Unofficial Gran Turismo 5 Update 2.10 Looping Bug Fix
As many of you have probably heard by now, since the latest 2.10 update for Gran Turismo 5 went live last week some users have been reporting a strange game-disrupting issue involving the GT5 logo screen loop where the root cause was, of all things, vehicles in the game.
Today, the problem has been resolved at the hands of our very own members here so if you’ve had this problem follow the steps outlined below and you’ll be playing GT5 again in no time:
Tutorial to fix problem with 2.10 update.
1. Downgrade to 2.09 – go to the Game Data Utility and select GT5, hit triangle, select delete in the right-hand side menu. You now have to re-install updates to get you back to version 2.09.
2. You need to find your ghost cars; the cars cannot be chosen, driven, sold or deleted; this does not include DLC cars. When you’ve found them proceed to the next step.
3. Go to your GT world menu and select “My Home Settings” select “Design Options” and change the background color to the original blue and your background image to the first as well.
4. Again go to the Game Data Utility and delete the game to go back to 1.00 version (if version 1.00 does not work for you you could try the first update which is 608 mb and that takes you to version 1.05). You’ll need to use the first edition GT5 disc as no other versions of the disc will get you back to version 1.00.
5. Start GT5 and decline the updates, go to your garage and delete the ghost cars.
6. Once you have done the above steps you can then install the updates bringing you back to 2.10.
After you’ve successfully completed all of the updates and you now have a working save with the latest 2.10 update, you may have to go through the process of reacquiring any or all of the DLC you may have purchased over time, and you can do this by going into Account Management on the XMB (under Playstation Network) and download them again and re-install them.
You may notice that once you’re back in version 2.10 you may have a garage full of cars but the thumbnails are now corrupted, to resolve that just hit triangle in garage view and select “Create Thumbnails for All Cars”, this will take time depending on how many cars are in your garage.
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When going back to 1.00 or any older version with newer saves (DLC cars in it), be sure to change the saves options settings beforehand to default like in 1.0. Your saves might have difficulty loading in early versions due to conflicting options settings (there are many options that are only available in later versions). Also make sure the save has you using a car that is in 1.0, and turn off all favorites car (if they are not in older version). If in doubt while in version 2.09 buy a car from the new car dealer.
Thanks to GTP_CargoRat, zephyrus, christara321 and everyone else involved in bringing this issue to an end for those unable to play GT5 without being hindered by this problem; a problem that I have experienced myself, albeit not to the same extent as others. Be sure to stop by the thread here should you have any questions.
GT5 Photomode image by eugene2023.
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February 2nd, 2013 at 5:31 am - #euros only
Well if an orange ! mark counts as a ghost car than I am in trouble. I have a few of those and if I try to interact with it the game just crashes to the home page, and if I try to update all of the cars’ thumbnails all together at once the game also crashes to home page. I haven’t found a solution for this after searching the internet for months and posting about it in the help section.
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February 3rd, 2013 at 7:40 am - #KaOsCT12
I totally agree with you bro, i have 2 cars in my garage with the orange exclamation mark above them, i cannot delete them, use them, or do anything at all with them, and its been like this for just over a year. When im playing in online mode, if i were to try and use a car at the bottom of my garage list, it would just crash and send me back to gt mode…everytime. Now ive done this update, it keeps getting stuck in a saving game cycle at the beginning of the game, the guys at gt5 are totally useless, why should we have to do all this crap just to play the game, ive got over 3 years worth of data, and if it ends up being corrupted cos of all this crap, i will go nuts !!!
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January 31st, 2013 at 3:18 am - #Mikathechaos21
what’s with lobby?
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January 29th, 2013 at 3:44 am - #red ice
just waiting for new updates , hope it gets fixed soon
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January 28th, 2013 at 1:52 pm - #BWX
Is there a way to avoid this if you have not updated yet? If so, why isn’t anyone listing that?
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January 28th, 2013 at 3:08 pm - #GTP_CargoRat
If you don’t update, then you can’t play online. If not being able to play online isn’t a problem for you, then simply don’t update, stay at 2.09. And yes, that has been said if you go back and read my thread.
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January 28th, 2013 at 5:14 am - #zanxion
Now serriously, PD is going to give us a new GT? If it is going to be like this they’d better don’t!
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January 27th, 2013 at 11:28 am - #Stoffinator
This doesn’t even work for me. The game does nothing now but hard freeze my system. Thanks PD!
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January 27th, 2013 at 6:27 pm - #GTP_CargoRat
Then apparently you did something wrong.
And just for the record about the comments about wired vs wireless. That has nothing to do with the issue. I am running on a wireless network with my laptop, phone, XBox, and another PC all running on the same network and through my 2 1/2 days of testing when we were trying to resolve the problem, I didn’t encounter one problem at all while downloading all the updates, And I did this several times when we were first experimenting trying to see what would work. I must have deleted data and re-downloaded the updates about 10-12 times and did not experience any problems because of my PS3 running wireless. You can drop packets on a wired connection just as you can on a wireless connection.
Also, I think some of you guys are confusing this particular looping issue with other types of looping or freezing issues.
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January 27th, 2013 at 9:31 am - #Florin85
I have same problem with looping bug only , if im connected on wirrelles conection , if im wired connection i had no problem, works just fine.
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January 27th, 2013 at 11:29 am - #Stoffinator
I am wired connection and I have this issue.
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January 28th, 2013 at 12:06 am - #Stoffinator
This only started with the last update. I boot the game and it just gets the blank screen, than the “saving” icon pop ups. It just repeats this pattern. And I followed the above to a T. Now if I try to boot the game it just freezes my console.
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January 27th, 2013 at 9:29 am - #Flagmo-T
I just think I will turn into a Buddhist, and sale all none natural things..
BuTT I’m really impressed with the knowledge you guys have to fix this issue, But I simply wont put that effort into it anymore..
Love the picture eugene2023. :O)
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January 26th, 2013 at 9:50 pm - #Racingworld68
Well it is obvious I have the looping bug, having a lot of problems since the update, and then yesterday i stummbeled on some ghostcars. Another thing that happened is when i chose a car in the garaga, it did have no wheels !!!! Will take some time out and follow the tutorial next week.
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January 26th, 2013 at 8:50 am - #GTP_CargoRat
To the people here that are waiting for a patch. I have said this before and I’ll say it again. I really doubt that PD will come out with a patch for this. The reason is that it is not something that the update directly broke. The undeletable/unusuable cars were already on our saves and were the result of something totally unrelated to the update. All the update did was highlight an already existing problem that is not the result of anything PD did. I believe these cars simply became “glitched” because of something happening during the save process when these cars were aquired. The update just highlighted these cars in that the PP of these cars could not be updated due to their unusable state.
I hope I’m wrong and PD does come out with a patch for those of you still having a problem, but I really can’t see it happening. I say this because I have read various comments here of people saying that they are just going to wait for a patch. I just don’t think its going to happen.
The fix is not really that hard to do if you just take your time and follow the tutorial carefully. Yes, its time consuming and a big headache, but unfortunately, I think thats the only way you are going to get things working again.
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January 26th, 2013 at 6:24 pm - #Pit Crew
:tup The voice of reason.
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January 28th, 2013 at 12:56 pm - #Fredzy
I and the GT community thank you guys wholeheartedly for getting to the bottom of this issue and offering a solution, but I’m absolutely not spending a whole night screwing with the game files, installing/uninstalling piles of stuff with a possibility of it not even working. I’m lucky to get 2 hrs per week into the game. I spend more time updating it than playing as it is. PD needs to fix this, end of story. I can’t see how you could possibly reason that its not their responsibility.
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January 26th, 2013 at 8:22 am - #GT911
I’d better wait until official fix
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January 26th, 2013 at 1:32 am - #tpark103
Hasn’t happened to me. I must be odd.
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January 26th, 2013 at 12:57 am - #TomBrady
I’ve got the bug once, I just restarted the game and it never happened again. Why don’t people just do that?
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January 26th, 2013 at 4:45 am - #infamousphil
Ain’t that simple Tom. Restarting PS3, clearing cache, even shutting down entire system for minutes…
Thankfully, GT5 is still playable but 2 to 3 times a week, I still get repeating online race start trumpets, looping “GT” logo and winding clock at the front (home) end. No need to restart the machine when this happens though. It’s like it’s just taking longer to process.
I ain’t deleting nothin’ either… Just gonna wait patiently for PD’s fix. I strongly suggest all do the same. Unless, of course, you’ve already lost or corrupted the data.
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January 26th, 2013 at 8:29 pm - #GTP_CargoRat
Its not as easy as that, otherwise don’t you think we all would have done that by now instead of going through this big ass progress that we’ve went through to get things fixed. And if thats all you had to do, I doubt very seriously you had the same exact problem the rest of us had/have.
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January 27th, 2013 at 12:20 am - #infamousphil
Oh, looping is an issue with my GT5 experience. Just to a lesser extent than what’s being discussed. If the looping won’t stop, I have to quit the game (not shut down the system), game play 101. Thankfully, I’ll be back in a lobby in minutes later.
But others are writing that they can’t play GT at all. If that’s the case and you’re not willing to wait for PD, then go ahead and try GTPlanet’s solution.
I would at least expect an explanation from PD… SOON!!!
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January 26th, 2013 at 12:44 am - #E46fanatic937
Velvet cake FD
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January 25th, 2013 at 9:01 pm - #madgt5customer
did the fix turned off favorites restored default music default background got in a dealership car
go back to 1.00 cant access anything cursor stuck install 1.05 same thing
this is ridiculous an official fix needs to be issued
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January 25th, 2013 at 8:55 pm - #biftizmo
It’s the milky bar car…mmmmm
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January 25th, 2013 at 8:38 pm - #alfiD
That rx7 is ugly
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January 28th, 2013 at 3:01 am - #infamousphil
The RX-7 is actually a pretty car. I just don’t dig that red velvet cake photo shop. UGLY…
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January 25th, 2013 at 8:37 pm - #biftizmo
PSN is gonna go live….no longer will you worry about Xbox ps4 …only that you are logged in to PSN.. Get ready for play station plus just got bigger you may be needing it to save issues of lost download data…I see a new even cheeper ps3 …with only 12 gig.
in the future a cheep box with only HDMI and Internet…and PSN everywhere…pay to play…
Open source PSN is longing to be bigger than ps3…back up your stuff or sign up. Your choice -
January 25th, 2013 at 5:51 pm - #PhillGuy
I guess I’m not touching GT5 until there is a fix from PD.
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Dear Admin,
do you have any contact to polyphony? Please tell them our probelm. Still can not play Gran Turismo since update 2.10. Why they don´t care?
Thank you for your help.