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Hawkeye on 22 July 2008

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 :(



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Yojimbo on 22 July 2008

Check wish 360 version you have.



 
starcraft on 22 July 2008

I think that sounds more like Oblivion crashing (such a massive game has a lot of bugs).

All game consoles freeze from time to time, some software is more prone to it than others.



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yungmagic09 on 22 July 2008

I think its the game, but I could be wrong.



colonelstubbs on 22 July 2008

Ah Hawkeye, i remember when you first came here, so fresh and young (and new obviously)

And now here you are, gving xbox fans something to worry about.

Good job!



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EdGuila on 22 July 2008

Is it the Elite?
Our store had to pull all our 360 Elites for a recall back to MS. Reason? None of us seem to know.



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Hawk on 22 July 2008

Maybe I'm just being spacy right now, but what is the XBM?

And it might just be the game. I have problems with Oblivion freezing in certain places too.



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Tigawoods on 22 July 2008
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.



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superchunk on 22 July 2008
starcraft said:
I think that sounds more like Oblivion crashing (such a massive game has a lot of bugs).

All game consoles freeze from time to time, some software is more prone to it than others.

Holy crap you have to be kidding. I have never had my Nintendo Systems just freeze. Maybe you're too used to MS and Sony's stuff.



Hawkeye on 22 July 2008

I don't have any other games. I plan to get blue dragon and viva pinata once I beat oblivion.