Boards are already claiming fatal errors with BOTH versions of GTA IV.

[TheRealMafoo]

NJ5 said:

TheRealMafoo said:

Umm, question... what would uninstalling and reinstalling do if the code is bad? It would put the exact same flaw in the system. A good reason to do that however, is if the disk read the information wrong the first time, and got it right the second ;)

Some code bugs happen in weird ways, which can seem random at first if you don't know what the cause is. Here is a very good example:

 http://arstechnica.com/journals/thumbs.ars/2007/10/24/ratchet-and-clank-ps3-contains-minor-installation-bug

 

In that case, the solution was not to just uninstall and reinstall. You had to make a change to the PS3 that you were installing on. Not quite the same thing.