Im currently using the install to HD feature, only have a 20GB drive which doesnt really bother me. What might bother some is that now ive got GTA on there ive only got 5.7GB free, which judging from earlier on in the thread isnt going to be enough for another game. On the plus side, its abit quiter which is nice however im getting lots of bits of scenery that take ages to load. I had expected to have pop-ups go down playing from HD not get worse.
Who is going to use these NXE features?
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I previously read a post on another forum (aaaages ago) that basically predicted this would happen with GTAIV. Problem is, GTAIV on the 360 streamed a cache to the harddrive when you first played it (which is why many experienced invisible obstacles at first and several people without harddrive experienced the problem throughout the game) and then the game would use both the cache on the harddrive and the disk drive to stream data as fast as possible in order to prevent popup.
Now that all of the data is on the harddrive the game is unable to stream the data from two sources at once, therefore slowing down the rate at which data can be loaded. GTAIV is the only game on the 360 that i know of that has taken this approach, so it's going to be the only game that could suffer due to a harddrive install.
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A Kingdom for Keflings: First Xbox Avatar game on Nov. 19 with NXE
http://www.joystiq.com/2008/11/06/a-kingdom-for-keflings-first-xbox-avatar-game-on-nov-19-with-n/
First Game to support NXE Avatars. Looks like Black and White meets The Sims kind of game on a very small scale.
rp2000
http://www.joystiq.com/2008/11/06/a-kingdom-for-keflings-first-xbox-avatar-game-on-nov-19-with-n/
First Game to support NXE Avatars. Looks like Black and White meets The Sims kind of game on a very small scale.
rp2000
Good point, I had completely forgot that it was a system update and didn't behave like regular downloads!
My daughter and I were huge fans of Cloning Clyde so I'll be keeping an eye on it despite the fact the screen shots don't really do it for me.
Found this on a website thought it may be useful for you guys. It just shows differences in loading times for games installed on HDD.
http://www.bingegamer.net/2008/so-h...saving-xbox-360-nxe-hard-drive-install-chart/
http://www.bingegamer.net/2008/so-h...saving-xbox-360-nxe-hard-drive-install-chart/
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My bioshock save was 712MB
Not to bothered by that one but quite a few others were getting up to a few hundred megLcukily that seems to be the exception as it's caching heavily (although people don't seem to be complaining about GTA IV, which also caches. I guess for those exceptions, we'll have to just play it from the disk!
Seems the NXE had a sting in it's tail after all. No real suprise there. If I was a pirate i'd not have let that near my console til everyone had tested it.
So they can either detect the firmware/stealthed discs or are just banning the very early players. The danger is now if you even buy a new console it will just get banned again.
Half my friends list now says 'offline'
So they can either detect the firmware/stealthed discs or are just banning the very early players. The danger is now if you even buy a new console it will just get banned again.
Half my friends list now says 'offline'
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What do you mean Danny? Are post-NXE pirates getting toasted?
I thought it was just that if you NXE-ed your console without having permission you just can't access live until the release date?
I thought it was just that if you NXE-ed your console without having permission you just can't access live until the release date?
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Just checked my Friends list through the web page and I do see a lot of people with the status Offline and no "last played" next to their name, even people I played against in last 2 days. Seems weird but dunno if this means they are banned as some of these folk don't have NXE and the ones that do have it, don't have modded consoles.
rp2000
Recent bannings are nothing to do with NXE. Unbanned people may have installed it without being in the preview program, meaning they cant connect to Live anyway till Wednesday.
These people that have been banned installed the NXE legit. The console has been banned.
Which still has nothing to do with NXE
They would have been banned if they had been on the official trial or not.
Which still has nothing to do with NXE
They would have been banned if they had been on the official trial or not.
It seems weird that everyone I know thats currently been banned in the last 24 hours has installed the NXE. The people I know who have been banned in the last 24 hours are not idiots they have all used stealthed games and check the disc's before playing. Yet the NXE is installed and the console has been banned.
Why now, why not last week.
Even if you think it's not the NXE then somewhere MS have gotten smarter. Either they can detect stealthed discs or are just banning early users (which I really dont think they would)