Modern Warfare 2 Freezing: Problems and new complaints
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There have been a number of complaints that the God of War Collection was freezing up, now there have been similar complaints about freezing issues with Call of Duty: Modern Warfare2. This is according to a recent article from Connected Consoles, who gathered their information from TeamXbox forums.
According to a number of members over on PlayStation Forums, Modern Warfare 2 has been freezing up at the end of a multiplayer match. There was even one report that a gamers PS3 suffered the fatal Yellow Light of Death during the game.
This issue seems to be isolated to the original big Sony PlayStations 3’s and not the new Slim models. While reading some of the messages from forum members, there seems to be mixed views on what is causing the freezing issues, but many are advising to back up the hard drive.
One member believes that all older PS3’s will die soon; this is due to more complex games pushing them too hard. Please let us know if you have experienced any freezing issues, and what version PS3 you have.
We have to wonder if the develops rushed the release of Modern Warfare 2, on the day of release the servers went down. We then had the whole airport issue and now we have the problem of the game freezing up, what is going on?
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i got the yellow light of death in the middle of a team deathmatch game and yes i have the older model which now will be replaced with a new one fml
I Have a ps3 slim 120Go, and after 1-2 freezes ingame, it always freeze at the end of each round
Exactly like you describe !
I played 10 hours offline and it was ok…
same here m8 it started today wtf:S did u sort your?
My PS3 has been freezing up after online and offline matches on Modern Warfare 2. It has done this every time I have played the game, a total of 6 times now.
I have the larger 80gig PS3, however, its less than a year old.
Quote “This issue seems to be isolated to the original big Sony PlayStations 3’s and not the new Slim models.”
I’d hardly call that “isolated” as most of the PS3’s out there are the “original big” PS3’s. It’ll be a cold day in hell before 25+ million units is isolated.
Quote “One member believes that all older PS3’s will die soon; this is due to more complex games pushing them too hard.”.
That one member is an idiot. He’s implying that older big PS3’s are using older or slower components & therefore have to be pushed harder to play the game. That’s obviously complete rubbish & spec wise, all PS3’s are pretty much identical. The newer ones use a smaller die size & probably run a little cooler for it, but the hardware itself doesn’t work any easier or harder because of this. The only problem I can see is that the original 60GB’s used a large die size & therefore get hotter. This in the long term could cause problems, but to say that all 25+ million big PS3’s are going to die soon is pretty far fetched to say the least.
My first PS3(20gig) got the ylod from playing too much RE5 last May. I observed that when i play COD4, the console doesn’t read the disc often unlike RE5’s constant disc spinning. The PS3 automatically shuts off by itself for two weeks after 3hours of RE5 each time….but when I play COD4, there wasn’t any freezes or auto shut off. And then finally one day, my PS3 got the ylod with RE5 game still inside!
I’m on my second PS3 now and I wish I can install MW2 because i get constant freezes again…and I know either the motherboard is warping, cooling fan is failing or the power supply too. If i ever get the ylod again…well,bye bye phat PS3!Fwack refurfished consoles! I may have to buy the new slim PS3.
I don’t want to scaremonger but i’ve two friends whose PS3’s have suffered YLOD whilst playing MW2… Coincidence? It does appear that there’s a connection… I only hope that if there is then it becomes apparent and something is done about it so that people who do need a refurb/replacement don’t have to pay.
I’ve had occasional freezing on MW2, nothing major but then again I don’t recall ever having freeezing issues with any other game. I do get an odd freeze up when browsing sometimes though but I expected that was fairly normal.
pls read my comment. posted 29 jan 2010 at about 915pm
thanks
I have a slim PS3 and it’s frozen mid-game multiplayer several times. I was just playing single player (during the ice\submarine level); after a big predator explosion, the game froze. I have the new Slim model 120GB!
My 250Gb ps3 slim keeps freezing in multi player I am also having problems getting the controllers to connect. The lag at times is appalling even though I have a wired up system. I am also starting to get fed up with campers and noob tubes it is still a great game.
ps3,switch it on. start up modern warfare 2 and i press multiplayer on the main menu and the screen goes balck and just stays like that, the only solution is to switch it off. when i restart it and do everything again it goes upto where im in a lobby waiting for the game to begin and it freezes as its about to launch (and again the only thing that i can do is switch it off). from then on it allows me to play 1 full game max. it either freezes in the middle of a game or when the map is loading.
I have the older 60gb PS3. I’ve already had to replace the blu-ray drive once. Now this MW2 keeps freezing up. I can here the HD working, but then all of a sudden crashes. However, usually in the game the level will glitch out, then it freezes. So YES I totally think that this game is making peoples PS3’s crash, not the other way around. I think that Infinity Ward. Activision, and other Partners of MW2 should be responsible for any damages to our systems.
Its really frustrating, the game is good, but it freezes every time after 30 minutes or so. Is this the publishers way of telling us to do something else?
Those are just my thoughts.
older 40 gig ps3 freezes at launch and at end of match if lucky enough to get into game. Also will freeze in campaogn mode at end of a board. Sometimes can play for an hour before freezing in multiplayer, after that it won’t even read disc until total shutdown ( switch on the back ).
Hi,
I have experienced similar problems. My PS3 froze while playing the cod mw2 campaign. It has never frozen before. I had to restart the console, but when i did it would not detect the disc. I restored the system and it pick up the disc, but when trying to load it an error code 80010514 appeared. Now the console either does not detect a disc, detects but displays error code, or loads fine and freezes very quickly. It can’t be just coincedence that these symtoms are appearing after cod mw2?
MW2 won’t even open on my Slim PS3. When I put the disc in the screen goes black when it would normally load. I haven’t been able to play for at least 5 days… Any insights?
I had the same problem as you on call of duty, and I found the solution given your lens is worn, it is not off, it can play other games but made in recent games, which requires all the power of your lens, the lens can no longer read it right then you will have to change your lens or buy a new Playstation 3