This is unbelievable. I'm having the same problems. Sometimes I'm not even close to the marker and it's freezing up. Had it happen 4 times now. Going to try some of these methods and see if any of them help.Honestly though, this is moronic. The consumer shouldn't have to find alternate ways of bypassing serious, game-breaking issues like this. It shouldn't have been released at all, not with as many bugs and glitches as it has.I now know how the Xbox One gamers feel when they start an Xbox One game.EDIT: I can confirm that blowing up the cars (right after the cutscene where you're told to go pick up Sweet) seems to help. I had to do it twice, not because the game ended up freezing again, but because the cops killed me during the Ballas massacre after you take Sweet home. Usually there will be two cars as soon as you regain control of CJ, but the second time I attempted it using this method there was only one. Blew that one up and it seemed to work. For the record, though, I was careful not to go any further south than I needed to. As soon as I had Sweet in the Sparrow, I headed North, then over towards Grove Street, as most of the methods say to do. Hope this helps.