***The Official Forza Motorsport 3 Thread***

im peed because i didnt know this ? I just went into the supermarket and bought the game (i think its just a pathetic sneaky way to make some extra money) I can see a lot of people doing this also without evan thinking about it. I did ask in tescos to see the LE to see what it came with but they didnt evan have it in :p

I meen im hardly going to go out and buy the LE version when ive allready spent £40 on the game ...

Normally the LE editions just come with aload of crap (keyrings and special box etc) I wouldent mind if i could purchase the cars but i dont know just seems a bit of a con really :)
 
Memphis said:
What's going on, I'm afraid to say, is that your Xbox is showing signs of possible GPU or CPU failure. Strictly speaking, it's actually the connections beneath the chips themselves, but either way, it's likely about to break I'm afraid.
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That was my first thought - the GPU, it's only a week old too, bought it brand new, return to shop or go through microsoft?

MoNkEyMiKeY said:
Overheating? Plenty of venitaltion round your xbox?
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the xbox is really cold to touch, even after a couple of hours, it's using the jasper chipset.
 
i rang the shop and they said bring it in and they'll replace it, so off i go for another brand new one haha - i'll have to keep my HD though as it's got upto level 26 of forza on.
 
wez130 said:
That was my first thought - the GPU, it's only a week old too, bought it brand new, return to shop or go through microsoft?



the xbox is really cold to touch, even after a couple of hours, it's using the jasper chipset.
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if you got it from a "game" store then i would take it back, other shops like **gos will tell you to go through ms but somewhere like "g" or "gs" will swap it for you 9/10 my local "game" shop swapped my son's 360 with drive problems that was a year and 2 weeks old and got a spanking new jasper in return :D

before you take it back have you tried other games other than forza 3 it does sound like a hardware issue but there was an issue with forza 2 when it first come out with the ring's track going all funny and that was down to a doggy batch of disks if i remember correctly
 
peterattheboro said:
Anyone had a play with this yet....?

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It's crazy!!
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I bought this to enter into the R3 season because of the relatively cheap price only to be informed it would need upgrading.

I thought I would let the game do it for once and it nudged the HP to 1050 which was great! As soon as it gets to 8000rpm it just threw the car of the straight. I had to do a drivetrain swap and turn on the TC.

The accessibility features counted for nothing there.
 
well i'm back, and do i feel daft :D

I set it up and opened the disk tray (i hadn't bothered to check the disk prior), and i saw the problem straight away, the disk had scratched all way round the edge as i have the 360 stood up next to my pc desk when the missus is watching telly and i plug it into my HP monitor (HDMI), anyway after moving the 360 from the telly to my desk (i really need a longer HDMI lol), it had moved the disk causing it to scratch, anyway, he cleaned the disk, i had a go and it worked fine, so time will tell again.
 
wez130 said:
well i'm back, and do i feel daft :D

I set it up and opened the disk tray (i hadn't bothered to check the disk prior), and i saw the problem straight away, the disk had scratched all way round the edge as i have the 360 stood up next to my pc desk when the missus is watching telly and i plug it into my HP monitor (HDMI), anyway after moving the 360 from the telly to my desk (i really need a longer HDMI lol), it had moved the disk causing it to scratch, anyway, he cleaned the disk, i had a go and it worked fine, so time will tell again.
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i always found having the 360 on it's side was the way to go also have you installed disk 1 to the HDD as this not only cut's down the noise but also improves load times and reduces the risk of the disk getting damaged
 
i've just read about installing, how do i go about that?

Aslo, i was playing again earlier nd i was only upgrading my R8 and it crashed again.
 
i take it you have installed disk 2 so now all you have to do is on the my xbox blade where it says play "forza motorsport 3" press y (game details) and the option should be there, don't do this for the extras disk as it will cause problems

note that the installation procedure for disk 2 is different to the above where it's an extraction rather than an install and is done through the game whe you first start but i think here is an option to do so later if not already done

then you will have less noise and quicker load times and much less chance of damaging the dvd as it's only there to verify you own the game
 
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