GTA IV - Still Freezing

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To the 360 fanboys: the freezing issue is happening on BOTH the PS3 and the 360. Read the comments. Search YouTube - there's videos of the game freezing on both systems. Read some forums. Plenty of cases of it happening on both systems. So spare me your ignorant, uninformed fanboy nonsense, it will not be tolerated here.

Yep, I am still unable to play the hottest game of two months ago due to the freezing issue. Well, at long last I've decided to bite the bullet and do the only thing that seems to be fixing the problem for everyone. Send my system in to Sony to be fixed.

For the record:

Downloaded and installed firmware Update V2.36
Downloaded and installed GTA IV Patch V1.02
Neither of them fixed the problem.

And before anyone comments on it yet AGAIN, yes I've tried the entire "shopping list" of fixes. SEVERAL TIMES. Disabling the internet does not work. Shutting off everything else does not work. In short, everything on the list that is suggested as a possible fix DOES NOT WORK. So please, stop saying "Just shut off your internet and it'll work fine." NO. It DOESN'T. It may have worked for YOU, but not everyone is having the exact same issue. The ONLY fix is to send the system in to have the faulty chip replaced. And I urge ANYONE who has had this issue to do the same, unless you want to have similar issues with OTHER games down the line. Thank you.

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[davisdylan123]

the problem is! There is fucking Modders!

Theres this thing called a freeze car when modders get in it the game freezes and everyone in it!

Youl are so fucking Reatarded

[Zaranyzerak]

@davisdylan123 Yes. NOW. Three years AFTER this issue. First, this happened back when the game was brand new. No mods existed at the time. Second, my PS3 wasn't even online, aside from getting patches and updates once in a while. So there is no way modders could have had anything to do with it, if they had even existed at the time. If you know nothing about an issue, don't comment about it until you've done at least 2 seconds of googling about it. Way to make a fool of yourself.

[techu40]

well is this an old video ? did u get ur gta to work?

[Zaranyzerak]

@techu40 Yes, read the description. This was originally posted in 2008. I did finally get it to work, but I had to send my PS3 in. Apparently there were certain batches of PS3s and 360s that had a hardware fault that caused the game to freeze constantly. So the only way to fix it was to send the machine in to have the fault corrected, or get it replaced with a machine that didn't have the fault.

[nerfcamoboy]

i am an xbox fan but my gta iv is the same it freezes and and its the same story for episodes from libirty city

[nilsping]

wtf !thiz happens 2 me all time im fuckin tired of this thing

[nilsping]

wtf ! thiz happens 2 me all time im fuckin tired of this thing

[nilsping]

wtf ! thiz happens 2 me all time im fkin tired of this thing

[techu40]

@Zaranyzerak nice .weell that whit the disk the blue ray are more thin than normal dvd. i saw a video whit that a man told that.

[techu40]

@Zaranyzerak why can u look through the blue ray disk and not the dvd disk.