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Official Xbox 360 Game Installs thread
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Here's hoping Lost Odyssey reaps the benefits of an installation.
At 23 GBs though, I might be doing it one disc at a time, then deleting it once I'm through.
That's the only game in my entire library that I feel takes far too long to load. Everything else ain't so bad (although, Orange Box is a likely candidate).
Unfortunately, this also proved that I need to upgrade my 20GB harddrive. Ridiculously overpriced contraption, here I come.
At 23 GBs though, I might be doing it one disc at a time, then deleting it once I'm through.
That's the only game in my entire library that I feel takes far too long to load. Everything else ain't so bad (although, Orange Box is a likely candidate).
Unfortunately, this also proved that I need to upgrade my 20GB harddrive. Ridiculously overpriced contraption, here I come.
a Master Ninja
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You will say "Wow."schlew said:
Grimm Fandango
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So the horrible pop-up in Mass Effect remains? Blarg.
â Narayan
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GOD DAYUUUUUUUUUUUUUMMMMMMMMMMMMMMM!a Master Ninja said:
behem0th x
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Installed a few games... manual installs are great, much nicer than being forced to do it for everything IMO.
Zombie James
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soldat7 said:
And the noise. Even if load times for a game are flat, i'd still rather have it installed.
Poimandres
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donny2112 said:
Nope. No original Xbox installs apparently.
GotchaForce
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Lord Helmet
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mysticstylez said:
It is probably loaded with a dummy file. I'm curious if one will be able to use the transfer kit in tandem with a PC to trim down whatever the image format is (assuming it doesn't break the install).
Sean said:
Awesome thread, it will stop me from asking "how much space does it take" everytime I want to install a game.
And yeah, my 20gb HDD suddenly feels small
Edit: lolz : burnout revenge takes 1g more that paradise.
Speaking of paradise, i'm totally going to install that one if it reduces the time to get to the menu screen. It takes a looot too much.
MiloFoxburr
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a Master Ninja said:
Um I gotta say my Lost Odyssey does not take that long to load any battles. It's far closer to the speed he is getting from the HDD for me from Disc. It has been a while since I played though. But I'll load it up later to confirm. Oh and I have a drive that sounds like a plane taking off.
AgentOtaku
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Project Gotham Racing 4 has an audio glitch when installed to HDD. Essentially the audio crackles/pops repeatedly when playing, whether with or without music.
Dead Man Typing
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I'd love to hear a detailed account for Sonic The Hedgehog 2006.
Someone told me that it actually runs worse than it did from the disc, and I need some confirmation. Prefferebly with a youtube vid. Thanks.
Someone told me that it actually runs worse than it did from the disc, and I need some confirmation. Prefferebly with a youtube vid. Thanks.
AgentOtaku
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Seriously ...I've really considered either renting or picking up Lost Odyssey again just for the increase in game speed.
As a hole I loved the combat, the music and the 1st disc
As a hole I loved the combat, the music and the 1st disc
AgentOtaku
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Sean said:
I was going to try and reinstall ...sure is hell isn't the disc as it's mint. But another GAFFer reported the same issue ...I'll try again though
I think Eurogamer didn't even play it, just tested the loadtimes and moved on
industrian
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mysticstylez said:
IIRC the PS3 version installs 2-3GB.
If the PC version is any indication...mysticstylez said:
English voice overs = 780mb
Music = 500mb
Map data = 2.5gb
FMVs = 1.1gb
Other stuff = around 1gb
Sounds about right. 360 probably has voice overs for other languages as well which would increase the size some more. And you should go remind yourself of how an X-Box 1 game looks like if you think the textures in Mercs 2 look that bad
AgentOtaku
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Reinstalled PGR4 and pops are still there....though they don't show up until your actually in a race
Psychotext
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Really pleased about those lost odyssey load time improvements.
Mac the KNife
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I'm pretty excited for this. My brand spankin' new 360 sounds like a space shuttle at launch. Definitely one of my biggest irks with the system since I switched over from PS3.
sankao said:
Occasionally the cars wouldnt load immediately for me for me. You could see the driver hovering in mid air, but the actual car was invisible, even when you hit it. Even rarer, after loading a save, the texture and geometry from buildings would not load for several seconds.
About Halo 3:
DLC maps on Halo 3, which are obviously installed to the hard drive, are noticeably slower to load than the built in maps which are on the DVD.
The sad thing is that people will install Halo 3 to the hard drive and then play matchmaking. The game waits for everyone to load the load the maps before a multiplayer match will start, so it will actually slow EVERYONE down instead of just the people who installed to their hard drive.
Why would a hard disk be slower than the DVD drive? That doesn't make sense to me at all. Hard drives have faster access speeds. What should be happening is the same data is cached to the hard drive whether the game is running from the HDD or the DVD, and it sounds to me like the cache isn't working when running from the HDD.
Bungie should look into this regardless, but based on Bungie's track record they won't (love Bungie to death but they really hate touching their game code after it has been released and I understand this since it's high risk).
DLC maps on Halo 3, which are obviously installed to the hard drive, are noticeably slower to load than the built in maps which are on the DVD.
The sad thing is that people will install Halo 3 to the hard drive and then play matchmaking. The game waits for everyone to load the load the maps before a multiplayer match will start, so it will actually slow EVERYONE down instead of just the people who installed to their hard drive.
LukeSmith said:
Why would a hard disk be slower than the DVD drive? That doesn't make sense to me at all. Hard drives have faster access speeds. What should be happening is the same data is cached to the hard drive whether the game is running from the HDD or the DVD, and it sounds to me like the cache isn't working when running from the HDD.
Bungie should look into this regardless, but based on Bungie's track record they won't (love Bungie to death but they really hate touching their game code after it has been released and I understand this since it's high risk).
Psychotext
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It wouldn't be... but using the DVD drive and the HDD together would be quicker than just using the DVD or the HDD on their own.Falagard said:
What I'd really like to see is a comparison of load times on a HDD-less 360 vs the HDD installed times. Hell, I might do it myself just to see.
YuriLowell
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Can anyone try Gears of War 2, or Tales of Vesperia? Thanks.
AgentOtaku
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YuriLowell said:
Just installed Tales of Vesperia ...didn't actually get to play it though, had to go back to work. I'm sure it'll be along the lines of Blue Dragon, where fast loadtimes are only made faster ...shit I can only imagine Infinite Undiscovery ...game aside, they have a great engine there
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