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

[Kohboy]

I have played on xbox for the last few years, I had a 1st run xbox, for long time and experience a lot more crashing and freezing on it. It died a year ago got a new one (just an arcade) and I noticed it has a lot less issues. But I still crash in besieged. Im sure this is a cashing issue. I big help would be letting the game go 100% hd like most of the DL xbox classic games you can get now. Accessing the disk is one of the problems. But Im not sure SE or MS care. SE still prints the disk now an again but I think the are done supporting it Xbox. A good way to tell this is they have not add any achievements to the game. And there as been no add's or updates form x-box live on the updates to the game. For besieged i find the siting in the corner thing after about 29 min's works. The sound track works for the lock up reboot 100%.

I still love being able to use the xbox sitting on the couch with a wireless keyboard and controller on Large tv.

-Kohboy

[Anethia]

I've experienced the besieged/campaign freeze. That's been an issue since day 1 of the Xbox version. I've experienced it on every model I've owned from the 20gig premium to the 120gig Elite to the 250gig slim. So it not limited to old vs new model systems.

The zone freeze is nothing new either. That may be related to the lag freeze mentioned aboved.

Trying to report it to Microsoft results in "it's SE's problem, not ours". Reporting to SE results in "it's microsofts problem, not ours".

At this point I blame both parties. Microsoft for crappy hardware that can't handle the massive flow of network info, resulting in memory leaks. SE for being lazy and not adding the proper filters to prevent the network overflow that causes the memory leaks.

In other words: the PS2 version has filters that only allow so much data to be processed at one time and keeps new data in limbo until the old info has been purged from the memory. Without those built in filters in the game PS2 would crash more often than the Xbox. The Xbox version doesn't have that same type of filtering and allows new data in before the old data has a chance to purge. This results in information overload and the system stops responding.

A lot of of computers run into this problem if you try to open too many programs at once. Sometimes the system goes "ugh! Too much, too fast /wheeze" and freezes up or lags down really badly until it can purge enough data to become functional again.

[Randwolf]

I've been playing for about ~7 years now, and I've never run into these problems before. I bet you can guess why.

Buy a PC!

Your contribution is worthless.

I bought a 360 because of FFXI and the better graphics. I had the Besieged problems and moved to a PC because it was pissing me off. But, the OP has a genuine question that deserves a genuine answer.

p.s. - I find it interesting that in another thread you complain that someone didn't read your thread before replying. Apparently, though, it must be okay to read the thread and ignore what it actually said/asked.

[chubrocka]

I didnt find this thread before but i made a new one about a new issue after latest updates

[Zatias]

Been affected on all 3 of my Xboxes, the first 2 are broken and sitting somewhere in microsoft's new stock.

Have had all of the above mentioned problems. 24G harddrive and play in HD on an HDTV (obviously) but this is only the way it is presented, it doesn't affect how it runs ; ;

Also they need to fix the "Until the issue is addressed" popup before you press the Play button in the menu. It hasn't been addressed and will never be fixed XD

[Luso]

I noticed that I had to download a new update via Live when starting up XI on the 360. Anyone know what that does? It's separate from the actual game in that it's not downloaded via POL or XI.

My issue with the 360 has only been the zone lag some people experience. Other than that, I don't have a problem with anything else. I use my brother's Slim with a 250 GB hard disk. I think it was the Arcade version or whatever it's called that had 4 GB of flash memory already in.

[Korpg]

If anything, I would wager a guess as to the people who are having XBOX 360 issues.....

....are people who play on XBOX 360s.......

[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.