GTA3_game hanging.

mav36 · #1 28-01-2002, 14:40

I was wondering if anyone has had any problems with gta3 hanging. Although my kids have managed to put a few scratches on the bottom of the disc, as soon as you start to play the game, ie drive the car, the floor/road goes blue, then it says disc error and crashes.
Electronics Boutique don't want to know as they say its down to the disc being scratched,but I am not entirely convinced.
Any suggestions would be appreciated.

Bannedb4 · #2 28-01-2002, 19:36

it is most probably from the disc being scratched, unless you have similar probs with other games. why don't you think it is because of the scratch?
pretty obvious!

dust2dust · #3 29-01-2002, 00:36

did it work ok before the scratches?
if it did its the scratches
sony will replace it (upto 1 year old) but at cost of £20 (well it was £20)

#4 29-01-2002, 06:43

GTA3 is notorious for this. You'll find a few posts from me and others on this subject. I have concluded that it is badly pressed. You'd have to take it to your local Trading Standards Office in order to have it checked against the ECMA requirement for DVD-R. Or you can download the NERO benchmark program and via a DVD-ROM on your PC put the DVD through its paces. In fact I think I'll do that.

The situation was eased as follows:

1 I cleaned the lens - that got rid of the read error
2 I had the laser recalibrated - that made loading faster
3 I switched to a different PS2 - problem appears to have gone away with that calibration