Caporegime
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The USB drive install (for the 2nd Disk for the X-box) is not mandatory and in fact you need to be cautious.
The game basically is so big it is split into 2 discs, you install Disc 1 and never need it again and need Disc 2 in the tray to play. When playing (no install of Disc 2), the game extract data from both the HDD and Disc 2 to populate the in game environment. So the disc is always spinning at pretty much full speed all the time.
If you install both discs into the HDD, the HDD is just not fast enough to extract twice as much data at the same time for the game not to mention the SATA bandwidth will be saturated. The result is shorter draw distances and less detail on screen. The amount however is minimal, but still, it is not advised.
So to stop the disc spinning all the time with that noise, you put in a USB stick in the X-box (there is a USB socket at the back so it's out of the way) You only need a 16G stick as it is an 8G install (if you have an external HDD that would work too). Make sure it has a minimum read speed of 15MB/s. Configure it inside the X-Box.
Once installed, the game still need Disc 2 to load, you will hear it spin when loading up. But once loaded, you are now running in silence and it is now loading data from HDD and USB stick.
