Halo 3 players should avoid using the "install game to hard drive" feature of the just-released New Xbox Experience, warns Bungie.
One boon in installing games is a promise of decreased load times, but according to the development house installing Halo 3 has just the opposite effect.
"Installing to the HDD can make some games perform a little better while also putting a little less wear-and-tear on your DVD drive," Bungie representative SketchFactor wrote in a letter to the community.
"However, this isn’t to say that ALL games will see optimizations from being installed. In fact, in the case of Halo 3, the game will actually see increased loading times," he added before detailing the complexities of Halo 3's technology and explaining why the game has such an adverse reaction to installation.
Thursday, November 20, 2008
Halo 3 players
Halo 3 players should avoid using the "install game to hard drive" feature of the just-released New Xbox Experience, warns Bungie.
One boon in installing games is a promise of decreased load times, but according to the development house installing Halo 3 has just the opposite effect.
"Installing to the HDD can make some games perform a little better while also putting a little less wear-and-tear on your DVD drive," Bungie representative SketchFactor wrote in a letter to the community.
"However, this isn’t to say that ALL games will see optimizations from being installed. In fact, in the case of Halo 3, the game will actually see increased loading times," he added before detailing the complexities of Halo 3's technology and explaining why the game has such an adverse reaction to installation.
One boon in installing games is a promise of decreased load times, but according to the development house installing Halo 3 has just the opposite effect.
"Installing to the HDD can make some games perform a little better while also putting a little less wear-and-tear on your DVD drive," Bungie representative SketchFactor wrote in a letter to the community.
"However, this isn’t to say that ALL games will see optimizations from being installed. In fact, in the case of Halo 3, the game will actually see increased loading times," he added before detailing the complexities of Halo 3's technology and explaining why the game has such an adverse reaction to installation.
Monday, November 3, 2008
Halo 2 and Halo 3
As the September statistics show on Major Nelson’s blog, Halo 2 and Halo 3 are still some of the top played games on Xbox Live. Yes, Call of Duty 4 and Gears of War are also always on the list too, but you’re never going to find an empty multiplayer channel of Halo. Finding multiplayer competition for titles like Blacksite: Area 51, 007: From Russia With Love, The Outfit, or Fatal Inertia (just to name a few), is almost tougher to do than finding a Republican who doesn’t support the NRA. However, there’s never a shortage of players hounding Halo 2 and Halo 3, even if they aren’t actually playing. In fact, this conundrum extends beyond Xbox Live, and into other fields of online services for online console gaming.
Halo 2 and Halo 3
As the September statistics show on Major Nelson’s blog, Halo 2 and Halo 3 are still some of the top played games on Xbox Live. Yes, Call of Duty 4 and Gears of War are also always on the list too, but you’re never going to find an empty multiplayer channel of Halo. Finding multiplayer competition for titles like Blacksite: Area 51, 007: From Russia With Love, The Outfit, or Fatal Inertia (just to name a few), is almost tougher to do than finding a Republican who doesn’t support the NRA. However, there’s never a shortage of players hounding Halo 2 and Halo 3, even if they aren’t actually playing. In fact, this conundrum extends beyond Xbox Live, and into other fields of online services for online console gaming.
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