I'm sure this has been answered previously, but I can't seem to find much about it on the rest of the internet, so I'll ask in case someone else has had to deal with these issues and knows a fix.
I've got a physical PS4 UK edition of this game that refuses to work properly. After the CDPR logo, the game usually gets stuck on a black screen while my disc drive buzzes and whines like nothing else. On the rare instances I make it past this to the title screen or intro cinematic, I get some weirdly hitching performance where everything from the title screen onwards seems to lag and judder around (the bird looks like it is having an epileptic fit or something). The motion-comic style cutscene runs fine but I get a bit of juddering on the cinematic one that follows, after clicking on new game. After this, I get stuck completely on a loading screen that seemingly never ends.
More than anything, I need information. I've read there's potentially an issue with installation that can be fixed by uninstalling the game and reinstalling it with the network connection turned off, but after trying it a few times, it doesn't seem to be doing it for me.
I've tried running it patched and unpatched. Unpatched my "installation" size is 28.56GB and patched it's 29.06GB. Generally, every time I reinstall the game, the progress bar makes it to ~40% before my disc drive makes a reading sound and the installation bar jumps to full.
If anyone can confirm the full installation size of a copy that works on their PS4 hard drive (highlight the game icon > options button > select information) I'd at least know if this is the issue I'm running into or if it's the disc causing issues.
Of course, if anyone else has had and solved this issue, I'd appreciate it if you could tell me how. I haven't had much time recently so the fact that I've spent my last ~2 hours trying to fix an issue that shouldn't even exist for a game that is now up to patch 1.03 is making me pretty jaded about the stability of this generation of gaming.
