We've set up a network wide poll that will be shared among Joystiq, PS3 Fanboy, and Xbox 360 Fanboy to get an idea of how widespread the problem is. Let us know if you've had any issues and don't forget to detail your problems in the comments.
We've set up a network wide poll that will be shared among Joystiq, PS3 Fanboy, and Xbox 360 Fanboy to get an idea of how widespread the problem is. Let us know if you've had any issues and don't forget to detail your problems in the comments.
Reader Comments (59)
Posted: Apr 30th 2008 5:43PM (Unverified) said
The only problem I've had so far is random disconnects from Free Mode games (haven't had a chance to test it much on the other game types). In the 3 hours I played last night I must have disconnected 5 times. It's not something that usually happens to me in other games, so I doubt it's network related. However, I'm hoping it is and it clears up soon.
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Posted: Apr 30th 2008 5:45PM Gashlycrumb said
been playing for about 7 and a half hours and i've only had it freeze once in singleplayer. i was doing a taxi mission and my car just stopped moving but everything around me kept going, like the rest of the city went about its business. so that's been my only problem. but i havent got into the multiplayer yet.
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Posted: Apr 30th 2008 8:20PM Gashlycrumb said
haha, nah, a few seconds after that i got the "cant read disc message". but later when my first car did break down on me, i thought it was frozen again. but then i heard the engine trying to turn over and thought, wow, thats crazy they added that too.
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Posted: Apr 30th 2008 5:48PM (Unverified) said
Every single PS3 owner is having problems because the online is 100% broken. Won't stop them from coming here and pretending to own a 360 and saying they have problems though.
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Posted: Apr 30th 2008 5:50PM (Unverified) said
Several issues.
- Missions wouldn't start when i went into them/wouldn't finish and i had to reload.
- Multiplayer is broken in so many ways, i really hope they patch the problems, amount of quitters in cops and robbers is stupid.
Had to restart my console once or twice as well due to freezes, also had some guy asking on Live if others where crashing a lot so i guess he had problems. :P Good game but the multiplayer is a bit arg, i like it just needs patching.
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- Missions wouldn't start when i went into them/wouldn't finish and i had to reload.
- Multiplayer is broken in so many ways, i really hope they patch the problems, amount of quitters in cops and robbers is stupid.
Had to restart my console once or twice as well due to freezes, also had some guy asking on Live if others where crashing a lot so i guess he had problems. :P Good game but the multiplayer is a bit arg, i like it just needs patching.
Posted: Apr 30th 2008 5:58PM (Unverified) said
I'm having problems BECAUSE of GTA. Tried to play Halo 3 last night but shortly after the midnight launches in the UK, suddenly nothing was working! Couldn't play any Halo!
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Posted: Apr 30th 2008 7:08PM (Unverified) said
Because many 360 owners, like me, have experienced problems as well.
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Posted: Apr 30th 2008 9:24PM (Unverified) said
Who knows. I'm on my 17th hour of actual game playing (and well over 21 hours of the game actually running) and I haven't had a single problem, not even a minor glitch. The game is perfect on the Xbox 360.
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Posted: May 1st 2008 5:36PM (Unverified) said
You might not have noticed, but it's a Weblogs Inc-wide poll. They're linking to it from PS3FB and Joystiq as well.
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Posted: Apr 30th 2008 6:03PM mcwattersm said
I've gotten the "Disk cannot be read" error twice.
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Posted: May 1st 2008 11:13AM (Unverified) said
I got a "PS3 fanboys pretending xbox 360 problems" error
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Posted: Apr 30th 2008 6:07PM (Unverified) said
well i had a bit of a problem wen i first got the game. i put it in and it kept saying disc read error. this is exaclty wat happned wen i got halo3 so i was ready to kill someone. after trying it a couple of times, it finally worked and havnt had a problem since. in total ive play 5 hrs sooo...
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Posted: Apr 30th 2008 6:12PM (Unverified) said
No problem here, because someone had the brilliant idea of delaying it's release in México, so I don't have it yet even though I paid it in full 2 weeks + ago. If I'm lucky I'll have it next Saturday, as is the case for everyone who preorder it in the country.
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Posted: Apr 30th 2008 6:13PM (Unverified) said
The only problems I've had was when starting a new round in Cops N Crooks the loading screen would not end and also the same thing happened when I was trying to start a free mode game in party mode.
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Posted: Apr 30th 2008 6:19PM (Unverified) said
Darn, I went to the PS3 fanboy website and voted "Yes, and I use the 60GB PS3"...but it knew I already voted :(
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Posted: Apr 30th 2008 6:25PM (Unverified) said
The only problem is when I try to play online, 3 out of 5 times, i can't get past the black starting game screen. But my other team mates do, and I can talk to them, so my only option is to either wait the time limit out or restart the box.
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Posted: Apr 30th 2008 6:40PM (Unverified) said
i have the 40 gig ps3 and the game freezes on me too. also i cant access the online games. i hope they correct this problem soon!!
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Posted: May 5th 2008 4:46PM (Unverified) said
I had the exact same problem of it getting stuck when loading and needing to reboot. Happened about three times in...oh, about a three hour span.
Not on the hour or anything, I didn't time it.
Other than that, it's just gameplay flaws like clipping, pop up, a lock on system that randomly chooses to ever lock on and people on the street getting stuck and walking into walls and stuff.
My favorite moment was when me and a friend were in free mode and we watched a police car flying across the air up high.
It looked like the game must have glitched in a way that it put a police car skin where it should have been an airplane.
Weird, but entertaining.
Despite the problems, good game.
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Not on the hour or anything, I didn't time it.
Other than that, it's just gameplay flaws like clipping, pop up, a lock on system that randomly chooses to ever lock on and people on the street getting stuck and walking into walls and stuff.
My favorite moment was when me and a friend were in free mode and we watched a police car flying across the air up high.
It looked like the game must have glitched in a way that it put a police car skin where it should have been an airplane.
Weird, but entertaining.
Despite the problems, good game.
Posted: Apr 30th 2008 8:22PM (Unverified) said
I too had a never ending load screen twice on a Vlad mission - i think the second one. I tried it twice with the same issue, then went a did a little jacob mission and came back to it - no problem. Thats the only hiccup ive encountered on the 360 version.
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Posted: Apr 30th 2008 8:26PM (Unverified) said
I have had problems with the Multiplayer on the Xbox 360, it won't let me play at all besides a non-ranked match. I also have had it freeze a few times on the loading screen. I wonder if we'll encounter any of the glitch save spots like the PS2 games had.
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Posted: Apr 30th 2008 8:28PM The Fiasco said
I got a Disk Read Error twice. Thank God for auto save though!
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Posted: Apr 30th 2008 8:32PM lyingit said
I got the same issue as Richard...
can't remember the mission, but it was about the 10th one I did - failed, tried to retry and was stuck loading for a good while...
although I didn't have to turn my system off, a quick visit to the dash and a relaunch of the game worked just fine
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can't remember the mission, but it was about the 10th one I did - failed, tried to retry and was stuck loading for a good while...
although I didn't have to turn my system off, a quick visit to the dash and a relaunch of the game worked just fine
Posted: Apr 30th 2008 8:42PM Fox City said
I've only had one freeze and it was coming out of the multiplayer tutorial. Other than that, I haven't had any problems so I checked "No problems." My 360 does stuff like that every once in awhile, so I'm not gonna hold it against it- if it kept happening though, that would be annoying...
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Posted: Apr 30th 2008 9:06PM (Unverified) said
My intro frozed a couple of times but after the third time it worked fine. Haven't seen any other problems.
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Posted: May 1st 2008 9:49AM (Unverified) said
Freezes after playing for 2-3 minutes everytime.
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Posted: May 1st 2008 12:32AM Softserve said
I actually had one problem (Xbox 360)... Basically, it seemed at one point like it was loading forever. It had to have been well over a minute and a half. I happened to go into the dashboard while I was waiting and the game eventually did load the next area and I continued playing.
I've never had the problem since.
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I've never had the problem since.
Posted: May 1st 2008 1:28AM Kamal said
The annoying problem I am encountering is that sometimes the character voice volume level is TOO low! I searched for it online and found other are having a similar problem. Changing the audio to stereo (from surround sound) did not help. Anyone help this Niko? :)
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Posted: May 1st 2008 4:34AM PepeSilvia said
What's happening? It's freezing? I left that game on for 12 hours yesterday, nothing happened. I played for about 8 of those hours (dispersed through the 12 hours). Only thing I noticed was that when I jumped in a car with someone who had a crazy slow connection, it lagged up my connection too.
Aside from that I've had no glitch problems.
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Aside from that I've had no glitch problems.
Posted: May 1st 2008 5:05AM (Unverified) said
My game has only crashed once while it was loading the "Concrete Jungle" mission (Luckily it autosaves :p). Other than that it has been pretty much perfect. Even online, I seem to be getting a lag free experience despite the fact that it's only a couple of days old.
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Posted: May 1st 2008 4:57AM meth0dical said
12hrs of single player, 4 or 5hrs of multiplayer, not a single problem. no freezing, no disconnects, not a single hiccup.
im happy to be a part of this group and i hope it stays this way
*knocks on wood*
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im happy to be a part of this group and i hope it stays this way
*knocks on wood*
Posted: May 1st 2008 7:28AM Kraken Kane said
I have had the game freeze on me while in a mini-game
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Posted: May 1st 2008 8:11AM (Unverified) said
Just once on the 360, the never ending loading screen. Good thing I'd just saved.
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Posted: May 1st 2008 8:17AM Enzemo said
Now believe it or not. But when I was playing GTA IV last night my 360 got the RROD.
It turned itself off and when I turned it back on it was fine. And yes, it was the 3 lights.
This has never happened with any other game.
Also when I play online on GTA my headset usually doesn't work ¬¬
Game has frozen numorous times also, such as when trying to load a mission and when trying on a hat in the Russian store :P
I do hope a patch will be released, post haste.
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It turned itself off and when I turned it back on it was fine. And yes, it was the 3 lights.
This has never happened with any other game.
Also when I play online on GTA my headset usually doesn't work ¬¬
Game has frozen numorous times also, such as when trying to load a mission and when trying on a hat in the Russian store :P
I do hope a patch will be released, post haste.
Posted: May 2nd 2008 10:43AM (Unverified) said
Same here.
Played for about 60 mins, then the screen freezed.
Restart. RROD. Thank you.
Never ever MS again.
Posted: May 1st 2008 8:25AM (Unverified) said
So how do you even play multiplayer games? I've only played the game a few hours so far and haven't seen any multiplayer options. Do I have to unlock it or something?
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