Shift 2 Unleashed - bugs hitting some more than others

[RomKnight]

I've come to notice that most bugs on Shift 2 I don't have or those that happened to me rarely show up.

We know PS3 components may have change slightly during all these years. For example the slim PS3 can turn a TV on via HDMI-CEC and the FAT can't. This is because it has a new controller that enables CEC within HDMI chip (if I remember correctly).

Or the sound problems via HDMI 1.3 where Silicon Image different chips for advanced sound codecs that are (un)able to pass the TrueHD or DTS-HD.

All this may come into play and depending on your PS3 model or should I say depending on the year your PS3 was made some might be struck buy Shift2 bugs

I have an 80GB FAT PS3 connected via cheap HDMI 1.4 cable to my TV and cheap optical cable to my A/V amp and I can play for HOURS every day without a freezing (as the most critical example).

I have the latest 3.60 firmware ATM and I don't think of anything else that can relate to this.

What do you guys think?

 

[tribolik]

I dont think it is hardware related... I also have a fat and I get a lot of freezes... I can identify why every one but I still get them... for example I was getting a freeze when ever I was checking my photos at autolog and it was always when loading the same photo so I manualy erase the photo (in the PS3 menu) and I have no more freezes in autolog (and no more that photor either )
Going fast on the Ring I think happens to everybody from time to time... etc...

 

[brambos]

I have a PS3 FAT, latest firmware. Play with a HKS Racing Controller (ps3 thinks it's a DS3).

I haven't had a freeze since the latest patch.

 

[buziii]

PS3 Fat, 3.60, DS3, and apparently I'm also an idiot.

Since the patch, I've had a couple of freezes in menus and lost my LE content. Previously, I was only getting about 50% of my bonus cash, but I've leveled up to 18, 19, and 20 since the patch and received my bonus cash each time.

I'll be happy when the bugs are fixed and Autolog is back, but I'm still having big fun in the meantime.

 

[RomKnight]

Never had a problem with photos or blown engines at the ring.

Say its fat or slim its not enough. That's why i mentioned the year it was made.

Now, I don't want to create a database. I'm just asking for thoughts on the subject.

@buziii

You can recover the LE content. Search the patch thread for my solution.

 

[brambos]

.Now, I don't want to create a database. I'm just asking for thoughts on the subject.

My thought is that it all seems very random, but I'm not complaining that I seem to be invulnerable to the bugs *knocks on wood*

 

[RomKnight]

Make to of us... But maybe its not so random (not for all bugs)

- I can make the game crash anytime with a porsche 918 spyder works at Pergusa/night
- the top speed/freeze bug happens mostly at the ring or long straights
- the stutter is MUCH more noticeable in Zolder chicane (any time of day) than on Suzuka, Spa, Bathurst at night
- the LE content disappears when you remove the patch after resetting the wheel settings

These are the ones I remember you can reproduce at any time.

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I can only reproduce the 1st and 3rd and fourth actually but among all, some can do it every time.
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[buziii]

@buziii

You can recover the LE content. Search the patch thread for my solution.

As long as I can get it back when PSN comes back this week, that's fine with me. So I'll just wait. But, thanks for the tip, I'll try that if I need to.

I don't remember if I have you on Autolog, but I need to add you if I don't...unless you're too fast! I've got brambos (Buramm) on there and I think us two idiots are somewhat competitive with our pads.

 

[RomKnight]

I'm not the fastest or the more consistent but i'll do my best to be on 1st five. Feel free to add me and if you don't like my times you can remove me.

Friends as before and no hard feelings.

 

[tribolik]

As long as I can get it back when PSN comes back this week, that's fine with me. So I'll just wait. But, thanks for the tip, I'll try that if I need to.

I don't remember if I have you on Autolog, but I need to add you if I don't...unless you're too fast! I've got brambos (Buramm) on there and I think us two idiots are somewhat competitive with our pads.

Feel free to add me aswell if you wish - but I must say that Im an uncompetitive idiot with a wheel

 

[brambos]

Feel free to add me aswell if you wish - but I must say that Im an uncompetitive idiot with a wheel

I'll also add you guys once PSN is back online. You can never have enough idiots on your Autolog 👍

 

[buziii]

You can never have enough idiots on your Autolog 👍

Yeah, especially if they're uncompetitive idiots!

 

[arvore]

120 GB here...not many bugs to report, maybe like two freezes since I got the game(52% of career completion, level 20) received all prizes(until the 20th level cap came but that's not a bug it's a design flaw) and cash so far.

...blown engines at the ring.

Is that really a bug?
I thought it was consequence of having full damage enabled...I got it today 3 times in the Ring with the MP 4.

 

[RomKnight]

PSN will be up tomorrow (or so they say). I hope the patch is coming too AND make this thread worth of a trash can.

Right now, I'm just asking for the full FFB since I'm more less immune to the other bugs (freezes included). They're so rare its more annoying looking at the rants thread than the game crashing

I'd really like to know why this happens more in some cases than others.

Xbox guys don't seem to have so much problems but I don't go around Xbox forums much to tell

PS: Just for the record, I'm not an idiot because my mom had me tested.

 

[RomKnight]

Is that really a bug?
I thought it was consequence of having full damage enabled...I got it today 3 times in the Ring with the MP 4.

It is... But one that also doesn't affect me unless someone "accidentally" touches the H shifter to 3rd while I'm flooring it in 6th.

 

[Spagetti69]

Xbox version is fine.

 

[buziii]

PS: Just for the record, I'm not an idiot because my mom had me tested.

We already knew you weren't an idiot, because you use a wheel and have an uber-realistic driving experience. Us pad users are the idiots.

I'm just glad I'm not a silly silly troll with sub-par intelligence...like Brambos.

 

[RomKnight]

We already knew you weren't an idiot, because you use a wheel and have an uber-realistic driving experience.

There's that lag problem that keeps me from being a full idiot

I don't understand that problem either. How can the same software show so little on PC and Xbox and so much on PS3?

I got used to it easily but doing hotlaps it shows. Can it be related to hardware? Can it be a mistake? Programmer laziness? generally bad coding?

PS: the "idiot and the wheel" thing ends here.