The New New New Xbox Experience Halo4 Dash

[Papercut]

The music stores, which I hoped might feature previews perhaps, are a total waste of time. Doh.

[SmokeMeAKipper]

I don't like how now I've downloaded Zune marketplace it's the only way I can watch my downloaded videos.

[Spatial]

We've had Avatat.

Now we get AnimAvatat



Dogs, ponys and sheep (hopefully!) coming from tomorrow!

[MJ]

It had to happen.

[Jebus]

We've had Avatat.

Now we get AnimAvatat

Come on dude, you can do better!

Avatatimals!

I want a massive whacking great cow that just stands in from of me with his tongue out, mooing.

[toythatkills]

Everyone'll have a Chocobo prop in a few weeks, there's no point getting a pet!

[Family Fry]

Deep down I seriously hope it's a full size chocobo that stands next to you and not a stuffed toy you wave around.

[Spatial]

I wasn't sure where to post this, though this thread was as good a place as any.

It's become really apparent to me in the last few days as to what's causing the dashboard to slow down over time - it's the 360's hard drive. I've just transferred over to a 250Gb hard drive from a 120Gb and the difference in speed is phenomenal.

Since the transfer, when I switch on the 360 the log in is instantaneous as opposed to the five or six seconds it was taking before. Even games that are on the hard drive are loading notably faster - not in a major way but I was playing Borderlands immediately before and after the transfer and there's now less pop in of textures (if any) when it loads up a new area.

It's always seemed crazy to me that you've got systems with hard drives that you can't defrag. So when MS issues a dash update that's supposed to increase speed, it wouldn't surprise me if that last two / three minutes it makes you wait again after the install is a quick and dirty defrag.

[FelixofMars]

Did you ever rest your system cache on the previous drive?

[Spatial]

Yep, it never seemed to make a difference - if it did it was nowhere near as noticeable as this.

[Digfox]

I wasn't sure where to post this, though this thread was as good a place as any.

It's become really apparent to me in the last few days as to what's causing the dashboard to slow down over time - it's the 360's hard drive. I've just transferred over to a 250Gb hard drive from a 120Gb and the difference in speed is phenomenal.

Since the transfer, when I switch on the 360 the log in is instantaneous as opposed to the five or six seconds it was taking before. Even games that are on the hard drive are loading notably faster - not in a major way but I was playing Borderlands immediately before and after the transfer and there's now less pop in of textures (if any) when it loads up a new area.

It's always seemed crazy to me that you've got systems with hard drives that you can't defrag. So when MS issues a dash update that's supposed to increase speed, it wouldn't surprise me if that last two / three minutes it makes you wait again after the install is a quick and dirty defrag.

I wonder if a format of an HDD makes a difference? No matter what the pain would be in re-downloading the XBLA games again etc.

[FelixofMars]

Fair enough, I noticed it does hel a lot. Then again I have transferred my HDD last year and it did seem faster, that said any time I had a new dashboard patch it seemed faster for the first few weeks then it seems to slow down over time.

TBH I am not really sure what causes poor dashboard access speed, sometimes it is faster without being connected so I assume there is a huge timeout when on LIVE and if the connection is bad one day it is very slow to access. Other days it seems much nippier.

[ChrisF]

It's always seemed crazy to me that you've got systems with hard drives that you can't defrag.

You don't always need to defrag a hard drive btw... Depends on the file system.

(you can argue SSD don't need defragging either, but that's obviously not relevant here)

[Spatial]

I guess that would be MS's answer for why one isn't needed, but I still can't wrap my head around how you can delete something that's 6Gb in size in a matter of seconds and it won't leave some sort of footprint that needs cleaning up over time.

The speed jump I'm getting is definitely not down to my Internet connection - you can see it populating the games history at a much faster rate.

The slower speeds are definitely caused by bloat in... something. And I'd bet it's local to the user rather than the connection. Since the only thing I changed was the drive, then it has to be that.

Now I think about it, I got a speed increase when I went from 20Gb to 120Gb, but then I put that down to people saying the drives were made to be faster anyway. Seems that may not have been the case and it was just the fact that it was a clean drive.

[EvilBoris]

I don't believe the file system needs defragging so much so that even on the original xbox nobody bothered writing an application to defrag the drives.