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Strategyking92 on 28 November 2008

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Ugh, no auto play from hard drive option?



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mrstickball on 28 November 2008
NeoRatt said:
I am disappointed in the HD installs. I got NXE, and put a bunch og games on my HD.

I have more then one 360 in my house and always switch between by unplugging my HD and putting it on another console because it saves time in downloading your profile from Live.

Well, the HD install is tied to the console so when you switch consoles you have to reinstall, making it useless for me.

I tend to think that the reason the installs are tied to a console would be to avoid people that install 20 games on a HDD, then sell the HDD off for pirating.

 



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tmbh on 28 November 2008

Game automatically loads from Hard Drive once it is installed. Works with Fable 2, GTA4, Battlefield BC, Bioshock, Gears 2 etc....

Load times are improved on games but not always performance. Unreal engine still does not load textures quickly enough!

XBOX is quieter though!!



NeoRatt on 28 November 2008
mrstickball said:
NeoRatt said:
I am disappointed in the HD installs. I got NXE, and put a bunch og games on my HD.

I have more then one 360 in my house and always switch between by unplugging my HD and putting it on another console because it saves time in downloading your profile from Live.

Well, the HD install is tied to the console so when you switch consoles you have to reinstall, making it useless for me.

I tend to think that the reason the installs are tied to a console would be to avoid people that install 20 games on a HDD, then sell the HDD off for pirating.

 

I would have thought they would install and register some sort of serial number on the Live network (assuming every DVD is serialized somehow), then one DVD could only be installed on one drive.  If someone tried to run the serial number on two machines simultaneously the serial number could be permanently shut off by Microsoft. 

I just found it disappointing...  The first time they added a feature that didn't meet my expectation for what it was.

Next, I will try installing to a USB drive, if successful I will buy a bunch and use that on every 360 I own and only keep my gaming profile and marketplace stuff on the 360 itself.

 



mysticD on 28 November 2008

@NeoRatt

I pick up a cheap MU and used that to store my gamertag. (And even a few Arcade games that I want to play on the 2nd 360). It work out way better than swapping the HD but I see your point when it come to install games.

eBay have 64 mb MU (perfect for gamertag) for $5-10 and 512K for about $20.00.  When friends family come over we usually play on my son 360 in the Living room and it's nice that I can just plug in my MU.

 



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NeoRatt on 29 November 2008
mysticD said:

@NeoRatt

I pick up a cheap MU and used that to store my gamertag. (And even a few Arcade games that I want to play on the 2nd 360). It work out way better than swapping the HD but I see your point when it come to install games.

eBay have 64 mb MU (perfect for gamertag) for $5-10 and 512K for about $20.00.  When friends family come over we usually play on my son 360 in the Living room and it's nice that I can just plug in my MU.

 

My profile with game saves is over 3 Gb.  I need my game saves as well so I don't have to restart from the beginning in any given games.

 



Bitmap Frogs on 29 November 2008
tmbh said:
Game automatically loads from Hard Drive once it is installed. Works with Fable 2, GTA4, Battlefield BC, Bioshock, Gears 2 etc....

Load times are improved on games but not always performance. Unreal engine still does not load textures quickly enough!

XBOX is quieter though!!

 

I swear GTA4's infamous pop-in is worse with the game installed.





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pbroy on 29 November 2008

All of my freezing problems are gone. I'm not sure what fixed it, hard drive install, NXE, patch. I think it was most likely the hard drive install. I can now play Fable 2 while logged onto XBL without freezing.

I'm no longer scared to play Fable 2. It killed one of my 360's DVD drives. Now that it's on HDD, that problem is solved.

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tmbh on 30 November 2008
Bitmap Frogs said:
tmbh said:
Game automatically loads from Hard Drive once it is installed. Works with Fable 2, GTA4, Battlefield BC, Bioshock, Gears 2 etc....

Load times are improved on games but not always performance. Unreal engine still does not load textures quickly enough!

XBOX is quieter though!!

 

I swear GTA4's infamous pop-in is worse with the game installed.

 

It is!

I have also noticed Bioshock textures not loading as fast either!



Press_the_Button on 30 November 2008

I'm glad to hear this as I suffered from the freezing and gave up on it. It's now installed on my HD and I'm planning on putting in some serious play time on Fable 2 come Xmas.

Does installing Mass Effect on the HD improve the texture pop up that that game suffered from?



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