Grand Theft Auto IV - Gen. Discussion & Info (PS3) OUT NOW PS3 review score = 99.6%

So I signed out of my PSN account before I played today after reading about the freezing issues. Played for an hour or so with no problems. Then I tried to sign into the PSN out of curiosity, and it froze immediately. I'm not really interested in the multiplayer at this point, but if I was, I would be royally pissed off.
 
I was having the issue where it just hangs on the loading screen, so I tried signing out of PSN and restarting and now it loads fine. Then I tried going to multiplayer on the phone and it prompted me to sign back into PSN. I did and I was finally able to join a game lobby, so there's your a potential workaround. Hope this helps.
 
I thought the freezing was just me! Here's what happened today: I turn on my black shiny beast and boot up gta4, I watch the little slidehow of pics for about 30 secs and than it says loading (mission name) I keep waiting for about five minutes steadily getting more pissed of until I finally push the PS button to exit the game. It exited the game but instead of bringing me to the main menu it restarted the system! Ok whatever... So I click the game again and it loads up this time! I beat a mission and driving in my car I decide to bring up my phone and play some online. Oh boy... The second I clicked multiplayer the game froze. My only option was to then manually turn of the system with the back switch. This wouldnt be so bad if it didn't take so long to boot up the game but all we can do is wait for a patch... Oh well.
 
[quote name='metaly']I was having the issue where it just hangs on the loading screen, so I tried signing out of PSN and restarting and now it loads fine. Then I tried going to multiplayer on the phone and it prompted me to sign back into PSN. I did and I was finally able to join a game lobby, so there's your workaround. Hope this helps.[/quote]

You mean, there is YOUR workaround because what works and what doesn't is hit and miss still at this point. Glad that worked for you though.
 
LOL, I had to post these videos, they're hilarious. :lol:

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I haven't played the multiplayer yet so i don't know what kind of freezing issues i'll have, but I got to the middle island with no freezes whatsoever in the 13 hours or so of gameplay i've put into the game so far. Though when I booted up today, I needed to step away for a bit so I hit pause to go to the map screen and left. Came back and tried to get back into the game and it seemed it froze while I was away... I turned it off via the touch controls on the ps3 but it beeped and shut off. Turned it on again and while it got hung up on the loading screen. Tried to shut it off w/ the controller, but it beeped and just restarted the system. Third time's the charm though and I booted up with no problems and just played around with the cars and cops...

So far not really any major issues I guess in the way of hindering gameplay or having to skip cutscenes, but yea I haven't played multiplayer yet...
 
I'm having the multi player freezing issues currently. I had put in around 30 hours in the single player with no issues whatever and had even messed around for a couple hours in multi. Then earlier tonight all of a sudden I got booted from a multi player game and freezing started for the first time. Luckily the sign out of the PSN trick worked for me for single player but multi player instantly freezes my game now. I really hope they get that fixed soon.
 
Mine got stuck on the loading screen when starting up last night. 60gig PS3. I had to reinstall the GTA4 file to get it to work.

Weird thing is that it sounded like the disk wasn't even being read and when I restarted the unit it wouldn't read any game disk (PS3, PS2, PS1, DVD, Bluray). Everything started working again once I deleted then reinstalled that file.

Strange. I hope it doesn't keep happening, annoying to have to reinstall that thing every time I want to play.
 
I think I'm going to leave the game alone until there's a patch released. I definitely don't want my PS3 to brick or anything. heck.. guess I'll go play some call of duty.
 
Holy SHit! just got this game. I didn't like the previous GTA's cause the graphics were so bad and it made me feel like I was killing polygons but this game makes killing feel real! It's so awesome. How do I rape the women though?
 
[quote name='sparklecopy']Holy SHit! just got this game. I didn't like the previous GTA's cause the graphics were so bad and it made me feel like I was killing polygons but this game makes killing feel real! It's so awesome. How do I rape the women though?[/quote]

:whistle2:s
 
[quote name='lanzarlaluna']+1

I sure as hell hope he is kidding. =\[/QUOTE]

What? you guys are offended? You guys don't bat an eye when people want to shoot other people in the head and beat women in the game but get offended when people want to rape? hypocrite much?
 
That's all this game needs, is more content that Jack Thompson and all of those absentee idiot parents will find objectionable. I hope you're kidding, Sparkle.
 
See, I'm tempted to play online too, but since it seems that many are having problems when they try going online with the game, I may just avoid it for now.
 
Okay there are a few things that people seem to be noticing.

Freezing in regards to multiplayer is one of them. People think that it could be related to the R* servers being overburdened with traffic. So turning off the network connection or staying off the PSN fixes the issue for SOME people. But you've got to wait for R* to iron out whatever server/network issues are happening on their end to enjoy that portion of the game.

And then there is general freezing. Happening in seemingly random places and times. Some get to the 1st screen and freeze. Others halfway into the 1st cut scene, or 10 missions later and so on. Those of us with this type of freezing are SOL until R* explains what is going on and HOPEFULLY they deliver a patch to correct it.

The game is broken for a lot of people and there is no simple solution. Some "tweaks" work for a group of players while it does nothing (or makes things WORSE) for others. We're at the mercy of R* and the retailers at this point.
 
heh, I wonder what they did with psn to mess it up these past couple of days,

mm there's def an improvement when you kick it to 1080p
 
Question/Problem

How long does it take for the mandatory install to finish and into the game?? I've been sitting here waiting a nd for more than 10 minutes, nothing, just stuck at the 'Starting a new game...' screen.
 
[quote name='IAmTheCheapestGamer']See, I'm tempted to play online too, but since it seems that many are having problems when they try going online with the game, I may just avoid it for now.[/QUOTE]

That is the reason why I ended up getting it for the 360, but I can't get that to work online either. I have zero problems with other 360 games too.

Looks like I'll just go back to MGO.
 
[quote name='sparklecopy']What? you guys are offended? You guys don't bat an eye when people want to shoot other people in the head and beat women in the game but get offended when people want to rape? hypocrite much?[/QUOTE]

Douchebag much?
 
[quote name='geowong78']Question/Problem

How long does it take for the mandatory install to finish and into the game?? I've been sitting here waiting a nd for more than 10 minutes, nothing, just stuck at the 'Starting a new game...' screen.[/quote]

Try logging out of PSN and then restarting the game. You can sign in again once the game loads, if you're feeling lucky.
 
[quote name='sparklecopy']Holy SHit! just got this game. I didn't like the previous GTA's cause the graphics were so bad and it made me feel like I was killing polygons but this game makes killing feel real! It's so awesome. How do I rape the women though?[/quote]bravo:applause:
made me laugh
 
[quote name='geowong78']Question/Problem

How long does it take for the mandatory install to finish and into the game?? I've been sitting here waiting a nd for more than 10 minutes, nothing, just stuck at the 'Starting a new game...' screen.[/quote]

That happened to me also - what I did was delete the install and then re-install it. You have to go to the game tab and go up, you will see the install there.
 
[quote name='bostonfrontier']Has anyone played Multiplayer recently (today) and had it work?[/quote]

Yeah I have. Seems like I have the worst luck in trying to get a Cops & Crooks with more then 2 people on each side. Although it is a lot easier to get a full 16 on DM and TDM which I absolutely own in :D.
 
Anyone have a problem with loading a saved game yet? My game kept hanging at the black loading screen. I tried 2 different saves and tried removing my settings save.. still hung at loading screen. I also tried reinstalling the game data on the HD. After doing some research on various forums, I found that disabling the network adapter before starting the game will let you load the game up. So now I can load my game, but I can't play online since I have disabled the network in the XMB. I played about 3 hours past the point of my last save and created a new save but I still can't load my game without disabling the network. I really hope rockstar fixes this so I can play online...
 
[quote name='geowong78']Question/Problem

How long does it take for the mandatory install to finish and into the game?? I've been sitting here waiting a nd for more than 10 minutes, nothing, just stuck at the 'Starting a new game...' screen.[/quote]


I think I saw in a review that the normal install time is 7 & 1/2 minutes.

This thread as really hit 88MPH hasn't it?
 
gawddd this game is great, my copy just came in from Buy.com a little while ago and mannn, I can't get enough...
 
add me onto the list of the loading freezes.
only about 45 minutes into the game, but I put in 3+ hrs online as recent as last night.
 
I think the loading issue started when I got a network error pop up while playing offline. Its good to know that you can still play with the network turned on as long as you aren't logged into the PSN when you load your save. Its just a pain in the ass to have to remember to log off just to start the damn game.
 
OK I saw a comment on one of the kotaku posts that says the freezing issue is due to the Rockstar Social Club is down.. and something related to the fact that it uploads your game progress to the website every couple of minutes.

Actually, the game isn't looking for multiplayer servers or anything like that.
Before Something Awful picked up on it someone in the official Playstation forums actually found that the game is sending packets to the Social Club. Ever notice sometimes when you plug in your PS3 and your internet isn't hooked to it that sometimes it will still be trying to "log in"?
Well, because of this system quirk the game is also trying to send information to the Social club (you know, so that your single player times and achievements will be seen on the internet) but the game nor the system seems to be able to distinguish the fact that nothing is getting through.
SO! what its doing is slamming the cache over and over again with attempted website searches and then eventually fills up, locks down, and the whole thing goes "splat".
The user on the Playstation forums also noted that whenever the Social Club is down and unavailable that it will cause major freezing as well.
He managed to find this out using the Linux OS and tracking the packets and seeing what was being pinged every two minutes.
So, its not really multiplayer....it's the social club
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Not sure how valid this is as I've never registered on the Social Club site and the game has locked up on me twice so far..
 
Anyone having beginning loading problems? Sometimes when I start the game it will stay at the LOADING- " ----- " screen forever. Eventually i'd have to restart or turn off the console... and it will do it again. Eventually it will work.

But I dont get it! Annoying! I think its doing it again right now... gawd...
 
I got the loading screen lock up today, which happened to be the first time I tried to play the game after registering for the social club. I'm going to see if I can unregister my PS3 account with the social club. That's just too much of a coincidence.

Also, when I did look at the site, my stats were all messed up.

I signed out of the Playstation Network and didn't have the loading problem again.
 
[quote name='Sinistar']OK I saw a comment on one of the kotaku posts that says the freezing issue is due to the Rockstar Social Club is down.. and something related to the fact that it uploads your game progress to the website every couple of minutes.


Not sure how valid this is as I've never registered on the Social Club site and the game has locked up on me twice so far..[/QUOTE]

Good to know, any way to work around this issue? Maybe log out of the social club or somehow associate a different psn id or something?
 
how do you hang from moving stuff like in the trailers? Like if you drive fast a cop will hang from your car but how do you do it to other cars and helicopters


Just to add. I have a launch 60gb ps3. Has not froze on me once and i put in a 6 hour shift with not one hiccup.
 
[quote name='DefinedByClass13']I see quite a few people playing, and I assume MP too. Is it working properly for most?[/quote]

Yeah, I was just playing online with bmachine just fine for like an hour or two. :)
 
[quote name='DefinedByClass13']Damn, I should've jumped on. I have my system on, i'm just not doing anything on it.[/quote]

Well, if you decide to get online, send me an invite... I hope the online works for you. ;)
 
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