auto save causes the game to lock on the 'loading...' screen. He basically had to disable the network connection to run the game. The odd thing is that to start, his game works fine.
Everyone else i know, including myself, the game works flawlessly.
But hey, after RROD the MS Crew needed something to jump on, and they managed to do it with this :)
Bud, you have no idea so keep you're comments to yourself.
Number 1: Free standing on it's end on a cool wooden floor, free ventilation all round.
Number 2: Same as 1 but the other side of the unit so it gets a cool breeze from a open door next to it.
Number 3: Thought "bollocks" so put it under the TV and threw caution to the wind (even though ventilation was still more than adequate).
Number 4: Same as 2 with a fan blowing on it ALL the time it was ever switch on.
Number 5: In a specialist AV cabinet that is actually COOLED (friends in the AV business).
So don't be trying to insinuate that either my comment was a 360 bash, I'm a PS3 fan boy or I'm an idiot. As much as the 360 has THE gaming content, no-one can defend the reliability based on my experience!!
I can remember playing Super Metroid on the SNES for about 30 hours straight once. No lockups, despite it being one of the most technically advanced games of it's time. Although the nasuea and foggy head after that meant I never played a game that long without sleeping again. Ugh. Was farking great tho.
And Goldeneye and Perfect Dark on the N64 - several hours of play, lugging the N64 and four controllers round to a mates house with a 40" TV to play marathon deathmatches [one hit kills, Complex, fifteen minutes, loser gets the beer] - all that abuse, all that playing time, not one lockup that I remember.
Arr, those were the days.
*fires up ZSNES and Project 64*
Steven "mine is the one with the K7 Avenger slung over the top of it" Raith
"I doubt you'll find many in the UK with the problem as it's allegedly just early 60GB models with backwards compatibility that are having problems."
Well I have a 60GB model with the backwards compatibility - I had something that looked like a freeze right near the beginning of the game - about the third time I got into a car - but then after 20 seconds or so it carried on and has never been a problem since.
Of course, it hasn't stopped me from getting frustrated when I fail a mission too many times and turning it off myself :)
I've had no problem with my original 60gb PS3 however I know a few guys in our forum who have. The patch sorted most of them and changing to a nice modern router sorted out a couple others ( silly thing tio need to do admitedly but there you go).
I haven't heard of any freezing problems now.
As to the chap who took this as an opportunity to jump on the PS3 back and praise the 360. Do stop it, you look stupid !
my VCS2600 still works today, i bought it in 1978 !
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The thumbs of most GTA IV-owning PS3 gamers are probably red-raw by now, their only respite being the game’s inexplicable freezes. So you’d expect the latest firmware update for the console to fix the problem..? Unfortunately, the answer is no. Al De Leon from Sony Computer Entertainment America said on the PlayStation blog …
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60gb ps3 here and no lockups...
@ Test Man - just stick up the brightness a bit - happens with a few ps3 games (drakes fortune was really dark too)
the only game ever to have any issues is star wars lego.. but thats maybe due to the disk not being in great condition (bloody mrs lol)
scummers
I reckon a good proportion of all this talk of overheating and console unreliability is due to folk keeping their kit in scummy conditions. On the carpet / covered in fluff / discs out of cases / etc.
There are obviously legit cases, but - make no mistake - there are plenty of whiney scummers out there who abuse their kit.
40GB HK PS3 no problems
I have the UK GTAIV on a HK 40GB PS3, and have only had one freeze in 45 hours of gameplay, and that was during multiplayer at the point were it goes back to the lobby after playing a race. And that was after the patch.
So no real big problems with it. Lego star wars is far more buggy in multiplayer ^^.
Now I'm confused?
My copy locked up the second time I played it in the way Rob describes. It was the Saturday following launch, so now I'm not sure it whether it was the server issue mentioned by D, the uPNP problem mentioned by Joe K, or a single instance of terrible freezing problem that pushed the Microsoft loving AC to run off to XBOX.
Never had a repeat though, touch wood, figured Rockstar's patch had sorted it.
@TestMan - yeah, I'm a little disappointed with how badly it handle's the day to night and building shade lighting changes too. I think it's telling that Rockstar have made the brightness and contrast options so easy to reach within the menus. Annoys me a bit because GT5P has a really great into shade, out again eye adjustment effect that adds a great deal to the realism on the London Circuit. Maybe Rockstar needs to ask them how they did it.
@MarmiteToast - Naughty boy - You do know there's going to be a whole shed load of people trying that tonight. Me, I'll be disappointed if the game doesn't take it in it's stride - 'Who's this then?' 'A prostitute' 'Ohhh, Niko, I always wanted to try a threesome'.
Paris, because you know she's miffed they didn't include her on 'I'm Rich'.
@Mark
"I know 15 or so people with PS3 version of GTA IV, and none of them have had any problems whatsoever."
1) Have you really asked 15 people about this problem? REALLY?
2) Are the 15 different people actually just you're 15 different email addresses?
No problems here
60gb PS3, no issues at all throughout the entire game. Played for god knows how long without stopping.
@Mike Groombridge
"every one i know with a ps3 has had this problem but it seems it's only when there have there ps3 downloading something there have said. so one of my friends created new profiles for it with out the wifi set and it's all good"
Well they could just turn the Wifi off in their own profiles, or just not be downloading stuff all the time. There isn't that much to be downloading. Besides, whenever I run GTA4 the downloads stop.
Are Sony fanboys
just like Apple fanboys, but with balls?
@b166er
Sorry folks, I just can't resist a minor troll......
No, they're just like Xbot360 fanboys who managed to escape electro-shock treatment, testosterone overdose and a traumatic frontal lobotomy.
:-P
@ Anonymous Coward • Friday 16th May 2008 08:36 GMT
MS pay you by the word for that post?
I know one person who had the 'save game' glitch, where by the auto save causes the game to lock on the 'loading...' screen. He basically had to disable the network connection to run the game. The odd thing is that to start, his game works fine.
Everyone else i know, including myself, the game works flawlessly.
But hey, after RROD the MS Crew needed something to jump on, and they managed to do it with this :)
I'd rather have a bottle in front o' me
than a frontal lobotomy...
@Glen
Bud, you have no idea so keep you're comments to yourself.
Number 1: Free standing on it's end on a cool wooden floor, free ventilation all round.
Number 2: Same as 1 but the other side of the unit so it gets a cool breeze from a open door next to it.
Number 3: Thought "bollocks" so put it under the TV and threw caution to the wind (even though ventilation was still more than adequate).
Number 4: Same as 2 with a fan blowing on it ALL the time it was ever switch on.
Number 5: In a specialist AV cabinet that is actually COOLED (friends in the AV business).
So don't be trying to insinuate that either my comment was a 360 bash, I'm a PS3 fan boy or I'm an idiot. As much as the 360 has THE gaming content, no-one can defend the reliability based on my experience!!
Remember when games just worked....
Yeah, it's funny, but PONG never locked on me at all!!!
@sigh.
Your exclusive content will have to be paid for. So will your online play. Nice one retard, lucky you saved $100 on your crappy xpox.
This video details the problem, it's transitory nature
and reflects the experience of all the PS3 owners I know.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eBGIQ7ZuuiU
I'm soo so glad I've got neither of these consoles...
^ Just look what they do to you! ^
My Console made by Evil Company X, is far better than your console by even more evil company Y.
Grow up people!
Consoles that worked..
I can remember playing Super Metroid on the SNES for about 30 hours straight once. No lockups, despite it being one of the most technically advanced games of it's time. Although the nasuea and foggy head after that meant I never played a game that long without sleeping again. Ugh. Was farking great tho.
And Goldeneye and Perfect Dark on the N64 - several hours of play, lugging the N64 and four controllers round to a mates house with a 40" TV to play marathon deathmatches [one hit kills, Complex, fifteen minutes, loser gets the beer] - all that abuse, all that playing time, not one lockup that I remember.
Arr, those were the days.
*fires up ZSNES and Project 64*
Steven "mine is the one with the K7 Avenger slung over the top of it" Raith
Wibble
"I doubt you'll find many in the UK with the problem as it's allegedly just early 60GB models with backwards compatibility that are having problems."
Well I have a 60GB model with the backwards compatibility - I had something that looked like a freeze right near the beginning of the game - about the third time I got into a car - but then after 20 seconds or so it carried on and has never been a problem since.
Of course, it hasn't stopped me from getting frustrated when I fail a mission too many times and turning it off myself :)
Router problems
I've had no problem with my original 60gb PS3 however I know a few guys in our forum who have. The patch sorted most of them and changing to a nice modern router sorted out a couple others ( silly thing tio need to do admitedly but there you go).
I haven't heard of any freezing problems now.
As to the chap who took this as an opportunity to jump on the PS3 back and praise the 360. Do stop it, you look stupid !
my VCS2600 still works today, i bought it in 1978 !
Still play ADVENTURE often...
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