Anyone else experiencing this problem

[Shigegaki]

So I just got home from work and started to run my trials, I can only run a lap around Indy before my game just locks up and my wheel turns all the way to the left. This has happened 2 times now and I don't understand what is going on. It's a bit frustrating since I am not lucky enough to stay home all day and just run both trials non stop.

 

[mcDeviLL]

Yea that happened to me...no clue why!

 

[xxiceman2403xx]

I to am having the same problem, ran a few laps on Indy Road Coarse then my game locked up when I had a ghost. It appeared to happen every time the ghost crossed the finish line.

 

[velocity-wolf]

I've been trolling the boards all day at work and it looks like a lot of people are having issues at the Indy Road Course and problems loading ghosts.

 

[Seankf1105]

So I just got home from work and started to run my trials, I can only run a lap around Indy before my game just locks up and my wheel turns all the way to the left. This has happened 2 times now and I don't understand what is going on. It's a bit frustrating since I am not lucky enough to stay home all day and just run both trials non stop.

Are you uploading a ghost that is saved to your PS3?

 

[Shigegaki]

Yes, I am about to call it night of these trials. I am right behind the leaders ghost. Then the stupid game just locks up.

 

[Seankf1105]

Stop using those ghosts, try just downloading top 10 ghosts temporarily from the leaderboard.

 

[TriEluzai]

Yep. I am experiencing the same freezing issue on the Indy straight about 100m before the start/finish. I'm glad I checked to see if others were experiencing this issue before I went through a complete GT5 data reinstall!

Let's hope PD gets a fix implemented asap!

 

[ccampoli]

It just froze on me for the first time..

 

[Seankf1105]

Also were you guys using FixByWire's ghost?

Nvm happened with blindsides ghost too.

 

[TriEluzai]

Also were you guys using FixByWire's ghost?

Being in the West, I was using EarlyAPEX's ghost on Indy. I wasn't even able to load a ghost on Toscana without the PS3 freezing completely or getting kicked back out to the GT Life menu...

 

[blindsidefive0]

Also were you guys using FixByWire's ghost?

Nvm happened with blindsides ghost too.

lol - why would you use my ghost? It's a 🤬 lap...

 

[CodeRedR51]

^^^ LOL

No freezing issues here, but it did erase my 5th lap. Like, it skipped right over it. My times on the upper right of the screen went from lap 3, to 4, to 6, to 7, etc.

Good thing it wasn't my best lap.

 

[PoTtHeD]

i am also having the freezing issue....👎 cant even get in a lap, freezes right when i get on the front straight. happens with or without a ghost. WTF:tdown:

 

[CodeRedR51]

I just tried to load my ghost replay from Toscana and it locked up on me.

Restarting...

 

[Seankf1105]

lol - why would you use my ghost? It's a 🤬 lap...

Lol I thought you might ask that. From Cape I got pretty use to following you're ghost so I know that you know how to be fast without rotating the car as much, and wanted to see whether you rotate/trailbrake/toe-in the R34 anywhere on indy, b/c I know if I see you doing it then it may be a prime place to do it lol. 👍

 

[Camasi]

I have had it happened to me each time i load a ghost saved from my ps3.. but i have also had it happened from when i had a ghost running from the game. It has happened 3 times now and just happened twice in a row. I am seriously getting pissed lol. I will try without ghost

 

[kadoimmortal]

The first time I loaded Indy up it didn't freeze when I was behind Fix's ghost. Now it's doing it every time I load a ghost up. Hope I can just run it without a ghost and it doesn't freeze.

 

[Camasi]

I notice that if i don't load a ghost for a few laps and then exit out and load a ghost from the rankings list... it works.

 

[PoTtHeD]

well, i have ghosts off and it still freezes on me, but o well, people are just corner cutting it anyway...

 

[kadoimmortal]

It worked for me without loading any ghost before starting.👍

 

[Raigekijin]

Loaded ghosts and it's giving me the same issue. It's the corner just before the sweeper. WTf man can't be a quick round with the game locking up.

 

[Dr_Watson]

as I said in the toscana thread

Use another ghost Fix's ghost is broken. This has been a problem with GT5 since launch. Sometimes ghosts are broken and lock the game at the finish line.
It's nothing your doing, if you download the replay and watch it in replay theater it will lock up just the same. Some sort of corruption in the replay data stops it from looping. This isn't a GT-A problem either, I've had it happen to my ghosts locally multiple times.
Thankfully you don't have to reboot the whole ps3. The XMB still works so you can just force quit gt5 and load it back up again. Minor inconvenience considering the past issues GT has had with broken replay cars driving off into oblivion or humping walls because the input is out of sync (i'm looking at you GT2).

This is a known issue.
Sometimes replays break at the end when they need to loop. It causes the engine to freeze. Since it's not a hard-lock of the ps3 hardware it's just file corruption. It's been happening to me randomly since day 1 when I started saving my License Gold ghosts.

So, if your game locks as the ghost crosses the line:
1. hit the ps button and restart the game through the XMB
2. DONT load that ghost again
3. get on with your life