Take-Two's 12 Step Program To Stop GTA4 PS3 Lockups
With any launch of a major application bugs and problems arise. Grand Theft Auto IV has been known to lock up on both Xbox 360's as well as the Playstation 3. Apparently this is a small percentage, and not necessarily on the "priority" list of the developers, but thankfully they released an "easy" set of instructions to help remedy the problem... on the PS3 at least. All you have to do is follow these 12 easy steps:
Please run through the following, go through in order.1) Delete the game's install data. This is done via the PS3 options. Scroll along the cross media bar until you reach the 'Game' tab, now scroll up / down the list until you reach the 'Game Data Utility' Enter this and locate the GTA IV option. Highlight this and press triangle once, from the menu select Delete. This will delete the game's install information.
2) Delete the game's save files. To delete any save files you will need to do the following. Scroll along the cross media bar until you reach the 'Game' tab, now scroll up / down the list until you reach the 'Save Data Utility' Enter this and locate the GTA IV option. Highlight this and press triangle once, and from the context menu select Delete.
3) Disable your Internet connectivity for the PS3. To do this scroll along the cross media bar until you reach the 'Settings' tab, now scroll up / down the list until you reach the 'Network Settings'. Now scroll down to the Internet connection option and press x, now select the disable option. Once this has been done unplug the ethernet cable if you are connecting to the Internet if using this.
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4) Disable the console's information board. To do this scroll along the cross media bar until you reach the 'Network' tab, now scroll up / down the list until you reach the 'Information Board', highlight this and press triangle. From the menu select 'Do not display' Press X to confirm this.5) Disable Media Server functionality. Scroll to Settings, now scroll up / down to 'Network Settings' select Media Server connection. Once this has been done press triangle and change the option Disabled.
6) Delete all of the system's Internet cache. To do this scroll along the cross media bar until you reach the 'Network' tab, now scroll up / down the list until you reach the 'Internet Browser', highlight this and press X. Once you browser opens press the triangle button once, from the new menu highlight the 'Tools' option and press X. Scroll down the menu until you reach 'Delete Cookies' and press X. Confirm the files deletion. Repeat this for 'Delete Cache'.
7 ) Turn off the PS3 screen saver. Use the cross media bar to scroll to 'Settings', select 'Display Settings'. Now highlight 'Screensaver' and set this to 'Do not use'.
8 ) Once this has been done, manually restart you PS3 by holding down the power button for 5 seconds it will beep once and then shut down. Release the power button and re-press it and hold for about 5 seconds. The system will then boot and reset all display settings. You will be prompted to reset your display settings to how you require them.
9) Once restarted please try the game again, you will be prompted to reinstall.
Once the game has started please turn off the following features:
1) The game's auto-save. Press Start, Game, and locate the Auto-save option. Turn this off.
2) Turn off the game's flicker filter. Press Start, Display and locate the Flicker Filter option. Turn this off.
3) Turn off the controller vibration feature. Press Start, Controls and locate the vibration option. Turn this off.
If this doesn't work, tech support will let you reopen your ticket after seven days. This sounds more like a placebo fix than anything. Seriously, is anything left enabled on the system? It seems unfortunate that this is the alternative to having just spent $60 on a game, which you most likely pre-ordered only to have to practically castrate your system to keep it from locking up.
Take-Two suggests PS3 GTAIV fix [GameSpot]
Asterick
Posted to Video Games on 2 May 2008
· Comments (5)
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Seriously, they better working on some fix/patch for this issue other than this. Who wants to go through all that crap over and over again to play a game or get on the net? If this is their solution they aren't going to gain anymore fans, more likely lose a lot.
This is, indeed, a crappy solution, and a pretty unacceptable "fix".
Having a brand new hit $60 game lock up my system repeatedly is not making me happy.
Thank god I still have Okami, Mario Kart, Condemned, and Gran Turismo to play, but seriously guys. FIX THIS!
All my freeze's oddly seemed to happen while driving.
I actually deleted my install (not saves) and reinstalled it. It seems to have not frozen up on me yet. Now that I've put it in writing, I'm sure I'll get a freeze the next time I play.
I just bought a ps3 tonight, got hit with a double whammy, found out there is no more ps2 backwards compatibility *cries*, and then make a run for blockbuster for a blue-ray movie and a game, movie was great, but what do I choose? GTA4. I get through the intro movie, get in the car, drive 5 feet and thats it! pfft
Happened to me on my ps3 and I was desperately trying to get a 100% by monday to get that damn key. I didn't delete anything, just tried bootng up the game a couple of times and guess it got over the problem