PLEASE HELP - Manager Mode Freezing Problem in Fifa 09 PS3

jezzamiah · 11-01-2009, 12:43 AM

I am playing manager mode in Fifa 09 on PS3 and i am a few seasons in, after purchasing many new players to create my "dream team". However suddenly when i tried to get to the next game, it won't let me.

Whether i sim the match or play it, when it gets to the loading page and the trivia question comes up, at the bottom the bar says "simulating", goes up to 11% then freezes. The background still moves and the current song still plays, but the screen will not progress to the next one where they show your cash flow. (i have left it for up to half an hour and it still doesnt move, so im sure it has frozen). The only way to get out of it is to quit the game via the Xmedia bar.

I have tried many things to avoid this problem but it always freezes at the exact same spot every time (11% simulating). This means i am unable to progress any further in my manager mode file.

My disc is pretty much brand new, there are no scratches or marks on it. I have more than enough memory on my hard drive but i dont think that is the problem. The game version is up-to-date as well as my PS system software.

Does anyone else have this problem? Could you please help me in a way to correct this problem without having to delete my file?

InfectedBen · 11-01-2009, 12:47 AM

Fifa 09 Crashing on Xbox 360
Manager Mode Freeze- someone pls give a hand..
Manager Mode: Anyone Completed 15 Seasons?

jezzamiah · 11-01-2009, 02:07 AM

So heaps of people have the same problem...

taylor366 · 11-01-2009, 02:18 AM

Yes, and it has given me reluctancy to continue with Manager Mode since I encountered the exact same problem.

killerford89 · 11-01-2009, 02:19 AM

Known fault and i dont think ea will ever fix it. I havn't had it yet thank god.

jezzamiah · 12-01-2009, 12:36 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by killerford89

Known fault and i dont think ea will ever fix it. I havn't had it yet thank god.

If they know about it and so many people have the problem, why aren't they fixing it???

KnightFist · 12-01-2009, 12:45 AM

cause i havent yet had it

ps im a spy

jimstar79 · 30-01-2009, 04:15 PM

why is it that consumers of the product FIFA 09 are complaining about this issue all over the internet and EA Sports are doing nothing - nada, zilch - about it? This started happening to me back in early December 2008 and not a squeek out of EA about this problem.

Can't they undersand how frustrating it is to go through 3 or 4 seasons with a team, tweak your players, buy new players, take on young players to develop them, and then BLAMMO - its all over, there is nothing you can do to get passed the game freezing up!

The 'best' football game ever made, and this happens!?! Come on guys, fix the bug please! It cant be that hard for you to mend this glitch, can it?

Pretty please?

jimstar79 · 30-01-2009, 05:04 PM

just happened again - on my NEW season!

frank120 · 30-01-2009, 05:27 PM

I've had it too about 5 seasons in. I had to start again. I've doubled up so I now have 2 version of the same MM saved and am running them in tandom.

Hopefully if one goes I can use the back up and only lose a couple of games at most, but it is infuriating.

eziof · 04-02-2009, 04:26 AM

Is there anyway to fix this?

johny24max · 06-05-2009, 06:16 AM

Okay its May and you would figure with all the updates the game wont freeze in manager mod%e complete suprize it F Innng frozeee. I try playing it or Simming it everytime it goes to 21% percent nothing happens I cant do anything i can bring up the ps3 menu but can't do anything in the fifa game aghhhhh Im so frustrated.

If i would have knew this glitch, I would have not even bothered with manager mode I am sooo ****ed...any fixes???

streaky_7 · 13-05-2009, 08:47 PM

I have done 4 seasons in manager mode and every season has frozen after 3 or 4 seasons in.

I have had various discussions with EA regarding this since before Christmas up to last month. Only recently did i get a response where they werent trying to blame me and things i may have been doing to make it freeze!! Finally I spoke to someone who sent me the following

......the game accesses the same information regardless of the year that your Club is in, so if the disk was the problem, you would see this freeze in the first year. What it sounds like is happening is as you progress in your Career, your save file gets larger and larger. Thus, the game has a harder time loading and saving this file. While this should not be a problem, i have seen similar instances of it. This is definitely something we are aware of and are investigating.....

and then he wrote

.......I believe that the problem lies in the save files themselves. Whether that be the total size of the file, or perhaps even something happening with the rosters. This is something our dev team will need to discover and build a fix for. I would continue to browse our official forums and also keep an eye on the main fifa site for any up to date information.......

This is all very annoying. I love the game but what the hell is the point if it is going to keep freezing. I don't know what is more disappointing, the fact the game freezes or the feeling EA are freezing us out!! I feel like they couldn't give a hoot which is a mega shame.

BigBurt82 · 11-06-2009, 09:49 AM

I have had this problem too, but believe that I've now found a work-around as I picked up my spending spree trophy this morning

EA customers Services claim that the error is due to corrupted game saves. I doubt that this is true as a corrupted file should not be accessible and it shouldn't be possible to load the game if the data is corrupt.

Remember on the PS2 when data was corrupted; instead of the colourful animated logo on the memory card manager, there was just a big purple box and a tag of 'corruped data'. File was unaccessible. No such thing on the PS3.

My theory is that for data to become corrupt, something must interfere at the time of saving. Since FIFA does the saving for you (Autosave feature) I simply disabled this in the profile settings on the main menu.

Now when you play through FIFA you will get lots of annoying messages asking if you want to save every time you make a squad change, deal in the transfer market or simply play a match. Stick with it. ONLY save via the Save option in the Manager Mode menu, always so NO when the message appears after you do something during gameplay. Save every 5 games or so in case of a crash or power cut for example.

I managed to get further than ever before in Manager Mode using this method. As long as you are in control of the saves, there shouldn't be any risk of corrupted game data.

After the end of the January transfer window in Season 2 I had made 50 signings and unlocked the Spending Spree trophy. Woo-hoo!

Previously I could never make it this far because of a freeze either on the 'simulating' screen or in the arena. This freeze was permanent and existed whether I simmed or played a match. Starting over again was my only choice.

I hope this technique works for you guys too.

My PSN ID is Bigburt82 if you want to add me

Coxy85UK · 11-06-2009, 10:25 AM

My MM's crashed when at some point in the career i had signed a scouted player from another club.

In MM's when i have only raised my own scouted players, it has not crashed.

Don't know if this has anything to do with it, but ive lost about 6 when i have signed scouted players from other clubs and i have completed 15 seasons about 4 times when i havent signed scouted players from other clubs.

Ellliott · 16-06-2009, 07:19 PM

I had a manager mode where i played upto 2014. I was one game off 2015, and it froze for me, on the same simulating part where everyone seems to have the problem..
I had this issue before, but i simmed past it, but now it just won't budge.

I decided their was nothing i could do and started a new season. I got around a year in and it happened again.

I then made another manager mode, and it happened 2/3 games in, and this is a recurring problem.. I purchase a few, sell a few in the transfer market and bang, the simulating problem happens again.

I tolerated it at first, but now it's really irritating. Surely it should be fixed, by the looks of things many have had the same problem.
With Manager Mode being a main reason i go on and play the game, i now find no reason to play it.

Why can't this be sorted? Enough people have complained!

robert06Dw33 · 23-06-2009, 10:12 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by BigBurt82

I have had this problem too, but believe that I've now found a work-around as I picked up my spending spree trophy this morning

EA customers Services claim that the error is due to corrupted game saves. I doubt that this is true as a corrupted file should not be accessible and it shouldn't be possible to load the game if the data is corrupt.

Remember on the PS2 when data was corrupted; instead of the colourful animated logo on the memory card manager, there was just a big purple box and a tag of 'corruped data'. File was unaccessible. No such thing on the PS3.

My theory is that for data to become corrupt, something must interfere at the time of saving. Since FIFA does the saving for you (Autosave feature) I simply disabled this in the profile settings on the main menu.

Now when you play through FIFA you will get lots of annoying messages asking if you want to save every time you make a squad change, deal in the transfer market or simply play a match. Stick with it. ONLY save via the Save option in the Manager Mode menu, always so NO when the message appears after you do something during gameplay. Save every 5 games or so in case of a crash or power cut for example.

I managed to get further than ever before in Manager Mode using this method. As long as you are in control of the saves, there shouldn't be any risk of corrupted game data.

After the end of the January transfer window in Season 2 I had made 50 signings and unlocked the Spending Spree trophy. Woo-hoo!

Previously I could never make it this far because of a freeze either on the 'simulating' screen or in the arena. This freeze was permanent and existed whether I simmed or played a match. Starting over again was my only choice.

I hope this technique works for you guys too.

My PSN ID is Bigburt82 if you want to add me

Cheers Bigburt, I haven't tried this yet but I certainly shall

, I'm only my second season in the Jan window at it freezes at 66% after playing bournemouth in the FA cup round lol. Fingers crossed your theory works,

cooler08 · 24-06-2009, 12:30 AM

as EA wrote:

Quote:

......the game accesses the same information regardless of the year that your Club is in, so if the disk was the problem, you would see this freeze in the first year. What it sounds like is happening is as you progress in your Career, your save file gets larger and larger. Thus, the game has a harder time loading and saving this file. While this should not be a problem, i have seen similar instances of it. This is definitely something we are aware of and are investigating.....

Lots of people have had the freeze after 2 or 3 seasons. surely the file shouldn't be very large this early in your career. seems odd that this would be causing the problem.

THE_Benjamin · 24-06-2009, 12:43 AM

Yeah I've not had the glitch and I never auto-save...maybe that's the link

cooler08 · 24-06-2009, 01:19 AM

I always auto save, and ive only had the freeze once in 22 Seasons so i doubt it's auto save which is causing it.

comi87 · 29-06-2009, 02:26 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by jezzamiah

I am playing manager mode in Fifa 09 on PS3 and i am a few seasons in, after purchasing many new players to create my "dream team". However suddenly when i tried to get to the next game, it won't let me.

Whether i sim the match or play it, when it gets to the loading page and the trivia question comes up, at the bottom the bar says "simulating", goes up to 11% then freezes. The background still moves and the current song still plays, but the screen will not progress to the next one where they show your cash flow. (i have left it for up to half an hour and it still doesnt move, so im sure it has frozen). The only way to get out of it is to quit the game via the Xmedia bar.

I have tried many things to avoid this problem but it always freezes at the exact same spot every time (11% simulating). This means i am unable to progress any further in my manager mode file.

My disc is pretty much brand new, there are no scratches or marks on it. I have more than enough memory on my hard drive but i dont think that is the problem. The game version is up-to-date as well as my PS system software.

Does anyone else have this problem? Could you please help me in a way to correct this problem without having to delete my file?

i'm so upset because I invested so much in my dream team and now it freezez in the fifth year...very annoying....if anyone has a solution pls tell me...thanks

nickb224 · 18-09-2009, 08:53 PM

OMG!

i was in 2014 had really good players in the team and it froze, why aren't ea doing anything, is it because fifa 10 coming out soon. But if it happens again in fifa 10, they must do something!

by the way i was notts county, i don't support them, i wasin league two and got promoted every season so now i am in the prem and winning the league!

Then it froze!

blackdevil4589 · 21-09-2009, 09:43 PM

have the same problem... come on EA... whats wrong with you :/

glad fifa10 is coming out in a few days

blue1976 · 23-09-2009, 09:24 PM

It cant happan on fifa10 that would be awful , surely the bug or freeze what ever it is should be sorted for the new fifa ?? If it still freezes i will have to go over to pes or sennsible soccer on the amiga haha.

Carver306 · 23-09-2009, 09:33 PM

fifa 09 has more holes in it than a pin cushion . "Relax fifa 10 is out soon" < lets hope fifa 10 is not the proverbial pin cushion either. Somehow I'm apprehensive. If it is lets just hope fifa 10 or 11 or 12 or....................

11-01-2009, 12:43 AM	#1 (permalink)
jezzamiah Rookie Join Date: Jan 2009 Location: Australia Gender: Male Posts: 16	PLEASE HELP - Manager Mode Freezing Problem in Fifa 09 PS3 I am playing manager mode in Fifa 09 on PS3 and i am a few seasons in, after purchasing many new players to create my "dream team". However suddenly when i tried to get to the next game, it won't let me. Whether i sim the match or play it, when it gets to the loading page and the trivia question comes up, at the bottom the bar says "simulating", goes up to 11% then freezes. The background still moves and the current song still plays, but the screen will not progress to the next one where they show your cash flow. (i have left it for up to half an hour and it still doesnt move, so im sure it has frozen). The only way to get out of it is to quit the game via the Xmedia bar. I have tried many things to avoid this problem but it always freezes at the exact same spot every time (11% simulating). This means i am unable to progress any further in my manager mode file. My disc is pretty much brand new, there are no scratches or marks on it. I have more than enough memory on my hard drive but i dont think that is the problem. The game version is up-to-date as well as my PS system software. Does anyone else have this problem? Could you please help me in a way to correct this problem without having to delete my file?

11-01-2009, 12:47 AM	#2 (permalink)
InfectedBen Forum Guru Join Date: Jul 2008 Posts: 2,039	Fifa 09 Crashing on Xbox 360 Manager Mode Freeze- someone pls give a hand.. Manager Mode: Anyone Completed 15 Seasons? __________________

11-01-2009, 02:19 AM	#5 (permalink)
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12-01-2009, 12:45 AM	#7 (permalink)
KnightFist Forum Guru Join Date: Apr 2008 Location: Somewhere in Malaysia missing my ps3 Age: 19 Gender: Male Posts: 1,091	cause i havent yet had it ps im a spy __________________ I aint never been a cocky kid, know they could kill me if they shot pac and big.

30-01-2009, 04:15 PM	#8 (permalink)
jimstar79 Rookie Join Date: Oct 2008 Posts: 5	manage mode freeze!!! why is it that consumers of the product FIFA 09 are complaining about this issue all over the internet and EA Sports are doing nothing - nada, zilch - about it? This started happening to me back in early December 2008 and not a squeek out of EA about this problem. Can't they undersand how frustrating it is to go through 3 or 4 seasons with a team, tweak your players, buy new players, take on young players to develop them, and then BLAMMO - its all over, there is nothing you can do to get passed the game freezing up! The 'best' football game ever made, and this happens!?! Come on guys, fix the bug please! It cant be that hard for you to mend this glitch, can it? Pretty please?

11-01-2009, 02:07 AM	#3 (permalink)
jezzamiah Rookie Join Date: Jan 2009 Location: Australia Gender: Male Posts: 16	So heaps of people have the same problem...

11-01-2009, 02:18 AM	#4 (permalink)
taylor366 Rookie Join Date: Dec 2008 Location: England Age: 19 Gender: Male Posts: 230	Yes, and it has given me reluctancy to continue with Manager Mode since I encountered the exact same problem.

30-01-2009, 05:04 PM	#9 (permalink)
jimstar79 Rookie Join Date: Oct 2008 Posts: 5	just happened again - on my NEW season!

30-01-2009, 05:27 PM	#10 (permalink)
frank120 Rookie Join Date: Jan 2008 Posts: 207	I've had it too about 5 seasons in. I had to start again. I've doubled up so I now have 2 version of the same MM saved and am running them in tandom. Hopefully if one goes I can use the back up and only lose a couple of games at most, but it is infuriating.

04-02-2009, 04:26 AM	#11 (permalink)
eziof Rookie Join Date: Mar 2007 Posts: 41	Is there anyway to fix this?

06-05-2009, 06:16 AM	#12 (permalink)
johny24max Rookie Join Date: Nov 2008 Posts: 12	Okay its May and you would figure with all the updates the game wont freeze in manager mod%e complete suprize it F Innng frozeee. I try playing it or Simming it everytime it goes to 21% percent nothing happens I cant do anything i can bring up the ps3 menu but can't do anything in the fifa game aghhhhh Im so frustrated. If i would have knew this glitch, I would have not even bothered with manager mode I am sooo ****ed...any fixes???

13-05-2009, 08:47 PM	#13 (permalink)
streaky_7 Hi, I'm New! Join Date: May 2009 Posts: 1	Taking the p1zz I have done 4 seasons in manager mode and every season has frozen after 3 or 4 seasons in. I have had various discussions with EA regarding this since before Christmas up to last month. Only recently did i get a response where they werent trying to blame me and things i may have been doing to make it freeze!! Finally I spoke to someone who sent me the following ......the game accesses the same information regardless of the year that your Club is in, so if the disk was the problem, you would see this freeze in the first year. What it sounds like is happening is as you progress in your Career, your save file gets larger and larger. Thus, the game has a harder time loading and saving this file. While this should not be a problem, i have seen similar instances of it. This is definitely something we are aware of and are investigating..... and then he wrote .......I believe that the problem lies in the save files themselves. Whether that be the total size of the file, or perhaps even something happening with the rosters. This is something our dev team will need to discover and build a fix for. I would continue to browse our official forums and also keep an eye on the main fifa site for any up to date information....... This is all very annoying. I love the game but what the hell is the point if it is going to keep freezing. I don't know what is more disappointing, the fact the game freezes or the feeling EA are freezing us out!! I feel like they couldn't give a hoot which is a mega shame.

11-06-2009, 09:49 AM	#14 (permalink)
BigBurt82 Rookie Join Date: Jun 2009 Location: London, England Gender: Male Posts: 19	I have had this problem too, but believe that I've now found a work-around as I picked up my spending spree trophy this morning EA customers Services claim that the error is due to corrupted game saves. I doubt that this is true as a corrupted file should not be accessible and it shouldn't be possible to load the game if the data is corrupt. Remember on the PS2 when data was corrupted; instead of the colourful animated logo on the memory card manager, there was just a big purple box and a tag of 'corruped data'. File was unaccessible. No such thing on the PS3. My theory is that for data to become corrupt, something must interfere at the time of saving. Since FIFA does the saving for you (Autosave feature) I simply disabled this in the profile settings on the main menu. Now when you play through FIFA you will get lots of annoying messages asking if you want to save every time you make a squad change, deal in the transfer market or simply play a match. Stick with it. ONLY save via the Save option in the Manager Mode menu, always so NO when the message appears after you do something during gameplay. Save every 5 games or so in case of a crash or power cut for example. I managed to get further than ever before in Manager Mode using this method. As long as you are in control of the saves, there shouldn't be any risk of corrupted game data. After the end of the January transfer window in Season 2 I had made 50 signings and unlocked the Spending Spree trophy. Woo-hoo! Previously I could never make it this far because of a freeze either on the 'simulating' screen or in the arena. This freeze was permanent and existed whether I simmed or played a match. Starting over again was my only choice. I hope this technique works for you guys too. My PSN ID is Bigburt82 if you want to add me

11-06-2009, 10:25 AM	#15 (permalink)
Coxy85UK Rookie Join Date: Jun 2006 Location: Warwickshire Age: 24 Gender: Male Posts: 428	My MM's crashed when at some point in the career i had signed a scouted player from another club. In MM's when i have only raised my own scouted players, it has not crashed. Don't know if this has anything to do with it, but ive lost about 6 when i have signed scouted players from other clubs and i have completed 15 seasons about 4 times when i havent signed scouted players from other clubs. __________________

16-06-2009, 07:19 PM	#16 (permalink)
Ellliott Rookie Join Date: Feb 2009 Posts: 3	Same I had a manager mode where i played upto 2014. I was one game off 2015, and it froze for me, on the same simulating part where everyone seems to have the problem.. I had this issue before, but i simmed past it, but now it just won't budge. I decided their was nothing i could do and started a new season. I got around a year in and it happened again. I then made another manager mode, and it happened 2/3 games in, and this is a recurring problem.. I purchase a few, sell a few in the transfer market and bang, the simulating problem happens again. I tolerated it at first, but now it's really irritating. Surely it should be fixed, by the looks of things many have had the same problem. With Manager Mode being a main reason i go on and play the game, i now find no reason to play it. Why can't this be sorted? Enough people have complained!

24-06-2009, 12:43 AM	#19 (permalink)
THE_Benjamin Forum Regular Join Date: Mar 2009 Location: Sydney Australia Age: 27 Gender: Male Posts: 994	Yeah I've not had the glitch and I never auto-save...maybe that's the link __________________ Farewell but not Goodbye Bobby! Football will never forget you. Geordie, Gentleman, Giant

24-06-2009, 01:19 AM	#20 (permalink)
cooler08 Forum Junkie Join Date: Apr 2008 Age: 25 Posts: 4,210	I always auto save, and ive only had the freeze once in 22 Seasons so i doubt it's auto save which is causing it. __________________ Fifa 09's physics system is the best of any footy game yet - Gamesmaster Noticed any MM glitches in Fifa 10- add them here

18-09-2009, 08:53 PM	#22 (permalink)
nickb224 Hi, I'm New! Join Date: Sep 2009 Posts: 1	lalalala OMG! i was in 2014 had really good players in the team and it froze, why aren't ea doing anything, is it because fifa 10 coming out soon. But if it happens again in fifa 10, they must do something! by the way i was notts county, i don't support them, i wasin league two and got promoted every season so now i am in the prem and winning the league! Then it froze!

21-09-2009, 09:43 PM	#23 (permalink)
blackdevil4589 Rookie Join Date: Sep 2009 Location: Germany Age: 20 Gender: Male Posts: 52	have the same problem... come on EA... whats wrong with you :/ glad fifa10 is coming out in a few days __________________ Gamestop Germany: got Fifa10, Forza3, NFS Shift and Assassins Creed 2 for 9,99€ each.

23-09-2009, 09:24 PM	#24 (permalink)
blue1976 Rookie Join Date: Aug 2009 Location: LONDON Posts: 7	It cant happan on fifa10 that would be awful , surely the bug or freeze what ever it is should be sorted for the new fifa ?? If it still freezes i will have to go over to pes or sennsible soccer on the amiga haha.

23-09-2009, 09:33 PM	#25 (permalink)
Carver306 Rookie Join Date: Dec 2007 Posts: 27	fifa 09 has more holes in it than a pin cushion . "Relax fifa 10 is out soon" < lets hope fifa 10 is not the proverbial pin cushion either. Somehow I'm apprehensive. If it is lets just hope fifa 10 or 11 or 12 or....................