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Added by Jeff Gerstmann on Nov. 19, 2008
These shields! They take forever to load!
The piece is a Q&A with Bungie's Mat Noguchi, who describes how Halo 3 uses the hard drive under normal circumstances. It seems that it already caches the maps to the hard drive for faster loading, even when you're playing from a disc. When you're running the game from the hard drive, it then has to copy those maps from one spot on the hard drive to the temporary utility partition used for cached data.
In short, reading and writing using the same device takes longer than moving that data from the disc to the hard drive.
Check out the full post for a bit more technical detail. For what it's worth, Bungie says that it will continue to monitor the situation, but says that fixing these new issues require a significant effort on their part and that it "could really be a rather significant change."
Considering how much I'm enjoying the newly quiet 360 when it's running off the disc, I'd probably consider installing Halo 3 anyway, even if the load times are a bit longer. But then, I haven't played Halo 3 is a pretty long time and probably won't pick it back up anytime soon.
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ehh this sucks. I read somewhere that this can make starting an online match slower for everyone if you have it downloaded, since you have to wait until everyone has map loaded to start a match. Don't download this people! I hate waiting :(.
burjeffton said:
"Halo is SOOOOO 2007."Pretty much. Or more accurately for me, Halo was sooo about 5 days after it launched, and then put away forever.
That's a genius idea for Bungie to use the hardware like that, too bad it didn't really help them with this new dashboard. Wouldn't surprise me if they come out with a patch to avoid all that extra coping if you have the game installed.
NXE is out already? I've lost track of time, didn't realize it was 19th already =P (actually 20th as of a few minutes ago in GMT +1 timezone)
LiquidPrince said:
"Makes the option pointless then no?"for halo 3 yes but most other games no, there are more games then halo 3 on 360.
pause422 said:
"burjeffton said:I still play a little. =("Halo is SOOOOO 2007."Pretty much. Or more accurately for me, Halo was sooo about 5 days after it launched, and then put away forever.
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I'm with pause422. I haven't played Halo 3 since I beat it. A loooong time ago. The hard drive install has made a difference on a few other games though, so it's not perfect, but still very handy.
Since installing Gears 2 and playing it in silence, the dvd drive noises have become all the more apparent and annoying to me. I think most people will agree that a whisper quiet console wins over slightly different load times any day.
The ONE game I was going to install! Gosh Darn Golly Master Chief!
Big deal. Most games aren't even noticably faster anyway. And its not like load times were super fast to begin with. You'll live. The BIG advantage of Disc free play is the noise. And besides, I assure you any games coming out now, with this in mind, will work much better. Wait to judge the feature till people actually use it. ie, don't judge HD TV's in general on a 32" 720p plasma, you need to check out 1080pand atleast 42"
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