If you’ve been there, you’re not alone PS5 suddenly shuts down while playing Gran Turismo 7. Since release, players have been affected by a bug that causes the console to crash unexpectedly. Unfortunately, every time this issue occurs, the PS5 goes through an unexpected shutdown process. That means you have to sit through the annoying hard drive scanning and “repairing”. Luckily, we’ve found a fix for the Gran Turismo 7 PS5 shutdown bug. This seems to solve the problem completely (for most people).
How to fix Gran Turismo 7 PS5 shutdown bug
If your PS5 keeps shutting down unexpectedly every time you play Gran Turismo 7, here’s a quick fix.
- If the game is on your external SSD, move the game to your internal drive.
- If it’s on the internal drive, move it to the external SSD.
- If it’s on your internal drive and you don’t have an external SSD, delete and reinstall the game.
When the bug occurred, I couldn’t find the cause. Installed on an external drive with plenty of space left. I think he’s played Gran Turismo 7 for probably 40 hours by the day the patch was released, and he’s played another 20 hours since the official release. It has never caused my PS5 to shut down. Then, starting a few days ago, my console started crashing every time I tried to load a race.
See more Gran Turismo 7 articles
Bella Ramsey, who played Ellie in HBO’s The Last of Us, is now behind the wheel.
More frames make it even more fun.
Polyphony Digital has revealed that Gran Turismo 7 VR upgrades will be included in update 1.29.
While researching this issue, we found that many players have encountered the same bug since the game was released. However, the only common denominator seems to be that this issue started occurring shortly before the update was released. So it’s possible that the update is somehow corrupted, and moving the game to another drive forces some kind of integrity check to fix it.
Unfortunately, while this fix works for many people, not everyone reports success. Some people say vacuuming the console helps, but my PS5 is perfectly clean and I can assure you that it has nothing to do with my problem. However, if moving the game to another drive or reinstalling it doesn’t work, try cleaning it as it may be overheating.
