Fall 2008 Dashboard

Bungie says copying the game to your console will decrease performance.

by Ryan Geddes

November 20, 2008 - For many Xbox 360 gamers, the most exciting thing about the dashboard overhaul that went through yesterday was not avatars or Netflix but rather the ability to install retail games to the console hard drive. In theory, this new feature should improve game performance by limiting the extent to which the software must query the system's DVD drive, thus shrinking load times and speeding things up overall. Or, then again, maybe not.

Several gamers have noticed that Halo 3 actually performs worse when installed to the Xbox 360 hard drive than it did when operated solely from the optical drive (even when installed, you'll still need to have the disk in the drive). So why is that? Turns out it's a bit complicated, so Bungie developer Mat Noguchi took some time to explain the problem on Bungie.net.

Basically, Halo 3 uses a special partition of the Xbox 360 hard drive as scratch memory to quickly load maps. Because it's pulling data from one device (the DVD drive) and copying it to another (the HDD) the software can do both at once. But when the game is installed solely to the hard drive, it can't easily perform both operations simultaneously and thus the process is slowed down significantly. If you want to geek out about things like read/write heads and data copy ratios, then head over to the Bungie.net post and read more.

But the bottom line is that, for games that were developed and released before Microsoft released specs on the new hard drive install feature, performance may actually decrease with full game installation rather than increase. Bungie is now recommending that you not install Halo 3 to the hard drive if you want the game to perform optimally. Will other developers come forward and do the same?

Every game is developed differently, and it could be that some titles will see a performance increase when installed to the hard drive, but for now that will have to be judged on a case-by-case basis.

Credit: IGN.com

Link'as: http://xbox360.ign.com/articles/932/932273p1.html

Na sito tikrai buvo galima tiketis is kai kuriu game,juos kai leido toks dalykas kaip instalinimas i hdd buvo neimanomas,todel jie rado kitokiu budu kaip greitint loadinima is disko.Bet irasius game i HDD jis nespeja tokiu dalyku atlikt ;]

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Cia mane minejai ar ta asmeni kuris ta naujiena sukure? dar pasiskaitykit kai sitam saite ps3 fanboyjus sita naujiena parase http://www.games.lt/g/clubnews.full/14598

Uzsifreezina dashboard ne del RroD o del to kad yra sioks toks menkas bugas, pvz friends paneleje ziuredami draugu profilius jei per greitai is tenai iseisit B,B,B dashboard bent jau pats pastringa. Tai dariau gal penkis kartus visalaika iseinant is "draugu" ir su silta ir salta konsole rezultatas taspats.Taigi cia neprieko RroD

MS jau apie tai zino, daug kastarp ju ir as report yra issiunte , tikekimies pataisys...

Kažkaip netikiu, kad dėl to gali būti RROD, juk prie ko DASHBOARD ir perkaitimas? Keista kažkas? Tikrai netikiu. MS turėtų greit išleisti update bet kokiu atveju.

The (kazkoks zhodis) is not available at the moment ar unaccesable ir kodas kazkoks, bet db jau nebemeto, liuxiskas,tiesiog nerealus update.

Nu ko jau ko bet is MicroSoft to nesitikejau

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Jokiu budu nesinaujink! Nes is kart banas+rrod,tiems kas pavelavo i NXE 19-ta diena atsinaujint.

Jis cia rimtai ar tik pajuokavo?

Nieko nebanina, nusisneka kazkas.

Erezijas skleidzia ir tiek

Hm, na jo ten su tuo rrod, vyrukas prajuokino. Manau jeigu būtų jau toks bugas, manau MS turėjo jau senai šią klaidą ištaisyti, nes būtų gavę daug nusiskundimų, kolkas ramu iki šios dienos :-)