PS3 Freezing

[Curagaja]

In twenty minutes my PS3 has frozen twice. The first time was immediately after I left my inn room after logging in and the second was immediately after queuing Duty Finder fifteen minutes later. This happened maybe three times total from beta3 to 2.1 release.
It's becoming really annoying now.

[Warthain]

ps3 wasnt made to handle mmo's nothing that i wouldnt be expecting...

[rocheetbombe]

ps3 wasnt made to handle mmo's nothing that i wouldnt be expecting...

That... isn't really a passable excuse for it.

[Syrellaris]

That... isn't really a passable excuse for it.

It is actually more then valid. If you play any other game on the ps3, you should have noticed the ps3 loads most if not everything up front, world maps etc are also kept quite simple in example to tales of series etc. In short, there is no constant loading stress.
Mmo's however add a constant loading stress over and over again. Fates, monsters, players etc all have to be loaded when they happen. This makes the ps3 work much and much harder then it requires for a singleplayer game. it does not even load as much in Multiplayer games like call of duty either as everything and every player character is loaded before the match starts.

The ps3 is just not build to support these type of games in the way Pc's handle it. It is why limitations like fates not loading, players not loading etc happen.

[rocheetbombe]

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It's inexcusable to the devs. Honestly I don't think it should've been made for PS3 either, granted I'm overall glad it did otherwise I wouldn't have gotten to play it.

But a game should be 100% playable no matter what it's played on. If it's developed for it, it needs to work properly. Especially when they themselves said that the PS3 would have no difference in gameplay as the PC when hardware was concerned.

So overall it shouldn't have been done, but it's not as bad as people make it to be. It's definitely playable and tolerable. Just needs to be more than that to actually feel like you're getting your full experience.

If it has limitations affecting gameplay of any kind, it's inexcusable and just shouldn't be done.

[Warthain]

it really isnt, but developers should know better, that the ps3 has lots of limitations innerent to the console hardware, the console lags and freezes in crowded areas, actually the ps3 of a fc member actually burned down from the stress of running the game... i wish in the future they make this a ps4/pc only title, so has to avoid content limitations has we have in place right now, because ps3 simply cannot handle the game getting plain better in terms of content...

[rocheetbombe]

it really isnt, but developers should know better, that the ps3 has lots of limitations innerent to the console hardware, the console lags and freezes in crowded areas, actually the ps3 of a fc member actually burned down from the stress of running the game... i wish in the future they make this a ps4/pc only title, so has to avoid content limitations has we have in place right now, because ps3 simply cannot handle the game getting plain better in terms of content...

Sounds like that person had a dirty PS3. I never lag or freeze in crowded areas, when my game does crash it's just at very random areas or time that has no real rhyme or reason. I'm convinced there's just faulty coding, rather than the hardware itself.

[Interfectorum]

PS3 has MEM leak problems, DUST514 has these issues to.

[Milmoko_Gemoko]

It's happened to twice to me since 2.1 launched, one last night in Limsa Lominsa (The Aftcastle) (23:30ish GTM) and this afternoon crossing the border from Central Thanalan to Dry Bone region (13:30ish).

Its rather annoying, especialy if it does it mid dungeon run :/

[Stormfeather]

Just adding my two cents, I've also had my PS3 freeze three times yesterday, and I think one other time since the 2.1 patch. Doing a quick search I found a couple threads on GameFAQs that they've started freezing since the patch.

It's still a small enough sample size that it *could* just be dirty/overheating PS3s, and it's a coincidence that it's been happening since the patch (or the patch is just putting that liiittle extra stress on the console)... or it could be some inherent bugginess in the patch itself causing PS3s to freeze.

For my own part, I think every time I was either in Gridania or zoning out of Gridania.