Sigh. Game keeps "freezing" on pause screen

[torpidbeaver]

Last two games in a row. I say "freezing" because the sound continues running, the organ and PA announcements continue as usual, but I the controller is completely unresponsive (except for the PS3 "Home" button.)

Both times, I hit pause, warmed up a pitcher. When I exit the bullpen screen, the game freezes.

This is absolutely ruining the game for me... anyone have any suggestions? Is anyone else suffering from this?

[boxboy99]

I had it happen the other day.

[skeem]

Similar problem last night, I was playing Rtts with my pitcher, all of a sudden in the middle of the game I was not able to choose any pitch to throw, not even step off the rubber, pitchout etc... I was able to pause the game and exit. Its really frustrating and have already considered dropping this game because of the "fixes". I know its hard to fix bugs without creating new ones but geez, all of this should of been THOROUGHLY tested before the game shipped. I've worked in software for a while so I know its tough but come on now. Next year is a wait and see if its worth it year for me.

[vernond]

Quote: Originally Posted by torpidbeaver

Last two games in a row. I say "freezing" because the sound continues running, the organ and PA announcements continue as usual, but I the controller is completely unresponsive (except for the PS3 "Home" button.) Both times, I hit pause, warmed up a pitcher. When I exit the bullpen screen, the game freezes. This is absolutely ruining the game for me... anyone have any suggestions? Is anyone else suffering from this?

Use the d pad to go into the bullpen, I had it freeze once when I used the pause button to get to the pen. Doesn't feeze using the d pad.

[The-BigGeorge]

Quote: Originally Posted by torpidbeaver

Last two games in a row. I say "freezing" because the sound continues running, the organ and PA announcements continue as usual, but I the controller is completely unresponsive (except for the PS3 "Home" button.) Both times, I hit pause, warmed up a pitcher. When I exit the bullpen screen, the game freezes. This is absolutely ruining the game for me... anyone have any suggestions? Is anyone else suffering from this?

This always happens to me when I'm winning in the late innings when I go warm a pitcher up. It freezes all of a sudden, everything moves but the controller gets stuck and cannot move.

ugh this is so annoying because it's hard to play franchise games with this happening.

[magoo1967]

^^^ This is exactly what happened to me last night in the 8th inning when I went to warm up my closer. Very frustrating, it was a really good intense game. One of my players achieved a career milestone (300th stolen base). I hit a late inning come from behind clutch HR...all erased. Like others have reported, the controller became completely unresponsive except I was still able to access the XMB with the PS button (even allowed me to save a photo of my frozen game screen). I spent all day trying to make time to get a game in, then this happens after playing for an hour. What an infuriating waste of time. I'm the first to praise SCEA for all their efforts, but this type of glitch is really inexcusable. Patch 4 perhaps?

[Brando70]

Quote: Originally Posted by vernond

Use the d pad to go into the bullpen, I had it freeze once when I used the pause button to get to the pen. Doesn't feeze using the d pad.

Agreed. The freeze seems to have something to do with going back from the pen to the pause screen, which doesn't happen when using the D-pad. I had a few freezes, too, but never when using this method.

[MatrixTN]

It's been posted on the Bugs thread, just FYI.