The following is the suggestion given to PS3 owners. It includes things such as turning off auto save and controller runble.
I know its not the 360 but I would try to do the equivalent of each step till microsoft comes out with something.
1) Delete the game's install data. This is done via the PS3 options. Scroll along the cross media bar until you reach the 'Game' tab, now scroll up / down the list until you reach the 'Game Data Utility' Enter this and locate the GTA IV option. Highlight this and press triangle once, from the menu select Delete. This will delete the game's install information.
2) Delete the game's save files. To delete any save files you will need to do the following. Scroll along the cross media bar until you reach the 'Game' tab, now scroll up / down the list until you reach the 'Save Data Utility' Enter this and locate the GTA IV option. Highlight this and press triangle once, and from the context menu select Delete.
3) Disable your Internet connectivity for the PS3. To do this scroll along the cross media bar until you reach the 'Settings' tab, now scroll up / down the list until you reach the 'Network Settings'. Now scroll down to the Internet connection option and press x, now select the disable option. Once this has been done unplug the ethernet cable if you are connecting to the Internet if using this.
4) Disable the console's information board. 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 'Information Board', highlight this and press triangle. From the menu select 'Do not display' Press X to confirm this.
5) Disable Media Server functionality. Scroll to Settings, now scroll up / down to 'Network Settings' select Media Server connection. Once this has been done press triangle and change the option Disabled.
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'.
7 ) Turn off the PS3 screen saver. Use the cross media bar to scroll to 'Settings', select 'Display Settings'. Now highlight 'Screensaver' and set this to 'Do not use'.
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.
9) Once restarted please try the game again, you will be prompted to reinstall.
Once the game has started please turn off the following features:
1) The game's auto-save. Press Start, Game, and locate the Auto-save option. Turn this off.
2) Turn off the game's flicker filter. Press Start, Display and locate the Flicker Filter option. Turn this off.
3) Turn off the controller vibration feature. Press Start, Controls and locate the vibration option. Turn this off.
If that doesn't solve the problem, Take-Two allows tech support users to reopen their cases within seven days.
jumanji311 360-HQ Newbie
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Posted: Fri May 02, 2008 9:28 pm Post subject:
I have 15GB of free space on my hard drive....I am going to buy a cooling fan to place underneath and see if that works...Its probably my last option otherwise I will just return the game where I bought it and buy a new one elsewhere...Thanks for the suggestions and the help it was greatly appreciated...
EXLand 360-HQ Newbie
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Posted: Fri May 02, 2008 11:59 pm Post subject:
Same thing happens on our 360. My brother cleared the cache and it still locks up.
gamexxover Moderator
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Posted: Sat May 03, 2008 12:34 am Post subject:
Not sure if it may be a heat issue freezing up more sensitive systems. I have the top off of my 360 so I can have a desk fan blow directly onto the heat sinks, on most all my games I keep the fan on low and it keeps the heat sinks nice and cool, luke warm at the most. But I played GTA IV today and just for the hell of it felt the heat sinks and they were pretty hot, not burn your skin hot but hot, and that was with the fan on it on low, I have to put the fan on high to keep the sinks as cool as they are with other games using low fan setting.
I would be interested to see you guys with temp guages on your GPU and CPU to post your GTA IV temps compaired to your other games. Is GTA realy heating the system up or is it just my system.
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Posted: Sat May 03, 2008 4:27 am Post subject:
did any of you guys try what i said delete your game save since you are not so far into the game or do u even have a game save for it yet. then try playing it. _________________________________________________________ The one the only Scarface!!
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Posted: Sat May 03, 2008 4:55 am Post subject:
All I know is I have a 3 year old 360 and it plays GTA 4 fine even for an extended period of time.
I think your right, it must be the heat sensitive 360s so I would do all you can to keep it cool before the system fries playing GTA 4. _________________________________________________________ 10% VIP Discount (Coupon Code: HQ-VIP-001 ) - Signup for web hosting at www.TweakedHosting.com/clients/aff.php?aff=004 and earn the HQ network of sites recurring income!
If you can play oblivion then you should be able to play GTA IV. Oblivion uses more processing power than GTA IV. _________________________________________________________
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Posted: Sat May 03, 2008 1:01 pm Post subject:
Every time I hear or play GTA, It reminds me of this:
NICE! i was watching that clip on youtube yesterday man. LOL
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Posted: Sat May 03, 2008 2:51 pm Post subject:
dartht33bagger wrote:
If you can play oblivion then you should be able to play GTA IV. Oblivion uses more processing power than GTA IV.
You might be right since GTA 4 is no graphical power house. The thing is GTA 4 is doing more with lighting and effects so this may heat the GPU up more. I was thinking similar about Oblivion as well since that is one large ass open game. The thing is, there is far more going on in GTA 4 in lets say a 100 yard square than in Oblivion so I might just give the nod to GTA 4 on using more system resources at any given time. I never had heat problems on Oblivion but in the beginning everyone had freezes and lockups. It was fixed with an update. Maybe there will be updates for GTA 4 too. _________________________________________________________ 10% VIP Discount (Coupon Code: HQ-VIP-001 ) - Signup for web hosting at www.TweakedHosting.com/clients/aff.php?aff=004 and earn the HQ network of sites recurring income!
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