Hacking Freezing in most games. Any ideas?

[disc0]

Had my R4 for a few months now, and I've been having trouble with games freezing during gameplay (sound stutters, screens sometimes go white or black, etc.)

I've used two different MicroSD cards, one was a Kingston (Taiwan), one was a PNY (Japan, I think). I haven't had problems using the cards for storage, or reading/writing files to them. No slowdown in any games I've played, including Castlevania POR.

Strangest thing so far is that in Geometry Wars, I get an actual error message when it freezes. Big white "EXCEPTION" on the bottom screen, followed by a list of hexadecimal memory addresses. If anyone thinks this will help diagnose the issue, I can post a picture.

Any ideas? Anyone have the same issues? I've tried the paper/tape trick to keep the contacts in place, and tried reformatting the card, but nothing has worked.

 

[iritegood]

What's your firmware version?

 

[Rayder]

Try erasing the "_DS_MENU.SYS" file in the root of your card. If you updated your firmware and didn't delete the old one, weird stuff can happen.

It will be re-created by the R4 the next time you boot it. See if that fixes it.


Possibly you have a high amount of fragmentation on your microSD, you need to defrag it. To successfully do this, copy the entire contents of the microSD to your hard drive, format the microSD, then copy everything back to the microSD. Running defragmenting programs on a flashcard is NOT recommended.

If neither of those things work, then I fear your R4 may be malfunctioning.

 

[DarkAura]

Try reformatting.

 

[c2ironfist]

reformat would be my suggestion

if that doesn't work try another Micro SD

The R4s are reliable and simple to use, so I'm assuming its the micro SD card thats the problem

 

[DarkAura]

Get a new Micro SD and try that. I didn't notice that you said you had tried to reformat at the end of your post.

 

[disc0]

Thanks for the tips, guys. I've used a couple of different microsd cards, so I don't think that's it, but I hadn't deleted the _ds_menu.sys or whatever it is. I'll let you all know if I manage to sort things out.