Comments on: GTA4 (PS3) Freezing Issue; Fix Suggested

By: james

james — Sun, 22 Jun 2008 20:46:33 +0000

um, my games are freezing, all of them. gta4, cod 4, and others. and then, when i turn off at back of ps3, it wont turn on again. like the little blue and green light will be on but nothing on my tv screen, i dont know why, maybe my ps3 is broken? and anyone know where to get it fixed?

By: dan

dan — Sun, 22 Jun 2008 06:18:03 +0000

mine freezes and i’ve finished alot of missions already. it started freezing last week. it was working fine but then now its freezing after about 5 minutes playing the game! it sux!! i thought that letting it cool off for a while would fix it but HA no it doesnt help at all!!

By: wes

wes — Sat, 21 Jun 2008 05:44:05 +0000

i have the 40 gb and i cant get my gta4 to run after a nfs pro st freeze all other games load fine… this sucks one of the best games and we cant play it.

By: meh

meh — Wed, 18 Jun 2008 18:46:22 +0000

i’ve got one of the launch 60g ones had to reinstall the game once and it has been flawless ever since, no lag ever. Got 100% even.

By: mobking

mobking — Wed, 18 Jun 2008 06:37:14 +0000

I got the same thing wit my gta4 but I got it real bad cuz some time it don’t freez but when it don’t freez the radio don’t work and when the radio work the game freez and just b4 the game freez the ground don’t look right I need to know is this just me or ever body.

By: dewey

dewey — Thu, 12 Jun 2008 01:58:53 +0000

ok i see it really doesnt matter what version of ps3 you have it is the game nothing more nothing less i had i high hopes and they were met until i made it too about the end of the playboy missions then i just keep reseting hoping to get past another mission before it freezs again its really pissin me off just how do you fix the problem already “rockstargames”?

By: Kansas Girl

Kansas Girl — Fri, 30 May 2008 01:09:37 +0000

I have the 80GB PS3 and have made it past the Playboy X missions without a single freezing problem.

By: Jonah Falcon

Jonah Falcon — Wed, 28 May 2008 22:34:28 +0000

Do you have an online connection? If not, that’s why.

By: subash

subash — Wed, 28 May 2008 21:12:11 +0000

i have 40 gb version i hav completed about 17 missions does it freez in 40 gb version?
please reply because my friends are having same problem

By: vince

vince — Tue, 27 May 2008 04:12:30 +0000

I played up to the playboy x missions and then it froze. Had to reformat and it worked for about 1 hour and then froze. I did a full format that took 4 hours and it was loading the content into the ps3 and quit halfway through. It killed my 60 gig unit. Now I have to send it back. DO NOT USE THIS GAME IN YOUR PS3. GET A XBOX 360

By: Ramon

Ramon — Thu, 22 May 2008 16:19:50 +0000

Well I’ve got the 360 and no problems with freezing, the colours are a lot nicer. I have both version but I prefer the 360 because my PS3 one freezes on me

Oh and I have slightly more pop-in on the 360 version that only once ruined my gaming experience (but I AM a perfectionist, so…) and the aliasing is slightly better on the PS3 on tv, but on a HD monitor there’s no difference between the two. The 360 has as I mentioned earlier more realistic colours and more crisp graphics.

So in this case: 360 FTW (especially since I prefer the 360 controller)

By: Matt

Matt — Thu, 22 May 2008 14:08:53 +0000

Just in case anyone wants to try it - I have a 60GB PS3 which has been great until GTA4. It would constantly freeze in the game and the box would have to be reset, it was random, but always a maximum of half an hour of play time. I tried everything i have read in the forums to remedy the problem to no evail. 2 nights ago though i restored the PS3 settings back to default which meant i had to reset up the Plasma, the network etc. Now i have had to sessions on the game greater than 3 hours and i have just experienced the first freeze last night after about 3.5 hrs of play. Personally i am wrapped as i am not much of a gamer so it takes me a few goes at completing missions, and now i have had a chance to clear a heap of them with some solid play. Maybe someone else can see if this helps their situation?
Cheers.

By: M Baker

M Baker — Thu, 22 May 2008 06:37:35 +0000

I have a 60gb launch model. I bought a 40gb bundle foir a friend and took the GTA4 for my own use. My oiwn 60gb machine won’t even recognise the fact that there is a disc in it, let alone play the game. All other games have worked fine. Is it something to do with the bundle pairing the disc with one machine? Trying the firmware update to see if that works now.

By: New PS3 Owner

New PS3 Owner — Tue, 20 May 2008 14:33:35 +0000

I got a ps3 a few weeks ago. I only own gta4. I’ve had 1 freezup so far, in a high action scene shooting and changing targets.

I own a 40gb (yes, the non-backward compatable one).

Looks like I choose right, since I had a ps2, I had no need for backward compatability. And since I can upgrade the drive, I didn’t see a point in looking for the 80gb…

Anyone who can still return, try the 40gb model. Working great here…

By: rcas

rcas — Mon, 19 May 2008 09:04:41 +0000

Damn, I just bought the game 2 hours ago and started playing and noticed that it started to freeze. Wtf? So i do some googling around and rockstar put out a press release saying that “limited number” of PS3 users are affected. LIMITED MY ASS! More like ALL. Why would they try to put this crap out if it was all messed up???