Comments on: NXE Update Improving Game Experiences

By: tony oree

tony oree — Sun, 07 Dec 2008 01:05:50 +0000

yo pasta are u or is anybody having problems with their xbox360 while turning it on… i just upgraded my xbox yesterday now its actin funny

By: JHeb

JHeb — Mon, 24 Nov 2008 03:26:03 +0000

I used to get "unreadable disc" errors all the dang time before downloading my NCAA 09 game to the hard drive…Now that it's d-loaded, not one error and no freezing episodes. I love it!!!!!!!!!!

By: Josh

Josh — Thu, 20 Nov 2008 23:33:20 +0000

Maurice N. wrote:

how do u install them to the hard drive?

Before you load the game go to the MY XBOX section from the home page & wait a second. Then just press Y & it will give you the option to install to hard drive.

By: Maurice N.

Maurice N. — Thu, 20 Nov 2008 22:04:15 +0000

how do u install them to the hard drive?

By: CrimsonVoodoo

CrimsonVoodoo — Thu, 20 Nov 2008 22:01:38 +0000

Best part of the NXE so far –

Netflix Integration

VERY impressed with how smoothly it’s running – spent my lunch hour adding a ton of movies to my “Play Now” queue

By: fat dave

fat dave — Thu, 20 Nov 2008 19:02:04 +0000

NJPapi1977 wrote:

Do some of you idiots have brains…Why would it be dumb to leave the disc in when anybody can then go rent 10 games in block buster and save them to the hd and not have to pay for them…Sometimes I am baffled by americas youth and their lack of brain usuage…..Idiots…..Biggest reason to load it to the hd is to reduce the sound and make load times quicker….only and idiot would question why you have to put the disc in when you know that it is done for the purpose that no company wants to give free games away…

your one mad vatoe.

By: soupmama

soupmama — Thu, 20 Nov 2008 18:18:48 +0000

lynn wrote:

Joe Siegler wrote:
MLB 2k8 also has some nice speedups. Mostly in the game loading. The actual game play itself is less of an issue. Sometimes when it has to go search out images like player faces that is increased.
But the initial game loading is faster (although I didn’t actually TIME it). Saves are faster, too oddly enough.
And of course, the quiet 360 is a serious improvement. I do have just the 20GB drive, so I can only realistically install one game at a time due to all the other stuff I have on there.
I was just wondering how this might affect MLB2K8 performance, specifically the framerate issue (load time doesn’t really concern me). My 360 is away getting fixed, so if anybody else could experiment with MLB2K8 performance on the hard drive I’d definitely appreciate it.

I will experiement with MLB2K8 tonight and let you know.

By: lynn

lynn — Thu, 20 Nov 2008 17:02:47 +0000

Joe Siegler wrote:

MLB 2k8 also has some nice speedups. Mostly in the game loading. The actual game play itself is less of an issue. Sometimes when it has to go search out images like player faces that is increased.
But the initial game loading is faster (although I didn’t actually TIME it). Saves are faster, too oddly enough.
And of course, the quiet 360 is a serious improvement. I do have just the 20GB drive, so I can only realistically install one game at a time due to all the other stuff I have on there.

I was just wondering how this might affect MLB2K8 performance, specifically the framerate issue (load time doesn’t really concern me). My 360 is away getting fixed, so if anybody else could experiment with MLB2K8 performance on the hard drive I’d definitely appreciate it.

By: Josh

Josh — Thu, 20 Nov 2008 16:52:25 +0000

I installed NBA 2K9 to my hard drive & it definately plays smoother. I was suprised how much smoother it played. Not that it didn’t run smooth before but little things like the crowd cutscene between quarters was smooth where before the framerate was choppy. There were some drops in framerate on some freethrow cutscenes before but now I don’t notice any. Too bad it doesn’t correct the issue with the framerate dropping when playing on other camera angles though. Overall this will definately prolong the life of the 360.

By: Joe Siegler

Joe Siegler — Thu, 20 Nov 2008 16:39:20 +0000

MLB 2k8 also has some nice speedups. Mostly in the game loading. The actual game play itself is less of an issue. Sometimes when it has to go search out images like player faces that is increased.

But the initial game loading is faster (although I didn’t actually TIME it). Saves are faster, too oddly enough.

And of course, the quiet 360 is a serious improvement. I do have just the 20GB drive, so I can only realistically install one game at a time due to all the other stuff I have on there.