Halo 3 and NXE

[Minime637]

This is just a post regarding Bungie's statement about the New Xbox Experience.

For all of those people that don't visit bungie.net as often as some, Bungie just recently said on their website that it is NOT recommended to install Halo 3 to your Hard Drive. Although there would be significant noise reduction, the loading times are increased. This only applies to multiplayer maps, and matchmaking. Due to the way Halo 3 cache's data installing the game to your Hard Drive will cause a major increase while loading maps. I have already noticed this effect, Valhalla, normally a quick loader unlike the Legendary maps, took about 2 minutes to load, which is long.

Here is some of what Bungie said:
"...please be aware that installing Halo 3 to your HDD will actually result in longer load times and thus a less optimal experience than if you run the game from the disc drive. This happens due to the way Halo 3 already uses a HDD to cache data and once you do an install, you are copying between two different areas of the same drive as you are loading a map.

If you just plan to play campaign or offline content, you may feel that the tradeoff is worth it in order to have a slightly quieter Xbox 360 and reduced impact to your disc drive. However, if you play Halo 3 online, please be aware that increased map loading times can have a negative impact to everyone’s experience. In some cases, it could take considerably longer to load multiplayer maps, meaning that everyone you are matched with is also stuck waiting for your maps to load. If people start to lose patience, you then have scenarios of players leaving parties and aborting matching because they don’t want to wait. This adds to the problem, creating a cycle where more and more people have a harder time getting into the games they want to play. To avoid this negative situation, we are advising that Halo 3 players do not install the game to their HDD."

If you wish to read more about this visit
Bungie.net : Inside Bungie : Bungie.net Blog
for more details.

Thanks

[Tristan28]

Has there not been a couple of threads like this. Please use the search button.

[Minime637]

Originally Posted by Tristan28

Has there not been a couple of threads like this. Please use the search button.

I apologize if this has already been posted i didn't see anything.

My bad.