Arrrrrgggghhhhh

I bought my PS3 as a Blu-ray player. Haven't played computer games of any sort since the original Doom, and never any on a console of any sort. But what the heck - this thing was built for game playing, and the NYT of all sources gave Grand Theft Auto IV a rave review. So I picked up a copy. Now I'm stuck at home sick with a cold and can't sleep any more, so I decided to give it a try.

What do I find? The damned thing locks up starting a new game! If I stop the game, the console reboots. Sometimes. Other times it won't even boot, claiming there's no valid hard disk drive. At least I can get past that with a power cycle. But it freaked me out the first time. I'm definitely not impressed, though. A search turns up this story that Rockstar knows about the problem and doesn't have a fix yet. Various user suggestions on forums have all kinds of suggested fixes, but none have worked for me yet.

I am NOT impressed. Obviously, I have to blame Coolleen for leading me down this primrose path...

Comments

[C Velo]

OK - no doubt this will be the quickest comment response by me ever but... :-)
I must plead ignorance on the current issues as I would have strongly advised you *NOT* to get GTA4 - which is clearly the cause of all of your current woes. :-)
Certainly, the PS3 (and Blu-Ray portion thereof) can't be to blame. :-)

[RMA]

Suuuuuure...duck all responsibility!

The publisher has provided this list of recommended work-arounds:

http://www.gamespot.com/news/6190279.html

It's really quite ridiculous. If you did everything they suggest, you'd be crippling both the console and the game.

I finally got it running after the third reinstall and I'm having fun just exploring the city rather than doing the missions. The Coney Island analogue is both amazingly close to the real thing and funny as hell if you read the signs on the buildings.