Since Sony PS3 2.41 Firmware: Call of Duty 4 Crashes

I don’t believe this has anything to do with the latest system update, as I’ve experienced a handful of these crashes myself over the last 6 months or so, when playing COD4. However, I did manage to update my PS3 with the 2.4 version & experienced a new problem. On a couple of occassions whilst in the middle of an online game, I would suddenly be taken out of COD4 & back to the PS3 load up screen. I would then have to reload the disc in order to rejoin the action. I haven’t played enough under 2.41 to see if this rectifies the issue.

Nope, no issues. Played for 5 hours straight last night not one problem.

Have you tried any other games? I had that issue a few months ago and then when i tried other games some of them didn’t load up at all. After about a week my PS3 wouldn’t read ANY discs and i got an error message with error 80010514. I looked it up on the internet and it turned out to be a “hardware error caused by a corrupted firmware update”. So if you have got that it will be related to something going wrong (like a break in internet connection) while downloading the firmware update, but not specifically with 2.41. I could be completely wrong of course

I have never had my sytem crash, but I noticed frequent connection interuptions yesterday after rolling the block point…

wtf? this is being picked up on google news like it is just that, news. this is little more than a forum post asking others if they have had the same issue, but of course the title is suppose to read like its a real problem.
why not just title this “cod4 crashes and i don’t know why”
that is not near as misleading

Nope, maybe it’s just you. Maybe you’re a Suxbox 360 fanboy making up this shit. Who’s to tell?

2.41 is working fine for me, and COD4 has been working even better.

No issues for me, before or after the update…

Played COD4 all day Monday…with no issues played a little last night no issues. I have not had any issues with my PS3 since launch day and the only issue I have had with my 360 is a funky DVD tray that would not come out when you hit the eject button.

I too played COD4 yesterday and experienced multiple crashes. This has happened before the 2.41 update. I had the 2.40 and it worked fine. Each time the game would lock up I had to turn off the switch in the back just to get my ps3 to work again. I have a 20G ps3. Wonder if that has anything to do with it?

No one else has reported this problem. It could be a problem with your setup, overheating, or an anti Ps3 bias on your part.

Stop acting like this is the end of the world

I have had problems with COD4 since the 2.41 update, the game loads ok you can get in to the create a class sections ok. But when you try to find a game type it just keeps saying downloading over and over again!!

folks, when reporting your own experience, please note which model you are using. like US 4oG or whatever. they are not all the same inside, hardware and software, so very possibly that matters.

and of course it would really help to know if these problems occur with other games too.

Notice that you’re the only lame to post a so called “story” about it. I’ve come to notice that, people who constantly complain about PS3 (crashes, bugs, rumble, games) almost speak identical words. It’s sounds like Microsoft hired some cock suckers to publicly defame the PS3.

You know you assholes can get sued for that right? Don’t make claims unless you have hard prove evidence you FUCK!!!

“It’s NOT what you know, it’s what you can PROVE!!!’-Alonzo, Training Day

you suck!

You can delete my comments, but the fact is that you it’s true. Deleting my comments just shows how much of a true coward you are! AUTHOR! If what I said isn’t true, then why would you delete my comments then??? Hmmm, someone’s feeling guilty

I meant to say “but the fact is that you “know” it’s true”

Ironic how “James” and the author state “I had to turn my PS3 off right when it crashed…..”. Kind of strange how TWO different individuals state the SAME thing, and the same METHOD.

Why didn’t you two try to EJECT the game first, then turn off the system. Since COD4 is a very good game, I would assume that you two would care about it enough, if you are true Sony fans.

Who in their right mind would leave a good game like Call of Duty 4 in a defected system without ejecting the game first so it won’t get messed up?????

……I have a odd feeling that you two work for Microsoft……..

The Future of Sega you seem to be getting very paranoid about a simple post, you need to get a woman in your life and stop your bitching, everybody has a right to ask a question, if you dont like it then go take a long run of a very short pier and do eveybody a favour.

I’ve had no issues with CoD4 in either FW v. 2.36, 2.40 or 2.41. As a matter of fact, it seems that the 2.41 FW, has improved stability with the in-game XMB. The FW 2.40′s in-game XMB would react really slow and sort of freeze (for about up to 30 seconds or so) when accessing it during games.

The only issue I have with CoD4 lately is the freaking lag that gets so bad, it’s like I’m play CoD4: Stop-Motion War. From what I understand it’s caused by using shared servers and from pathetic idiots using “lag switches” to gain the advantage in multiplayer games.

All my other games have been working great under FW 2.41. Also, am I the only one stoked about the in-game XMB while using Folding@home?

Also, I never use the switch in the back to turn off the system. That’s a great way to corrupt your PS3 Blu-ray drive’s firmware. I prefer just to hold the power I/O for ten seconds until the PS3 turns off. You know, like you could do for most PC’s for over a decade.

I have my PS3 set so that game disks are NOT auto-started. I prefer to manually load a game up. If your game media is scratched or something, having it load the disk automatically is just asking it to get stuck in some sort of loop. Not that my disks are scratched but being a long-time computer user, old habits die hard.

2.41 killed my ps3. I’m serious, and seriously pissed. I missed the 2.4 that was known to brick systems and ended up getting bricked by the “fix”.
I played for a few hours after updating and then it froze next time I played. When I restarted it I was greeted with “your hard drive is corrupted.”
Worst part is I didn’t even get a chance to back up my saves let alone all the music and playlists I had on my hard drive. Damn you sony!

Every time Sony releases a new firmware version ‘something’ goes wrong, ie, system not recognizing Sixaxis, 720p titles downscaling to 480i, stuttering video streaming, machines bricking, COD crashing. They should be releasing new firmware to hard core gamers prior to dropping buggy software on an unsuspecting audience.

My Playstation 3 is an 80G and it to has had the same problems with COD4 and Guitar Hero. Update 2.40 worked great and once I got 2.41 it crashes on both games. Playstation 3 needs to send out another update fixing these problems!

Well maybe you guys are right. I am one of the few who was lucky to download 2.40 when it first came out. But yesterday, when I switched my 2nd dual shock 3 controller on, and I tried to reassign the controller numbers, both of them read “controller port 1″. And then the first controller became non responsive.

It was amusing at first, but then I got pissed. So, like you guys, I turned off my system. The 2nd controller turned off properly, but the 1st controller was still on!!!!

And I switched the power button of my PS3 to OFF!!! But after 20 seconds, the bastard started acting right So everything, is ok now.

But I swear, if one more bad thing happens from Sony on the PS3, I will never buy another Sony video game console FOREVER!!!!! Shitty ports like The Orange Box, a year’s delayance of rumble, horrible first party games, no in game xmb until now, constant delaying of games that turn out to be absolute shit *cough Haze, Lair cough*

So if Sony fucks up ONE MORE TIME, I’m through with the Sony industry! You guys can suck Sony’s cock as long as you want, but I’ll be moving onto better, less stressful systems….erm Sega baby! The best video game company of all time!!!

Yea i have also had those same problems, My PS3 mainly freezes on “Ambush” on Modern Warfare, but i just Turn the System off and then on again… it doesnt bother me, but What the F>>> Playstation

i’ve been having similar problems since the new system update has been released. i just gt my console back f rom sony after the laser diode failed and couldnt read discs anymore. now when i hit the ps button on the controller during any game it freezes up and goes into a darker like screen. the only way to bypass it was to force shut down on the console. sony really knows how to treat their customers. playstation has been nothing but trouble since i got it. i wish i bought an xbox.

I bought the 80 gig in January.
Played it a few hours and work got in the way
May bought COD4
Played it once halfway thru the mission PS3 locks up wont recognize any disks
July search internet for what to do
Call sony and get return the machine
Today refurbished machine arrives 08/05/08
Machine has scratches on it and some of the finish is rubbed away.
Put in COD4 5 mins into game it locks up
Call Sony
Sorry it happened sounds like it didnt get fixed.
So they are sending another box so they can try to fix it.

So after 10 hours of gameplay I now have a broken machine whose face is all scratched up and marred. Sony is going to be kind enough to try and fix it again, I wonder what type of machine I will get this time.

There needs to be a class action lawsuit against Sony for selling lemons to the public. I paid 450 for a machine that does not work, and they sent me a beat up piece of crap as a replacement.

I cant wait to see what I get next. Maybe this time they will send me a Wii.

Ya that’s perhaps the worst part of this BS, my ps3 was less than a month old with barely any playtime. After over 2 weeks since I first phoned to have the box sent I get one with a big scratch on the front, a less crisp controller, which is god knows how old. I payed for new product and because of their complete lack of testing I get dumped down to a refurb that isn’t even mine. And on top of that I still don’t even know if the bastards managed to fix it since they didn’t feel like sending me my controller cable so I can’t get farther than the synchronize screen! Hopefully it’ll get here by Friday and I’ll be able to start my 4th week of play after nearly 2 months!
If it wasn’t for god of war III, free online (that I have yet to and will rarely use), and the fact that I spent a bundle on a bunch of games of barely got to play that I won’t get close to half for if I trade in, I’d do just that and switch to xbox after being with sony since the ps1. Meanwhile my 2 friends with 360s havn’t had a single problem with their 360s and they’ve had rumble and ingame soundtrack since launch.
Sony, not only have you dropped the ball, you dropped it in a sespool and told us it’s a chocolate river.

I too had cod 4 crash on the 2.41 firmware. I tryed getting online last night and it frozed up on me so I had to restart my ps3. The last time that happend to me my blue ray light went out and had to have sony fix the problem so im not gonna play my cod 4 no more :’(

Thank god for the google search engine!!! Glad I am not the only one having problems. My PS3 has had no problems until 2.41 but the last few nights my COD4 has froze totally while playing online. This would not bother me so much if you could then get back online without having to wait for 30 odd minutes at a time for the downloading game settings screen to get back in. Come on Sony are updates not meant to improve our gaming experience not make it worse???????

yea just last night i was not even able to load ANY maps whether it be during just split screen or online it freezes and when i go online downloading game settings doesn’t disappear! WTF this is my third ps3 it better not eff up!

since 2.41 i click multiplayer then then that works when i try to join a match it freezes on Downloading Game Setting … sometimes it takes an hour to load sometimes 2 some 5mins etc. does anybody know y?

Todays the 18th and for about the past 10 days or so Ive had difficulties using my PS3 80gb playing COD4 online. Ok heres the scenerio, first I choose multiplayer, no problem switches to next screen. I select play online, no problem switches quick to next screen. I select find game, now here is the problem, it can take upwards of 15-20 minutes for the playlists to download. Has anyone else been having this issue.

I also just recently swithched to Verizon Fios , going wireless on wired directly to router is the same issue.

Help

well greg the same thing happenened to me except mine never loaded at all! so what i did was i turned of the router and the internet itself. left it off for a little then after i turned it back on i completely re-did all of the playstation network settingsbut did it manually this time around. cod4 worked immedialty after that… not sure if that helps but it worth a shot…

Thanks Kev, but that doesnt seem to have worked. I moved my router which is on a verizon Fios 5 -2 service closer to the fios panel, now I can get to the playlists quick, but once in a game it lags pretty bad, for instance in crossfire using a G36 my gun sounds interupted and Ive been getting killed much more frequently than before. I did a speed test and it came back with these results, download ranged from 46 kbps to 1305 and upload ranged from 909 to 1801kbps…Does that seem way to low a number and do you think I should increase my router speed to 10000 kbps for download and 10000 kbps for upload. Im not sure what my speed was with comcast, but I never had a problem with the game.

I also tried going into the router and changing ports and so forth to no avail, feel free to email me at greglad007@yahoo.com with any suggestions

Help

Hi Guys, I never go to forums so i’m totally new to this whole thing.
I bought a brand new 80gb ps3 and cod4 one week ago. I have been waiting for about a month. Was really excited about it as my brother in laws each had one (i was the slow one). The had 40gb’s and I had a 80gb ) So if any1 wanted it to work it was me. I had to download the software update and to be honest with you I dont know which one it is, must be the 2.4.1. When I click on the ‘Play online’ button it comes up ‘Downloding game settings’ and probably 1 out of every 5 times I play online that comes up, its goes on and on for about 15 minutes at least. When I know there its not going to load I can press the ps button and go to the menu and quit th game.
I put that down to a possible connection problem (yeah right) but I was making excuses.
When I go to split screen to play with some1, I can choose the map and rules but when i press start game, 1 out of every5 or 6 times the loading bar will scroll to one point (about 25% and 90% are the usual distance) and then the system will be totally unresponsive. You could press whatever you wanted on the controller…no avail, no matter how long you wait, nothing will be displayed. There is something wrong here…does anyone else have this problem?
I can take the disc out, I dont know why I did because the screen stays the same, the only thing you can do is press the front power button to turn it off (i dont know how to restart it yet). You could turn it off and turn it back on again and it could be totally fine.
The problem I have is really like the console/game/graphics, everything about it but I’m stressed when this hapens to a brand new system 1 week old.

PLz let me know your thoughts, shall I return it if possible but then what? wait for them to fix it?

I have the same problem, i just brought my ps3 80 g yesterday and my cod4 is the only game that crashes. Every time i finish a multiplayer game it freezes, i dunno if it has anything to do with the update, but i normally have to take the cd out then put it back in, this works 1 in 4 times lol. Anyone know how to help, think i should replace the game or what? thank you

RE: Mo j,

If you play online and the game freezes, it’s more likely the problem with your network configuration. Are you using wireless or wired? is NAT and Peer Sharing on? I play COD4 and it sometimes freezes, I just turn the PS3 off and turn in back on via the back on/off switch.

- Alen

yeah i’ve been doing research, and the main problem is that my nat type is nat type3 and i need nat type2 to play freely. anyone know a good way to explain how to change it, because im illitirate in the technicl terms lool. So any way of finding a way to do this for ppl like me would be very helpful, thank you.

p.s. My cod4 cd is faulty so i need to replace that.

This might help you, I stumbled upon this today, and since I changed things Im not waiting for the game to take 15 mins to download… Heres a you tube tutorial, the persons a little dry but it did work. It explains the PS3 nat 2 settings and how to open ports

i’ve tried this guy before lol, i don’t have his router, and i realy don’t understand what he has done lol. i tried sometng similar but it didnt work =o/, i guess ill give it another try, thanks again for you help ^^

I dont have the same router either, but I changed my ps3 address to 192.168.1.250, then set up the router to recognize the address, then opened up port forwarding on my router under game settings.Then went back to my PS3 settings and manually put in all the addresses. So now when I play COD4 it has different ports. It did work for me. Hopefu;lly it will for you.I have a actiontec, model M1424wr router.

My PS3 now gets right into public games without that downloading setting problem.

Greg

You don’t need to address IP manually.

If your experiencing problems do following:

Reset your router to factory settings. This can be done via push in button in the back of the router. Hold it until the lights on the router go off then on, then release.

Now log in into your routers admin page there should be a section for advance network settings or application and gaming. Enable NAT/PAT or TCP/UDP.

Here is some more info: http://forums.afterdawn.com/thread_view.cfm/223583

Don’t forget to secure your router with password.

I use wired connection to my PS3 and I found to have less issues compare to wireless…

Hope that helps,

-Alen

I am trying it out now, its still pretty confusing but i think im getting it lol! thanks for all the help ^^

Ive had this problem over the past few days too.
My PS3 has been fine for well over a year now sinse i first bought it but it now crashes when im online on COD4. First the sound goes and then when i finish the game with no sound it crashes and then it will require being restarted from the switch at the back. After that it sometimes doesnt even read the disk again, or has the 80010514 error come up. I leave it for a while and then it all happens again. Ive even tryed using my friends COD4 and its the same with that one.
Any help?

Hey fellas…I need help!

I just bought my COD4 last night and I popped it in this afternoon to try it out. I started a new game and was brought through the tutorial. Halfway during the tutorial, (the part when the captain asks you to storm through a house with an MP5 and flash grenades), I realized that the sound was muted. I tried increasing the volume but nothing. I ignored it and just continued playing without sound. Then when I wanted to continue to the next mission, during the loading my PS3 just hanged. The progress bar was there but it was not moving at all. I waited for an hour and still…..NOTHING!~!!!

I forced shutdown my PS3 by holding the power button. After a reboot, nothing worked anymore!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! I can’t play any of my games, Blu-ray movies, DVDs…. I am in a state of panic right now. What on earth is going on?!

My current firmware is 2.41.

RE:Zhenghao

This might be an issue of faulty play station. Return it if you have warranty. But before you do that try:

Turn the on/off switch in the back to off
Unplug the cord from the power
Wait for about 5 min
Plug it back in
Turn the on/off switch in the back to on
If the system works try
Restoring the factory settings
Then connect the internet and update the firmware
If any of this doesn’t work, send it back to Sony.

Alen

Hey my call of duty wont even load up on find party.. just says loading game settings but doesnt come up with any peoples games i can enter?? anyone have any ideas???

Yeah.. It’s Call of Duty 4. My PS3 has only crashed twice (don’t want it to crash again so for some safety, touch wood ) and it’s been on COD4. I was at first suspicious because of ventilating problems but nah, it was COD4. I better buy another game that will stop me from COD4

Mine crashes too. Sent to playstation. They will fix it for 149.00 but won’t tell you whats wrong. I have read about a lot of problems with the ps3 lately. I believe this is a common problem that they know about. That is why they won’t tell you what the fix is. I have contacted an attorney about a lawsuit. I am very disappointed with the way Sony handled my problem with my PS3. I f i had known I would have this much trouble I would have never bought a PS3. I may just sell my PS# when I get it back and buy a WII or some other system.

I have a 80gig PS3 and it just stopped playing PS3 games. Plays PS2 games just fine. Have read a ton of Post about the Lazer Diodes going out. Have only had this machine for around 6 months. Hope they fix this……..Looks like it’s a big issue, I’m sure they have already charged thousands of customers to fix thier machines on just this issue alone. I have bought a ton of Sony products over the years. Computers,T.Vs,Camera,Cam-corder,Ps2,PSP all Sony. If they don’t fix it for free I will never buy another Sony Product again.

Well what could Sony ever expect than sagging console sales. I have 2 such systems one hard wired and one wirelesss and keeping a connection to Playstations Home network is becoming more of a challenge with every MANDATORY firmware update. Since becomming tired of Microsoft controlling my systems and specifying what updates I MUST have I moved over to linux. Its user friendly and it doesnt dictate how, when and what I do. This dictatorship seems to be the path Sony are following and lets face facts, as of the latest firmware update consisting of a gay Photo folder and a 2 year outdated spec of the Divx player its not realy an essential item is it?

Sony should concentrate on optimising the networking of the consoles and the Home network to please the users who shelled out much hard earned cash for their delapidated junk to recoup sales from Microsoft. As I type this messgae Im constantly doing network connections and getting the by now familiar

Obtaining I.P Address …..Succeeded
Internet connection ……….Succeeded
Playtation HOME……………Failed

Im haveing the same issues as the OP, latest firmware is installed on my machine. I managed to play for 5-7 mintes before it dies, and then i have to turn it off and back on.

Its only COD4 that this is effecting, COD MW works fine its getting very frustraiting :/