PlayStation®3 Support

[l-eXo-l]

I have an original 60 gb fat ps3 and lately it's become absolutely unusable on certain games. Battlefield 3 freezes like crazy. To the point where I can't even play on half of the maps. On top of that I recently bought the Red Dead Redemption GOTY edition. It freezes every 15 minutes. I had an inkling that it may be the disc reader or something like that but I even went as far as buying the PSN verson of RDR and it still freezes. Overheating is not an issue. I can literally play first thing in the morning for 10 minutes and have it freeze on me before it even gets a chance to warm up.

However there are other games like Fifa, Skyrim, and Gran Turismo 5 that work fine with no problems what so ever. I've rebuilt the database countless times, I've restored the file system. I've done just about everything I can possibly think of. Any ideas as to what may be wrong with it? Or should I just chalk it up as a loss and get a new system? 

[Logical_Dolphin]

I'm not sure if this will help, but you can always change the thermal paste in your system and see if that improves things. Since you have a 60GB system, it is probably due for one, if you haven't done it already.

I wrote a guide detailing how to do this step by step. You can find the link directly below...