So my friend just Bought a PS3 ....

And its pretty cool i will go and say im a PC and 360 player but do intend on getting a Ps3 but my question is , Is it common for PS3 s to Freeze alot and have massive amounts of lag in game ? cause my friend has had his since christmas and is having more problems with than the Xbox . Is this common or did he just get a bad egg ???

Since his PS3 is barely 2 weeks old it doesn't sound right to have so much freezing and lagging. Mine has frozen up totally half a dozen times in nearly a year. It can depend on the games, which ones does he own? If he's playing buggy unpolished RPGs like Dragon Age & Fallout it would be the games not the console.

Since he PS3 is barely 2 weeks old it doesn't sound right to have so much freezing and lagging. Mine has frozen up totally half a dozen times in nearly a year. It can depend on the games, which ones does he own? If he's playing buggy unpolished RPGs like Dragon Age & Fallout it would be the games not the console.Floppy_Jim

Answering a couple questions would really help out, so that more people can answer your question. First off, are you talking about online play or just playing a normal game? If you are talking about online play, what games? I ask this because there are some games that are terrible about lag, or have known issues, etc. If you are talking about normal play, then no, I do not normally experience lag when I play. Occassionaly I would get a bit of lag when I played Dragon Age: Origins for a split second, but other than that, nothing really.

I DID have a feeling that he was some lame CoD-player.

Answering a couple questions would really help out, so that more people can answer your question. First off, are you talking about online play or just playing a normal game? If you are talking about online play, what games? I ask this because there are some games that are terrible about lag, or have known issues, etc. If you are talking about normal play, then no, I do not normally experience lag when I play. Occassionaly I would get a bit of lag when I played Dragon Age: Origins for a split second, but other than that, nothing really.

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Its single player lag mostly in Gran Turismo ...SpArKs424

[QUOTE="SpArKs424"]Its single player lag mostly in Gran Turismo ...DJ_Lae

[QUOTE="DJ_Lae"][QUOTE="SpArKs424"]Its single player lag mostly in Gran Turismo ...SpArKs424

[QUOTE="DJ_Lae"][QUOTE="SpArKs424"]Its single player lag mostly in Gran Turismo ...SpArKs424

Multiplat games use the same servers for PS3 and X360 so one doesn't has more lag than the other. Many people seem to believe that just because they pay for XBL playing games online on the X360 is magically better but it is not, is the same. You pay $60 for XBL for the additional features and more connected community like for example: cross-game chart and universal party invites but the actual performance is the same.

Your friend has a faulty PS3. Or he's playing Fallout New Vegas.

That game has some performance issues - tons of tearing in-game as well as a very spotty framerate when you get a bunch of cars onscreen at once. That may account for the lag. Load times between menus are also quite long. Hopefully he's installed it, or both issues will be worse.DJ_Lae