Ratchet & Clank Future glitch gets workaround

For those of us eager to get some platforming action joy with Insomniac Games‘ latest next-gen masterpiece on the Sony PlayStation 3, Ratchet & Clank Future: Tools of Destruction, you may have encountered a glitch that stops the fun dead in its tracks. Thankfully, a workaround has been provided by none other than Insomniac Games itself through the company’s own community manager James Stevenson.

So what causes the video gaming happy to suddenly cease and desist? James Stevenson explains that like Resistance: Fall of Man, Ratchet & Clank Future: Tools of Destruction needs to install a few files into your hard drive for the game to actually run. Here’s where things start getting a little dicey: even though you’ve got loads of free space on your hard drive, the game could read your hard drive as full, and therefore refuse to install. Ouch.

What’s the workaround, then? It’s really a simple procedure. James advises that to make the problem go away, all players need to do is either free up 500 megabytes’ worth of space, or download 500 megabytes worth of data from the PlayStation Network Store. Yes, we know, it’s weird, having to fill up your hard drive just so a game can detect all the loads of free space available, but if it lets us play something as good as Ratchet & Clank Future: Tools of Destruction, then fill up we must.

For those of us eager to get some platforming action joy with Insomniac Games‘ latest next-gen masterpiece on the Sony PlayStation 3, Ratchet & Clank Future: Tools of Destruction, you may have encountered a glitch that stops the fun dead in its tracks. Thankfully, a workaround has been provided by none other than Insomniac Games itself through the company’s own community manager James Stevenson.

So what causes the video gaming happy to suddenly cease and desist? James Stevenson explains that like Resistance: Fall of Man, Ratchet & Clank Future: Tools of Destruction needs to install a few files into your hard drive for the game to actually run. Here’s where things start getting a little dicey: even though you’ve got loads of free space on your hard drive, the game could read your hard drive as full, and therefore refuse to install. Ouch.

What’s the workaround, then? It’s really a simple procedure. James advises that to make the problem go away, all players need to do is either free up 500 megabytes’ worth of space, or download 500 megabytes worth of data from the PlayStation Network Store. Yes, we know, it’s weird, having to fill up your hard drive just so a game can detect all the loads of free space available, but if it lets us play something as good as Ratchet & Clank Future: Tools of Destruction, then fill up we must.