Screen blanks in middle of race

[redrick]

From time to time lately in the middle of a race my screen will go blank and the sound will go off. This started about a week ago & the blackout only lasted a second or so, but last night it lasted more than 10 seconds and the race had apparently continued while I had no view of what was happening. I checked my HDMI connection and it seems alright.

I only happens during races, never during my home or other screens (which are on more than actual racing, actually, as I leave it on when working on my computer, as it is right now. So it would seem to be a GT5 problem rather than a Playstation problem?

This happened to anybody else? Any ideas?

Thanks,

Rick

 

[Argon]

Just bough a brand new slim PS3 after my 6 year old Fat boy YLOD'd and the same day I installed the new box I had the same thing happen to me right in the middle of a race. It has since happened again but not 10 seconds, maybe 3-4 secs and I have no idea what's the cause

Haven't noticed it on any other games so it may be a GT5 issue.

 

[redrick]

Just bough a brand new slim PS3 after my 6 year old Fat boy YLOD'd and the same day I installed the new box I had the same thing happen to me right in the middle of a race. It has since happened again but not 10 seconds, maybe 3-4 secs and I have no idea what's the cause

Haven't noticed it on any other games so it may be a GT5 issue.

I've had a thought myself that I'm trying. I noticed that you can set the thing for automatic updates and the default time to check is 12am-2am. I can't remember if that's when the problem occurred but I do race during that period so I changed it to 6am=8am (never up then). I had to turn auto-updates off then back on to be offered a choice of times, so you might check that under settings it's not set to update during a time you're using the machine. It's 2:09 am where I am right now & I've not had the problem tonight, but too early to tell if that was really it.

Rick

 

[Argon]

I've had a thought myself that I'm trying. I noticed that you can set the thing for automatic updates and the default time to check is 12am-2am. I can't remember if that's when the problem occurred but I do race during that period so I changed it to 6am=8am (never up then). I had to turn auto-updates off then back on to be offered a choice of times, so you might check that under settings it's not set to update during a time you're using the machine. It's 2:09 am where I am right now & I've not had the problem tonight, but too early to tell if that was really it.

Rick

Might be worth a shot but I know for sure that it was nothing to do with updates on my PS3 as I don't have a plus account so they don't apply.

 

[tbgreen]

From time to time lately in the middle of a race my screen will go blank and the sound will go off. This started about a week ago & the blackout only lasted a second or so, but last night it lasted more than 10 seconds and the race had apparently continued while I had no view of what was happening. I checked my HDMI connection and it seems alright.

I only happens during races, never during my home or other screens (which are on more than actual racing, actually, as I leave it on when working on my computer, as it is right now. So it would seem to be a GT5 problem rather than a Playstation problem?

This happened to anybody else? Any ideas?

Thanks,

Rick

I am facing the exact same problem with my PS3 with Samsung 55" LED when playing GT5. Hoping for solution too.

 

[croozer_63]

me too. always at the worst possible time. Drives me crazy. If it is happening across the board, then I would say its a disk problem.