After all the forced restarts and booting me back to the XMB, the Fallout games have finally killed my PS3. This will be the last time I play a Fallout game.

hah, you cant blame the game for that... the worst hard booting can do is corrupt your hard drive, forcing applications to close without being properly turned down and saving data. when my game freezes i just eject the disk and put it back in and it goes directly to the ps3 desktop. even if your hard drive did become corrupt, thats software and although a pain in the ass a FULL reformat will do the trick. (hence Sony strongly recommending to regulatory back up of your system files, save data and so forth) Your hardware was faulty or poorly taken care of and a mear coincidence although with the Sony PS3 there is no power supply protection if you so if you get a power surge theres no way to stop it from frying your system unless you have a surge box and even those aren't 100%. Think about what your saying and stop blaming the game for unpotential issues... Nice try though

Wrong, stop being a [censored] fan boy. My system was in great shape, well ventilated and taken care of. Fallout 3 and Fallout New Vegas are the only games that froze my system, and forced it back to the XMB. While playing Fallout NV, it shut my ps3 down, and it is now a blinking red lighted brick. Stop trying to place the blame on the consumer, and open your eyes and realize this game is full of bugs, and can potentially be a console killer. Nice try though.

give me factual information on how that is possible and i will eat my words, otherwise your response has no credibility... Nice try though

i am plenty aware of the issues in the game i go around them daily, but yet i'm still playing the game no problem. as for hard booting thats the users choice to do that! you can simply eject the disk and it will go back the the menu and quite the game without hard booting. inturn not shutting your system down only the game. *flips finger* unlike you i can admit problems of the individual and the software, im not sitting here pissing my pants cause my [censored] all f'd in the a. im on here trying to help people, and your on here shutting me down with no facts just talk. get over yourself

nice tries ITT...

Actually, you are the moron trying to shut down people, not me [censored] bag. Anyway, taking the disk out did nothing for me, it completely froze my system. NOTHING besides holding down the power button shut it down. Not only that, but several times the game would just quit and send me back to the XMB. You are saying that's my ps3 when NO OTHER GAME does that? And if I ever saw you stick your finger up at me I would break it off. Nice try though. Grow up moron.

End point-due to all the glitches in this game and Fallout 3, it effectively bricked my system. This will be my last game, and I wont be playing it again after my ps3 is fixed.

Figure I'd throw in some useful discussion while you guys freak out at each other...

This is a forum section for PS3 Issues. When a game completely locks your system many times, and you are forced to hard-reset the system during game play, there will be an inherent risk of corrupting the HDD.

SpideyWebs, I'd like to see what happens when you replace the HDD. I wonder if your issues are due to the corruption of data, or if your MoBo/GPU/CPU was fried by this game. I assume it's the HDD as it appears that my Fallout:NV hiccups and freezes during data loads, indicated by the HDD activity light. When it goes into full lock-up mode, the light completely stops, HDD is unresponsive, but the game continues to run (Mobo/GPU/CPU is happy), radio and ambient noise keeps going.

Purepoison, to blame a user for their system dying is quite ignorant. 2 points, I cannot get the game to quit by ejecting the disc like you can, so that argument is invalid. Second, I have played many games that are much more demanding on the PS3 system (GPU/CPU) than Fallout:NV. The major issues with this game seem to revolve around the memory and HDD usage, which is a game engine problem. When Fallout crashes like this, you are FORCED to pull the plug in a terrible way. You can only blame the game engine for this issue, as it is forcing the user to perform a risky maneuver to be able to EVER use their PS3 again. Those are the options, either leave Fallout:NV in the PS3 stuck on frozen FOREVER, or hard-reset or pull the power cable, both of which may cause serious problems to the HDD, which is probably what happened here. If you really are going to blame the PS3 owners for this situation, you need your head checked.

my policy for this is:

If a game crashes/freezes my PS3 more than 2 or 3 times
in a couple of days that game goes back to gamestop and
I trade it in for something else... there's just no excuse for
that... it's poor management of console resources...

I have many games that never crash my system even after
hours and hours of gameplay... if those games play without
crashing, why can't the others??? because the system
resource usage and management by some games is fubar...

M

1st off, my immediate responce was not intended to be arrogant in any way, i type how i would say it, not necessarily in the way it was taken from its context. people keep bashing the devs for there own issues and i felt this was another, i have played this game for over 80 hours and still seem to get around the issues, i was trying to give my thought of the idea. i eat my words and agree with the engine aspect but in turn does force the user to hard boot the system. As for the taking the disk out, you must put it back in the drive as well or it will sit on the frozen game. when you put the disk in the drive it gets confused, unlike the ps2 it does not pick up where it left off, the system brings you back the the ps3 home page. i failed to relay that the first time around. as for the words back and forth i'm well over it, i shouldn't have brought myself to his level and i only apologize to myself for that.

next time you freeze take the disk out, then put it back in the drive see if it works, i have an 80gig fat cech01. please repost and let me know if it works for you so we can help others revert from hard booting

Thx

It doesn't work.. at least not on my PS3 120gb slim..

I can get around powering down the PS3 by ejecting
the disc.. but the PS3 will beep three times and
restart itself, and then I can pop the disc back in
and continue... but I've also lost any progress
since my last save... which is a real pain as I
hate replaying content again and again to get past
the crashing issue... it gets old real quick..

M

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