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Possible PS3 GTA IV Fix Reminds Me of Tweaking a PC
By Joe Haygood | May 1, 2008
Well, it seems that the good folks over at Gamespot decided to submit a tech support inquiry to Take Two regarding the lockups that were occuring on the PS3. The response was a long, drawn out process to get the game working correctly. I do not know if these steps are complicated, but just from looking at them, I started to realize that gaming on a console today is starting to become as difficult as gaming on a PC.
I mean some of these items seem far beyond the simple, “blow on the cartridge”, or “hit the reset button” that we are used to in console gaming. Some examples include:
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.
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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’.
Maybe it is just me, but a console owner should not have to jump through these hoops to get the most anticipated game of the year working. Rockstar delayed the game eight months, so how could they not of fixed problems like this long before the game went to gold. It should also be noted that there are still no responses to our inquiries to Rockstar about the freezing issues.
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Comment by Joe Fourhman — May 1, 2008 @ 11:36 pm
Consoles haven’t hit the Windows Hell standard quite yet. This GTA issue is only popping in very small numbers, and this kind of console-bug-patching is very, very rare. My 60gig PS3 has been fine with GTAIV, and as I look over my stacks of games from the PS2/Cube/PS3/Wii/GBA/DS years, there is almost none of them that required this kind of nonsense.
The only ones that come to mind for me personally are the strange Twilight Princess bug (which I never availed myself of, as I was well past that portion of the game by the time news of that glitch hit) and the Pokemon Ruby/Sapphire berry bug (where your berry trees would stop growing after a year of real time)… which I believe Nintendo fixed when you linked your GBA up to any one of a handful of Pokemon connectivity sources, like the Colosseum demo disk.
Of course, my experience could be biased because I don’t own any Microsoft consoles and I haven’t bought many of the modern shooter patch-it-to-heck type games.
The vast majority of console games continue to simply just work. But your schadenfreude is noted, you proud PC guy you!
Comment by Paul Munn — May 2, 2008 @ 7:44 am
Woah NINE STEPS, including erasing not just the game data cache but all saved games? What the?