DUST Search - ps3 hard freeze fix ?

Mahal Daj wrote:

I have had some issues with crashing when I quickly load the game after turning on the system. Crashes seem 20% more likely now in 1.7 (s.w.a.g.).

The best way to mitigate crashing (that I have found) is to wait until your PS3 has fully loaded all on-board games after startup. If you can't scroll through all your games without the titlecard and music loading, you have not yet fully pre-loaded the apps. Then I sit on Dust514 for a few seconds until the music loads, then I start the game. This seems to reduce the issues/crashing significantly.

Once you are in the game, limit the number of menu inputs that you use and be patient when the UX loads graphics (ie: fitting screen) I rarely experience a crash when navigating the menus carefully. On the flip side, I feel as though I can cause a crash through pushing too many buttons on the menu screens.

It's possible that the speed of the harddisk is related to these shenanigans, and I'm looking at replacing mine with an SSD.

good luck; fly safe

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bolsh lee Ahrendee Mercenaries EoN. 721	Posted - 2013.12.17 19:52:00 - [1] - Quote At the start of 1.7 I readread multiple people were getting hardfreeze/resets since then I've reformated my ps3.. Although it fixed the voice comms Issue I still hardfreeze then reset multiple times a night... When this happens the ps3 wants me to send an error report to Sony and check system files, I do that and its all good for an hour or so... Never freezes in a match only in the quarters and flipping through channels, anyone else still getting this ? Guess I should call Sony tonight and ask what the errors are saying I can play 4+ hours of AC Black flag and not freeze once but Dust locks up 4-5 times a night. . ?
CELTIC TARON Molon Labe. Public Disorder. 7	Posted - 2013.12.18 06:10:00 - [2] - Quote bump for an answer, mine has recently since 1.7 started to do this too. QQ MORE about tanks being OP. I will fuel my tank on your tears! (Yes Militia needs adjusted though lol)
Mahal Daj Mahal Tactical Enterprises 2	Posted - 2013.12.18 19:08:00 - [3] - Quote I have had some issues with crashing when I quickly load the game after turning on the system. Crashes seem 20% more likely now in 1.7 (s.w.a.g.). The best way to mitigate crashing (that I have found) is to wait until your PS3 has fully loaded all on-board games after startup. If you can't scroll through all your games without the titlecard and music loading, you have not yet fully pre-loaded the apps. Then I sit on Dust514 for a few seconds until the music loads, then I start the game. This seems to reduce the issues/crashing significantly. Once you are in the game, limit the number of menu inputs that you use and be patient when the UX loads graphics (ie: fitting screen) I rarely experience a crash when navigating the menus carefully. On the flip side, I feel as though I can cause a crash through pushing too many buttons on the menu screens. It's possible that the speed of the harddisk is related to these shenanigans, and I'm looking at replacing mine with an SSD. good luck; fly safe
CommanderBolt ACME SPECIAL FORCES 431	Posted - 2013.12.19 00:43:00 - [4] - Quote It is definitely to do with DUST. I think it must be code they added in 1.7. Its annoying, I have been playing this game since the last weeks of closed beta. I maybe had this issue once or twice over the space of a year or so. I quit dust for a few months and came back to try 1.7 after hearing good things. Now I am enjoying the game again and BANG something else comes along to spoil my fun..... CCP any word?
CommanderBolt ACME SPECIAL FORCES 431	Posted - 2013.12.19 00:45:00 - [5] - Quote Mahal Daj wrote: I have had some issues with crashing when I quickly load the game after turning on the system. Crashes seem 20% more likely now in 1.7 (s.w.a.g.). The best way to mitigate crashing (that I have found) is to wait until your PS3 has fully loaded all on-board games after startup. If you can't scroll through all your games without the titlecard and music loading, you have not yet fully pre-loaded the apps. Then I sit on Dust514 for a few seconds until the music loads, then I start the game. This seems to reduce the issues/crashing significantly. Once you are in the game, limit the number of menu inputs that you use and be patient when the UX loads graphics (ie: fitting screen) I rarely experience a crash when navigating the menus carefully. On the flip side, I feel as though I can cause a crash through pushing too many buttons on the menu screens. It's possible that the speed of the harddisk is related to these shenanigans, and I'm looking at replacing mine with an SSD. good luck; fly safe Just to let you know, a SSD probably wont solve any issues, people suggested this for a fix for PC low frame rate and issues but a lot of people that bought a SSD said they still get the same problems so while I am all up for you trying something, I just felt I must warn you that an SSD probably wont help.
Vrain Matari ZionTCD Public Disorder. 1374	Posted - 2013.12.19 05:23:00 - [6] - Quote Same problem here - getting the 'Fatal Error' message at end of match just as the first info screen loads. Happens on different PSN accounts also. I support SP rollover.
CELTIC TARON Molon Labe. Public Disorder. 8	Posted - 2013.12.19 13:08:00 - [7] - Quote After much research it appears there are two possible solutions. 1) File Restore to help replace any bad or corrupted files. 2) If number one don't work a total system wipe. There are many theories on why this helps some say it is because we may have too much on our system, others say it is corrupted primary files. I personally don't think it's too much stuff cause I only have 5 games downloaded on my PS3. QQ MORE about tanks being OP. I will fuel my tank on your tears! (Yes Militia needs adjusted though lol)
Just Another Merc Hell's Gate Inc 0	Posted - 2013.12.19 13:43:00 - [8] - Quote If I delete the game and reload it will I lose all my character progress?
bolsh lee Ahrendee Mercenaries EoN. 723	Posted - 2013.12.19 14:35:00 - [9] - Quote Just Another Merc wrote: If I delete the game and reload it will I lose all my character progress? No the only thing you'll lose is your settings (sensitivity sounds brightness etc) all character data is backed up on CCP's server.
CELTIC TARON Molon Labe. Public Disorder. 9	Posted - 2013.12.19 16:44:00 - [10] - Quote ATTENTION: The resetting to factory default did not work. I'm just going to have to send it in it appears to be repaired. QQ MORE about tanks being OP. I will fuel my tank on your tears! (Yes Militia needs adjusted though lol)

bolsh lee Ahrendee Mercenaries EoN. 724	Posted - 2013.12.19 16:53:00 - [11] - Quote CELTIC TARON wrote: ATTENTION: The resetting to factory default did not work. I'm just going to have to send it in it appears to be repaired. Its not your PS3 bud, there are a ton of other people having this same issue.. What I would suggest and its what im going to do today... Call Sony support, and tell them Dust is the only game that is making your ps3 hard freeze and after every time its sending an error report ( Im assuming yours is doing that as well ) Ask Sony what they suggest and if they can take a look at the error reports and see what is going on ? If your ps3 is not doing this with any other game there is no need to send in your ps3 to get repaired because in actuality Dust514 is whats needing repaired....
CELTIC TARON Molon Labe. Public Disorder. 9	Posted - 2013.12.19 16:57:00 - [12] - Quote bolsh lee wrote: CELTIC TARON wrote: ATTENTION: The resetting to factory default did not work. I'm just going to have to send it in it appears to be repaired. Its not your PS3 bud, there are a ton of other people having this same issue.. What I would suggest and its what im going to do today... Call Sony support, and tell them Dust is the only game that is making your ps3 hard freeze and after every time its sending an error report ( Im assuming yours is doing that as well ) Ask Sony what they suggest and if they can take a look at the error reports and see what is going on ? If your ps3 is not doing this with any other game there is no need to send in your ps3 to get repaired because in actuality Dust514 is whats needing repaired.... thanks, good suggestion I will follow that and see what happens. QQ MORE about tanks being OP. I will fuel my tank on your tears! (Yes Militia needs adjusted though lol)
abarkrishna WarRavens 218	Posted - 2013.12.21 08:33:00 - [13] - Quote While it is unlikely that changing your HDD to SSD might not help it stop freezing and increase frame rate it will be much better in the sense that it will cause less damage to the harddrive. No you kill this blueberry hacking the CRU we are camping. I already killed the last 2. When will they learn!
Bar Be Circle of Huskarl Minmatar Republic 1	Posted - 2013.12.21 09:31:00 - [14] - Quote Just got another hard freeze. Just in the middle of a domination. Nothing particularly unusual happening. Squad comms were on if that makes any difference. Sadly I imagine Sony will be taking a dim view of this and we might have to wave goodbye to monthly updates as CCP don't seem to get enough time to do a proper QA job.
CELTIC TARON Molon Labe. Public Disorder. 10	Posted - 2013.12.21 18:26:00 - [15] - Quote ISSUE RESOLVED: I noticed when on my other character I rarely ever froze. I noticed on Celtic the one I do freeze on channel numbers. It used to be fixed but apparently it is occurring again. Having too many channels no longer just freezes up dust, but your entire playstation. Since I reduced my channels I have not froze even one time. Hoope this helps folks, some say keep "extra" channels down below 6 extra channels. This does not account for corp, alliance, local defult channels. QQ MORE about tanks being OP. I will fuel my tank on your tears! (Yes Militia needs adjusted though lol)
Bar Be Circle of Huskarl Minmatar Republic 1	Posted - 2013.12.21 21:10:00 - [16] - Quote Happens to me lots. Only ever have 2 extra channels open. Also, just submitted a ticket to CCP. I encourage everyone who has this problem to do the same.
Vitsuna Lancaster Ghosts of Dawn General Tso's Alliance 1	Posted - 2014.01.15 20:02:00 - [17] - Quote This hard freeze has happened to me 5-6 times in the last 2 days. Everything stops. No fetal error, all graphics and audio just stops. Forcing me to reset. Only once has it happened to me in battle. While I was in my tank in mid combat. Pretty ******. This doesn't happen what i watch netflix or play any other game. So it must be dust514....
N1ck Comeau Ahrendee Mercenaries EoN. 1819	Posted - 2014.01.15 21:21:00 - [18] - Quote In minecraft there is a glitch that has happened to me and my friend where we both randomly mid game just get sent straight out to the playstation menu. I have hard froze a few times in Dust. Mostly in war barges and loading screens. I've always had a low amount of chat channels. Minmatar Assault. Sidearm King. SMG's and Pistols. Melting armour, and blowing heads off. +60
Dr Dammit Sognariket Logistics 16	Posted - 2014.01.16 00:22:00 - [19] - Quote I've had PS3's since the day it was released. I'm currently on my third (last one died after installing dust and playing two rounds), and I can say with 100% confidence that I have never played a PS3 game this buggy. Nothing even close. And I'm not talking about game-play bugs, like wrong damage on a gun or something, but crashing, hard-freezes and dead and dying hard-drives and PS3's. This has been going on in various forms since the game was released. I hate to say this, because I love CCP and Eve, but I have come to the conclusion that the guys in Shanghai just aren't very competent, as evidenced by their complete lack of ability to fix serious bugs like this. Tl;dr: Keep sending reports and tickets to CCP and especially Sony. They're the only ones who can force CCP to get a grip on this. PS! Workarounds shouldn't be necessary on a console. The game should just work. Anything else is not good enough. That's the whole point of having consoles - simplicity and convenience. This is all on CCP. /rant
Badgerr Rager Black Phoenix Mercenaries Legacy Rising 582	Posted - 2014.01.16 01:31:00 - [20] - Quote I have found out that for me personally,... On this my main character, I get the ps3 hard freeze.. But if I change characters while on the same PSN I dont freeze or anything for the whole day. So there is a bug stuck to characters maybe ? Try EveOnline

Gaus Penfield Fraternity of St. Venefice Amarr Empire 14	Posted - 2014.01.16 23:24:00 - [21] - Quote I came back to the forums to see if this issue has been resolved since all the new updates ( I've been checking in every once in a while since Uprising started ) but I see that it's as bad as ever. It was so bad in the beginning of Uprising that a lot of people left because of it. It ruined a few PS3s in the process too. They use to acknowledge that it was a problem, but I see they don't even do that anymore. I guess they just figure that a certain amount of people won't be able to play the game due to them not knowing how to program for the PS3, and that's an acceptable loss. Oh well..
Yeeeuuuupppp KILL-EM-QUICK RISE of LEGION 25	Posted - 2014.01.18 09:16:00 - [22] - Quote I only got a few hard freezes where I can't even go to the ps3 menu. But then I do the process you explained and then it won't happen again for a couple months or weeks Carving Hearts in People's Backs, One Day At A Time ~ Nova Knives
Screaming Monk The Southern Legion The Umbra Combine 0	Posted - 2014.02.08 19:35:00 - [23] - Quote I seem to be getting a lot of these fatal errors at the end of my matches as well. There was a Playstation update a few days ago and after that is when my FEs started happening. Wondering if that has anything to do with it. Might be a combination of things as well. i.e. Buggy CCP + new update to Playstion = no bueno.


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