(Oh look, somebody has got my coat for me…)

An 18Mb patch (”1.01 Update”) to “Grand Theft Auto IV” is available to fix the ‘freezing’ problem.

[ http://www.ps3fanboy.com/2008/05/07/gta-iv-gets-1-01-patch-freezing-fixed/ ]

BFN,

fp.

My thoughts are if you are hard resetting if the game crashes it could corrupt the save or install file.

But it seems more related to the network than anything. Friends new 40gb machine crashed and wouldnt restart, even after reinstalling, but after pulling the network cable its working fine again now.

So its probably just related to the high traffic on the networks causing issues when the game tries to check something online. if it cant connect online then its just gonna hang.

I would imagine these problems will start to fade once the servers are sorted.

Reports of Grand Theft Auto IV freezing up have been circulating message boards since the game’s launch Tuesday, but Rockstar Games has been tight-lipped as to the reason or the remedy, passing off requests for public comment onto Sony. While the majority of complaints appear to be coming from PlayStation 3 users, Xbox 360 owners with glitch-ridden game experiences have also voiced their frustrations online.

Take-Two representatives may not have been willing to go on the record about the issue, but the publisher’s tech support team does not have the same luxury when it comes to customer complaints. An inquiry into the Take-Two tech support site yielded the following array of suggestions on how to fix the problem. The 12-part response follows below:

Please run through the following, go through in order.

[snip – see above link for the details]

If that doesn’t solve the problem, Take-Two allows tech support users to reopen their cases within seven days.

As for Sony, earlier today, a representative with the company confirmed a ‘freezing’ issue with GTAIV on “a limited number of PS3s.” He added that Sony has received “an extremely low volume” of complaint calls to its customer service line, and that it is working with all concerned parties to pin down and fix the issue.

Microsoft has not yet responded to GameSpot’s inquiries on problems with the Xbox 360 edition of the game. GameSpot editors have yet to receive a response to a Take-Two tech support ticket filed for that version of the game.
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Gee! Am I glad I don’t have this problem… no, wait, I don’t even have this game… seems like this option is the only way to avoid getting loads of grief.

Perhaps Rockstar should release a patch rather than expect those affected to do all this malarkey manually, or do what Konami did & ask everybody to Beta test for them weeks in advance.

Then again, I doubt any scheduled release date would have been met if issues of the quantity reported had been found in the latter stages of testing.

BFN,

fp.

I took the latter choice obviously can’t wait to get started on playing this