Grand Theft Auto IV De-Freezing Fixes For PLAYSTATION 3 From Take Two
Written by Alexis Morgenstern
Saturday, 03 May 2008
Those of you experiencing freeze-ups or lockups on the PLAYSTATION 3 release of Grand Theft Auto IV, Take-Two Interactive has a 12-step solution. It's pretty lengthy, but hopefully that fixes any issues. See the Take-Two Support website for help for other issues.
From Take-Two:
Please run through the following, go through in order.
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.
Let us know if that works for those of you having problems. From my firsthand experience, I haven't had any glitches (with several hours play time) on GTA IV on the PLAYSTATION 3 (60 GB).
The 360 does not rule all... Written by Guest on 2008-05-04 19:51:04In fact, the only thing it does rule is the kingdom of first next gen console released.
The PS3 does not suck, it just happens to be marketed towards the Japanese & Euros more than Americans (because we all know Americans love shooting things mindlessly, then going off to play a game of American Football (I'm looking at YOU Madden! With your releasing of the same game every year.))
who is suing? Written by Guest on 2008-05-04 19:51:24Get a life. Put the game down for a week or so, go out, get laid and come back to it when the problem is resolved. As it happens I've only had problems online, but I'm capable of finding something else to keep me occupied until there's a fix. My point is that its not the end of the world if u can't play GTA. Try socialising with people, save yourself the time and expense of a court case that is going to make you look like an idiot
Rockstar Sucks Written by Guest on 2008-05-04 07:52:48I hate companies who are taking advantage now of online services they release games ASAP with bugs knowing that its all fine and that we can update the game later with patches. This wasnt possible on last gen consoles and games had to be released properly!!
Rockstar is one company who has taken full advantage of this feature and used us! They earlier did it with Bully for xbox360 and now with GTAIV.
Ive had problems ever since i tried to play online. I played single player game for 12hours no problems. I try playing online and i have loads of problems cant even access single player anymore. After spending hours trying to fix this with various hacks such as the one mentioned above, I found out that I can only play the single player game when I dont sign in to my online account!
I just phoned into take 2 games customer support and guess what she told me?> Dont play multiplayer, id advise you keep playing single player and we are aware of this problem and it MIGHT be sorted.
Crap customer service, crap company! But good game if it had no bugs!
Anyone want to contact me here:
360 rules all! Written by Guest on 2008-05-03 20:39:23Ps3 sucks hard.
I'm suing Written by Guest on 2008-05-03 19:12:30I'm working towards filing a class action lawsuit against Rockstar/Take Two. Anyone who is afflicted with the freezing problem that would like to join the case, email me at
question? Written by Guest on 2008-05-03 16:14:14i have a question that in ps3 the gtaIV is already installed or we have to install it?And If we have to install it so please tell me the way how to install?
B.S. solution Written by Guest on 2008-05-03 14:03:23That is not a solution, that's a hack. Rockstar owes a refund to those who purchased the game and got a glitchy mess.
