GTA 5: infinite loading screen

Alright, so 2 possibilities:
- Either your Blu-Ray disc is scratched, damaged, and has to be thrown away
- Or, as UnkutEth said, it's a backup issue.
I hope for your sake that it's the backups.
Good luck!

Everyone complains about the GTA5 saves causing bugs.. That's certainly it!

https://www.jeuxvideo.com/forums/1-22728-2698770-2-0-1-0-chargement-du-mode-histoire-infini.htm

Look here, many people have the issue (Xbox and PS3), and many resolve it by moving their save files etc.. put your save on a USB stick, delete it from your console and start the game without the save, see if it starts.. The save is probably buggy:

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My trick is to go through online mode. (you must have internet and the online update, sorry for the others). At the game launch, connect immediately to online mode as soon as possible, before loading story mode.
Then the game will likely tell you that the save is corrupted. (that was my case.)
It's this save that's causing the chaos. So you need to overwrite it like to create a new online character.
From here, there's no need to create a character, just join story mode.

Magically, you will appear on your old save. The tutorial doesn't stop here, as the problem is not resolved as you can just access your save, but it is still corrupted. So you need to immediately create a new save in a new slot. Even creating two additional saves is a significant safety measure.
You have to wait for the save to complete 30 seconds to make sure it works. Now, you can exit the game, go to your corrupted save from your console menu and delete it. You can then restart the game in story mode which should no longer be blocked. Enjoy the game, you can relax.

Is your console up to date? If so, check in the Saved Utility Data if you have 2 GTA5 saves (sometimes it duplicates, probably a bug..), if you have 2 identical ones, delete one; apparently, it works for some!

Good evening,
Do you have the game on Blu-Ray disc that you insert into the console, or did you buy the game on the PSN and do you have it on the hard drive of your Playstation 3?

I have this problem too and I've tried everything

1: Disc without scratches and not dirty

2: Delete downloads

3: Delete the game

4: The game does not work in Story and online

5: Does not work even when disconnected from PSN

6: My GTA works at my friend's place

7: I cleaned the lens of my console

8: All my games work except GTA

9: I get stuck in the initial download

10: I want to specify that I have PS Plus, my console is on 4.60, my GTA is on 1.15, I have 52 GB free out of 149

11: I also did the steps that Rockstar suggested, and Rockstar found nothing for me and referred me to Sony for my problem.

Thank you for your precious help :)

Disable the blackening filter in the display settings.

I had the same issue, I signed out of PSN, restarted the game, and it started in story mode. I turned off my PS3, turned it back on, signed in to PSN, launched the game, and it started correctly for story mode. Now I just have to try the online mode.

This bug is recurring (Xbox and PS3 versions regardless)!
I personally have the Xbox version, and if I disconnect from Live it works.

Yet this bug is directly related to the profile because a friend resolved the issue by connecting to GTA Online.
I played with my game on my console using this friend's profile who has access to Xbox Live GOLD and is enjoying GTA Online and there was no issue, but as soon as I switch back to my profile (Silver) while connected to Live it crashes during the loading of MANUAL saves!!!

=> Problem related to the profile and I haven't found a solution yet!!!

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Good evening Tom,
As I mentioned above, I've had the same kind of problem!
To solve it, do a test: try playing with the patch (without uninstalling it and without uninstalling anything) but simply disconnect from the internet. If it works like it did for me, you'll be able to manually load your saves (and do everything normally) => the problem will thus not come from the patch but from the internet connection!
The solution to this problem is given above.

After that, simply linking the account to the Rockstar Social Club properly and downloading the 2 DLCs should also solve this problem because it worked for a friend who had exactly the same issue (but on 360)

If that's not the case, however, I don't know the solution.

I had the same issue in story mode.

If you’re playing with a headset, I might have the solution to your problem. ^^

So, when I replayed the missions in story mode, everything worked perfectly until I finished the mission.
Then, during the loading to go back to the present in story mode, my screen would freeze along with the sound, except for the loading logo which kept spinning.

Then one day I tried again, but on that day I wasn’t using my headset (Astro A50) but my stereo hi-fi system connected to the PS3, and the return to the present in story mode loaded perfectly. It also worked when I turned off the Dolby button on my Astro A50.

So if you’re playing with a headset, the problem might come from there.

Try either:

- turning off the headset during each loading and turning it back on as soon as the loading is finished
- disabling the Dolby feature on your headset (if you can)

or play with speakers.

The console might have trouble loading GTA 5 with 5.1 or 7.1 audio.

Hoping to solve your problem.

I deleted a backup, but it still doesn't work.

Hello, I'm having the same issue with my save file, but my boyfriend's works just fine (same game, same console). The update has been made!

Hey, I thought I was the only player struggling with this video game. I started to lose my patience, but a friend explained to me how to do it. I had to delete all my saves and start from scratch. Then, I checked if it was the update, and indeed my bug is caused by this update. See you soon.

Hello everyone who has the same problem, apparently it's either due to your save or the patch 1.04. In my case, it's the patch 1.04 that is causing my game to bug, and I have no solution other than logging out of the PSN. I'd like to know how to play multiplayer because when I update, my loading gets stuck.

I had a loading issue with my save file on the Rockstar servers several times. My technique is to copy my saves to a USB stick, delete them from my console, and then put them back. Every time it works, I hope I have helped someone.

Mon when I start the game it freezes. I had finished it but my data is gone. When I restart it, it freezes at the beginning.

I had the same problem and I found the solution: launch the game without being connected, then it will ask you to log in: refuse (B=NO), wait for the loading to finish and you will enter story mode without being connected. You can finally log in and then press "start" and load your save (I know it's not very French) and logically it should be fine.

I hope this helps you.

It's maybe that your backup deleted them and maybe it will be fine but I'm really not sure :x

I have the same problem with ... What do we do?? Please.