I got that other day. All charged fine but when I put in controller it was already missing a bit of charge. I think it said in the manual they get better after a couple of charges though.
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I got that other day. All charged fine but when I put in controller it was already missing a bit of charge. I think it said in the manual they get better after a couple of charges though.
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Not at 900p on my LG CX, reverts back to the OG non-enhanced version. Looked stunning when I played it on my 1X a couple of years ago. Even on a bog standard 4K LCD .4k 60fps if you are playing it for the the 1st time.
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You just get a not available at this time error, according to reddit you need to buy from an old xbox 360 console. Apparently it was removed from backwards compatible.
Ah ok I'll play at 60 then given the choice.
Ah, that'll be it then. Last time I looked (ages ago) it was on the BC list. I assumed it would still be there. I wonder why they took it off.
Has anyone watched any of the Game Stack stuff? Dealer on YouTube has done a breakdown of the Velocity stuff discussed by developers (not Microsoft) and it's some seriously impressive stuff. It shows why the concerns about the Series S holding game development on the Series X back isn't a concern at all.
I'm no game developer at all, so I could be wrong here, but my understanding is that currently games preload all textures from scenes on loading because it takes too long to do it on the fly, and then they're in memory for the duration of your playtime. This is obviously going to use up loads of RAM on your PC and GPU. Velocity is so efficient that it will stream these textures whilst you play with no impact whatsoever, because it only renders what's on the screen and nothing else. The rest is on the SSD in the Velocity cache, and it gets fetched from that when needed. The demonstration showed a scene with over 2GB texture data that takes 22 seconds to load on a One X console, streaming in under a quarter of a second on the Series X with Velocity. That's a crazy difference! I'm sure that this is going to unlock a huge amount of potential for developers in the future.
Have a watch it you've got the time. It's some pretty amazing stuff.
I'm no game developer at all, so I could be wrong here, but my understanding is that currently games preload all textures from scenes on loading because it takes too long to do it on the fly, and then they're in memory for the duration of your playtime. This is obviously going to use up loads of RAM on your PC and GPU. Velocity is so efficient that it will stream these textures whilst you play with no impact whatsoever, because it only renders what's on the screen and nothing else. The rest is on the SSD in the Velocity cache, and it gets fetched from that when needed. The demonstration showed a scene with over 2GB texture data that takes 22 seconds to load on a One X console, streaming in under a quarter of a second on the Series X with Velocity. That's a crazy difference! I'm sure that this is going to unlock a huge amount of potential for developers in the future.
Have a watch it you've got the time. It's some pretty amazing stuff.
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I've seen some of that GameStack stuff but it also makes me wonder how the heck are they going to use it properly if they have to still cater for PCs as well? I can't even see how DirectStorage helps on Windows because you don't have unified memory.
Can they not select api based on hardware?
Edit: regarding memory, isn’t that what nv are starting to offer?
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It is strange, it is actually listed as xbox one x enhanced as well.
The OH bought me Left 4 Dead 1 & 2 for my birthday off eBay. I've installed them both to my Series X and launched Left 4 Dead 1 and it worked fine.
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Yeah it plays fine, you just can't buy it digitally. Guess the disc version is the only way atm.
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Seems X/S versions of games work fine from my usb3 external HDD. Zombie Army worked fine for me
If they are still compiled with the old Xbox Development Kit they will. Only new Game Development Kit games need the SSD.
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just buy the ultimate addition 360 game, and install and play off disk 2 only.
I just did a replay last month, awesome game
The Xbox Series S has no disk drive, fella. I could get it on PC for cheap as chips but I don't fancy sitting hunched over mouse and keyboard these days.
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Guys should I get series x or s? I have a 4k oled tv
You'll be lucky if you can find a series x.
I'v been looking for months.