PS3 Stuttering / momentary freezing
Just picked up PN2 for the PS3, and I'm getting a LOT of slowdown and stuttering in the game that's making it really unpleasant to play. Also, during an auto-save, It froze my system for the duration of the save process, causing an audio scratch while it was happening. Is there some way to alleviate this?
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What happens to me is that either the game will momentarily freeze or begin to stutter during the saving process. I get the impression that the game can't properly progress until certain information is saved, so it either slows down or loops a bit.
Thanks for responding Matt. I also have PS+ and cloud saves enabled.
Not certain if this is the direction you are headed in, but PS+ cloud saves are not real time. You setup your PS3 to upload the saves at a certain time. For example, mine is setup to upload between 4-6am. Hoping that helps somewhat.
I have had no problems with other games, including Back to the Future and the Walking Dead, and am annoyed and disappointed in this Telltale release.
I have tried many of the things that you suggested, other than the file system rebuild, and think that if many people are having the same problem (google shows many complaints for both console versions of the game) it should be looked into more than a "well if it doesn't happen for us, then it must not be OUR game that is the problem."
I came to the official forums looking for help and found more frustration instead.
When it's really bad, the whole game will freeze but the system is still active because I can access the XMB. I find by waiting the few seconds for the game to save and then proceeding with the next hand helps but it's still very annoying.
I have 78GB of free space on my system. Having only a 1.5MB internet connection, the LAST thing I want to do is file restore and have to wait the weeks it's take to re-download the 70+GB of data I would need to recover. Not Happening.
Secondly, why is the game skipping, crashing, freezing, in the first place? Why are there hitches? Shouldn't they be, you know, non-existent?
This is super annoying. PS3 is my platform of choice. As I mentioned before, I've played it on Steam and never ran into issues like this. Beyond that, I can watch my roommate play it on his 360 without any apparent issues (definitely not the lag/stutter). Please help us out here.
That just happened twice to me tonight. Game freezes but the background audio and music keeps going. Also I have a 500GB new slim model PS3 that I got back in October, still have over 250GB of free space on it.
I know this isn't an issue for me, given the fact that I have over 350GB of free space on my PS3's HDD.
Hope there's a TTG patch in the works, because everything else you have suggested doesn't do a bit of good to help it run any better than it currently does.
TTG, I play TONS of games. This isn't my console...
Also made a video of one such freeze: http://youtube.com/watch?v=WSMkjKOZRiM
I have not been able to play this game at all. I've done a restore of the file system, and this did not help. I can get to the main menu (it's slow, but it works) but when I attempt to start a new tournament the "Loading..." text appears in the bottom right hand corner, then slows, and then stops.
It wil either remain there for three or four minutes, then revert back to the main menu but with no options to select, or sit there until I tire of waiting for it and have to restart my PS3.
I have attempted to play seven (7) times today, and have been unsuccessful every time. I have never experienced any issues even remotely like this with any other games. I have a lot of spare space on the hard drive, and I'm not prepared to accept that my problem is unique to my machine as everywhere this game is mentioned on PS3 the same issues are arising time and again.
I would very much appreciate this being looked into, as at present I have paid you for something that is utterly useless to me, and entirely unfit for purpose. It simply does not work.
Couldn't of said it better myself. What bothers me the most is Telltale hasn't even officially came out and said that it is a problem. That's a easy way to lose fans.
Every single person and I do mean every single person I know who purchased this on PS3 (mostly friends of mine who bought it for BL2 unlocks) have told me that they're having the exact same problems and for a lot of them this is their first TT game so it's not going to leave a good taste in their mouth if they ever have the decision to purchase another game by the same company.
Come on Telltale at least say something or better yet do something.
EDIT: After doing some more reading this seems to be pretty common on the Xbox release as well.
I have over 150+ Games for this system and I can say that bugs, glitches and crashes are extremely rare.
However, this game is by far the worst piece of software I ever downloaded for my PS3. There is constant stuttering! Every time the game saves the game comes to a complete halt for about 2-10 seconds, often with the sound looping.
Once, the game stopped responding, when it displayed the "press X for next round" (not the actual text, but I think you know what I mean) message. When I quit the game and tried to continue the tournament after restarting, the freeze was still there because the bug was stored in the save game.
Seriously, how can you release such a piece of crap????
It's really frustrating, because I really would like to enjoy this game!
Once Brock was eliminated it seemed to get better. I think the problem is saving combined with trying to load banter at the same time.
This is apparently very common and it's mentioned in PlayStation LifeStyle's review of the game and the reason it got a low score.
http://www.playstationlifestyle.net/2013/05/03/poker-night-at-the-inventory-2-review-psn/
Try waiting for the 'Saving' icon to disappear before betting on the next hand. Also, once another character is eliminated from the tournament, performance improves. Knocking out another character will nearly eliminate all hitching. Lastly, restarting the game from time to time will also help to avoid hard locks or crashes that require the system to be rebooted.
While these suggestions are not a solution, they should help to improve the performance of the game.
Is TellTale working on improving the performance of the game via a patch?
I find it hard to believe that this game is taxing the PS3 that much considering there are much more graphics and disk intensive games that don't have this problem.
I sure hope so... I would like to be able to play a game that I spent $10 on.
Maybe it's just me but why in the world does it have to save after ever single hand? I don't know if you're part of the development team or not but that seems like something that isn't needed.
As for the problems being reduced when there are less players that's a possibility but it doesn't do enough to help. The last time it froze for me it was 1v1 me & ashley
EDIT: You can also see my Youtube video where it froze and it's only me and Claptrap. http://youtu.be/WSMkjKOZRiM
Indeed. I've also had my game lock up when there were only two players still playing in the tournament.
I do not like to generally complain about games and spend a lot of money on them. I understand like any normal person the issues in a business and that people can never be happy. But what we have here is a product that in general does not work. If I bought a guitar where the strings were all broken I would expect new strings. Her din this game I would be embarrassed to be on the creating team. You are passing off people's comments on us having to try and fix things by rebuilding, re downloading, turn off dynamic themes, need more he'd space. These are all cop outs. You have a game that stutters, freezes every time the characters talk and hands are played to such an extent it is as if playing an online game with a very very low grade connection. It is just like I am lagging out yet.... ITS NOT EVEN ONLINE I have never had a game this bad and I though call of duty was the worst. At least they can play the server card what's your excuse. I really was thinking of buying walking dead and borderlands two but if this is your companies customer service or response to a problem to make people adapt and force changes when you should provide an update . That's like my broken guitar strings and being told use some duct tape. Simply put your game is offline and acts like a lagging online game there are deffinatly freeze issues as another along with lots of others who have tried your rediculouse fixes have found they have no affec. If you don't know why this issue exists please be honest with us and say so. The community just wishes for comunication and honesty. Not simple cop out excuses. Please figure it out and create an update , if your not willing too then I would like my money back as the game currently is psychologically aggravating to play, and hard as hell to see the characters tell AS IT IS DESIGNED TO DO and a simple game takes about 4 times longer, in poker this is rough, as a game it is broken, am simply whining about everything like happens a lot of times with game issues? NO I just wish to see some actually attempt to work in fixing what I think would be a great game and some Ho esty and humble acceptance to owning the problem not passing off the blame. In fact I should never have to ALTER my system. For your game in the first place. This is not. An answer. So please let's see an honest comment on what you all intend or I will e-mail to have my refund for a Brocken product
Like the person before I don't just complain about games in my free time for the fun of it. If I wanted to do that I'd go to the EA forums (zing!).
But no seriously, I'm pretty content with glitches and bugs if they're not game breaking or don't constantly interfere in gameplay. What we have here is BROKEN and we deserve a patch and a apology and since it's been two weeks that's not asking a lot.
I completely agree.
I have pretty much all TT games on PS3 and I WANT to love this product as well, but this is a pretty bad and apparently widespread PS3 problem.
Also there was one point during dialog where the video froze, but the audio kept going. Eventually the video unfroze and the video and audio were out of sync until the dialog ended.
Finally when I went to quit, the PS3 froze while quitting and did it's 3 beep reset.
The game really is coded poorly. I was watching the credits and saw all the QA people listed. They should all be fired.
Edit:
Oddly after I got eliminated, I decided to watch the remaining 4 guys play. There was no lagging, freezing or stuttering at all at that point.
What's worse is that apparently, even though the game saves after every hand, it's not saving the tournament state as when I launched the game again after this the only option I had was to start a new tournament, despite being several hands into the tournament.
My game is also freezing and glitching, I was just in a show down with claptrap (just the two of us left) and I was doing pretty well and starting to enjoy it when it completely freezes up and I have to hard reset my PS3.
You are selling a product that does not function correctly. I am expecting a refund on this, I have sent you a message via twitter and facebook. I have never been so angry about a game purchase. This problem is wide spread and there have been no official updates apart from the chap above going...
"Oh yeah guys - thats an issue, why don't you try and wait a bit before playing the game" not even a... "We are working on this everyone and will have a patch out shortly"
I expect my refund because I work hard for my money and you have just sold me a product that does not work as advertised. You can contact me via email. I expect to hear from telltale soon or expect a patch within the coming week.
My boyfriend used to be a QA Tester at THQ. I used to always blame testers for not catching major bugs, but he told me something about how the process of submitting patches works. Sometimes fixing minor bugs could cause other things to fail, so they generally don't worry about them. But the biggest reason that companies tend to not fix bugs is the cost. I can't quite remember the figures, but I think he said Microsoft charges $20,000 and Sony charges $10,000 per patch. This is why companies choose not to fix things at times.
I just bought this on my ps3 and it is still lagging and everything else mentioned. I love this game, I played it on the computer first and never had any issues. The person who let me use their steam account moved so i don't play it on the computer anymore, but when i saw that it was available on the ps3 i was excited until i started playing and the lagging started. please fix this bug but seeing as this has been a problem for over a year i don't see that happening, would there be any way i can get it on the pc for free since playing it on the ps3 is nothing but a joke? I'm not the kind of person to really complain but when i have to pay for something and there's a problem i would like to know that someone is gonna fix it or do something to keep me interested so i might consider buying again. Like i said i do love this game and would love to play it but with the lagging and other issues for the ps3 it makes it miserable playing the game.