MarketTantrik Posted September 4, 2007 Report Share Posted September 4, 2007 10 Things You (Maybe) Didn't Know About your Xbox360 Hello, class. My name is Professor Elle, and I'll be your instructor for Xbox 201: Unknown Xbox. In this section, I'll be covering a few Xbox 360 features you may not know about. * Online Status Your online status shows up when people look at your Gamer Profile. You can be online, away, busy, or offline. Your status is usually online when you sign in, and away if your console is idle for a while. * Black Level If you find that your display is too dark or too light during games, try adjusting the black level of your display. In the Xbox Dashboard, on the System blade, select Console Settings, Display, Black Level. * Instant Messaging This one got a lot of attention with the May update, but I thought it was time for a refresher. Xbox 360 is now integrated with Windows Live Messenger, and you can send messages to your contacts directly from your console. You can use the virtual keyboard or plug in a USB keyboard to chat, but the best way is to snap on the chatpad from the Xbox 360 Messenger Kit and let your thumbs fly. * Auto Sign-in When you first create a Gamer Profile on a new console, you're automatically set to sign in every time you start up the console. This is actually something you can turn on and off. * Privacy Settings How you appear to the world and what you see online is totally up to you. Allow only your friends to send messages. Block everyone from seeing what games you played. It's all in your hands. * Startup If you're annoyed by the fact that your game always starts up automatically when you turn on the console, have I got good news for you. There is a setting that'll bypass the game and go straight to the Xbox Dashboard when you power up. * Media Center Speaking of Media Center, yes, your Xbox 360 console is also a Media Center Extender. You can use your Xbox 360 to view music, video, and pictures from Windows Media Center on your PC if you have one of the following: Windows XP Media Center Edition 2005, Windows Vista Home Premium or Windows Vista Ultimate * Visualizations This one's good for parties. Tucked away on the Media blade is a music player, complete with visualizations. With your MP3 player plugged in, or a CD in the drive, go to the Media blade and select Music. Cue up a few songs, then press X for a trippy full-screen visualization. * Game Defaults Here's one of my favorite obscure features. If the first thing you do in a shooter is go into the settings and invert the y-axis, or go into a racing game and set your transmission to manual, game defaults are for you. It's a group of settings in your profile that a game will pick up and set automatically, so you don't have to keep doing that in all your games. * HDTV We've found that many people who have an Xbox 360 console and an HDTV don't know how to set their display properly. The little switch on the component cable is automatically set to standard definition so that it'll work on any TV, but some people with HDTVs don't actually switch it. And, when they do, they don't always go into the display area and switch off of 480p. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Xeno Posted September 6, 2007 Report Share Posted September 6, 2007 useless class,knew all tat Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
nash Posted September 6, 2007 Report Share Posted September 6, 2007 Good stuff Vikram. A little too basic but cool nevertheless for beginners I'd also like to add a small heads up for those who can't afford to buy an HDTV and that is that they could go in for a descent monitor at half the price that would play games at 720P (or 1280 x 720 which is High Definition). Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SchizoidFreud Posted September 10, 2007 Report Share Posted September 10, 2007 had posted the same in the old forums Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Xeno Posted September 10, 2007 Report Share Posted September 10, 2007 Good stuff Vikram. A little too basic but cool nevertheless for beginnersI'd also like to add a small heads up for those who can't afford to buy an HDTV and that is that they could go in for a descent monitor at half the price that would play games at 720P (or 1280 x 720 which is High Definition). hhhhmmmmm........i havva CRT monitor n hightest resolution supported is 1280x1024(in da display options) so does this mean tat this is da highest resolution my monitor can support or is it my graphic card's limit???????? ?????? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SchizoidFreud Posted September 10, 2007 Report Share Posted September 10, 2007 highest resolution ur monitor can support Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Xeno Posted September 11, 2007 Report Share Posted September 11, 2007 is it supported by da 360 or ill havta go only wid 720p??? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MarketTantrik Posted September 12, 2007 Author Report Share Posted September 12, 2007 The X360 will list all supported resolutions on the Display screen in the system blade after you've connected it to your monitor with the VGA cable. Choose the one you want from there. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ne0 Posted September 18, 2007 Report Share Posted September 18, 2007 one bad feature of x360 is the absence of a real time clock. We are having real time clocks on PCs since the P1 era, cummon guys how difficult/costly is it to implement that ? Whats the need - u might ask ? Well, for ppl like me who arent connected to live, saving in games like bioshock is pathetic as it saves the game along with the date and time. So everytime b4 playing bioshock, i need to set my clock to reflect the current date, else it'll save it with the date of the day i activated the x360 - which makes it hard to track my latest save file, esp if i have more than 7-8 ! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
vinitwins Posted September 18, 2007 Report Share Posted September 18, 2007 strange, my 360 keeps time perfectly well... V Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ne0 Posted September 18, 2007 Report Share Posted September 18, 2007 ^^ yes, becoz u connect to live ! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MarketTantrik Posted September 18, 2007 Author Report Share Posted September 18, 2007 I totally agree with you on the clock NeoVinit. Its damn irritating especially with games like Splinter Cell : DA and Bioshock which put time and date stamps on the game saves. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
L33TWiZaRd Posted September 18, 2007 Report Share Posted September 18, 2007 never noticed the clock problem. i wonder why ? lets hope it is implemented in the upcoming fall update Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Xeno Posted September 18, 2007 Report Share Posted September 18, 2007 it cant be,coz da console doesnt hav da battery required for it! it aint tat a big prob fer me,coz i don run my 360 wen there's no live,da console is useless widout live,so im always connected to live wen im runnin my 360 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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