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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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 :o) 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
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hidZdIfoYPI
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 ^^