Since Sony PS3 2.41 Firmware: Call of Duty 4 Crashes
Filed under: Gaming, Sony Playstation 3 | By: Daniel
Posted on: July 9, 2008 | 51 Comments
We have all heard about the problems of the Sony PS3 2.40 firmware update and the fact that Sony even pulled this update and went back to just 2.36. Personally I managed to update to 2.40 before they pulled it but as I mostly play Call of Duty 4, I did not see any problems with this firmware release.
Yesterday I updated to firmware 2.41 from 2.40, then after playing Call of Duty 4 for around 10 minutes it crashed when trying to go back to lobby after a game.
This is the first time COD4 has crashed on me and I have clocked up over 150 hours of game time, I thought nothing of it and forced my Playstation 3 to restart by turning the power off.
After another 30 minutes of gameplay, four friends decided to play a private match and on entering that game, COD4 crashed again on me.
Each time the crashes happened the PS3 completely froze, the only way to get access again was to turn the system off and on again.
While I have no way of knowing why these crashes happened, its strange they have happened after updating to firmware 2.41. Has anyone else had any problems with Call of Duty 4 and firmware 2.41 if they updated from 2.40?
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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!