GTA IV Freezing ?

Flaccus

Anyone having problems with GTA IV freezing on 360 or PS3 ?

http://www.joystiq.com/2008/04/29/ps3-gta-iv-freezing-up-fix-suggests-deleting-data-starting-ove/

http://www.shacknews.com/onearticle.x/52478

http://kotaku.com/5007491/scea-responds-to-ps3-gta-iv-issues

http://www.techspot.com/news/29894-gamers-report-gta-iv-freezing-problems.html

http://news.zdnet.com/2424-9595_22-199503.html

Smellyirishman

It's frozen a couple time during multiplayer when switching between lobbies and stuff and I know Ciaran500 has been having some stalls too. I've never stalled in single player but then again my time is probably split about 70/30 MP/SP.

RAIN

Its froze on me 3 times.once in single player and twice in MP lobbies.

Iv played about 10 hrs. Its a pain in a hole when it happens.

nealmac

Haven't had a stall yet (60GB PS3) but I haven't been able to try out the MP yet.

Clover

i have had it freeze up twice on a 60gig PS3 in single player , with the first freeze lasting around 3 seconds and the second freeze lasting around 15 seconds , the game returned to normal play after both and both where in the same game session.

i have had no problems with it on my 40gig PS3.

CO19

Anyone know why I can't access the key pad on Nikko's mobile,when I press up and up again it does nothing all it does is bring up the first half of the phone i can't bring up the second half,any ideas ?

Neamhshuntasach

Mine froze today and wouldn't load back into normal gameplay from a cut scene. Lucky i had just saved it.

CO19

CO19 wrote: »

Anyone know why I can't access the key pad on Nikko's mobile,when I press up and up again it does nothing all it does is bring up the first half of the phone i can't bring up the second half,any ideas ?

Press up again, using the standard control scheme. Works for me.

The_Hustler

Froze on me just there on multiplayer, hopefully it won't happen this time...


EDIT: Yeah, happened again after a little while

EDIT2: It stopped freezing which was cool. P.S. Mine's a 60GB one.

jesus_thats_gre

Mate of mine is getting it big time on a 60GB PS3...

AdMMM

My DVD drive has been fubared for a long time in my Xbox and the heavy load of GTA isn't doing it much favours and I'm frequently experiencing game freezes whenever the disc skips for a second.

I've rejigged my room slightly so now the Xbox is laying horizontally which seems to have fixed it for now!

I haven't had any problems with multiplayer though

justbringit89

where is the option to install on a 360???

Ciaran500

There isn't one.

chrismon

mines unplayable!
it freeze's everytime i go to do something.............like walk :eek:

spooner_src

Hey, I am about 30% into the single player and on load of the mission ' Have a Hear' its stuck...it just says on a black screen....'Loading - Have a Heart'

What the hell is this crap!!!

spooner_src

am thinking the save is corrupted...damn

kaizersoze1980

chrismon wrote: »

mines unplayable!
it freeze's everytime i go to do something.............like walk :eek:

and this is the game that people are saying is the best game of all time??
what a joke

ongarite

A quick-fix has been found for PS3 freezing on loading screen, intro.
Sign out of PSN or disconnect network cable/ turn off wireless and the single-player section will run fine.

This makes the 360 Bully R* feckup look tiny. For the biggest game of this generation to be this buggy is unacceptable. Shame on R*

Edit:
Guess here, this issue must be related to the R* social-club and they way it reports back stats and logging of music your listening too. It seems to be locking up PS3 version if you have internet/PSN active.

bluemachaveli

Mine crashed twice since ive had it. Once offline and last nite while online for the first time. Was busy killing Gilberto_Galway and the stupid thing froze :mad:

Ill get him yet tho

Mossy Monk

Mine froze while watching tv today. Not pleased as I didn't save.

ryanmatty

Iv had this problem a couple of times. Have the 60gig model. But this morning wouldn't load after a freeze so deleted another save I had and then it loaded. But ain't happy with it going to get onto tech support about it.

Dues Bellator

i cant beleive this , it wont move from the start new game screen, i was online last night and this morning it just wont work so i deleted everything and started again its a brandnew system so im not losing much ,it just wont budge ,im going to restore system to see if that works if it dosent im trowing it back at them ,majorly pissed.

ongarite

Please read my above post for the PS3 freezing fix.

SIGN OUT OF PSN WHEN PLAYING SINGLE PLAYER GTA4 TO STOP GAME FREEZING

Dues Bellator

ongarite wrote: »

Please read my above post for the PS3 freezing fix.

SIGN OUT OF PSN WHEN PLAYING SINGLE PLAYER GTA4 TO STOP GAME FREEZING

already half way tru restore, it was doing my head in, it was restore or trow ps3 out the window, ill try your way if it does it again , aaaaaghhhhhh. why cant they relese a game that has no problems mupppet money grabbers.

estebancambias

ok what the hell...loaded it up today, and was working grand, was doing a mission, as I aimed the game froze....the first time I believe it happened to me. Thought it would go back to normal so waited a while...went down stairs and it was still frozen.....'strange' I thought so proceeded to turn off the ps3 console. Next thing I turn on the ps3, and it sticks on the loading screen saying ''lure''...was this a mission? Or a place?

What can I do? How do I sign out of PSN?

justbringit89

do people think ther will be a fix for the ps3 and 360 versions coming out?

ongarite

Go to "Friends" in XMB, then to your PSN "name". Press "triangle" and choose "Sign Out"

Dues Bellator

estebancambias wrote: »

ok what the hell...loaded it up today, and was working grand, was doing a mission, as I aimed the game froze....the first time I believe it happened to me. Thought it would go back to normal so waited a while...went down stairs and it was still frozen.....'strange' I thought so proceeded to turn off the ps3 console. Next thing I turn on the ps3, and it sticks on the loading screen saying ''lure''...was this a mission? Or a place?

What can I do? How do I sign out of PSN?

go out of game and then sign out. its crazy how there getting away with this its the online function its dodgey,im not going online again untill they sort this title out.ONGARITE nice one for the heads up its working perfect now, altough i was a bit late getting your post ,i have to renstall all my games idiot i know but there you go, also im back to trying to get my gt5 prolouge to up date again aaaaaghhhhhh i hate this shte

pduffy50

What the hell...i'm havin the same problem. i was playin it last night for about 3hrs with no problems turned it on today and boom!!! froze trying to load my last save. I deleted my saved game thinking it could be courpt and it might help but not only is it still freezing, i have to start over. JOKE!!!!!!!!!!!!!:mad:

estebancambias

Thanks lads....when I went to my saved games I had two saved games with the name ''lure'' saved at the exact same time. I deleted one of these as well with signing out.

Could one of the saved files been corrupted?

Dues Bellator

online play is fraught with issues it aint ready .bad bad bad

Helix

froze for me and corrupted the save file, fortunately i had taken the precaution of saving every game to 2 different slots in case this happened so its no loss

i would advise EVERYONE to do the same unless you fancy playing through the entire thing again to get up to where you were before it crashed

Mossy Monk

Had to start again. Boo.

justbringit89

Are these problems mainly for XBOX 360 OR PS3?

Helix

both

Clover

Helix wrote: »

froze for me and corrupted the save file, fortunately i had taken the precaution of saving every game to 2 different slots in case this happened so its no loss

thats what i have been doing also since the first freeze , just to be safe.

xeni

Mine froze 3 times already (and I mean not for a few secs but completely, no way out without a console restart), twice 2 days ago and once today. Also savegame got corrupt today , good that autosave happened 3 min earlier :P. Still an awesome game even with those annoying problems.

PS. Talking bout PS3 version on US 60gb PS3.

weeder

ethernet completley plugged out and it seemstowork without issues