To all Xbox360 owners!
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Yeah press Y on the disk option and a menu should come up that has the hard drive installation on there.-Zen- said:
I tried it on GHWT, no noticeable difference so I removed it
Press the guide button (the large one in the middle of the controller) and you'll have your gorramn blades. Most people hate change and I think that's your problem, not the actual new layout but the change to it.xitel said:
I cannot see how this could possibly be. HDD access rates are (generally) superior to DVD access rates - the only thing you'll get is decreased load times when the disc is accessed. The side effect of reduced CD access rates can (potentially) be decreased power draw and maybe a (slight) decrease in operating temperature.jewmaniac said:
I've tried it on a few games and there are only a handful where I see any notable improvement. The key seems to be if the game has either frequent moderate duration load times or long duration load times I see an improvement in load times. Left 4 Dead for example loads new stages substantially faster but this means little really - if my team isn't there there isn't much reason to leave the safe house. Most online games seem to have this same trait - I might get in the game a few seconds quicker but that doesn't really mean anything.
In short - yes there is an improvement but thus far I have not found a game that the improvement offers anything meaningful. Perhaps the Orange Box if you are partaking in the single player offerings or Fallout 3 (which has regular though short duration loads)
I don't as I find load times much faster compared to my old xbox or ps2 games. It's interesting to think about the idea of it quieting the system, but I like the others also only have a 20gb 360 so space is important (especially since I download a lot of movies). This was a pretty cool thing though I think for Microsoft to add to the system. If I had a 60gb I think I would do this much more...so possibly in the future if I upgrade. As for the NXE I didn't like it at first, but the more you use it the easier it gets.
I've noticed a pretty good improvement in load times across the board, and it definitely makes the system runs much more quietly. I've got an Elite, so I've basically loaded all of my games except for Halo 3. Makes my gaming more convenient, and no complaints as of yet.
I'm still using one of the old-school HDDs, 12GB. I don't plan on upgrading because it doesn't seem like that big of a difference to me. Unless you can forgo the dsic and not need it in there at all, wich I don't think you can.
Having the 20 gig drive, I can only have 1 installed at a time (what with all those extras I have installed...). I've installed L4D, and find that I when loading level between safe houses, I'm first in the room. Everyone else is just standing there for about 3 or 4 seconds before moving around.
Plus it's way quieter.
Plus it's way quieter.
I don't really notice an improvement in loading times, but the Xbox is quieter and should also wear down slower, I assume. If you have plenty of HD space anyway (I have 120 GB), I think those advantages, although small, still make an install to HD worthwhile.
I've installed one game onto my harddrive, but I'm not going to keep it on there; once I've completed it I'm going to delete it.
It does make a difference, some of the loading times are much quicker and sometimes during the game, where if I didn't install it, it would lag a little because there was so much on the screen, I don't seem to have that problem anymore.
It does make a difference, some of the loading times are much quicker and sometimes during the game, where if I didn't install it, it would lag a little because there was so much on the screen, I don't seem to have that problem anymore.
