It just Wont Load..Any IdeAs PleaSe?

[doctorrg]

In the end, it may not be possible to get your game to work, even after a review of your PS3's connection settings, and therefore Famine was offering a fall-back solution.

I'm not so sure Famine was offering a fall-back solution (though I really don't know), he may just have been thinking that people who are 6 inches away from the hub and opt for wireless simply can't be helped. I know I would have. It's actually beyond me how anyone could not choose to put that cable in.

I know he was trying to help and I appreciate it but it just doesn't say those things, I could take a photo if you like and my not wanting that lead is because I don't want to make my house scruffy (ocd) for one game that is so popular you'd think it would cope with the internet, y'know just like all the other games do.

Fair enough. For your situation, I'd recommend to bin GT5.

 

[Famine]

What I was spending my time on was improving your connection - we were 60% of the way through it - so that every game of yours would be better online, not just GT5.

The fact you want to believe it's because GT5 wasn't programmed properly for internet play (despite repeated attempts to explain why it's not the case - also, the millions of online game hours played every week kinda blows it away) because every other game seems to work fine - and stating so after every step of me helping you - tells me you don't want a fix. You just want to complain about GT5. I don't know why, I don't want to know why - I just know that I don't want to waste my time if you don't want to be open to it.

You think your connection is just fine because your 8 year old nephew can play COD on it (also, really? COD is 18 rated - I don't even play it when my 11 year old daughter is awake). It's not. GT5 seems to be telling you that it's not (it might not be, but the helpful guy down the internet is trying to help you find that out), but you're resolute in your belief that GT5 is wrong.


Wiring it up is a good step towards having a better, faster and more stable connection, but it's not a crucial step. If you don't want to run a six inch cable for the sake of improving every game you own, it's not a problem. I'd already moved past that step because it's not always viable or practical (in your case because a six inch cable makes the house scruffier...). But I cannot help you so long as you're not paying the slightest bit of attention to "techy stuff" because you believe GT5 is badly developed.


Incidentally, on COD the lobbies are, like GT, peer-to-peer. This means everyone else's connections are brought down to the crapness of the connection of the player with the crappest connection. This also means that the player with the crappest connection is often completely unaware how crap their connection is because the lobby is brought down to their level and it all seems fine - to everyone else, that player lags across the screen like Max Headroom mainlining crack.

 

[shidoshi_rob]

@Famine Fair comment, sorry I seem to have p'd you off. I'll get that wire.

 

[RX-7_FD3S]

Famine you have to face it, GT5 bring up problem you never get in any other game and it's a fact. I understand your reaction in the thread but saying that it's not a GT5 problem is wrong. I also have lots of problem with GT5, I tried everything, from wireless to cable, to setting my router with open port for GT5 etc.. yet I still have trouble online. I played lots of other game, Shift2, AC2 + brotherhood, Mina no Golf ps3 (everybody's golf but the jp version), Grid, PES 2010, 2011, 2012, NHL 2010&12, NBA2k12 and never had any problem like I had in GT5.

I also played all Forza on x360 and never had any network problem.

I love the game dont get me wrong however the online part is a big shame even if I still play a lot on it lol.

 

[Famine]

Famine you have to face it, GT5 bring up problem you never get in any other game and it's a fact. I understand your reaction in the thread but saying that it's not a GT5 problem is wrong.

I didn't say that. I said that you cannot say that it is the problem while the PS3 is connected sub-optimally.

If - or when - the domestic connection is made as good as it possibly can be, fingers can be pointed. Even then though your online experience might not be consistent because peer-to-peer is like that (explained thoroughly in other threads). But that's not the problem the OP has, so trying to flog GT5's networking to death by citing experiences you've had with online racing is unhelpful. At best.

 

[G24]

I had a similar problems like yours last year, tried just about everything and nothing really worked, called Sony support and they suggested to back up all important user data, replays, photos, etc. I also did a full system back-up. Next I reformatted the drive (which took about 6 hours) after that I reloaded my full systems back-up thinking everything was good, well I was wrong! same frikken problems as before and I just wasted 10 hours of hope, blood, sweat, and tears for nothing! So I decided to reformat my hardrive again, and this time I didn't bother to reload my full system back up. Once my drive finished reformatting I went online and downloaded and installed all the PS3 updates, then I installed my GT5 user data and went online again and downloaded and installed all of GT5 updates, I decided to test run the game before installing the final 8gb , everything was good and as of today everything works great!

On a side note - famine is right having your Internet wired in directly is absolutely the best way.

 

[shidoshi_rob]

I got the wire, plugged it in, redone my PS3 setting so it knows it's wired now and bingo, game on! VirginMedia need to sort my connection though, it drops out all over the house.
Thanks for the help.

 

[Famine]

Heh. I never thought that just wiring it would do that My wireless PS3 is a little less reliable (couple of drops) than the wired one, but that's quite a difference.

There's a little more we can do to make it even better - but it's just small percentages and it might be better over PM because it requires a bit of fiddling in the router.

 

[porthillking]

I got the wire, plugged it in, redone my PS3 setting so it knows it's wired now and bingo, game on! VirginMedia need to sort my connection though, it drops out all over the house.
Thanks for the help.

VirginMedia are the worst internet service provider, on weekdays, i'm lucky to push 2mb of download speed

 

[thelvynau]

Im lucky to get that on a good day.

 

[iamjajo]

Ooh ya, then the bashing against the product begins because they don't want to try.

To the OP, why don't you try disconnecting, COMPLETELY, from the internet on the PS3. Remove/delete the connection in the settings. And re-do the connection. This will give you a fresh a start.

Look here on adding a new connection.

Also, a lot of people don't have their internet/wireless connection properly configured and causes them problems. I rarely get problems, maybe 1 out of 10 times but due to not clearing cache or ps3 being on too long.

I think the game should play by pressing the game icon. If the game needs the cache cleared regularly, then the game ought to do it for the user. If a user can connect to the Sony portal, then any game ought to work. End user frustration is something I'm familiar with, and good software is designed to eliminate user troubleshooting.