my system is picky..

Right off that bat, yes i am asking for some help/info..

i called sony but have no idea how to explain the problem, i think i ended up confusing myself..

My system decides to act up on a few games.. not all of them which is why this is weird..

Prince of Persia, Alone in the Dark, Resident Evil 5, Burnout Paradise and Command and Conquer Red Alert 3 are the games that act up.. all other games run fine..

The tv it is connected to does not influence nor does the resolution..

The pics i am going to show are in 480p..

all the games do some sort of variation of what is going on..

i can show the other games but resident evil 5 is what is in my system..

in prince of persia and alone in the dark the characters and environment would go invisible..

also the lines you see in one of the pictures would be coming out of the characters..

thoughts? advice of how to explain this to sony? or just comment, how unlucky i am..

ridiculousness

these are the lines..

are you guys jealous yet?

get an hdtv

i have a 1080p tv.. like i said it doesn't matter it does the same thing..

yeah i called sony and was attempting to explain it for over an hour..

hard to express, lines taking the color of the environment shooting out of the characters and background..

i thought it was the disks but they are cleaned.. and why would killzone 2, resistance 2 and like 10 other games i have played not do it.. also my copy of burnout is from the psn store..

Well i can tell you this, if it were a PC i would def say eather you had a very strange driver issue oryour GPU was over heating. that is what is commonly called artafacting "spelling". And it could very well be that your ps3 is over heating, but in that cae it would do it with all of your games. U might want to try doing a reformate or what ever its called on ps3. you may have some curupted files on your HDD.

get an hdtv

tondeezy

yeah i was thinking of reformatting it.. i guess it couldn't hurt to try, but i hoping that would be my last resort..

Man that's horrible, any luck finding out how to fix it?

i've been playing like this since alone in the dark came out.. it's pretty upsetting since i died in re5 vs mode because i can't see wtf is in-front of me lol..

i am reformatting now, hopefully that will help..

reformating? did it help?

it takes over 3 hours.. it's only been about an hour.. but i will post if it fixed it or not when it finishes..

i have been searching for ps3 artifacting, and there seems to be a lot of reasons that cause it.. blu-ray overheating, faulty graphics card, corrupt data ect..

so i am hoping it's corrupted data which the reformat will fix instead of it being faulty hardware where i would then have to send it in, or just deal with it like i have been..

i know it really is.. i got the tribal going in the other 2 pictures lol..

i hope reformatting fixes the issue, but i doubt it will.. i deleted all the save/game data before and reinstalled and still had the problem, and it gets worse the longer it is running.. i think that points to hardware, but not affecting all my games just leaves me confused and disturbed..

alright done reformatting and installing resident evil 5..

watching the opening cut scene..

so far so good..

chapter 1-1 still good..

NOOOOOO **** this BS artifacting..

Your sig is the most ironic thing in the world right now :|

but in response to the thread....? kiss it better? give it the water coolant or the extra fan that it so desperately wants? make her feel special?

it always has a fan on it..

i know for once my sig is completely wrong.. lol

it doesn't overheat, the room it's in is a constant 65 degrees..

aww sucks it don't work. gotta say tho its a strange phenomenon when the error is on some games but not others. esp such a large graphical glitch/bug that renders some games i would think near unplayable and others run just fine. strange indeed.

i know i just got off the phone with sony and the guy was like "WTF"..

at least now i know how to get the system into safe mode lol..

my file system was corrupt.. but still did it..

i just rebuilt the database.. trying now..

i reformatted yesterday.. still didn't fix it.

EDIT - even going back on my file system it still says it's corrupt..

and rebuilding the database didn't work..

hmmm maybe bad sectors on the hdd? unfixable physical flaws? looks like you may need some harware repair or replacement. :(

maybe if sony customer support was helpful..

the *** just told me to have a wonderful day and hung up on me..

so he says this is not a common problem.

and the handful it happened to just affects one game or to all games and is unheard of to do it to 6 games where the rest are perfectly fine..

THEY HAVE NO ******* CLUE what is going on..

damn. afetr shelling out hundreds of pounds for a console, the least you can expect from customer service is to stay on the phone for the duration of your call without hanging up on you!

just coz they have been given a problem that they have never experienced before they assume that the customer doesn't know what they are talking about and are somehow doing something wrong.

poor show Sony.

do you tried switching the video input??try the hdmi in 1080p and the composite in 480..its really wierd that only on few games happens but it seems like a hardware problem, if its not data corruction of the games.Do u have the latest update of the ps3 or if your tv has that posibility??

480p to 1080p it doesn't matter.. yes i have had the latest firmware.. and tried on 3 different televisions.. so my third call to sony, which the second guy told me rebuilding the database would take a few hours, which it took 40s.. the 3rd guy told me that re5 was made by sony, i nearly died.. guess i will be sending it in.. seriously i know customer service aren't experts on the ps3, but you would think they should know what they are talking about, and not just reading off some piece of paper..

it's a launch system, warranty was up in a year.. and best buy extended warranty ran out, i believe (i think i bought one).. i am searching for the receipt..

Man, im sorry for you...you must be in the Twilight Zone...:|

Man, im sorry for you...you must be in the Twilight Zone...:|

kiraburu

me too. my 1st ps3 bd died and it totaly ruined my day..

i hope you get a speedy service if you do have to take the sony route.

i am really thinking to just keep this system and buy a new one.. then any games that artifact i will just play on the new system.. since the current one only affects certain games..

that is if the extended warranty that i might of bought from best buy is no longer valid..

It does look an awful lot like artifacts from GPU overheating. Curious, what games don't artifact?

retail games that i have played since alone in the dark (first time it happened) THAT WORK FINE..

Killzone 2 - Resistance 2 - X Blades - WWE Legends of Wrestlemania - Sonic's Ultimate Genesis Collection - Dead Space - Godfather 2 - H.A.W.X - Call of Duty: World @ War - F.E.A.R 2 - Madden 09 - Fallout 3..

Not too mention all the games i played prior..and PSN games

gremlins more likely.. it's too much of a coincidence..

it always has a fan on it..

i know for once my sig is completely wrong.. lol

it doesn't overheat, the room it's in is a constant 65 degrees..

NaughtyRag

nope the system runs nice even with the artifacts..

Maybe a section of your HDD went bad and it just so happens the game data in that section housed those specific games you're having problems with. Or you have gremlins.emitsu97

nope the system runs nice even with the artifacts..

NaughtyRag

it seems weird that if a spot on the hard drive is corrupt.. erasing all the data, the same games are affected.. if it was a graphics card it would affect all the games.. it really seems more of a software issue.. like bad updates, downloads or something..

of course these are what the sony people told me and not my thoughts on the matter.. since i asked these questions..

just my luck my extended warranty through best buy ended january 09..

eh..

It dose seem like lagg, but with only a few games i would say get a new hard drive and see if that works. If not return the HD and ship out os sony and hopfully they can do somthing about it.

it seems weird that if a spot on the hard drive is corrupt.. erasing all the data, the same games are affected.. if it was a graphics card it would affect all the games.. it really seems more of a software issue.. like bad updates, downloads or something..

of course these are what the sony people told me and not my thoughts on the matter.. since i asked these questions..

NaughtyRag

It dose seem like lagg, but with only a few games i would say get a new hard drive and see if that works. If not return the HD and ship out os sony and hopfully they can do somthing about it.

Lone_Wolf94

movies are fine..

yeah i formatted, restored to factory settings all that jazz..

Also i should point out that in the case of artafacting do to heat it may very well only happen with some games. not every game push's the hardwear as hard as others.

!! also something just poped into my head. i wounder if all the games that your having issues with have installs while all the ones you dont have issues with do not have installs!!

Also what if the games that are acting up are ones that stream data from the disk drive. again does blue ray movies play fine?

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It dose seem like lagg, but with only a few games i would say get a new hard drive and see if that works. If not return the HD and ship out os sony and hopfully they can do somthing about it.

Wild_Card

It dosen't have to be online to have lagg. EX. Fallout3 it has lagg but no online. But i have seen this on Cod4 once, but nothin major. There are someother games that i know of but can't think of.