Xbox360 Public Preview Program

Andybtsn · 31 Oct 2008 at 13:23

EL_JOCK said:
Not looked at that yet but will later let you know

would have thought so or you could hand all your games out to friends to borrow and never turn your 360 off

SiD the Turtle · 31 Oct 2008 at 13:25

EL_JOCK said:
Not looked at that yet but will later let you know

The preview on Giant Bomb tried that. As soon as you hit eject it kills the game.

ic1male · 31 Oct 2008 at 14:16

rp2000 said:
When you play the game from the hard drive how often does the disc spin? Is it constantly spinning at like 1 speed or does it just spin every now and then?

The disc spins up so that the Xbox 360 can read the disc ID and get the game name. After that, it never spins again if you are playing from the HDD. The game will quit immediately and return to dashboard if you eject the disc. This is to prevent two people using one disc to play a system-link game for example.

SiD the Turtle · 31 Oct 2008 at 14:43

I wonder if the pirates will use this in some way. Imagine either developing a system to mod the eject button so it doesn't report that it's been ejected to the console, or perhaps producing a dummy disc with just the disc id. You'd still need the original disc to install it though.

Wingz · 31 Oct 2008 at 15:17

the xbox copies the entire game onto the hard disk from a user review i read so the dvd hardly spins which is good as mine is loud

RizL4 · 31 Oct 2008 at 15:35

yes only spins for 1 sec and its silence

aj_4176 · 31 Oct 2008 at 15:39

To those who have got it, can you please confirm that 1900 x 1200 resolution is supported via HDMi.

Nymins · 31 Oct 2008 at 16:13

Hopefully the price of the 120Gb HDD's will come down. The installing games to the hard drive thing is pointless for us 20Gb users unless we install no demos or no extra game content. And even then we could only fit about 3 games on the HDD.

cjb1118 · 31 Oct 2008 at 17:19

aj_4176 said:
To those who have got it, can you please confirm that 1900 x 1200 resolution is supported via HDMi.

Can't see it, 1920x1080 is still the highest you can go.

EL_JOCK · 31 Oct 2008 at 17:36

Nymins said:
Hopefully the price of the 120Gb HDD's will come down. The installing games to the hard drive thing is pointless for us 20Gb users unless we install no demos or no extra game content. And even then we could only fit about 3 games on the HDD.

Hi,

well deadspace is 6.6gig so more like two on a 20gb

ic1male · 31 Oct 2008 at 17:41

Is 7GB the absolute tops for an Xbox 360 game? (On one disc.)

cokecan · 31 Oct 2008 at 18:06

well their DVD9's so a theoretical 8.5gb isnt it? don't know if any games actually fill the disk though?

Nymins · 31 Oct 2008 at 18:17

cokecan72 said:
well their DVD9's so a theoretical 8.5gb isnt it? don't know if any games actually fill the disk though?

8.5Gb would be the max possible for a game. Most will probably be 6-7gb installed imo.

Phemo · 31 Oct 2008 at 18:24

The absolute maximum size the game data on a 360 disc can be (due to padding, video data and other stuff on the disc) is 6.8GB. I've only experimented with two so far - GTA4 is 6.8GB and Monopoly is 3.4GB.

Wingz · 31 Oct 2008 at 19:05

my 20gig drive leaves me around 13gig to use after being formatted so should fit 2 games.

muttclugg · 31 Oct 2008 at 19:43

Makes me glad i'll finally be making the most of my ELite

Kyle009 · 31 Oct 2008 at 19:58

how long does an install take?

lee87 · 31 Oct 2008 at 20:10

Took me about 10 minutes to install Fifa 09 to the HDD.

Chong Warrior · 31 Oct 2008 at 21:43

This update is the reason I finally upgraded to an Elite last week... looks like the 120gb HDD really will come in handy

Kyle009 · 31 Oct 2008 at 22:03

lee87 said:
Took me about 10 minutes to install Fifa 09 to the HDD.

Thanks for answering, not bad at all then really. Looking forward to it.