New Xbox Experience Goes Live
Today, Microsoft launched the New Xbox Experience for Xbox Live. The list of new features includes the streaming of TV shows and movies through Netflix, the ability to install games to the HDD, an avatar system, and the Community Games platform. The launch itself was shaky at first, but most issues have been smoothed out. Sony-owned Columbia Pictures immediately pulled their movie selection, though it may return when a licensing deal gets worked out. Halo 3 developer Bungie pointed out that not all games will run faster when installed to a HDD because of the way the games already interact with the drive.
well i was interested in this for the installing games to the hard drive, so i rented a game and installed it to the hard drive then went to play it with the disc out and got asked to put the disc back in. fucking useless feature.
shot2bits wrote:well i was interested in this for the installing games to the hard drive, so i rented a game and installed it to the hard drive then went to play it with the disc out and got asked to put the disc back in. fucking useless feature.
/end stoned rant
NEW XBOX 360 FEATURE DOESN'T ENABLE PIRACY SHOCKER!
I did try this first of all, with Fable, but it obviously didn't work for me either. Although I still have the disc. The point is that the data is read from the HD rather than the DVD so it's faster and less noisy, but you still need the DVD in the drive to prove ownership of the game.
I suspect Mass Effect would greatly benefit from this; eliminating, or at least greatly reducing, the texture pop-up. I've seen it happen in a few other games as well.
spoodie wrote:
I suspect Mass Effect would greatly benefit from this; eliminating, or at least greatly reducing, the texture pop-up. I've seen it happen in a few other games as well.
Im installing Mass Effect now, for this very reason. I'll let you know if it works.
Yeah the hard drives aren't exactly super fast - they're SATA 2.5" but I forget what make, possibly Tosh. I noticed no real improvements with the PS3 games that have the option, either.
I doubt you could just fit a Scorpio and it work, although I do have the transfer cable and CD that came with the 120G drive, I don't want to risk my data, as it's a one-way only move.
Mass Effect's problem was that it switched the display to the 3D scene before all the textures had loaded, and was present in the PC version as well, just less prolonged with faster disks.
What it would have helped me with was the issue I had that my Mass Effect disk was a bit dodgy - I borrowed a friend's version in order to play the game, but with this new feature I could have given it back to them after diskloading it and just used mine to pass the security check. I'll have to try this out sometime, as well as trying to copy my utterly fucked Bladestorm disk.
New Xbox Experience Goes Live
