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kiefer23 on 24 August 2009

Your Music: Music sucks in game, play your own shit in every game, pop and CD in and rip it quickly, or connect an MP3 player easily

Or you can direct stream it from a nearby PC/Laptop :)

I don't mind the adds. They are all to do with gaming or movies and they are only in one area. I would be pissed if we started getitng car insurance adds etc.



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disolitude on 24 August 2009
JaggedSac said:
disolitude said:
2 things...

1. "100 Friends Cap: Because of Halo 2? that's why I'm restricted, an amazing multiplayer game gives restriction to multiple connectivity.. go figure"

You don't want more 100 freinds on your 360 for another reason. Why you ask? Because it would slow down your xbox imensly. Every time you go to your friends list it has to download all the avatars and images for all your buddies. The less freinds you have the quicker that load is. At 100 friends, it would take you over 30 seconds of your xbox doing nothing but loading your freinds stupid avatar custom costumes...

2. "XBL Arcade/Indie Games: I have two 360's in my home, one for my Son and one for Me, and I spent $30.00 on Battlefield 1943 so my Son and I could play together, why? ya there is a way to add my account onto his 360, but we still can't play online together, let us share it like the other console."

This is wrong and you 2 can play this game with 1 purchase. If you bough the game with your ID and your xbox, have your son play on your xbox with his ID. You can go to his machine and play the game with your ID. The game that is downloaded is tied to 2 things, console and xbox live id.

Your issue with number 1 could be solved by only downloading the avatars immediately viewable.  Such as stream in the first 50 and when someone scrolls to the next 50, load them up.  This is how most RIAs work nowadays.  Helps control bandwidth and reduce strain on memory requirements of the clients hardware.

Savvy way to get around #2.

I didn't know you can do this? Is it a setting on the 360 you can specify to only download the viewable avatars? 

All I know is that I was adding friend left right and center...got to 70 or so and then my xbox ran like it had herpes every time I'd go to my friends list. Now that I deleted half of them and am back to around 30, things are smooth again.



JaggedSac on 24 August 2009
disolitude said:
JaggedSac said:

Your issue with number 1 could be solved by only downloading the avatars immediately viewable.  Such as stream in the first 50 and when someone scrolls to the next 50, load them up.  This is how most RIAs work nowadays.  Helps control bandwidth and reduce strain on memory requirements of the clients hardware.

Savvy way to get around #2.

I didn't know you can do this? Is it a setting on the 360 you can specify to only download the viewable avatars? 

All I know is that I was adding friend left right and center...got to 70 or so and then my xbox ran like it had herpes every time I'd go to my friends list. Now that I deleted half of them and am back to around 30, things are smooth again.

This would be something new for MS to implement.  Something they should have done to begin with(and thought they did, I never tested it though).  No use loading avatar #79 if you are only going to be looking at who is online.



welshbloke on 24 August 2009

I think the Family Live idea is a doozy. I am not sure how you police it but it is a bloody good idea. My boy is on Silver does not need Gold yet and I have a few months in the bag but if they offered a family membership then count me in.

The noise on my orignal for sure although the Arcade is nice and quiet. As for the 100 cap friend limit well I only have 5 so I got a ways go :)

And where is my 1080p instant on movies... You blaggart.



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Chris Hu on 24 August 2009

I more or less agree with everything on the list and like others already said I would add the noise of the systems to the list of dislikes.



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FKNetwork on 24 August 2009
MontanaHatchet said:
For the 360, I would have added the noise. Just today, I was playing Uno, and the music stopped. It was eerie. The sound of the 360 running blocked out every other noise in the room.

You must have a noisy 360 then as my two here are silent when playing games from the hard drive, the only noise i hear is when you play a game form the disc when the dvd drive is spinning at full speed and that isn't even that noisy, i have a falcon unit and a jasper unit,

I have not got annoyed about the sound of the 360 once in all the time I have owned one.



FKNetwork on 24 August 2009
JaggedSac said:
disolitude said:
JaggedSac said:

Your issue with number 1 could be solved by only downloading the avatars immediately viewable.  Such as stream in the first 50 and when someone scrolls to the next 50, load them up.  This is how most RIAs work nowadays.  Helps control bandwidth and reduce strain on memory requirements of the clients hardware.

Savvy way to get around #2.

I didn't know you can do this? Is it a setting on the 360 you can specify to only download the viewable avatars? 

All I know is that I was adding friend left right and center...got to 70 or so and then my xbox ran like it had herpes every time I'd go to my friends list. Now that I deleted half of them and am back to around 30, things are smooth again.

This would be something new for MS to implement.  Something they should have done to begin with(and thought they did, I never tested it though).  No use loading avatar #79 if you are only going to be looking at who is online.

Xbox Live already does this, for example, go to download history, it only loads 50 at a time, when you get to 51 you get a loading icon and have to wait about 2-5 seconds for it to load the next 50, it also does this in the friends list, gamer pics, messages, marketplace A-Z lists etc.

Try it, go to number 50 in download history or messages, nothing happens, now go to 51, loading icon appears while the next 50 load, think it came in with the NXE update last year as it isn't new, I see it happen every day on mine lol



JaggedSac on 24 August 2009
FKNetwork said:
JaggedSac said:

This would be something new for MS to implement.  Something they should have done to begin with(and thought they did, I never tested it though).  No use loading avatar #79 if you are only going to be looking at who is online.

Xbox Live already does this, for example, go to download history, it only loads 50 at a time, when you get to 51 you get a loading icon and have to wait about 2-5 seconds for it to load the next 50, it also does this in the friends list, gamer pics, messages etc.

Try it, go to number 50 in download history or messages, nothing happens, now go to 51, loading icon appears while the next 50 load, think it came in with the NXE update last year as it isn't new, I see it happen every day on mine lol

Ah, I don't have enough friends to try this out.  Disolitude is having trouble with this sort of thing on his friends list though.  Does it do this on the My Friends section of the dashboard where it loads avatars?



lolzzzzzzz on 24 August 2009

ps3 slim :)



disolitude on 24 August 2009
JaggedSac said:
FKNetwork said:
JaggedSac said:

This would be something new for MS to implement.  Something they should have done to begin with(and thought they did, I never tested it though).  No use loading avatar #79 if you are only going to be looking at who is online.

Xbox Live already does this, for example, go to download history, it only loads 50 at a time, when you get to 51 you get a loading icon and have to wait about 2-5 seconds for it to load the next 50, it also does this in the friends list, gamer pics, messages etc.

Try it, go to number 50 in download history or messages, nothing happens, now go to 51, loading icon appears while the next 50 load, think it came in with the NXE update last year as it isn't new, I see it happen every day on mine lol

Ah, I don't have enough friends to try this out.  Disolitude is having trouble with this sort of thing on his friends list though.  Does it do this on the My Friends section of the dashboard where it loads avatars?

Yeah there too. But there it seems it loads only the people online first. Its mostly when I pause the game and try to go to freinds or try to sign in to MSN... Sometimes I just get tired and reboot the console, lol. And I have 3 xbox 360s...they all do this.