Xbox Live: Update

[Dittoz7]

Mine Is Still Loading...

Can't Wait!

Discuss...

[keith0486]

mine just finished im so antsy.

edit nvm it has to be applied dammit i thought it was done now i got to wait 19 min.

[keith0486]

wow i think its worth the wait.

[packerjd04]

Got mine all set-up, avatar and all. The whole system is pretty sweet, im digging it so far. Installing GoW2 as we speak

[Knightro2]

I'm planning on doing my upgrade tonight when I get home from work.I was hoping they were going to throw in support for 5.1 sound on .mp4's but unfortunately we're still stuck with stereo. What a bummer.

[Dittoz7]

Mine Only Took Around 2mins To Download.

Sucks You Can't Change Shirt Or Pant Color.:/

But The NetFlix Is teh eff bomb!!!1!!!eleven!!ing AWESOME!

[xekushnr]

I got to screw with it a little bit when I woke up this morning. I'm going to fire it up again after I eat.

[hsckris]

Looks too much like Wii to me.

Why does Microsoft always copy -- first with Vista and now with this.

[Dittoz7]

That The Little RPG-ish Tone Kinda Confused Me...Had To Look At The Xbox To Make Sure It Wasn't A Wii.

[Loki]

My update only took a few minutes at most. Dunno what's wrong with you 20+ minute people.

I don't really care for this update. I really enjoy the Netflix streamability, but I fail to see what was wrong with the original system. And the "avatar" is a COMPLETE rip off of the Wii I feel, with the addition of clothes and the inability to make your face truly wacky like you can with Wii.

[hitbychance]

This update is FTW because u can install ur games to HD so u dont need the disk to play :O now rent a game, install it take it back and now you own it wooo

Edit: won't let u play it without the disc even if its installed lame!!!!
Modified by Dtsn280zx at 7:37 PM 11/19/2008

[keith0486]

Mine Only Took Around 2mins To Download.

Sucks You Can't Change Shirt Or Pant Color.:/

But The NetFlix Is teh eff bomb!!!1!!!eleven!!ing AWESOME!

i was reading and it said they are adding more cloaths and **** like that every week for the next month.

[packerjd04]

This update is FTW because u can install ur games to HD so u dont need the disk to play :O now rent a game, install it take it back and now you own it wooo

Edit: won't let u play it without the disc even if its installed lame!!!!

Modified by Dtsn280zx at 7:37 PM 11/19/2008

Microsoft is smarter than that, cmon now.

[MinisterofDOOM]

This update is FTW because u can install ur games to HD so u dont need the disk to play :O now rent a game, install it take it back and now you own it wooo

Edit: won't let u play it without the disc even if its installed lame!!!!

They require you to have the disk in so you can't play games you don't own. If you didn't need the disk, you could just borrow, rent, or trade all your games back in and keep playing them.

There are still benefits to installing games to the HDD, though. Load times improve and your system will run cooler and quieter.

When I bought my Elite, everyone asked me "Why? What are you going to do with that huge HDD? My 20 gig is plenty big."Well...I'll tell you what I'm going to do with my 120GB HDD: I'm going to install ALL my games.

[marlin29311]

They require you to have the disk in so you can't play games you don't own. If you didn't need the disk, you could just borrow, rent, or trade all your games back in and keep playing them.

There are still benefits to installing games to the HDD, though. Load times improve and your system will run cooler and quieter.

When I bought my Elite, everyone asked me "Why? What are you going to do with that huge HDD? My 20 gig is plenty big."Well...I'll tell you what I'm going to do with my 120GB HDD: I'm going to install ALL my games.

+1

...but question - how do you install?

[MinisterofDOOM]

My Xbox > Press Y > Choose "Install to Hard Drive."

[marlin29311]

My Xbox > Press Y > Choose "Install to Hard Drive."

Sweeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeet....i knew getting the Elite would pay off in the end for more than just HDMI...

[MinisterofDOOM]

You know, I like the new dashboard, but I wish the stupid "Spotlight" channel would take a long walk off a short pier into a fire and die. The dashboard should ALWAYS default to "My Xbox" and the fact that there's no way to set that as a preference is stupid.

[keith0486]

well you got to think about it alot of people like knowing whats going on and the spot light is where you find **** out pretty much.

[MinisterofDOOM]

It's fine if it's there. But it needs to not take over the dashboard. If I want to see it I'll scroll to it. I don't want it to be the default in place of My Xbox.

[Knightro2]

They require you to have the disk in so you can't play games you don't own. If you didn't need the disk, you could just borrow, rent, or trade all your games back in and keep playing them.

There are still benefits to installing games to the HDD, though. Load times improve and your system will run cooler and quieter.

When I bought my Elite, everyone asked me "Why? What are you going to do with that huge HDD? My 20 gig is plenty big."Well...I'll tell you what I'm going to do with my 120GB HDD: I'm going to install ALL my games.

Installing the games to your hard drive won't necessarily make it load faster. Bungie has already stated that installing Halo 3 will actually make it run slower. I installed GTA IV last night and haven't noticed any difference.

http://www.joystiq.com/2008/11...alo-3/

Although not having the DVD drive spinning makes for a quieter experience.

[xekushnr]

Well, the games that are currently out werent designed to work with the install so I'm sure with some games there wont be a noticeable improvement or a detrimental one. Now they will start designing games with that in mind, so it should actually help in the future.

[hsckris]

Installing the games to your hard drive won't necessarily make it load faster. Bungie has already stated that installing Halo 3 will actually make it run slower.

Halo 3 runs faster from my HD.

[Loki]

Here's a question, is M$ gonna give me a credit for the points I wasted on the few Themes I purchased? They seem completely useless now, save for the one static background image.

[keith0486]

how so all the ones i had still work fine i haven't seen anything wrong with them.

[MinisterofDOOM]

how so all the ones i had still work fine i haven't seen anything wrong with them.

How can they possibly work fine when they're designed for a completely different layout? There are no more blades, so there's no way to use more than 1 background image. And that one background image is half-obscured by the shiny "floor." Not to mention the coloration and texturing changes for the blade system...which is gone. There's nothing left of the old design for the themes to change.

[redtop91]

Yeah my OU theme is all screwy. Oklahoma-Gaylord Memorial stadium is proportioned all wrong. Themes 1.0 are useless now. Oh and

Mine Only Took Around 2mins To Download.

Sucks You Can't Change Shirt Or Pant Color.:/

But The NetFlix Is teh eff bomb!!!1!!!eleven!!ing AWESOME!

on both counts. I want to change the Xbox jersey to a Sooners Jersey damnit!

[C-Kwik]

Installing the games to your hard drive won't necessarily make it load faster. Bungie has already stated that installing Halo 3 will actually make it run slower. I installed GTA IV last night and haven't noticed any difference.

http://www.joystiq.com/2008/11...alo-3/

Although not having the DVD drive spinning makes for a quieter experience.

On the other hand, some games use multiple textures for the same object. Basically, the system inplements a low res texture then a progressively higher res texture until the highest is used. This helps to cut down on bandwidth problems between the DVD-ROM and console in situations where a full-res texture may not be able to load quickly enough. An article I read earlier in the week indicated that the time interval between low-res and full-res textures appearing on screen decreased when the game was played off the harddrive. Of course, these are all likely case by case. Especially with games that utilize a lot of bandwidth to the harddrive (which appears to be the case with Halo).

[Loki]

I just ran into my first problem! Watching episodes of the Office over Netflix and the video cut out. I was unable to do anything. Controller would not do anything, couldn't even turn it off with the power button! Ended up pulling the power cord, and thankfully it did not RROD me.

[keith0486]

ya i noticed that to about it freezing but i think it might just be cause alot of people are on there downloading the new update and all the new stuff for it . i bet in a week or 2 it will be fine by then most people will have everything updated well all the regular gamers that is.