Forum:Project Purity game freeze (PS3) - please help

BACKGROUND: I know about the freezing issues in general, but have been looking all over the web and don't see anything about this one in particular and hope someone might be able to help (or tell me if my mission is doomed beyond starting over).

I've done many of the side missions and am back on the Project Purity quest where I'm supposed to "Turn On The Power To The Flood Control Pumps". Maybe I'm looking in the wrong place, but I've searched all around and think I need to go into the Gift Shop doorway in the Jefferson Memorial to get to the place I need to do this.

PROBLEM: If I try to enter any door that leads to the gift shop, inside or the one outside, the game freezes on the loading page. The timer icon on the loading page spins about 1.5 times and then stops and the only way out is to power down the PS3.

POSSIBLY RELEVANT: somewhere, somehow, earlier in the game I ended up in a flood control tunnel where there is a valve to "Operate Pipe Controls" and a grated doorway next to it to "Open Grate to Sift Pump". By luck, I still have that save point and can go back to it, but if I try the valve it says " you cannot do that now" and the gated doorway says it's locked and I need a key. I can't leave that save location though b/c the only door out is on the other end of the tunnel to the Gift Shop and if I open it, it freezes (it might not have at the time I originally found myself there). Makes me wonder if by going there before I was officially on the mission might be what confused the game and is causing it to choke now.

Any advice for a work-around? Am I off-track and am missing the way to the flood control pumps without having to go through the gift shop? I put a lot of time in and hate to abandon the game at this point. Thanks if you have any advice...71.163.231.220 03:57, 7 August 2009 (UTC)