This is what they just told me,
Are they serious? I mean, i know for a FACT that this is NOT gonna work! Seriously!!? " Eject the game disc, while the console is off turn it over and blow out the dust in the vents on the underside(these run along the edges)" WOW! screw this i want a full freaking refund!
I did this and I'm not a happy chappy ffs!
Obviously I couldn't delete the game data because it's not there - the whole 18gb is under my games folder - there is no install element separately.
So, I did everything else and now it's worse :-(
It's not in my imagination, nor a reverse placebo. I know for a fact because I've been out in the hills (within the game) and at an Ammunition place. I'd just upgraded some weapons and went out of the shop and saved it. Now, the reason I know it's now worse is because I've been at this exact save point over 10 times but felt the need to restart/reload this section - this is because every single time I tried to get back to my safehouse, I died/got busted. As I'd robbed the ammunition guy after my initial save, I didn't want to lose the money (every penny counts!) so I felt the need to keep re-doing it.
Before I did R* recommendations, I only saw 2 incidents of major pop-up and nothing of any note (little bits) on the way from this ammunition place>home.
NOW, there is shit loads. From opening the shop door to a combination of the foliage/trees major popping in, to it almost looking like it's kind of glitching the whole mountain. It's so in your face, it's impossible for me to not have seen it before. In fact, I know it wasn't like that before. Then, as I drive back, there are lots and lots of pop-up (many tops of inter-crossing freeways, shadow, foliage on sides) with 3 major parts (barrels/cones pop-in right in front of me after being invisible, 1 huge building and 1 texture of huge building)
Maybe it's my own fault for being greedy because it wasn't that much of an issue before - now it's the pits and I'm gutted.
This should be classed as against our trading standards. A product has been bought in good faith and it's not performing how it should - at a premium price!
What a fucking joke.
What does anyone think if I delete the game and do it all again?