Xbox One - Horrendous
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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.
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.
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.
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.
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
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
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
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
Yeah i think its broadband speed is exacerbating the problem.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
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.
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
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
daemon said:
LandR said:
Welcome to gaming in 2015.
Is this really 15 years of gaming development?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.
MattyB_ said:
daemon said:
LandR said:
Welcome to gaming in 2015.
Is this really 15 years of gaming development?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.
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
And it used to be so much quicker - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8fYFsBRVC8Y
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 exchangeI 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....
FourWheelDrift said:
And it used to be so much quicker - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8fYFsBRVC8Y
Yes. Genuninely it did.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.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....
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