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[MaizeRage25]

Played last night for about 2 hours without any problem. Boot up tonight and the game froze within 10 minutes.

I switched over to Killzone 2, which I am now starting to get into, but disappointing that I can't play Uncharted now. Hoping for a patch sometime next week.

 

[Zzoram]

I didn't say you should or that is an excuse, but it mostly affects people who just had their PS3 for a few days (because these are the ones who have now began to play Uncharted), so your PS3 is still "fresh" I would assume, besides to copying save games you may not even need a backup or only a small one.
That would reduce the whole process to 5 minutes or so.
I just think in these cases it would be worth a try instead of waiting for a firmware fix (also, it seems that this is not the new firmware but the update process itself, which - for whatever reason - corrupted some data. Though that would not go along with the theory of pre 3.00 saves)

Definately not. My save file from before fw3.0 worked great from Act 4-22. However, my new game after fw3.0 on Crushing crashes in Act 2. It's definitely the firmware, not the update.

 

[Zzoram]

So I just tried playing again. It crashed as soon as I loaded my save. I'm on Act 2 Road to El Dorado, at the door that Sully opens for you by pulling the chain, and you wedge it open with a cart so he can follow.

Is this where everyone else is crashing?

 

[MaizeRage25]

So I just tried playing again. It crashed as soon as I loaded my save. I'm on Act 2 Road to El Dorado, at the door that Sully opens for you by pulling the chain, and you wedge it open with a cart so he can follow.

Is this where everyone else is crashing?

Last time I tried it froze on the loading screen (spinning coin in the lower right-hand corner).

 

[Rapping Granny]

So I just tried playing again. It crashed as soon as I loaded my save. I'm on Act 2 Road to El Dorado, at the door that Sully opens for you by pulling the chain, and you wedge it open with a cart so he can follow.

Is this where everyone else is crashing?

It froze on me in act 2 as well, soon as Sully stops talking at the beginning.

 

[stephendedalus]

Saw this thread last night, and started playing Uncharted immediately afterward. Finished the play through this afternoon with one minor hiccup. The game always locks up at the part where the descendants start chasing you down a corridor Crash Bandicoot style. It has done this since release for me though. Other than that no problems.

EDIT: 60gb launch unit, fw3.0 installed

 

[Zzoram]

I just created a new game, got to the same point in Act 2 where I need Sully to open the door for me, and it froze again. Does Uncharted install data? Can that be wiped without losing save game data?

I really hope Naughty Dog/Sony acknowledge and address this issue. Uncharted has become unplayable for me, which is very disappointing.

 

[Korigama]

Just got my own copy today, started a new game after downloading the trophy patch. Currently up to chapter 4, no problems here. 60GB w/3.0.

 

[Zzoram]

Just got my own copy today, started a new game after downloading the trophy patch. Currently up to chapter 4, no problems here. 60GB w/3.0.

The problem seems to be exclusive to the Slim + 3.0 combo. It's infuriating, all I want to do is play more of this game and I can't.

 

[eastside49er]

Yep it broke my UC game. I can't go 5 minutes with out the game freezing. Everything else seems to be fine though.

 

[Zzoram]

Why has no official statement been issued yet? Not even a "we're looking into it"? Didn't they say UC2 is basically going to certification already? They should have a few guys available to look into this game crippling bug.

 

[DoomGyver]

How many of you actually deleted your game data and reinstalled it?

 

[Rapping Granny]

Why has no official statement been issued yet? Not even a "we're looking into it"? Didn't they say UC2 is basically going to certification already? They should have a few guys available to look into this game crippling bug.

Agreed, where's Arnie?

How many of you actually deleted your game data and reinstalled it?

There is no required install in Uncharted.

 

[Zzoram]

How many of you actually deleted your game data and reinstalled it?

The game data is just the patch. Will deleting it break existing save files? If not, I'll try it.

 

[DoomGyver]

There is no required install in Uncharted.

Completely forgot.

Go into recovery mode and rebuild your database (like it did right after the update was installed)

worth a shot.

 

[chris0701]

The problem seems to be exclusive to the Slim + 3.0 combo. It's infuriating, all I want to do is play more of this game and I can't.

No. It's not slim exclusive.

 

[Zzoram]

No. It's not slim exclusive.

Even worse.

So I went to the Naughty Dog website to see if they said anything on their forums, and they don't have forums! Their website just has a trailer for Uncharted 2.

 

[chris0701]

Why has no official statement been issued yet? Not even a "we're looking into it"? Didn't they say UC2 is basically going to certification already? They should have a few guys available to look into this game crippling bug.

As I said in eariler,we would not hear official statement about Uncharted freeze but a update f/w for hotfix.

Because official statement about this problem is harmful about their image and reputation. Especially at time around 3.00/slim launch...etc. Wrong timing.

 

[DoomGyver]

Has Uncharted 2 even gone gold yet? If it hasn't it's crunch time right now and I'm sure they're 100% focused on finishing U2.

 

[Zzoram]

As I saild in eariler,we would not hear official statement about Uncharted frezze but a update f/w for hotfix.

Because official statement about this problem is harmful about their image and reputation. Especially at tiem around 3.00/slim launch...etc. Wrong timing.

How long does it take between PS3 firmware updates? It definitely hurts their image to me. I bought a PS3 because my 360 is at the end of it's warranty and I was worried about it not working if I buy more games for it. My first week with the PS3 is constant crashing while playing the first exclusive game I bought.

 

[vocab]

Has Uncharted 2 even gone gold yet? If it hasn't it's crunch time right now and I'm sure they're 100% focused on finishing U2.

Pretty sure the game is finished. They are running another beta right before release and ironing out the bugs.

 

[Zzoram]

Has Uncharted 2 even gone gold yet? If it hasn't it's crunch time right now and I'm sure they're 100% focused on finishing U2.

This isn't lag or people glitching online. This is their last game not working anymore. I should hope that they consider that serious enough to spare a guy or two to fix the issue before October.

 

[Zzoram]

Pretty sure the game is finished. They are running another beta right before release and ironing out the bugs.

If that's the case, then they should fix this bug now, because whatever it is that happened specifically to Uncharted only happened to Uncharted and could happen to Uncharted 2 if it's related to something unique to Naughty Dog.

 

[expy]

How long does it take between PS3 firmware updates? It definitely hurts their image to me. I bought a PS3 because my 360 is at the end of it's warranty and I was worried about it not working if I buy more games for it. My first week with the PS3 is constant crashing while playing the first exclusive game I bought.

Usually get a few major updates during an entire year, and if anything goes wrong (like this patch with Uncharted) they'll release patches to fix those issues and address any other issues they want to add in there.

We're nearing 3 years of PS3 and we're at 3.00 at the moment, gives you an idea.

 

[expy]

If that's the case, then they should fix this bug now, because whatever it is that happened specifically to Uncharted only happened to Uncharted and could happen to Uncharted 2 if it's related to something unique to Naughty Dog.

They didn't have 3.00 when they released Uncharted: Drake's Fortune. They do have 3.00 now well before they release Uncharted 2 so it shouldn't be an issue. Expect them to address the Uncharted issue within the next week or so.

 

[eastside49er]

How many of you actually deleted your game data and reinstalled it?

I did and it is still crashing.

 

[Foxix Von]

Nope, that's HS. Prepare for quite a few glitches with that game, especially the audio.

And lawl@ Batman opening doors. You guys are going to blame everything on 3.0 now. :lol

Naw, wasn't really blaming it. I just hadn't played it pre-update and wasn't aware of the issue, I also hadn't heard anything prior to playing it. Tried google searching for audio issues and didn't find anything. Even after deleting and reinstalling the game data it still is wonky, so I sort of assumed it was something else.

:lol Good to know it's just the game. And despite the hiccups I'm still really diggin' heavenly sword.

Twing Twang

VQ

 

[ZZMitch]

Darn,

Saw the thread a few days ago and shrugged it off...

Today I am playing on the level where

Spoiler

Your plane crashes, at the part where you see the plane in two parts in the trees

and it froze!

Now when ever I try to load the game save, the game freezes.

Shame, now I am down to just two games to enjoy...

PS3 Slim btw, 3.0 fw of course.

 

[Phreak47]

Darn,

Saw the thread a few days ago and shrugged it off...

Today I am playing on the level where

Spoiler

Your plane crashes, at the part where you see the plane in two parts in the trees

and it froze!

Now when ever I try to load the game save, the game freezes.

Shame, now I am down to just two games to enjoy...

PS3 Slim btw, 3.0 fw of course.

Damn your ninja edit. I was ready to bust out this

 

[ZZMitch]

Damn your ninja edit. I was ready to bust out this

:lol

I have won the day.

Spoiler

Today at least

 

[SolidusDave]

Definately not. My save file from before fw3.0 worked great from Act 4-22. However, my new game after fw3.0 on Crushing crashes in Act 2. It's definitely the firmware, not the update.

But that doesn't explain why the case I know of (Slim, installed 3.00, began to play Uncharted, freezes every time at a specific part of the game - even with a new savegame and no patch/game data) resolved his problem with the system restore.

 

[sloppyjoe_gamer]

This isnt Naughty Dog's problem, its Sony's. Everything was fine before 3.0 with Uncharted.

 

[LM4sure]

I haven't updated to 3.0, but is Uncharted the only issue that people have experienced with the update? I'm trying to decide whether I should install the update or not.

I don't own nor do I care about Uncharted not working, so if that's the only issue, I'll go ahead and update.

 

[SmokyDave]

Popped Uncharted in for a blast last night, played about an hour and a half from the middle of the game, all was fine. PAL 60gb launch unit with 3.00fw for reference.

 

[Lince]

PAL 60 GB launch unit with 3.00 fw, 3+ hours of Uncharted (chapters 1-4) , no freezes or glitches.

Slim PAL launch unit updated today with 3.00 fw, 30 minutes, 2 freezes.

:/

 

[Oni Jazar]

Anyone get a freeze with a 60 fatty? Looks like those are safe.

 

[TTP]

So, is this a fw or slim issue? If the latter, I hope it's fixable via update otherwise I don't think Sony will be happy about having to recall hardware.

 

[Lince]

So, is this a fw or slim issue? If the latter, I hope it's fixable via update otherwise I don't think Sony will be happy about having to recall hardware.

I think fw 3.00 has messed with the HDD read/access values to make loading faster for the new 120 GB units and thus some "fixed" streaming engines are affected.

 

[RockmanWhore]

Played more than 2 hours with my fat 60Gb @ 3.0, no problem at all, the game is as awesome as ever

 

[Zzoram]

But that doesn't explain why the case I know of (Slim, installed 3.00, began to play Uncharted, freezes every time at a specific part of the game - even with a new savegame and no patch/game data) resolved his problem with the system restore.

System restore or rebuild database? What does rebuild database do? Do you have to backup your saves before rebuilding the database?

 

[Ranger X]

So, is this a fw or slim issue? If the latter, I hope it's fixable via update otherwise I don't think Sony will be happy about having to recall hardware.

The problem is Uncharted, not the firmware or PS3 slim. lol

This thread is really funny. It shows people aren't aware of how it is in the industry. Uncharted simply must use some dirty tricks and now it fucks up with the firmware. If it was programmed properly it wouldn't be a problem.
Seriously, since the dawn of time people use flaws to their advantages or make "illegal calls" in their programation because it advantages them somewhere. Now the new firmware causes those cheap tricks to surface as bugs because the code wasn't great to begin with.

It's not the first time something like that happens either. I've seen many PS2 games getting new bugs when they introduce the PS2 slim. Here again it's software fault, not hardware.
Same happened with StarWars PSP when the 2000 was introduced. For some reasons a movie wasn't loading anymore and you were stuck. All of that because that file was probably booted in some fucked up way, using some flaw in the previous tools versions and hardware.

Just using Unreal Engine (the most bugged engine ever) is a game of "playing with flaws" constantly.

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[ant3b]

I played from the beginning last night on uncharted.. to get trophies mine runs fine. dies numerous times on hard aswell.. no freezes or glitche.

60gb HK ps3

 

[Zzoram]

The problem is Uncharted, not the firmware or PS3 slim. lol

This thread is really funny. It shows people aren't aware of how it is in the industry. Uncharted simply must use some dirty tricks and now it fucks up with the firmware. If it was programmed properly it wouldn't be a problem.
Seriously, since the dawn of time people use flaws to their advantages or make "illegal calls" in their programation because it advantages them somewhere. Now the new firmware causes those cheap tricks to surface as bugs because the code wasn't great to begin with.

It's not the first time something like that happens either. I've seen many PS2 games getting new bugs when they introduce the PS2 slim. Here again it's software fault, not hardware.
Same happened with StarWars PSP when the 2000 was introduced. For some reasons a movie wasn't loading anymore and you were stuck. All of that because that file was probably booted in some fucked up way, using some flaw in the previous tools versions and hardware.

Just using Unreal Engine (the most bugged engine ever) is a game of "playing with flaws" constantly.

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While that is likely the case, that still doesn't make those of us who are still playing the game any happier. We just want it to be fixed ASAP. An acknowledgement that they know of the problem and are looking into it would go a long way. Maybe it's just me, but I feel that in this era of online community, it's unexcusable for a developer to not talk about a bug that is literally game breaking.

 

[momolicious]

Seriously, its been a couple of days now

 

[RurouniZel]

The problem is Uncharted, not the firmware or PS3 slim. lol

This thread is really funny. It shows people aren't aware of how it is in the industry. Uncharted simply must use some dirty tricks and now it fucks up with the firmware. If it was programmed properly it wouldn't be a problem.
Seriously, since the dawn of time people use flaws to their advantages or make "illegal calls" in their programation because it advantages them somewhere. Now the new firmware causes those cheap tricks to surface as bugs because the code wasn't great to begin with.

It's not the first time something like that happens either. I've seen many PS2 games getting new bugs when they introduce the PS2 slim. Here again it's software fault, not hardware.
Same happened with StarWars PSP when the 2000 was introduced. For some reasons a movie wasn't loading anymore and you were stuck. All of that because that file was probably booted in some fucked up way, using some flaw in the previous tools versions and hardware.

Just using Unreal Engine (the most bugged engine ever) is a game of "playing with flaws" constantly.

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That's some pretty backwards logic you got there. These are consoles, not computers. All PS3 games should run properly on all PS3, not just certain ones. The idea that a system firmware update would completely mess up an otherwise perfectly working game to that point is not the game's fault, it's an oversight by the programmers of the new firmware.

This isn't even like the Halo 3 install problem where you can simply chose to not play the game with the new feature and just play it like you did before; once you install the firmware you can't flip a switch that says "Okay, I'm playing Uncharted now so act like you used to," or something similar. The game worked just fine before, it's not working now, broken firmware is broken.

 

[Zzoram]

Seriously, its been a couple of days now

Yes, and I'm used to getting game breaking bugs patched within a couple of days. There was a time when a game being unplayable was considered a serious problem. On GAF it seems like everyone is being dismissive about it. I wouldn't be surprised if they are taking their time with this because there hasn't been enough outrage.

 

[noah111]

Yes, and I'm used to getting game breaking bugs patched within a couple of days. There was a time when a game being unplayable was considered a serious problem. On GAF it seems like everyone is being dismissive about it. I wouldn't be surprised if they are taking their time with this because there hasn't been enough outrage.

Probably because it's an old game and not everyone seems to be having the problem.. I haven't encountered any problems personally with all the games/demos i've been playing post-3.0, and seeing that I don't still play U1 pardon me if i'm not really outraged, personally.

 

[Linkified]

The problem is Uncharted, not the firmware or PS3 slim. lol

This thread is really funny. It shows people aren't aware of how it is in the industry. Uncharted simply must use some dirty tricks and now it fucks up with the firmware. If it was programmed properly it wouldn't be a problem.
Seriously, since the dawn of time people use flaws to their advantages or make "illegal calls" in their programation because it advantages them somewhere. Now the new firmware causes those cheap tricks to surface as bugs because the code wasn't great to begin with.

It's not the first time something like that happens either. I've seen many PS2 games getting new bugs when they introduce the PS2 slim. Here again it's software fault, not hardware.
Same happened with StarWars PSP when the 2000 was introduced. For some reasons a movie wasn't loading anymore and you were stuck. All of that because that file was probably booted in some fucked up way, using some flaw in the previous tools versions and hardware.

Just using Unreal Engine (the most bugged engine ever) is a game of "playing with flaws" constantly.

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Yep, didn't they mention it in an interview around the time of the game launching that they were using special "tricks" in order to get it right (I'll look the interview up later).And from what I can see on the 'nets that the only game affected dramatically is Uncharted andis that the only one that does the streaming for the game data?

 

[Lord Error]

I've played the game on 80GB (3.0) unit for about an hour last night, all went fine. I played it for maybe 2 hours then on Slim, and I got it to freeze right after the jeep ride, when they fall into water. However, I swam into that area where you're not supposed to go anyways, so maybe that's part of the reason, because that's where it froze. And I also remember seeing this kind of freezing with game before when I was playing it. It happened only 2-3 time in about 30-40h of play time though, so I don't know if this is worrying or not.

I'll try it again today on the same area, on both Slim and 80GB (I didn't try that area on 80GB yet). I never went into that area on my previous playthroughs so I don't know if this is a know glitch place or something.

 

[Zzoram]

Probably because it's an old game and not everyone seems to be having the problem.. I haven't encountered any problems personally with all the games/demos i've been playing post-3.0, and seeing that I don't still play U1 pardon me if i'm not really outraged, personally.

I figure that primarily Slim owners have reported this issue because they probably make up the majority of people playing Uncharted 1 at the moment. Plus new owners aren't just playing it a bit to test it, they are actually trying to play it a lot, which makes it more likely for them to encounter problems.

I guess I'm just a bit bitter because this is the game that I looked forward to the most besides LBP, and I can't play it even though I have the console and the game.