Xbox One - Horrendous

Xbox One - Horrendous

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daemon

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35,724 posts

196 months

Saturday 23rd May 2015
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Invested in a games console with an amazon offer on the xbox one.

Unpacked it this afternoon @ 12:50, took over an hour to update. Then stuck in Forza Horizon 2, this needs a 3.7GB install to work, so its now at 77% of that. Says "Ready to Start" but wont actually start, so now waiting, and waiting and waiting....

Over 3 hours so far and havent got a game started yet!

Granted we've just got 2Mb broadband but seriously, this is just st.

VERY tempted to box the whole lot up and send it back to Amazon.

Woeful.

LandR

6,249 posts

253 months

Saturday 23rd May 2015
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Welcome to gaming in 2015.


Lefty

16,131 posts

201 months

Saturday 23rd May 2015
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The xbox one is a piece of st.

I've had boxes since the first one came out, I'm not a PS fanboy, last one I had was a PS2 back in the 90's.

The XB1 is an unstable of a thing. I have to hard reboot it every time I want to use netflix. COD ghosts will only start about 30% of the time! usually requiring a hard reboot. The HDD is tiny for the size of the game installations.


daemon

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35,724 posts

196 months

Saturday 23rd May 2015
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LandR said:
Welcome to gaming in 2015.
Is this really 15 years of gaming development?

Have now uninstalled everything to do with Forza and am trying to play Assassins Creed Black Flag.

It asked me did i want to do a 2.7GB install to play the game online, so just so my afternoon is not a total write off, i said no, and its now "installing". At the rate its going at now, this could take 30 mins just to get the game running....

Only i ordered it from Amazon Germany i'd have this thing boxed up and away back.

Genuinely Awful

daemon

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35,724 posts

196 months

Saturday 23rd May 2015
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So it came up "Ready to Start", and then has FORCED me to do the big update, so i thought maybe it can do that in the background.

The game is sitting at "ready to start" in my list but makes a "ding" noise now and wont start.

I've just lost an afternoon of my life on this st.

daemon

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35,724 posts

196 months

Saturday 23rd May 2015
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Have now uninstalled that game too.

Back to square one.

snoopy25

1,858 posts

119 months

Saturday 23rd May 2015
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To be fair if the games need updating then you need to have faster broadband, 2mb just isnt cutting it these days for online gaming.

As for the size of the games, yes the installs are huge, i mean one of the games ive got (Halo Master Chief Edition) requires 60GB install. I feel you pain but i think its going to come down to patience especially as you have only just unpacked it this afternoon smile

stuno1

1,296 posts

194 months

Saturday 23rd May 2015
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Just the way it is but it's great as means bug fixes and improvements etc. small price to pay imo. Love the Xbox one and the voice control, Skype, home entertainment aspect as well as the gaming.

Hope your experience improves but as above slow broadband will be an issue.

daemon

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35,724 posts

196 months

Saturday 23rd May 2015
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snoopy25 said:
To be fair if the games need updating then you need to have faster broadband, 2mb just isnt cutting it these days for online gaming.

As for the size of the games, yes the installs are huge, i mean one of the games ive got (Halo Master Chief Edition) requires 60GB install. I feel you pain but i think its going to come down to patience especially as you have only just unpacked it this afternoon smile
Yeah i think its broadband speed is exacerbating the problem.

2Mb is all we get out here though so i'm stuck with it.

I "think" the problem is as follows :-

Game disc in, asks do i want to do update or defer, i click defer
Several minutes in, it gives me the "Ready to Start". At that point i try to play the game and it seems to want to do the big update then, so i've then a situation whereby the game isnt installed AND its trying to do the big update.

Going to let it install first, then do the update.

I guess i am just going to have to leave it running.

Very frustrating that you effectively have to leave several hours between buying a game and playing it.

Irrotational

1,577 posts

187 months

Saturday 23rd May 2015
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Yes unfortunately the games will not let you play them unless they have been patched to the latest version.

You *might* be able to get it to work by disconnecting it from the net and THEN installing the games...BUT most games now are released with bugs so you probably want the patches anyway.

Once they are installed and patched the Xbox one will actually be quite good for you. It auto patches the games in the middle of the night so you shoukd be fine once its up and running.

I think the ps4 has auto patching now but I don't think it did for a long time.

I've had mine since day one and I really lkek it, but everyone has their own opinion smile

MattyB_

2,008 posts

256 months

Saturday 23rd May 2015
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daemon said:
LandR said:
Welcome to gaming in 2015.
Is this really 15 years of gaming development?
Well...Yes. Things have moved on, and you internet connection hasn't. 2mb was the average internet speed 10 years ago.

It may be (like me) you're out in the sticks (I struggle with 6mb, let alone 2mb) but you can't blame the product for that.


daemon

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35,724 posts

196 months

Saturday 23rd May 2015
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MattyB_ said:
daemon said:
LandR said:
Welcome to gaming in 2015.
Is this really 15 years of gaming development?
Well...Yes. Things have moved on, and you internet connection hasn't. 2mb was the average internet speed 10 years ago.

It may be (like me) you're out in the sticks (I struggle with 6mb, let alone 2mb) but you can't blame the product for that.
Yes, totally happy with that, but it would be nice if the unit actually told you what was happening. Showing "ready to play" when its not, and simply wont let me is very poor - and more importantly, doesnt tell me "WHY" it wont let me me other than "ding" is very off putting.

If it wont work for me then it will be going back and Microsoft will have lost another customer.

Of interest my son has a PS4 upstairs and hes had no issues - either with ridiculously long downloads or with online gaming speeds.


Edited by daemon on Saturday 23 May 17:36

phil-sti

2,668 posts

178 months

Saturday 23rd May 2015
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Xbox one isn't as seamless as the 360 but I've never had any stability issues. Bear in mind that the PS4 isn't much better.

Mastodon2

13,818 posts

164 months

Saturday 23rd May 2015
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I haven't had any issues with my Xbox One. Get faster internet, or set it to download while you're asleep.

anonymous-user

53 months

Saturday 23rd May 2015
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I really like the xbox one, it's the first Xbox I've owned after having various PS Nintendo sega and (don't laugh) the first Atari.

I agree that having more space would be good and you do need a fast broadband.

FourWheelDrift

88,376 posts

283 months

Saturday 23rd May 2015
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And it used to be so much quicker - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8fYFsBRVC8Y

phil-sti

2,668 posts

178 months

Saturday 23rd May 2015
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Xbox one isn't as seamless as the 360 but I've never had any stability issues. Bear in mind that the PS4 isn't much better.

daemon

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35,724 posts

196 months

Saturday 23rd May 2015
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Mastodon2 said:
I haven't had any issues with my Xbox One. Get faster internet, or set it to download while you're asleep.
Where we live, 2mb is as good as it gets. We're pretty much at the outer range of the nearest exchange

I had left it to download there for a couple of hours and came back to find it had decided to knock itself off through inactivity, so have worked out how to stop it doing that and how to keep it in fast startup mode so that it does downloads when its on standby.

Will have to leave it now. Broadband speed or otherwise, its fairly naff when you open a new console and six hours later you cant play any games on it yet.

But thats progress for you....

daemon

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35,724 posts

196 months

Saturday 23rd May 2015
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FourWheelDrift said:
And it used to be so much quicker - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8fYFsBRVC8Y
Yes. Genuninely it did.


davepoth

29,395 posts

198 months

Saturday 23rd May 2015
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daemon said:
Where we live, 2mb is as good as it gets. We're pretty much at the outer range of the nearest exchange

I had left it to download there for a couple of hours and came back to find it had decided to knock itself off through inactivity, so have worked out how to stop it doing that and how to keep it in fast startup mode so that it does downloads when its on standby.

Will have to leave it now. Broadband speed or otherwise, its fairly naff when you open a new console and six hours later you cant play any games on it yet.

But thats progress for you....
Hang an elastic band between the two sticks, that will keep an input signal from the controller and stop it from going to sleep.