New Xbox 360 problems?

[Tigawoods]

Hawkeye said:

I just got a 360 last week becuase of the $50 price cut. It has randomly frozen 3 times while playing Oblvion, and I have only played for about 20 hours. Happened 5 minutes after playing, another time 3 hours after playing, and another time about 30 minutes of playing... so it seems random. I can still access the XBM and go to the blades, and arcade games ahve never failed on me.
Is this normal/a glitch with oblivion? It seems like a computer game that 360 can't rully run; textures of far away objects are terrible and then improve and then grass/flowers pop up, and in crowded fights there is slowdown. Is it the game, or my 360 that is casuing this mildy annoying problem. Am I headed for RRoD in the future? How do I combat this? I keep my 360 lying down on a shelf that has bars and then empty space on the bottom, so it is fully ventilated. I have played up to 6 hours at a time. Should 2 hours then a 1/2 hour break be my max? What do I do? I can't really return it becuase I bought it on vacation at a far away circuit city :(

 

 Sometimes im not so sure it is the 360 since I have had a fee instances of freezing but only on specific games. I've had maybe 2 freezes on COD4 and then 2-3 on BF:BG so who knows. It prolly is the xbox and my situation has ocurred merely by chance. Oblivion does have a good bit of pop in graphics so thats just part of the game. If you have another game that you like to play try playing it for awhile and see if it freezes.