"the connection to one or more players has been lost. Returning to single player"
If these words echo in your head since getting you hands on
GTA IV then hopefully i have the answer to at least a few of you.
I have been
receiving this error just before the lobby of
multi player GTA or just as i entered an online game. I found a workaround which was to plug my PS3 straight into my cable modem. When this worked i realised that there was no problem with the game, no problem with the servers, no problem with my
ISP - the problem lay squarely on my router.
After trying to make my PS3 a De-
Militarized Zone (DMZ) - turning of the media server and opening up every port i could find was linked to
GTA, i turned to the forums.
My rule i live by was proved right once more - if
I'm having a problem, there will always be someone else who has had it and normally have already found the fix for it. I found the answer on the US
PlayStation board.
http://boardsus.playstation.com/playstation/board/message?board.id=gta&thread.id=411207&view=by_date_ascending&page=2But it still wasn't clear what my problem was as the firmware was up-to-date... or so i thought.
I am using a
Netgear WGT624v3 router and in the option to update the firmware it goes off and checks and then reports back that it is on the most recent firmware - this is not the case.
The newest firmware can be found
http://kbserver.netgear.com/release_notes/d102982.aspSimply download it to your hard drive and then browse for it in the update firmware section and then upload it to the router. After this is complete i had to reboot the router a couple of times to get the
Internet on my PC and the connection back on my PS3, but one i had done i was straight back into
Multi player GTA - i held my breath and entered a
Deathmatch and... Success!!
I really this helps others as i always seem to find the
solution to my problems but having to search through pages and pages of forums is no fun.