You know why though.
This feature is the best thing of this gen. It's the biggest and most necessary QoL feature on consoles today.
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I had no idea about what "Quick Resume" is. This is incredible.
- Thread starter vaderise
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You know why though.
This feature is the best thing of this gen. It's the biggest and most necessary QoL feature on consoles today.
Definitely something I want on PC. Would love to keep Stardew easily accessible when playing other things.
Quick resume is one of those features that sounds dumb or not impressive till you actually try it. BOOM! it is amazeballs.
Because we see so many people just come into threads and poopoo stuff like this it's sort of an auto response. Sorry didn't mean to assume for you.
I've even seen it in this thread-- Folks seem to initially think, Doesn't the Xbox One already let you suspend and resume a game? This is just the same thing but with more than one game.
I think some people just need to see it in action before it sinks in that going from resuming one game to switching between multiple games is a sea change in how you use the console.
Thanks, I'll take a read. I wasn't trying to underplay it though, I just thought it worked the same way. It's one of my favourite things about my Series S.More info here.
Not trying to argue, but comparing this to Windows 98 functionality is seriously underplaying what's happening.
How to use Xbox Series X Quick Resume
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This is not trivial tech. Also, this is the reason why it may be buggy in some instances.
Dunno. The only times I had issues with Valhalla is when I used quick resume. I've since deleted the game ad I'm not replaying all of that again.
Xbox One and PS4 have the same thing as Switch since their launch back in 2013 too.
Granted, in my experience the Switch is a little more reliable than the Xbox One and PS4 in being able to resume my games, since it asks me before installing updates.
But yeah, Quick Resume is incredible, and so far beyond anything the Switch, Xbox One, or PS4/PS5 do. I love it.
Windows never really had a stable, user friendly way to suspend individual programs though
after seeing this, it really should, considering plenty of people have desktops that outperform the series x in the ways they need to do stuff like this anyhow
i'm pretty sure that has a light enough footprint that you could just leave it open the normal way and play other games
Definitely my favourite feature. The fact it still works even after powering it off completely still amazes me.
I've not used and probably never will. Things load quick enough and I don't trust it not to have something over heat and fail.
I love it.
It's only the 2nd "suspend" type feature I've ever used on a console -- the first being the Switch.
The suspend options on PS4, PS4 Pro, Xbox One, and Xbox One X seemed to all have pretty crappy caveats when I tried them -- sometimes game performance suffered from resuming from suspend, sometimes games would crash upon resume, games restarting and throwing away your progress because it needs to reset online connection, etc. Quick Resume presently and seemingly being curated to just games where issues are a lot less likely to happen is the big difference in the experience so far.
I presently only use it with one game at a time and close my other games if I decide to Quick Resume another -- I do save progress before I commit to Quick Resume but I still get paranoid about accidentally closing my other Quick Resumed games since management of Quick Resume games doesn't really exist yet.
Plus, I can use Quick Resume even during power off which makes it usable to me as someone who has turned off Instant On for the power savings. That's awesome.
It's only the 2nd "suspend" type feature I've ever used on a console -- the first being the Switch.
The suspend options on PS4, PS4 Pro, Xbox One, and Xbox One X seemed to all have pretty crappy caveats when I tried them -- sometimes game performance suffered from resuming from suspend, sometimes games would crash upon resume, games restarting and throwing away your progress because it needs to reset online connection, etc. Quick Resume presently and seemingly being curated to just games where issues are a lot less likely to happen is the big difference in the experience so far.
I presently only use it with one game at a time and close my other games if I decide to Quick Resume another -- I do save progress before I commit to Quick Resume but I still get paranoid about accidentally closing my other Quick Resumed games since management of Quick Resume games doesn't really exist yet.
Plus, I can use Quick Resume even during power off which makes it usable to me as someone who has turned off Instant On for the power savings. That's awesome.
Sorry about that man. And of all the games this could happen to it was Valhalla. Damn.
Oh wow, then why cant my ps5 do it?
On topic;
Yes its great - when it works. A LOT of games i play have "always online" so it really does not do much for me :(
Strange comparison. No Windows 98 box was able to load up 4-10 AAA games simultaneously and let you smoothly switch between them. Lol, shit back then if I tried to just alt tab from Half Life to the desktop it would crash half the time.
I guess you meant hibernate the system with running apps in the sense that it suspended the system to disc and then restored to RAM? Ok, sort of, but there was certainly no app by app state suspension in Win98.
We all know why people would want to downplay the feature here...
Quick Resume is the exact same paradigm for managing the state of your recently played games as what your smartphone does for recently opened apps and what your smartphone browser does for open tabs.
But if you took that feature from smartphones and made every smartphone app start from scratch everyone (including the people downplaying quick resume) would be livid.
The feature works in smartphones because you never need to think about it and with a little improvement from its already good base it'll be as indispensable on the console.
Yep. 2 weeks prior the game deleted around 6-8 hours of saves so I got through all of that again plus another 12 hours or so, and bam it happened again. I just can't lol.
Quick resume works even if you turn the power off. No rest mode required and thus no way to overheat the system! I wouldn't use it either if rest mode was needed.
Uh...QR works whether the system is in rest mode or not. You can use it to switch between games without shutting down the system. It also has nothing to do with rest mode. It will work when you turn it off FULLY and unplug it. It's not going to cause overheating or anything of the sort. There's literally no reason to not use it unless it causes some weird issue like the AC Valhalla thing.
I was wondering why I never see the logo, then I realized destiny 2 just doesn't support it (due to online connection). Would have been nice to be able to quick resume to the start screen though (yes I am that impatient)
as many have said, being able to see the queue, or even lock items, would be cool
as many have said, being able to see the queue, or even lock items, would be cool
Huh, thanks for the heads up! But I've been playing JFO for a few weeks now and haven't had ANY problems with quick resume yet... Fingers crossed, I guess?
Yeah, I've had similar moments before. One time a friend and I needed to kill some time and decided to hop on Moving Out and I was astonished that it loaded up instantly, and EXACTLY where we left off.
Also, enjoy Ori. Will of the Wisps is now one of my favorite games ever. That ending.....
It's pretty amazing for me, since with a full time job and kids I'm limited in freetime and just popping on assassin's creed and running around makes me play it more then sitting through load screens like I would on the previous systems. It did lose an hour of progress once on assassin's creed, but it seems one off since that usually autosaves frequently as well
It's a cool feature on paper but in practice I've had a lot of issues with it. So many games use online hooks so quick resume on stuff like Apex just breaks for a bit until it kicks and relogs, games can seemingly switch the feature on and off so it isn't consistent, and there's no way to know if a game is holding a quick resume state or getting booted off of it. This makes it really sketchy to just stop playing a game at some random point, you want to atleast save/reach some spot where the app closing won't impact you.
The online stuff can't really be helped but they need to work on the UI language to properly communicate the rest.
I lost power the other week and I will say it is cool as hell to see the console boot from that and still hold the state of everything.
The online stuff can't really be helped but they need to work on the UI language to properly communicate the rest.
I lost power the other week and I will say it is cool as hell to see the console boot from that and still hold the state of everything.
It's been kind of a pain for some of the games I played recently. Yakuza Like a dragon would run into some funky issues(one where I lost some progress because the game froze likely due to QR, One where ther was an abnormally long loading time from cutscene to gameplay and other similar related issues). Cold war doesn't stay in 120fps mode unless I go to the menu and then go back, Modern Warfare takes damn near a minute to reconnect online it feels like afterward. I do hope (for the games that don't play too nice with quick resume in my experience) that they let you turn it off for some games.
I agree, got a Series X like 2 weeks ago and I love this feature. Your games are basically always on, and while booting games up from the start screen is not that big of a hassle, its nice to be able to jump back into Ori in like 10 seconds.
I love this feature and use it daily. My daughter and I tend to play different games then the ones I play after tucking her in. So being able to quickly flip flop between games is so refreshing. Easily my favorite feature of this gen so far and looking forward to its improvements.
Valhalla is one of my games of the year (even in the thread here), but it has been riddled with issues across the board. Not sure I would fault quick resume.
You can still save your game...
So just save your game.
I'm baffled by these comments. Why are the only options "Leave it completely up to chance!" or "Shut it all the way off!" to many people. I'm confused. Save your game, then switch. You risk nothing.
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What's quick resume got to do with the console possibly overheating?
It's just moving data between the SSD and memory. Something the console does pretty much all the time.
