killroy Posted October 31, 2008 Report Share Posted October 31, 2008 nah i suggest you wait for it. All people using NXE are having problems with marketplace...its available sometimes, then after I exit a game, it suddenly stalls all my downloads and the marketplace channel disappears. Wait for the official stuff to come out. It will sure be worth your wait once they iron out all the bugs. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TRMNTR Posted October 31, 2008 Report Share Posted October 31, 2008 nah i suggest you wait for it. All people using NXE are having problems with marketplace...its available sometimes, then after I exit a game, it suddenly stalls all my downloads and the marketplace channel disappears. Wait for the official stuff to come out. It will sure be worth your wait once they iron out all the bugs. Of course... I am not willing to sacrifice Halo 3 for NXe anyways Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TRMNTR Posted October 31, 2008 Report Share Posted October 31, 2008 @ KillRoy If it's possible, could you install some game that is heavy on textures and stuff [Gears of War etc.] onto the HDD and check for the differences in load times? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
killroy Posted October 31, 2008 Report Share Posted October 31, 2008 The best thing that I can think of right now to test is Guitar hero 3...anyone who has played guitar hero 3...knows the initial bitchy load times. And even the song load times. Gears of War, I think handled load times pretty well...Im not sure if texture popping will be solved by HDD installs as that problem was also imminent on the PC with UT3... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TRMNTR Posted November 1, 2008 Report Share Posted November 1, 2008 The best thing that I can think of right now to test is Guitar hero 3...anyone who has played guitar hero 3...knows the initial bitchy load times. And even the song load times. Gears of War, I think handled load times pretty well...Im not sure if texture popping will be solved by HDD installs as that problem was also imminent on the PC with UT3... Makes perfect sense... Guitar Hero 3 sounds like a good idea! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Viv Posted November 1, 2008 Report Share Posted November 1, 2008 Just to add to the party, I read it does not ban the modded consoles. HOORAY! BTW good brief up killroy...quality work there! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MarketTantrik Posted November 1, 2008 Report Share Posted November 1, 2008 I hope MT has at least checked his mail and bothered to reply. Sure did. Will start the update as soon as I reach Mumbai tomorrow. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lastAvenger Posted November 1, 2008 Report Share Posted November 1, 2008 NXE has leaked! you can install it but Live won't work till its released officially Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
D33P@K Posted November 1, 2008 Report Share Posted November 1, 2008 NXE has leaked! you can install it but Live won't work till its released officially already posted.. not only Live but other features wont work properly aswell !! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ctrl_alt_del Posted November 1, 2008 Report Share Posted November 1, 2008 Karan posted it a while back. But it's not worth loosing your online MP capability for two week for something that will be released soon enough. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
My weight is 102 kgs Posted November 2, 2008 Report Share Posted November 2, 2008 When is NXE releasin ????? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Xeno Posted November 2, 2008 Report Share Posted November 2, 2008 18th november Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
D33P@K Posted November 2, 2008 Report Share Posted November 2, 2008 18th november . isnt it on the 19th ? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kitson007 Posted November 2, 2008 Report Share Posted November 2, 2008 yep i think its the 19th Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
HOglegtrausavo Posted November 2, 2008 Report Share Posted November 2, 2008 It will release on the 19th. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TRMNTR Posted November 2, 2008 Report Share Posted November 2, 2008 Xbox 360 hard drive game installation testing Posted Oct 31, 2008 5:48 pm PT By James_Yu We spent more time investigating the hard disk game installation feature included with the New Xbox Experience. We pulled The Orange Box, Command & Conquer 3, NBA Live 09, and Star Wars: The Force Unleashed out of the GameSpot game library to measure installation times and to see how game load times improved with hard drive installations. We found that installation time varies depending on the size of the game which isn't surprising because the installation process copies the data from the DVD to the hard drive--bigger games are going to take longer to rip. Installing the 4.7GB Orange Box disc took 6 minutes and 57 seconds while it only took 5 minutes and 35 seconds to get Command & Conquer 3's 3.6GB onto the hard drive. The Force Unleashed, weighing in at 6.6GB, extended out the installation time to 9 minutes and 47 seconds and it took 9 minutes and 7 seconds to install NBA Live 09's 6.3GB of data. The load time benefits are fairly respectable, but you're not going to see anything close to instant game loads. Getting Orange Box from the dashboard to the game's start menu took 30 seconds when playing from disc, but only 25 seconds when launched from the hard drive. Command & Conquer 3's game launch time improved the most, dropping from 33 seconds to 17 seconds. NBA Live 09 only improved by 8 seconds, going from 45 seconds to 37 seconds. The Force Unleashed yielded a larger percentage drop, going from 33 seconds to 25 seconds. We tried a few game-specific activities to see how the hard drive installation can help after we get through the initial game launch. The hard drive didn't seem to help much when we started playing Half-Life Episode 2 and Team Fortress 2. It took the same amount of time, 35 seconds, to load Episode 2, Chapter 1 from disc as from the hard drive, and getting into Team Fortress 2 only improved from 45 seconds to 42 seconds. Command & Conquer 3 wasn't much better. The hard drive only cut a second off the time it took to launch a new skirmish. Loading a saved skirmish was also only a second faster. The drive helped The Force Unleashed cut the time it took to load a saved game down from 25 seconds to 22 seconds, and NBA Live 09 needed the same amount of time to launch a quick play game from disk and from drive, about 27 seconds. We can't make any definitive statements with such a small game sample size, but it looks like Microsoft's Albert Penello, director of marketing for Xbox, wasn't kidding when he told us that the main hard drive installation benefit will be reduced noise from not having the optical drive spin up. The hard drive did seem to make launching games faster, but in-game actions such as loading saved games our starting quick play sessions didn't improve much if at all. For all those kids wondering if they can play games from the hard drive without the game disc, sorry to destroy your pending Blockbuster schemes, but the console still requires the game disc to be in the system before launching the game from the hard drive. __________________________________ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MarketTantrik Posted November 3, 2008 Report Share Posted November 3, 2008 Detailed analysis of load times in popular games Source: http://insidethedigitalfoundry.blogspot.co...g-you-must.html ________________________________________________________ Definitely worth a read. --MT Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lastAvenger Posted November 3, 2008 Report Share Posted November 3, 2008 Microsoft: We're prepared to do another NXE Whilst Xbox 360 owners everywhere are eagerly awaiting November 19th, Microsoft have stated in an interview that, if there is a strong enough demand for it, they are prepared to do the whole thing again in 2-3 years. While this may be good news for current owners, it doesn't make good reading if you were expecting a new version of the Xbox within the next 3-4 years - as there's little to no reason for Microsoft to refresh the Xbox 360's software, and effectively extend its life, if they have a new console just around the corner. In the interview, Microsoft also stated that they are "doing everything we can to be ready" for the November 19th launch of NXE, and have promised that we wont see another repeat of last Christmas. http://www.eurogamer.net/article.php?article_id=277069 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
gautham080 Posted November 3, 2008 Report Share Posted November 3, 2008 NXE has leaked! you can install it but Live won't work till its released officially Dude how to get this man.God i need it i cant update it on 19th i'm busy Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TRMNTR Posted November 3, 2008 Report Share Posted November 3, 2008 Detailed analysis of load times in popular games There is a difference of more than 10 secs in some cases! Preeetttty Gooood! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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