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Dozens of devastated gamers have swamped the official GTA forums with complaints of repeated freezing when playing the much-hyped Grand Theft Auto IV. Most of the complaints are from PS3 users, though some Xbox 360s are also involved.

An Australian gamer was the first to post, stating: “I got GTA on Sunday and it freezes and I have to restart the console it happens every hour or so, I thought it may be a dodgy disc, so I took the disc back to the shop and got a new one.”

The post continues to say that the second disc also froze after just 40 minutes. One regular Xbox 360 user said that the problem comes from Rockstar programming the game so that it has no loading times. This overloads a console’s cache.
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A pirated copy of the soon-to-be-released Grand Theft Auto IV has been leaked onto torrent sites. The version is reportedly the PAL copy available for Microsoft’s Xbox 360 console.

However, it is not clear whether or not the download is the whole game, as it is only 6.32GB. Speculation is also abound that an NTSC version of the game will be released as a torrent over the next couple of days.

Downloaders are being warned not to play the game on Xbox Live until next week. The game’s official launch is Tuesday, the 29th of April.
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