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PGR3 freezes in the Menu

Thrakier

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And the strange thing is: it only freezes with my main Live-Gold Account. If I'm not logged in at all or if I use a silver account it works fine. I'm NOT connected to Live because I don't have internet @home at the moment. Any Ideas?
 
sounds like your save might be corrupted. Did you play it a lot yet or would it really hurt to start over again?

If not just delete the save off your hard drive and start again.
 
I played it through and started an online career. So yes, it sucks. Maybe it has something to do with the last Dashboard Update?
 
Thrakier said:
Maybe it has something to do with the last Dashboard Update?

I haven't heard anything about that, seems unlikely though.

Incidentally I played PGR3 for the first time in months yesterday and when I first loaded it up it didn't sign me in correctly and didn't load my profile, so I had to restart the console.

Worked fine after that though.
 
Maybe you could try deleting the cache?

I'm not sure if that would work, but it may be worth a shot. You should be able to find how to do it on google.
 
It deletes all the fast-loading stuff.

But you should make sure nothing is happening on your Xbox Guide while you're playing PGR, it could kill your Xbox (yup it does)
 
Pizza Luigi said:
It deletes all the fast-loading stuff.

But you should make sure nothing is happening on your Xbox Guide while you're playing PGR, it could kill your Xbox (yup it does)
What are you on about.
 
This happened to me whenever I got disconnected from xbox live. It would freeze for 20+ seconds, and then go back to working normally.

It might be related to what's happening to you, even though you're not on live. Maybe it's trying to log in or something..
 
I had the same problem arise a month or two back so it's not the dashboard update.

I didn't do anything about though and I haven't played it since...
 
Still the same Problem here. :( Maybe it has something to do that I don't have a Live Gold Connection at the moment because I don't have Internet? I played Online Career...maybe it tries to connect to PGR3 online and freezes because there is no internet connection.
 
Basically I think there are no timeout timers for PGR3 in XBL.

Which would mean that when the game tries to contact XBL to post some ranking information, but your connection is all screwy, the game stops for a while. It's been happening to me as well, but only after the latest updates to PGR3. I don't know what that was supposed to improve.
 
glaurung said:
Basically I think there are no timeout timers for PGR3 in XBL.

Which would mean that when the game tries to contact XBL to post some ranking information, but your connection is all screwy, the game stops for a while. It's been happening to me as well, but only after the latest updates to PGR3. I don't know what that was supposed to improve.

So you think that I just have to wait for a few minutes? But I also can't open the Guide Menu then it freezes.
 
As I said, theses issues arose only after the updates arrived to the game.

And now that I think about it, there are some timeouts that occur in off-line mode as well. I haven't tried running the game with no XBL connection (i. e. unplugging the cable before play), but I think that even then some lag happens. I noticed that the game displays that carbon fiber pattern for a few seconds before doing anything.

Thankfully my game has never stopped responding completely.

I hope they can fix this.
 
But I had no problem after the updates...didn't play it for a longer time (all updates done), if I played it, I played it with XBOX LIve and now I don't have a Live connection...so this is the thing that changed. But how can a game be so buggy that I can't play it anymore without Live connection??
 
i would recommend either, tryin it without hdd, try clearing cache, tryin a diff profile or all of the above, that should help locate probs, ive played this game for about 100hours and never had a single issue with it!
 
I did all this. Without HDD it works (because no profile is logged in). Cache helped nothing. :( It only freezes with my xbox live gold account, others work.
 
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