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Rockstar Patches GTA IV's PS3 Online Play

emotif — Tue, 13 May 2008 19:22:21 MDT

@dorelliun: I have the exact same problem. I cannot get past the first few seconds minutes of the game (if I move the car veeeerrrryyyy slowly, I can actually move it off the dock to the street)

Sony sends me an email yesterday saying that Rockstar support suggest I contact them. They offered to exchange my console. Ridiculous. Why are they even involved at this level? Send programmers over to Rockstar to help them figure out how to write a patch. It's now 2 weeks. What a joke.

emotif

Rockstar Patches GTA IV's PS3 Online Play

VishusBurn — Tue, 13 May 2008 14:01:24 MDT

@SnakeCL:
"I know at least 8 people with launch machines which have failed"

I call bullshit on that. If not, then you must know a lot fucking of people.
I think you're exaggerating just a little.

VishusBurn

Rockstar Patches GTA IV's PS3 Online Play

BalboaLFC — Thu, 08 May 2008 21:02:24 MDT

ive got a 60gb launch day ps3 and ihad no problems with gta4 before the patch. ive played for 16 hours and when i got the patch it made me start again! come on sony! repay my faith

BalboaLFC

Rockstar Patches GTA IV's PS3 Online Play

sweenyJ — Thu, 08 May 2008 12:52:56 MDT

i was one of the lucky ones, i had no trouble with playing gta and the multiplayer was working perfectly.

then i downloaded this patch and now i keep disconected from games or the start screen for an online game stays on forever. Bolocks to it all!!

sweenyJ

Rockstar Patches GTA IV's PS3 Online Play

KirbySS — Thu, 08 May 2008 05:45:52 MDT

@slomo788: Uh, yes you can. A friend of mine uses his 60GB PAL PS3 to play Phantasy Star Universe online.

KirbySS

Rockstar Patches GTA IV's PS3 Online Play

WestSiide — Thu, 08 May 2008 00:59:57 MDT

60GIG LAUNCH PS3 HERE AND ABSOLUTELY NO ISSUES WITH GTA SINGLE AND MULTIPLAYER. I wonder what is causing all these consoles freezing...??? Been playing over 14hrs and only experienced brief minor slow down when being chased by cops.. other than than its been perfectly fine.

WestSiide

Rockstar Patches GTA IV's PS3 Online Play

jago.kot — Wed, 07 May 2008 22:47:39 MDT

All you guys complaining about "GameSpy servers" should you know...do some research so you don't look so ignorant. But then again it makes it easy to laugh at all of you people WHINING about stuff you know nothing about.

jago.kot

Rockstar Patches GTA IV's PS3 Online Play

Mongoosekun — Wed, 07 May 2008 22:22:28 MDT

@severeon:

That's caused by a corrupt save game. In fact I've mentioned how to fix that here on Kotaku in a post. Pay attention!

Mongoosekun

Rockstar Patches GTA IV's PS3 Online Play

Joost Schuur — Wed, 07 May 2008 21:04:33 MDT

What's with the GameSpy logo from 1999?

Joost Schuur

Rockstar Patches GTA IV's PS3 Online Play

Jaxx377 — Wed, 07 May 2008 20:36:06 MDT

Does anyone know if there will bw a patch for the 360 cause I am still locking up :(

Jaxx377

Rockstar Patches GTA IV's PS3 Online Play

SnakeCL — Wed, 07 May 2008 19:37:04 MDT

@GOD:

and I know at least 8 people with launch machines which have failed. Sorry but that just doesn't cut it. Go take a look at the official playstation forums, and look at all the people in the same situation as myself. Not all freezes are network related, and the people who seem to think they are should actually take the time to figure out what they're talking about.

SnakeCL

Rockstar Patches GTA IV's PS3 Online Play

Cartman86 — Wed, 07 May 2008 18:52:39 MDT

Random games tend not to have problems on 360, but playing with friends in party mode has been one of the worst experiences i've ever had in a multiplayer game.

Cartman86

Rockstar Patches GTA IV's PS3 Online Play

Snukadaman_ — Wed, 07 May 2008 18:26:56 MDT

@ragtimepianist: you must be playing wireless...I have had 12 games and not one random disconnect being wired...no problems online for me on my 360.

Snukadaman_

Rockstar Patches GTA IV's PS3 Online Play

jago.kot — Wed, 07 May 2008 18:09:47 MDT

@Mnementh: ...and your ignorance continues.

jago.kot

Rockstar Patches GTA IV's PS3 Online Play

string_theory — Wed, 07 May 2008 18:07:38 MDT

20GB here multiplayer still chugs w/ pedestrians and vehicles on. :\

string_theory

Rockstar Patches GTA IV's PS3 Online Play

vamponymouse — Wed, 07 May 2008 17:59:25 MDT

@slomo788: "Well I'm no engineer but when playing PS2 games we can't access any network features..."

WTF are you talking about??? I always play the PS2 version of Madden online with my PS3. Do you even have a PS3???

vamponymouse

Rockstar Patches GTA IV's PS3 Online Play

okenny :) — Wed, 07 May 2008 17:47:05 MDT

Doesn't IGN own game spy. Doesn't Hillary work for IGN? Didn't Hillary say that the PS... naww, never mind.

okenny :)

Rockstar Patches GTA IV's PS3 Online Play

Wed, 07 May 2008 17:46:37 MDT

I'm not even going to touch the multiplayer until I'm done with the story.

Rockstar Patches GTA IV's PS3 Online Play

dorelliun — Wed, 07 May 2008 17:42:33 MDT

I exchanged the game a 4th time (for Special Edition this time around) and I installed 1.01 today just a few moments ago. Three tries to get the game to run more than 20 seconds or so before the video freezes and the audio continues on in the background and I was unsuccessful. The patch did nothing for me. Rockstar/Take-Two/Sony, please fix this continuing crash problem with your universally acclaimed beloved cash cow. Some of us would like to be able to play the game instead of watching recordings of it on YouTube. Patch 1.01. Waiting anxiously (and none too patiently, I might add) for 1.02. Address the critical stop before the minor inconvenience = sucking up opportunities, thank you ever so much. PS3 60GB Release Model. (And honestly, up until now, I've never ever had a single problem with my PS3)

dorelliun

Rockstar Patches GTA IV's PS3 Online Play

Strangelove — Wed, 07 May 2008 17:30:51 MDT

"We continue to monitor the performance of the game both on and offline and will provide further updates as necessary."

-Does anybody else find this extremely unsettling? What other data are they collecting without our knowledge?

Strangelove

Rockstar Patches GTA IV's PS3 Online Play

Vileyaser — Wed, 07 May 2008 17:04:55 MDT

@Kra1oS:

It is happening to me too buddy.
I can barely get into a game.
But i do get into some,
albeit very small 3 on 3 ones :(

Vileyaser

Rockstar Patches GTA IV's PS3 Online Play

Mr_Fuzzypaws — Wed, 07 May 2008 16:26:39 MDT

The only problem I've come across is when you're in a party game and the host tries to take us to another game everyone loses connection and gets kicked back to single player.

I'm assuming that everyone had that problem and this patch will fix it.

Mr_Fuzzypaws

Rockstar Patches GTA IV's PS3 Online Play

Kra1oS — Wed, 07 May 2008 16:05:43 MDT

My 60GB froze the first time I ran the game, after installing it got stuck on the "creating new game" screen and didn't come back. I restarted and re-created the save file and that seemed to work. It hasn't frozen since.

My only issue right now is online, the game doesn't freeze, but I can barely get into any games, I keep getting "you have been disconnected from one or more players" or something like that and it goes back to single player. This is really getting on my nerves, and it's still happening even after the patch... Any advice??

Kra1oS

Rockstar Patches GTA IV's PS3 Online Play

bobee — Wed, 07 May 2008 15:56:41 MDT

@stopcrazypp: I agree. I just hope that the support group doesn't close my ticket because of this patch. I'd explained that disabling and disconnecting my network connection did nothing at all. Just getting frustrated that a lot of people are dismissing this issue with comments like "disabling the network worked for me, you must by lying if it didn't work for you..."

bobee

Rockstar Patches GTA IV's PS3 Online Play

stopcrazypp — Wed, 07 May 2008 15:53:05 MDT

@bobee:
I don't think these people understand there are multiple different freezes and the most serious being the one which makes the game unplayable and disabling the internet doesn't fix it. This seems to fix only the ones that freeze when internet is connected. This patch doesn't seem to fix the issue that makes the game unplayable (only playable for a few minutes even skipping cut scenes) even after disabling internet. This is not a rumor, it has been confirmed by many people on the ps forums, even longtime members.

stopcrazypp

Rockstar Patches GTA IV's PS3 Online Play

bobee — Wed, 07 May 2008 15:46:34 MDT

@badasscat: Unsubstantiated internet rumour? Guess you can add me to the mill, then, because I still get freezes.

bobee

Rockstar Patches GTA IV's PS3 Online Play

Maldron — Wed, 07 May 2008 15:34:49 MDT

I was half hoping this would fix my freezing. Sadly not the case.

Maldron

Rockstar Patches GTA IV's PS3 Online Play

Mnementh — Wed, 07 May 2008 15:13:19 MDT

The Gamespy virus is spreading from the PC to consoles?

Heh

Mnementh

Rockstar Patches GTA IV's PS3 Online Play

Shad0X — Wed, 07 May 2008 15:07:50 MDT

umm.. I thought that the game was freezing at the start.. o.0? That has nothing to do with online so why does the game need to connect to the GameSpy servers if som1 is trying to play the sinlge player part of it and maybe isn't even connected to the net? :|

Shad0X

Rockstar Patches GTA IV's PS3 Online Play

Derigor — Wed, 07 May 2008 14:54:11 MDT

@severeon: I also have a 60gig, and it locked up after the intro only during prime time until I disabled PSN then it was fine.

Derigor

Rockstar Patches GTA IV's PS3 Online Play

goatselove — Wed, 07 May 2008 14:45:19 MDT

Ouch, that only lasted a little bit (anbout an hour, unless it was just pure randomness.) Now it's again full of connection issues on my PS3 60GB, virtually unplayable.

goatselove

Rockstar Patches GTA IV's PS3 Online Play

RedFive — Wed, 07 May 2008 14:40:08 MDT

Go, go, Xbox LIVE! I'm super glad I haven't had any issues playing GTA IV on that platform. :)

RedFive

Rockstar Patches GTA IV's PS3 Online Play

Tei — Wed, 07 May 2008 14:17:18 MDT

If you have some problems, email mr. Joe Powell (aka: QSpy) jep@sclsis.navy.mil
he is teh original programmer of the Master Server of GameSpy

note: just kidding, I bet he has lost the password for that email.

Tei

Rockstar Patches GTA IV's PS3 Online Play

fuze54 — Wed, 07 May 2008 14:08:32 MDT

I have a 60 gig ps3, and the patch did not fix the lock ups, I got 10 minutes into play with my internet enabled and bam...the radio went dead and shortly after, the game just froze. Disabling the internet fixes it, but I would still like to be online while playing just in case some friends want to do some multiplayer...here's to an actual fix soon...gah

fuze54

Rockstar Patches GTA IV's PS3 Online Play

Glen-L-Ivet — Wed, 07 May 2008 14:07:19 MDT

Praise the Maker...
I had been stuck on the "Jamaican Heat" load screen since Thursday night. I couldn't even get to the menu to restart the last mission.
But I just downloaded the patch and the game fired right up. No Problem.

Launch 60GB, btw.

Glen-L-Ivet

Rockstar Patches GTA IV's PS3 Online Play

mikemike123 — Wed, 07 May 2008 14:00:12 MDT

Hasnt fixed the stupid lag, shooting some people and they refuse to die, yet some people die fine and I die before I can even look whos shooting me. Need to be able to see pings or something, I can imagine loads of foreign gits with 200 pings on there sponging. The game itself is pants, not a 10/10 by far its just your usual gta with a new engine.

mikemike123

Rockstar Patches GTA IV's PS3 Online Play

goatselove — Wed, 07 May 2008 13:57:29 MDT

On my PS3 60G it was close to impossible to play unless I became host. Couldn't even try Free Mode with over 5 others. Good Job Rockstar!

goatselove

Rockstar Patches GTA IV's PS3 Online Play

Chances — Wed, 07 May 2008 13:55:11 MDT

I have a 60gig, and the only problem I had was with my Friends list. Even when playing single player, if a friend logged on or off I would get a hard freeze.

I dunno if this'll fix that, but if it does I'll be a very happy Panda.

...just finished the storyline last night >.< damn and bless you, Rockstar, for making me care so much about these polygonal representations of people!

Chances

Rockstar Patches GTA IV's PS3 Online Play

Vistrix — Wed, 07 May 2008 13:50:54 MDT

What did Rockstar expect?

Gamespy are awful.

Vistrix

Rockstar Patches GTA IV's PS3 Online Play

GOD — Wed, 07 May 2008 13:45:34 MDT

@ kspraydad4: Yeah. i know how you feel. I wish someone would fix the 360, so i could play it and not worry about RROD.

GOD

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GOD — Wed, 07 May 2008 13:44:06 MDT

@ SnakeCL: your comment is unfounded. I know 8 people with launch machines and they have had no problems. The game did hang in some cases where the ps3 could not send and receive information to the gamespy servers due to NAT issues, or the servers being down. Nothing else causes these problems. There is nothing wrong with the PS3 just the programming. YO!

GOD

Rockstar Patches GTA IV's PS3 Online Play

kcb79 — Wed, 07 May 2008 13:39:52 MDT

The freezing issue that a lot of people are having is a complete system lock-up. The screen freezes and the sound continues. The PS button doesnt even work and the system has to be shutdown manually with the power touch sensor button. This has been mainly happening with launch consoles. I have taken my copy of the game to a friend's place with an 80gig and it works perfectly fine there.

kcb79

Rockstar Patches GTA IV's PS3 Online Play

ragtimepianist — Wed, 07 May 2008 13:38:52 MDT

Great, so now when are they going to fix all the 360 online issues I've been having. Random disconnects, not being able to play with friends... I'd love for that to go away.

ragtimepianist

Rockstar Patches GTA IV's PS3 Online Play

TedStokes168 — Wed, 07 May 2008 13:36:26 MDT

Im playing it on my PS3 debug console without a net connection and no issues what so ever, ive never had a freeze. When I finally get around to playing online on my retail unit console I hope that the issues are fixed. Since its taken me a week to get to 54% complete Rockstar has one week to sort out the game. Then im coming!

TedStokes168

Rockstar Patches GTA IV's PS3 Online Play

jfx316 — Wed, 07 May 2008 13:30:35 MDT

@Footix: yeah, but the perception is already there in the minds of people that the PS3 is a worthless machine. while it's a great system, (not without some flaws) the perception is that nothing sony does is not going to be good enough.

for what is worth, other then the loading freeze at the beginning, i haven't had any problems with the PS3 version. but hey, i've made th wrong choice in my gaming machine.

the game is unbelievably good so far, btw.......

jfx316

Rockstar Patches GTA IV's PS3 Online Play

Lazy — Wed, 07 May 2008 13:28:46 MDT

The patch deoesn't seem to help very much with online play. I still get lots of disconnects.

Has anyone else kept losing their money from online matches after logging out from multiplayer?

Lazy

Rockstar Patches GTA IV's PS3 Online Play

kspraydad4 — Wed, 07 May 2008 13:21:57 MDT

@DigiMish:

I'm sorry but a 'fix' a week late is not a 'good job'.

This company just raked in 500 Million in sales...they new that was coming...perhaps an investment in quality control would have been nice. Not to mention that this doesn't 'fix' this issue for many people still.

Console owners should be able to pay and play and not have to worry that borked games are being foisted on us. Remember that little tidbit that Kotaku never got to see the PSN version of GTA..now you know why, Rockstar KNEW it was borked and didn't give a shit.

kspraydad4

Rockstar Patches GTA IV's PS3 Online Play

Techguy1138 — Wed, 07 May 2008 13:03:42 MDT

@Footix:

This is actually being used as a chance to bash MS. People are comparing a software glitch on one game to the RROD because it gets massive attention.

It lets Sony fans get all defensive and it gave 360 fans a day to rub it in their face.

It's a lot like the Yankee versus Red Sox rivalry in baseball. Two massively rich corporations spending tons of money to win while a smaller competitor goes on to win it all.

Techguy1138

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thebigsmoke — Wed, 07 May 2008 12:53:53 MDT

@badasscat:

Consider the rumor substantiated as I'm another early-editiong 60GB which won't play for more than 3 minutes without a complete lock-up network enabled or not.

I'm with SnakeCL towards thinking the EE must play some part in this, as there's absolutely no other common denominator between people with issues (the network-related freeze issues muddied the waters substantially, true).

I have no doubt that poor folk like SnakeCL and I are in the very small minority of GTA4 players... but even if we were .5% that would still be well over 25,000 players now who don't just have a "diminished" game experience... we have *no* game experience. Hence the frustration.

There's only so many times you can re-play the first mission without starting to get wistful!

thebigsmoke

Rockstar Patches GTA IV's PS3 Online Play

j.howlett — Wed, 07 May 2008 12:48:55 MDT

@ phrequency: yeah i was still connected to psn. i also just checked got the update and noticed a screen of fine print about connecting to servers or something. hard to see this time of say with sun light pouring through the window directly on my tv

j.howlett

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Footix — Wed, 07 May 2008 12:45:16 MDT

I am sad to see all the anti Sony banter regarding this. I could not use Live for a week straight last year, and I have to pay for that service. (The limited time only free gift of Undertow was a slap in the face to me, so I do not consider that a true apology.)

I could not play GTA online on my launch day 60GB PS3 for one day this weekend before the issue was fixed on PS3, and that was awesome. Not only that, but then three days later a patch was released. Now that is what I call service.

Footix

Rockstar Patches GTA IV's PS3 Online Play

Ishmae1 — Wed, 07 May 2008 12:42:01 MDT

LOL, so the issue was Gamespy's servers, not GTA IV.

Ishmae1

Rockstar Patches GTA IV's PS3 Online Play

sascha23 — Wed, 07 May 2008 12:40:52 MDT

60gb launch system here.

No issues before, but I think the patch is mandatory, so I'll be getting it. ;)

sascha23

Rockstar Patches GTA IV's PS3 Online Play

SnakeCL — Wed, 07 May 2008 12:37:07 MDT

@db9:

Ah, mine is Oct manufacture (I assume as stockpiling for launch), and it goes anywhere from 3-15 minutes before it freezes during gameplay. Disabling internet connection, disabling autosaving, the whole 9 yards, has failed to fix anything.

I think part of the problem is that manufacture dates aren't taken into account, not to mention the people who are saying they fixed their freeze via disabling the internet. That's a completely different beast from the early-adopter freeze.

SnakeCL

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SigmundTheSeaMonster — Wed, 07 May 2008 12:35:29 MDT

Infinity Ward had (still has) major issues with Demonware's server load during CoD4 play (peaks like Fri-Sun and holidays).

I would rather have more (servers) bandwidth than not enough. And after raking in $500,000,000.00, I would hope this wouldn't have been a problem.

Atleast MS attempted to double the capacity...

SigmundTheSeaMonster

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-EDGE- — Wed, 07 May 2008 12:32:56 MDT

I'm kinda glad I held off buying the game on launch day. I will probably pick it up now that they have some of the kinks worked out. I have to admit, I'm a bit rusty on the series as the last one I played was Liberty City on PSP. But many people have said this is a good entry to get back into the game. For me personally the GTA formula was feeling a bit stale, so I hope this does indeed breathe new life into it. I'm looking forward to enjoying the game from what I've read and seen.

-EDGE-

Rockstar Patches GTA IV's PS3 Online Play

chrisgriner — Wed, 07 May 2008 12:31:54 MDT

good news, its reassuring that they do care and are working to fix peoples problems.

even if some of the higher ups seem to think every thing's been peachy keen..
[kotaku.com]

chrisgriner

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db9 — Wed, 07 May 2008 12:29:30 MDT

@SnakeCL: Mine was manufactured in December of 06. I guess it is possible that there are hardware issues afoot; though I still find it unlikely. My guess was that the issue was caused when the game loaded some cell phone related code that was connecting to the multiplayer servers (loading screens and in-game).

Some other blogs are reporting freezing still after the patch is installed though and some other older posts mention bricked 360s and PS3.

db9

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phrequency — Wed, 07 May 2008 12:29:08 MDT

@j.howlett: is it actively connected to the PSN? at least for me, it didn't lock up if i disabled the internet on the ps3.

phrequency

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enewtabie — Wed, 07 May 2008 12:24:36 MDT

@duckmouth:
Gamespy is the server that Rockstar is using for MP.

enewtabie

Rockstar Patches GTA IV's PS3 Online Play

j.howlett — Wed, 07 May 2008 12:22:42 MDT

i have a 60 gig and it never locked up on me. but i haven't played a whole lot. i keep restarting old save to get the hang of the controls and i can't read the on screen instructions or the cell phone. and i find it funny how some people are now saying good job rockstar when some were saying sony fucked up before

j.howlett

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TitillatedOcelot — Wed, 07 May 2008 12:21:53 MDT

@greeble: same here. killing the internet connection did the trick nicely.

TitillatedOcelot

Rockstar Patches GTA IV's PS3 Online Play

SnakeCL — Wed, 07 May 2008 12:21:48 MDT

@db9:

Is your system a launch system? There are two types of freezes. The infinite loading freeze, and the "in-gameplay" freeze. The infinite loading freeze is network related. The in-gameplay freeze seems to have no rhyme or reason, and effects what seem to be a majority of launch 60 and 20 gig systems. Its possible that the chips sourced in these systems are slightly different from the later-production 60's.

SnakeCL

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lament — Wed, 07 May 2008 12:21:37 MDT

I hear this problem also fixes the issue of not being able to load your last saved game if the Internet connection is enabled when you first start the game.

I'll find out tonight when I download it.

lament

Rockstar Patches GTA IV's PS3 Online Play

Luckyjim — Wed, 07 May 2008 12:21:25 MDT

@Engineer_This:

Hope so. I'll try again later.

Luckyjim

Rockstar Patches GTA IV's PS3 Online Play

duckmouth — Wed, 07 May 2008 12:21:09 MDT

What is GameSpy and what does it have to do with GTA IV?

So much for Zelnick's bullshit comments about there being absolutely no problems.

duckmouth

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slomo788 — Wed, 07 May 2008 12:17:06 MDT

@greeble: Well I'm no engineer but when playing PS2 games we can't access any network features...

slomo788

Rockstar Patches GTA IV's PS3 Online Play

db9 — Wed, 07 May 2008 12:16:31 MDT

@severeon: I have a 60 GB with EE and the only issues I ever had was eternal loading screens which signing out of the PSN fixed. I stand by my theory that all of this was caused by bad error handling in the case of network timeouts. If some rockstar tech guy told you that it had to do with the EE just remember the 12 step fix those same guys said and then re-think their credibility. They were just shooting into the air hoping to hit something.

db9

Rockstar Patches GTA IV's PS3 Online Play

artofwar420 — Wed, 07 May 2008 12:15:05 MDT

Let us see. *Downloading*

artofwar420

Rockstar Patches GTA IV's PS3 Online Play

Engineer_This — Wed, 07 May 2008 12:13:39 MDT

@Luckyjim:
My guess is the people dropping out don't have the patch installed yet. They were probably already in the game when it was released or something. Maybe...

Engineer_This

Rockstar Patches GTA IV's PS3 Online Play

Luckyjim — Wed, 07 May 2008 12:11:04 MDT

It doesn't seemed to have solved my multiplayer problems. Even with the patch I still get that 'one or more persons has disconnected from the server' (or something like that) every 5 seconds.

Luckyjim

Rockstar Patches GTA IV's PS3 Online Play

Engineer_This — Wed, 07 May 2008 12:11:01 MDT

^That was intended to be a reply to badasscat...

Engineer_This

Rockstar Patches GTA IV's PS3 Online Play

Engineer_This — Wed, 07 May 2008 12:10:24 MDT

I'm in the same boat as you: 60GB PS3 and disabling the internet connection fixed the problems with the game.

Engineer_This

Rockstar Patches GTA IV's PS3 Online Play

Crazyeyez15 — Wed, 07 May 2008 12:09:12 MDT

@hooligans: i remember using it for stars battle front 2 on the ps2 and it was terrible but for gta4 it is really good... except when the server is down entirely which hasn't been for over a week now.

Crazyeyez15

Rockstar Patches GTA IV's PS3 Online Play

foxhound417 — Wed, 07 May 2008 12:07:59 MDT

I haven't been having any problems playing online with my 60 gig PS3. Or with the freezing. But it is cool that Rockstar responded to the people who were having issues and are actually helping them out.

foxhound417

Rockstar Patches GTA IV's PS3 Online Play

hooligans — Wed, 07 May 2008 12:06:48 MDT

Gamespy? seriously?

Its been a long time since i've used gamespy(for pc gaming) and i remember it as the most horride service i've ever used for gaming.

hooligans

Rockstar Patches GTA IV's PS3 Online Play

Sparx — Wed, 07 May 2008 12:05:52 MDT

@Yukichu:

Ditto, mine works perfectly as well, and it was still fairly early when I picked it up.

Sparx

Rockstar Patches GTA IV's PS3 Online Play

Revolutionary — Wed, 07 May 2008 12:04:26 MDT

The guys at GAF are reporting that it doesn't fix the freeze...

Revolutionary

Rockstar Patches GTA IV's PS3 Online Play

greeble — Wed, 07 May 2008 12:04:06 MDT

@severeon: I have a 60G with the emotion engine chip and I couldn't get passed the intro till I unplugged the ethernet. After that it ran fine, no lag or freezes in the 10 hours I've played. So yeah I think there is a pretty good chance this will fix the intro freeze as well. (Also the ps2 chip incompat theory doesn't sound right to this computer guy. Those chips should remain unused unless playing a ps2 game so I don't think this should be an issue.

greeble

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severeon — Wed, 07 May 2008 12:01:47 MDT

@db9: Well if the patch had helped, maybe. Seeing as I have talked to take two support and they said it was the Emotion Engine that is inside the older models, I am leaning towards that.

severeon

Rockstar Patches GTA IV's PS3 Online Play

Yukichu — Wed, 07 May 2008 12:01:41 MDT

I have a 60 GB PS3 and GTA4 worked just fine without a hitch. Guess I was lucky. On the other hand, I don't think it's the best game ever. I wanted to pick up a barrel to smash someone with it and couldn't. Same with the TV set. Really, it's just GTA3 with more, more, more. I do like how you can get away from the cops though. For all the things you can do, I feel bad for all the things I can't do... like actually have a fist fight that didn't look totally retarded.

Yukichu

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badasscat — Wed, 07 May 2008 11:59:09 MDT

@severeon: 60GB PS3 here... signing out of the network worked for me.

This sounds like another unsubstantiated internet rumor.

badasscat

Rockstar Patches GTA IV's PS3 Online Play

cybereality — Wed, 07 May 2008 11:58:23 MDT

Damn, I feel sorry for the guys that can't get past the intro. What a tease!

cybereality

Rockstar Patches GTA IV's PS3 Online Play

Woodwater — Wed, 07 May 2008 11:57:55 MDT

Good job Rockstar. Even though I didn't really have any issues with it.

Woodwater

Rockstar Patches GTA IV's PS3 Online Play

Infallible — Wed, 07 May 2008 11:57:00 MDT

This is pretty nice. Now I can stop forgetting that GTA IV actually has online play and hope that it actually works now.

Infallible

Rockstar Patches GTA IV's PS3 Online Play

MlstrmMephisto — Wed, 07 May 2008 11:55:44 MDT

Hell yeah!

MlstrmMephisto

Rockstar Patches GTA IV's PS3 Online Play

DigiMish — Wed, 07 May 2008 11:53:41 MDT

Holy shit, that was pretty damn fast. Good job, Rockstar.

DigiMish

Rockstar Patches GTA IV's PS3 Online Play

Puck — Wed, 07 May 2008 11:52:06 MDT

Can we get something worked on now so that we can get into some larger-playercount games? Playing games with less than 10 people gets old fast, especially modes like "Turf War" which becomes a lot more fun with increased numbers. 2v2s are flat out boring. I'd love to have some sort of browser and be able to join games after they're started, maybe i've been too spoiled by PC games after all these years.

Puck

Rockstar Patches GTA IV's PS3 Online Play

db9 — Wed, 07 May 2008 11:50:28 MDT

@severeon: Do you think its possible that those hardware issues are related to the networking components of the old PS3s?

db9

Rockstar Patches GTA IV's PS3 Online Play

HamThePharoah — Wed, 07 May 2008 11:49:34 MDT

@severeon: Correct. From what I've heard, some 20/60GB PS3 that have the Backwards Compatibility chips are conflicting with the game. I hope they fix this too.

HamThePharoah

Rockstar Patches GTA IV's PS3 Online Play

Scrapple — Wed, 07 May 2008 11:49:08 MDT

does the patch require a 15 minute hard drive install prior to actually playing it

/end sarcasm

Scrapple

Rockstar Patches GTA IV's PS3 Online Play

UFO — Wed, 07 May 2008 11:48:42 MDT

Nice one, i must admit i didnt think it would be out so quick.

UFO

Rockstar Patches GTA IV's PS3 Online Play

severeon — Wed, 07 May 2008 11:45:10 MDT

@db9: Nope, only for the majority of the issues. There still are quite a few people who cannot get past the intro due to a hardware incompatibility.

severeon

Rockstar Patches GTA IV's PS3 Online Play

enewtabie — Wed, 07 May 2008 11:44:05 MDT

They must have confirmed just I sent it too..lol 18mb patch btw.

enewtabie

Rockstar Patches GTA IV's PS3 Online Play

severeon — Wed, 07 May 2008 11:44:02 MDT

This does not fix the freeze issue that prevents people from playing past the intro. Seeing as the issue that I am describing is NOT caused by the internet connection, but instead an incompatibility with a group of launch consoles.

severeon

Rockstar Patches GTA IV's PS3 Online Play

ShirtGuyDom — Wed, 07 May 2008 11:43:42 MDT

Yay.

ShirtGuyDom

Rockstar Patches GTA IV's PS3 Online Play

Abriael — Wed, 07 May 2008 11:42:35 MDT

It's very probable that the patch will solve the freeze issue as well, since it seems to be directly caused by the connection with the PSN. I actually never saw the freeze again after the first day of play, so I wouldn't be able to tell.

Abriael

Rockstar Patches GTA IV's PS3 Online Play

[NbK] alam0sh! — Wed, 07 May 2008 11:42:30 MDT

About time...

[NbK] alam0sh!

Rockstar Patches GTA IV's PS3 Online Play

db9 — Wed, 07 May 2008 11:42:04 MDT

"I still hope they get to the bottom of the freeze up issue that some PS3 and 360 owners are having problems with." This IS the solution for those problems; at least for the PS3 people.

db9

Rockstar Patches GTA IV's PS3 Online Play

Bluejuan85 — Wed, 07 May 2008 11:41:39 MDT

*downloading now*

Bluejuan85

Rockstar Patches GTA IV's PS3 Online Play

slomo788 — Wed, 07 May 2008 11:40:19 MDT

Finally! Thanks for the heads up Brian!

slomo788