| MikeB said: @ Fumanchu 16x read speed DVD drives are in use on the 360 as well as 12x read speed DVD drives, developers though will have to take into account worst case scenarios when developing their games. Some games may benefit from less pop-in issues with a faster drive, other games like Halo 3 see virtually no benefit even when installed on the harddrive. |
Oh lordy!
More rubbish.
The DVD ROM drives used in the Xbox 360 are 12x. All of them, this is programmed into the firmware. Heck it is even used as a criteria by MS for banning consoles, which is why there is no official iXtreme release of 5x\8x firmware anymore.
I promise you, none of the Xbox 360 DVD drives are reading at 16x.
The drives used aren't commercial models, although they are based on commercial models - where the equivalent PC model may well read SL\DL at 16x. But that is not the point. All Xbox 360 drives, in the name of consistency and noise reduction read at 12x.
I'm not sure if any of you are aware, but many drives released back in the hay day of CD-RW drives were actually the same model with different firmware to limit their write speed. Lite-On used to make drives that could write at 32x and could be hacked to write at 48x with no risk since the only difference between the better model was the firmware.
MikeB's shot in the dark that developers may use the extra speed on the 16x drives (which don't exist just to be clear) just goes to highlight his total and complete lack of understanding on the basics of programming for one box. For a start the code on an Xbox 360 DVD doesn't even have access to the Xbox 360 drives due to the hypervisor in the Xbox 360, there's no way game code would be allowed this kind of data. Not only that but what about when new drives are released, there wouldn't be code to know how to treat that drive? Why do I mention this? Because 12x drives were all that were available 3 years ago with the Samsung\Hitachi drives that were used at the time.
Just entertaining the idea that MikeB is a programmer has me in hysterics. I'm not programmer, done a little bit of C++ in college etc but it only takes someone with a reasonable backing in pc hardware and how systems communicate on my chosen console (I know VERY little) to just say...
I have provided this post as a reference point for others to understand MikeB. This is not my answer to MikeB, I have no need to answer such crazy ideas. It is merely to provide well reasoned "this guy is crazy" material.
WTF.
