Xbox 360 Issues: Who's Affected, and Why?

[Covenant]

Two things I can think of...mind you I'm not computer literate. First, for some inexplicable reason XBOx require all games to run on the system at all times. Even when you "load" the game to the HDD as with FFXI or other games, players are required to keep disc in system. I'm guessing this is a go-between to defend against hacking.

Second, I think there is a serious "cache" issue with XBOx. When full will not clean itself while you play causing a freeze.

The only thing that help I find is during "big fights" with many things spamming moves is to go into configuration and eliminate most chat texts. Also, eliminate nearly ALL battle effects and weather effects. This will fee up some of the xboxs resources. Finally, "turn" away from onscreen visual displays of large grouping. Basically, turn the INGAMe camera so that at most you avatar and 1 mob is on screen( or minimum amount of people/mobs.

Stay far, far away from mobs that cast/spam AoE moves. Nothings worst than an avatar grouping all casting BP/BW together with avatars floating around or being summoned.

[Rosina]

I'm a long time 360 player only issue I've had are the "clean disc" error after d/c or turning it off. Simple fix is to play music on the 360 and it skips it.

With the freezes, i noticed it is from the amount of gb you have on your hdd. I had freeze issues with the 80 gb one. But now I have the 120 gb one. And haven't had much issue.

I hope this helps.

[Octaviane]

All my friends who play on X-Box experience all the problems listed above. They couldn't do Beseiged even back when it was cool to do it. Freezing, lag, disconnects are common. They seem to be even worse than PS2 issues.

My guess is that as soon as a Mod sees this thread it will get moved to Tech Support, like every other report regarding PS2/PS3 issues and ignored.

The sad thing is that SE continues to collect money from everyone regardless of platform used to play and refuses to acknowledge the problems. Perhaps a new PC is the answer, but not everyone can afford to go that route. If there is no solution SE, you just really need to say so. People will be a lot less upset if you're upfront about it. You will undoubtably lose some players, but, with the influx of new players, I don't think it will make that much of a difference to your bottom line.

[Zatias]

Each platform has its own problems.

360's are listed here.
PS2 is outdated and everyone wants SE to stop supporting it...
PC makes my back and shoulders hurt.



Edit: doesn't have anything to do with this, but as soon as I click the thread open, the first words I see: Is it big or small?

Please excuse my bad sense of humor.

[Knives]

I believe this is worth noting...

I've played the game on all three systems, and have experimented with the post-zone lag quite a bit as well. Some players say that their mules are not affected by the post-zone lag, but that their main characters always are.

I think it has to do with Mog Lockers and other certain inventory options. When a character loads into a new zone, it takes the server time to process that your character has all of those items- both on the person and in the mog house. Mules do not often have access to mog lockers or other large stocks of inventory, so they are seemingly immune to the effects of the post-zone lag spike, atleast until the player bites the bullet and quests enough to attain mog locker storage.

I'm not 100% on this, but everything I've tested over the years points to it. I honestly wonder if the situation could be fixed by solely making it so players cannot see their Mog Safe or Mog Locker contents while outside of the Mog House. The lag spike honestly is the bigger issue to me, than looking for items I can't actually pull out from storage.

[Zatias]

I believe this is worth noting...

I've played the game on all three systems, and have experimented with the post-zone lag quite a bit as well. Some players say that their mules are not affected by the post-zone lag, but that their main characters always are.

I think it has to do with Mog Lockers and other certain inventory options. When a character loads into a new zone, it takes the server time to process that your character has all of those items- both on the person and in the mog house. Mules do not often have access to mog lockers or other large stocks of inventory, so they are seemingly immune to the effects of the post-zone lag spike, atleast until the player bites the bullet and quests enough to attain mog locker storage.

Also, whenever a "new" item loads into the pool, or inventory, you will experience a .5 second or less "lag" in which the screen briefly freezes. This is a small version of all your items loading into your inventory/sack/satchel at once when you zone.

I use this brief screen freeze as an indicator that something I don't have has dropped into the pool (or inventory, if solo) before I actually check it. It's always been this way for me.

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[magnuss]

i get the freeze in besiege about 50% of the time i go in there. Always have the issue zoning in and out as well. We have these issues on 3 different style xboxes (older 360 with first generation HDMI, a FFX111 special edition, and a kinect style. I gave up on besieged about a year ago and just recently started doing it again. It needs to be fixed