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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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!