Grand Theft Auto 4 patch: multiplayer and freezing fixes promised

by Christopher Grant on Jun 23rd 2008 12:39PM

Nearly two months after dragging reviewers out of their parent's cars and beating perfect 10s out of them, Rockstar has released a patch for Grand Theft Auto 4 targeting both the Xbox 360 and PlayStation 3 platforms. This patch notably addresses the oft-heard early complaints of "multiplayer connectivity issues" and "freezes during certain modes." There's a full list of 11 total fixes so, if you've been having trouble getting things done in Liberty City, Rockstar wants to offer you an apology and recommends taking this patch out for a test drive.

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Tags: BreakingNews, Grand-Theft-Auto-IV, GTAIV, PS3, Rockstar, Xbox-360

Reader Comments (60)

except that this is the SECOND patch for ps3.

Nice try though. But the ps3 multiplayer had launch problems because of the dedicated servers that had to have the bugs worked out. 360 is p2p mostly so that problem did not exist at launch.

I can say that again!

*sigh* I hate this reply comment system, I fail.

i only ever did the intro to multi from the phone. i could barely make out what it said so i just played the story. never had a problem on my 60gig hardware bc ps3. i hope when i put the game back in it dosen't start to freak.

Have the ps3 version and have never had it crash once. I haven't beaten it yet though, I still take days off to play GT5 or Warhawk.

I had no problems before this, but I installed the patch today and now after starting a game the video gets screwed up and the screen goes black until i restart the xbox. Anyone else have this happen?

D - I agree with you. I posted a thread here about this problem: http://www.gtaforums.com/index.php?showtopic=358849

I am hoping others who have noticed a serious degradation in gameplay, performance and increase in system/games freezing up and problems overall due to this horrible patch will come forward.

When playing online (ps3) 75% of the time when invited to mates games it says "game session no longer exists". Any ideas?
I used to always have the problem where as soon as i would connect to an online game it would say "connection lost to one or more players" but i got a router and now thats its wireless i dont have any probs.

okay, GTA 4 Multiplayer is almost completely broken. I wish they never included it as I love everything else about the game. I just attempted to connect to a ranked deathmatch game over a dozen times and disconnected even before entering the lobby once. The same is true for quickmatch deathmatch. What a waste of time. I was however to get into a lobby with a handful of other players that sounded like preteens talking crap to each other only to be disconnected. It's broken Rockstar, fix it.