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HeX · 14 Aug 2015 at 08:47

Any USB 3.0 hdd can be plugged in to use, so upgrading storage is a doddle.

As for Alan Wake, the people who made that have a new game coming out called Quantum Break.

malachi · 14 Aug 2015 at 08:51

Scort said:
It's amazing how quickly the 500GB is going though - I have a digital copy of Forza 5 (free with the console) and Ryse (always fancied playing it), along with a disc version of FH2 - and I'm sat at ~40% HD space gone I take it that you can't just sling any old drive into an xbone?

You need a external USB 3.0 HDD, pop that round the back and let the Xbox One do the rest. I'm picking up a Samsung 2tb later for my console as it nearly full and I hardily have any games.

Also the performance of loading times increase when installed to a external HDD compared to the internal (weird I know).

V_R · 14 Aug 2015 at 11:27

malachi said:
Also the performance of loading times increase when installed to a external HDD compared to the internal (weird I know).

Are you saying its better loading speeds off the external drive?

Whats a decent drive for the XB1? Any recommendations?

Battery! · 14 Aug 2015 at 12:30

Do what I did, put an SSD in a USB3 caddy and use that

McBain · 14 Aug 2015 at 12:37

Nismo said:
On the PS4 I can't even update Game X if Game Y is open and running, plus there's no functionality for snapping 2 apps together and running them alongside each other..

Sure about that? I was playing Planetside 2 last night, and i'm pretty sure the Witcher 3 and War Thunder were updating in the background. I got notifications to that effect anyway.

From a UI point of view, I don't really have a preference between the One and the PS4, they both do a job equally for my requirements.

Scort · 14 Aug 2015 at 12:47

McDaniel said:
You can plug in an external HDD via USB no problem, I stuck a 3TB drive on mine.

And that's ok to run games from?

malachi said:
You need a external USB 3.0 HDD, pop that round the back and let the Xbox One do the rest. I'm picking up a Samsung 2tb later for my console as it nearly full and I hardily have any games.

Also the performance of loading times increase when installed to a external HDD compared to the internal (weird I know).

Edit: sorry, didn't read ahead - many thanks

Wardyp · 14 Aug 2015 at 13:06

I have a WD 2TB desktop drive and all my games are installed on it, works really well

Nismo · 14 Aug 2015 at 13:33

McBain said:
Sure about that? I was playing Planetside 2 last night, and i'm pretty sure the Witcher 3 and War Thunder were updating in the background. I got notifications to that effect anyway..

Nope, not for me anyway and my console is always in Rest Mode also.

I started it up, noticed there were a load of updates waiting to install so tried to do them manually from the notifications panel and they insisted that F12015 which was running in the background was closed first. F12015 wasn't even one requiring an update either!

cu3ed · 14 Aug 2015 at 14:10

Well Ive been playing online and been getting download notifications curing gameplay for Rare Reply games that where downloading in the background.

McBain · 14 Aug 2015 at 14:12

Nismo said:
Nope, not for me anyway and my console is always in Rest Mode also.

I started it up, noticed there were a load of updates waiting to install so tried to do them manually from the notifications panel and they insisted that F12015 which was running in the background was closed first. F12015 wasn't even one requiring an update either!

Weird, maybe it's application specific or something.

malachi · 14 Aug 2015 at 15:18

V_R said:
Are you saying its better loading speeds off the external drive?
Whats a decent drive for the XB1? Any recommendations?

Yep, GTA loads faster if you play that.

I've gone for this one https://www.overclockers.co.uk/showproduct.php?prodid=HD-197-SA&groupid=1657&catid=1659&subcat=1237

bigjonnyauk · 14 Aug 2015 at 19:05

Nismo said:
Great find. Just did this and there was a noticeable upgrade in visual quality even over the high setting. It's almost like the console is plugged directly into the screen you are streaming to now, any compression is virtually gone. The slight fuzziness around edges doesn't seem to exist any more. Weird why they didn't unlock this as standard. PS4 streaming to a local PSTV box looks terrible now in comparison.

For info. for anyone else doing this though, I navigated to the folder but I think they missed out "\LocalState" off the end of the path in their instructions - that's where my config file was anyway.

You have the Kinectless version I take it?

ok so why cant i get this to work lol can anyone give me the file already done just to replace lol

also i dont get why my streaming is so low im getting 2mbps

xbox is wired to router and pc is wired to router

have fibre with 40meg d/l and 11 upload

Nismo · 14 Aug 2015 at 19:29

bigjonnyauk said:
have fibre with 40meg d/l and 11 upload

Your ISP speed has nothing to do with it - this is all local.

Is it 2Mbps and choppy or just poor image quality? Try checking the streaming quality setting in the top right. At "high" you should expect to see around 10-12Mbps bandwidth usage in a game. With the file hack at "very high" I'm seeing 15-17Mbps.

Ultimately any issues are going to be down to your home router, cabling or PC as the Xbox itself should be the same as everyone else's.

Certainly I wouldn't expect any problems if anything is wired direct, unless your router is blocking or throttling a port or the NIC on your PC is dodgy.

Mull3t · 14 Aug 2015 at 20:01

Just on this I've tried everything, even 2 aftermarket routers, even the ASUS N600 and still same results for me = lag. I'm convinced either I'm missing a setting or something MS isn't right.

Tried numerous configurations with all routers and they include:
- Power line adapters
- Direct laptop and Xbox into the routers (wired)
- Gaming PC (wired both sides)
- wireless (just to try, no difference to wired)
- opening all ports

Nismo · 14 Aug 2015 at 20:07

As long as game streaming is enabled on the XO then there isn't really anything else to configure. It should just work from the W10 app.

What does the network page on the console itself say, is NAT open or strict etc.?

msmalls74 · 14 Aug 2015 at 21:12

Heard from folks who had some massive lag problems was cured by switching off location services in windows

Mull3t · 14 Aug 2015 at 21:35

Nismo said:
As long as game streaming is enabled on the XO then there isn't really anything else to configure. It should just work from the W10 app.

What does the network page on the console itself say, is NAT open or strict etc.?

Open, all ports forwarded.

bigjonnyauk · 14 Aug 2015 at 22:06

All ports open on mine also I have a laptop I use for my device I turn off the WiFi

Is the any tests you can do that tests your local connection

spaceman · 15 Aug 2015 at 08:33

5x XP instead of 2x on first victory today in World of Tanks.

Red and White · 15 Aug 2015 at 11:14

msmalls74 said:
Heard from folks who had some massive lag problems was cured by switching off location services in windows

Interesting. Will try this.

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