Comments on: New Xbox update shrinks hard drive installs big-time

By: Hunam

Hunam — Mon, 03 Aug 2009 23:02:18 +0000

Fable 2 runs a hell of a lot better from the HDD anyway, you don’t get UI lag for one.

By: fearmonkey

fearmonkey — Mon, 03 Aug 2009 21:07:29 +0000

The only game I installed to the Hard drive was Fable 2 as its constantly accessing the drive and can be a bit noisy. This will be cool if true, as I might install more games now.

By: scuz

scuz — Mon, 03 Aug 2009 20:03:58 +0000

i want to know more about this..

tell me more.

By: Komond_Deckard

Komond_Deckard — Mon, 03 Aug 2009 18:57:26 +0000

Wow, it’s the most useful update I’ve seen in a console. Hope Sony would do something similar with PS3, but well… I guess it’s only a dream. The only good thing is I can buy a 500GB hd, but this cost less money of course lol.

By: LewieP

LewieP — Mon, 03 Aug 2009 18:47:58 +0000

@Robo_1
Crackdown is one of the (few) games which can’t be installed onto the hard drive.

By: Retroid

Retroid — Mon, 03 Aug 2009 17:59:22 +0000

I’ve gained a few gb just by reinstalling Far Cry 2 (loses over a gb) and Midnight Club LA (around 700mb).

By: Robo_1

Robo_1 — Mon, 03 Aug 2009 17:43:14 +0000

Great news. If I can squeeze Crackdown and Fable 2 on a 20gb, I’ll be pleased.

By: Roybott

Roybott — Mon, 03 Aug 2009 17:33:01 +0000

Hmmm, will have to try installing a game later. I’ve only got a 20GB HDD so haven’t really bothered installing any games since trying it initially back at the NXE launch… Maybe I’ll now be able to use this feature

By: natesaninja

natesaninja — Mon, 03 Aug 2009 17:29:30 +0000

I’ve got the beta update and installing to the hard drive is still the same unless they haven’t released that yet

By: G1GAHURTZ

G1GAHURTZ — Mon, 03 Aug 2009 17:28:26 +0000

Phat!

By: Hunam

Hunam — Mon, 03 Aug 2009 17:26:18 +0000

I’d like to know if they finally have multi-disk installs merged as one now.

By: Suikoden Fan

Suikoden Fan — Mon, 03 Aug 2009 17:20:19 +0000

i’d like to know how rpg’s install time have been effected.

By: M337ING

M337ING — Mon, 03 Aug 2009 17:14:32 +0000

I just read over the article, and there isn’t any extra compression.

It seems that the original installation method was simply inefficient and ended up bringing out mirrored copies of some files, artificially boosting the space. MS figured out how to strip that extra data without harming anything useful

By: Hunam

Hunam — Mon, 03 Aug 2009 17:09:56 +0000

With them adding massive compression to them, wont it slow down the loading from HDD?

By: M337ING

M337ING — Mon, 03 Aug 2009 17:09:20 +0000

I’m very intrigued as to how this was done, did they introduce a new form of compression or something?