After some extensive testing tonight, I've narrowed down exactly what causes the game to freeze at Tropicana Field, and I've also established a workaround that seems to work 100% of the time; although I ask that you guys test it to make sure.
The freeze seems to occur by accessing a bullpen (home or away) and then pressing select at any point after leaving the bullpen screen (it doesn't matter if you make pitchers start warming up or if you do absolutely nothing while in the bullpen); the instant you press select, the game will freeze. Even throwing a pitch or getting to the next batter in the order won't fix the problem; the game will still freeze. Note that the problem will not happen if you go to the bullpen and bring a reliever into the game; not sure why, but whatever is causing the frezze must be alleviated by actually bringing in a reliever.
But the actual WORKAROUND that seems to work every time is as follows: once you press circle to leave the bullpen, before you even continue the game, press the start button to pause the game, and then unpause the game. Every time I've tested this, pressing select to bring up the pitcher/batter graphic causes absolutely no problems. Of course, you'll have to repeat this process of pausing and unpausing every time you view the bullpen, but it seems to work.
Let me know if you experience any continued problems while using this method.
UPDATE: Based on posts that you'll see later in this thread, there appear to be other issues (possibly beyond the user's control) that are also causing freezes at Tropicana Field. It is probably a good idea to avoid playing at Tropicana Field until a patch for it can be released. Of course, the only good reason to play at the Trop at this point is to try to figure out what else is causing freezes there so that the info can be passed on to the devs.
The freeze seems to occur by accessing a bullpen (home or away) and then pressing select at any point after leaving the bullpen screen (it doesn't matter if you make pitchers start warming up or if you do absolutely nothing while in the bullpen); the instant you press select, the game will freeze. Even throwing a pitch or getting to the next batter in the order won't fix the problem; the game will still freeze. Note that the problem will not happen if you go to the bullpen and bring a reliever into the game; not sure why, but whatever is causing the frezze must be alleviated by actually bringing in a reliever.
But the actual WORKAROUND that seems to work every time is as follows: once you press circle to leave the bullpen, before you even continue the game, press the start button to pause the game, and then unpause the game. Every time I've tested this, pressing select to bring up the pitcher/batter graphic causes absolutely no problems. Of course, you'll have to repeat this process of pausing and unpausing every time you view the bullpen, but it seems to work.
Let me know if you experience any continued problems while using this method.
UPDATE: Based on posts that you'll see later in this thread, there appear to be other issues (possibly beyond the user's control) that are also causing freezes at Tropicana Field. It is probably a good idea to avoid playing at Tropicana Field until a patch for it can be released. Of course, the only good reason to play at the Trop at this point is to try to figure out what else is causing freezes there so that the info can be passed on to the devs.
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