Ready to purchase an XBOX ONE X!

[d21lewis]

SuperRetroTurbo said:

d21lewis said:

Yeah. I'm full digital. BUT if you buy the disc, games actually install faster if you're offline. But then you'll   always need the disc to play (of course). I'm not a fan of disc swapping these days.

 

Backwards compatible games need an online connection because they actually download from the web

Idk how to bold text highlight but about the offline installation, I'm pretty sure that's not how it works with disc. Every game I tried to install froze after like 2% and wouldn't continue until I used a connection. 

Like I said, I'm full digital now. Even the games I had on disc, I repurchased digitally. I kinda hate discs now. Maybe something changed but back when, you were installing discs at the same time updates were installing. Disconnecting from the internet sped things up a lot. I just googled "install Xbox One games faster" and this was the first result: 

https://www.ubergizmo.com/how-to/install-xbox-one-games-faster-xb1/

But maybe they've made some changes since then. I do have a few discs still laying around. I'll try it when I get home...eleven hours from now! 🤣

 

*Edit*

Another "trick" I learned back in the day that may or may not work now: If I had multiple discs to install, I'd put the disc in and let it install 1%. Then I'd Switch to another disc and do the same. Even after you take the disc out, the game still installs because instead of installing from the disc, it would download from Xbox Live. But again, you still needed the disc to play. I don't think I've seen this posted anywhere else but I used to do it all the time. In fact, I still do it when multiple games become backwards compatible at one time.

Last edited by d21lewis - on 24 October 2018