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[TensaM]

I want to start off saying that I am thoroughly enjoying the Mass Effect series. It's hard to get me into a sci-fi setting, but I am quite enraptured.

That being said, last week (Tuesday, I believe), I was playing ME3, one of the missions closer to the end (was at the 30hr mark) and ME3 killed my original 60GB PS3 (backwards compatible) hard drive.

I really don't understand this. Mass Effect 2 ran flawlessly on my PS3. The second day of having ME3, being on the citadel and traveling by elevator I had a freeze. I thought it might just be a random occurence. I had to hold down the power button on the front to have my PS3 turn off. After rebooting, and going back to the game, I froze again on the same spot (citadel elevator). At this point, I plugged in my USB stick and began backing up as many saves as I could. First time in the 5+ years I've owned my PS3 that I've backed up any saves. Some games I wasn't able to back up (looks like I'm never playing Star Ocean again).

I continued playing, encountering freezes (mostly at citadel elevator) throughout many portions of the game. These were always resolvable by holding down the power button on my PS3.

Then last week, right after the patch (I think it was 1.02 came out) I was completing one of the first Asari missions around the 30hr mark. I was hopeful that the patch would have resolved the freezing/lagging issues. The game began lagging horribly (as it had done occasionally during other missions). This lag got gradually worse until my system completely froze.

I tried to shut down my system by holding the power button, nothing. I held the button in for a good 25 seconds and no beeps, no response of any sort, nothing. I had to flip the power switch in the back of the system. I waited 30 minutes to let my system cool down a bit and restarted the system.

"Your hard drive has been corrupted, the system will try and restore the data". Then, 0% for a good minute, and then my system froze again (background stopped moving). I tried to do the restore again the next day, and after being at 0% for 5 minutes, the system had one long beep and shut off.

I tried to boot the PS3 in safe mode a few days ago and it is now telling me that there is no hard drive found.

I ordered a new hard drive for the system. I REALLY hope that this is ONLY my hard drive which is dead, because I will be pretty upset if my system itself took some sort of damage (of course I wish it was nothing and the damn system would just start, but you know what I mean).

Bioware, I really wish you would have put more effort into getting the kinks worked out of the PS3 versioin of this game. Breaking a console, or at least even just the hard drive is a pretty unacceptable kink.

[TensaM]

Also, a side question (which I realize is a bit of a long shot).

The last point I had backed up my save on my USB was around the 12 hour mark. Since I have an account signed up is there ANY chance that Bioware has our saves backed up somewhere? I'd really rather not play those 18 hours over again if I don't have to.

[MegaSovereign]

I'm so sorry man. The freezing thing happened quite a few times to my slim, but it let's me restore everything. Bioware should really release a patch for this issue. They should also allow people to install the game to their harddrive.

[TensaM]

That's the thing, the freeze that killed it was hours after the 1.02 patch was released. I figured it would HELP, not make things worse.

I really wouldn't feel so terrible if I wasn't losing nearly 20 hours of save data, that and of course that I had to buy a new hard drive..

[MegaSovereign]

I think 1.02 was a patch for MP issues

[Krogan420]

Your not the only one bro it killed my hd also after 8 hard resets

[Knight_Quack]

A tip from playing skyrim, when frozen ALWAYS EJECT THE DISC FIRST, the ps3 should restart on its own. If not then press the button. Shutting off the power should really be a desperate measure.

[sartt]

Knight_Quack wrote...

A tip from playing skyrim, when frozen ALWAYS EJECT THE DISC FIRST, the ps3 should restart on its own. If not then press the button. Shutting off the power should really be a desperate measure.

  I APPROVE THIS MESSAGE

Modifié par sartt, 23 mars 2012 - 12:52 .

[Alesteir]

I have yet to have this issue with me3 but with me2 amalur and skyrim yes. *writes down the eject disc solution*

[ThomasakaDes_]

Get a slim, they`re better than the old fat ones.
I`ve experienced several hard freezes in games, and mine still works. I also play on it each day for many many hours.
The slim actually have better cooling than the fat ones too.

Or you can just replace the 60 gb hdd with a 320 gb or bigger.
60 gb isn`t enough

[Ryusennin]

I feel for you and I know how such a bugfest the Citadel is, but you should never *ever* turn off your PS3 via the power switch when the system is on (frozen or not).

That said, BioWare need to address those hard crashes ASAP.

[TiSiqueira]

ME3 works fine here, the only problem is the poor fps. (in my case)

[V0lK3R]

I have also run into the extreme frame rate drop (lag) and the elevator freezing which causes a hard reset of the PS3. I haven't yet and hope I don't run into your situation though. I know the 60GB PS3 w/ BC are prone to the YLOD so it may or may not be your HDD. But your system turning on and displaying something is a good sign, I suppose.

It's interesting how ME2 runs almost flawless on the PS3 and ME3, which uses the same engine as ME2 for PS3 runs like garbage. I think this is one of those cases where M$ shelled out so much money to BioWare so that PS3 users get a ****ty port job. And because of that crap port job our PS3's have to suffer.

[Ajx-]

There are too many freezing posts for this to continue. Someone from Bio should post stickies in each of the support threads that address issues for the respective platform. The whole freezing thing is getting old. Fast.

[rollblows]

o **** i have been laging BAD i just keep playing hopeing it gets better NOT NOW fix it if my new 350gb ps3 dies cus of a bugy game there will be **** to pay

[TensaM]

I'd suggest backing up your game saves frequently on a USB stick. I learned the hard way.

My system didn't die due to the YLOD, it was literally the game. I just finished two other 40+ hr RPGs (Star Ocean & FF13-2) with zero freezes.

Does anyone know if bioware has any sort of save information saved on their servers? Seeing as we need an "online pass" it should come with some sort of benefit..

[CYB3RFR34K]

i suggest you clean your PS3 every month with an air compressor (100lbs pressure), to keep your PS3 alive forever!

[known_hero]

EDIT

Gotta stay classy!

Modifié par known_hero, 26 mars 2012 - 01:10 .

[starscreamerx31]

Yeah its hard to beleive but its true.

[TensaM]

CyberFreak, like I said my PS3 was in excellent condition. I work in technology and am very passionate about it. There was no reason for this to happen due to normal weardown. This was clearly due to ME3s shoddy coding.

[AudiMane]

TensaM, I have had this happen too, its some glitch or corrupt file that freezes or causes an error in the restore process and then it says no hard drive found. Try rebooting in the recovery menu and reformatting HDD that worked for me. Its not the game its the new restore file system after freeze option Sony added.

Btw, you don't have to have the PS3 do the recovery when that screen pops up after a freeze and a hard restart, just hit circle and it will boot up.

[TensaM]

Audi, I am not talking about the recovery screen. I was able to get through most of the freezes by restarting / ejecting the disk. The last time it happened it DESTROYED my hard drive.

I got a new hard drive for my PS3, and I have played multiplayer several times with no issues.

Today, I decided to pick up on my last backed up save (turns out it was the 8 hour mark). I was on the citadel, and I went to access an elevator. The first time trying to load to the elevator and my game freezes yet again.

This is ridiculous. I am going to demand that EA provides me with digital copies of the PC version of Mass Effect 2 and 3 so I can play the game I PAID FOR on a working platform.

[Aoshi3248]

I had a near run in with this as well. After a freeze in the middle of a multiplayer game my console would not even recognize the HDD for 3 reboots. When it finally did I was informed that my file system was corrupt and I have to reformat the file system. At this point I am just hoping that I can get my system back to working order.

I personally won't be playing ME3 again until I see a patch that fixes these terrible freezes. Having to fix my current PS3 or buy a new one is not worth it at this point. Losing all my game saves to this garbage was bad enough.

[nobles_chakra]

My game keeeps freezing after successful head shots....... Nobles_chakra..... Fix thiss it keeps freezing......

[nobles_chakra]

My game keeeps freezing after successful head shots....... Nobles_chakra..... Fix thiss it keeps freezing......