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New Xbox Series X|S feature in testing: You can keep ("pin") up to 2 games in Quick Resume no matter what other games are launched (update: now live!)
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I haven't had a bad experience with Quick Resume, it's such a good feature! It works great for the games I've been playing (Psychonaughts, Guardians of the Galaxy, Fenyx Rising, Witcher 3)... Fenyx Rising has a bug where saves will occasionally corrupt - something to do with connection to Ubisoft servers when reloading a Quick Resume game - but the fix is to load another Quick Resume title, restart the console, load it up and save. Very rarely happens.. and I blame Ubisoft for that, not MS.
I didn't know that patches / updates could clear a Quick Resume session though. I tend to save before leaving a game anyway, but that makes it all the more important.
I didn't know that patches / updates could clear a Quick Resume session though. I tend to save before leaving a game anyway, but that makes it all the more important.
Glad to see that they are still doing work with QR. It needs it.
Amazing feature the majority of the time but some of the games I have played the most have had problems with it. I lost hours of gameplay with AC Valhalla.
Amazing feature the majority of the time but some of the games I have played the most have had problems with it. I lost hours of gameplay with AC Valhalla.
Not in my case it happens every couple of days for me and also a couple of buddies have the same issue
Thats nice but they should fix Quick Resume per say before adding stuff to it...I dont use it anymore,most games dont work.Edge of Eternity recently doesnt work,even if you go the main menu,pressing start does nothing,so I have to close it on top of restarting it...Tales of Arise was a 50/50 chance of working,Octopath as well...
Won't happen. The amount of space available is enough for at a minimum three games in QR (though obviously more can be there), so they can only guarantee two games pinned while letting it still work. That was an explanation they gave here i think.
I've got over 100 hours into AC Odyssey. It's been in QR the entire time. 3 seconds to resume right where I was is simply the best next gen feature by far. The comments about disabling it per game are weird. Its simple, just don't use it.
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I mean its not really a thing of "using it" it happens by default. Unless you fully manually close the game.
Which I do out of habit. Compulsively. Like putting games back in their cases, and then putting the case back where it goes on the shelf or in a box.
I just want quick resume to work with Mass Effect.
It literally prevents me from loading it up because sitting through two sets of menus is such a chore nowadays
It literally prevents me from loading it up because sitting through two sets of menus is such a chore nowadays
But if it's already got a quick resume state, then that means it fits. You'd just be pinning what is already guaranteed to fit.
True, but I think because there isn't a UX/UI signaling how much space is left in the cache for QR they don't want a situation where someone pins 3 games maxing out the QR cache and then play a 4th game, and get frustrated as to why it isn't in QR, you know? Leaving a guaranteed 1 slot free makes sure QR "still works" without that UI element. And I don't really think there's an elegant way of communicating the QR cache availability and how much some game may take up at time of suspension, you know?
This is awesome, I've really wanted the option to keep games suspended.
The next thing I want is to have the option to disable quick resume on certain games. I'd disable Warzone and Diablo 2 immediately
The next thing I want is to have the option to disable quick resume on certain games. I'd disable Warzone and Diablo 2 immediately
These would have been the better update imo.
Maybe I just got lucky with the games I'm playing rn, but a year after it was introducing its been working very consistently for me. It's consistently working even for live service games that need you to stay online (division 2, Warframe, R6e), which were rather hit or miss at launch, which make you sign it again when you resume but you avoid the whole hooting time.
QR is some seriously good shit and it's become second nature to me.
I mean clearly they would have to give some sort of status of how full the Quick Resume storage cache is and make it a warning that it will limit the ability to store more. All games don't even have a Quick Resume compatibility so even playing a game isn't guaranteed to create a Quick Resume state even if there was available space. I don't see that being too big of a deal or frustrating to people as long as you stress that the cache is close to being full and that's easy to show the current state. It's not even really any different than how playing a new game can blow away older caches. At least with not limiting the pins, it gives you more control over what caches get blown away. Allowing as many pins that can currently fit is a solvable problem.
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Really liked it in BFV always. Only thing i needed to do was hit the RT button to go online again. Wich is pretty instant also.
Awesome.
This was definitely a community request and it's good to see it being addressed. Saying "should have been there from the start" is a bit of a cheap shot, IMO, given this is a next-gen feature only Xbox offers.
In the spirit of hoping community requests continue to matter, I add my voice to these:
This was definitely a community request and it's good to see it being addressed. Saying "should have been there from the start" is a bit of a cheap shot, IMO, given this is a next-gen feature only Xbox offers.
In the spirit of hoping community requests continue to matter, I add my voice to these:
Thanks! I'll do it soon.
Exactly like me! I didn't use rest mode on PS4 at all, and just used it a few times on XSX, because I didn't have any other choice. My download speed isn't good and I left console in that mode for about 10 hours to download games.
First game I really used it with was halo infinite, after I resumed it I kept playing the campaign for about 6 hours and then then quit out normally etc. When I went back the next day all those 6 hours hadn't saved and I've never played the game since as it wasn't worth it for me to go through that again. If microsofts first party games have issues with it then I'm not gonna use it until it's 100% fixed which I hope it is soon as I love the feature.
Quick Resume works when your console is completely off. You can even unplug it.
QR works completely differently than rest mode on PS4, PS5, Xbox One or Xbox Series X|S. Rest modes keep the game in RAM, which means turning the console completely off, erases what's in RAM. Quick Resume uses the SSD instead and will work, even if you unplug the Series X|S.
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Neat. Should be useful with some of the bigger RPGs coming soon (mainly Starfield) I use it a fair bit and It's shocking how well it works...most of the time. I have the quick resume for Evil Within 2 on there that I started replaying in October and kind of forgot about until last month. It loaded right where I was last. It also had my AC Valhalla session. BUT the Quick Resume seems to interfere with games that appear to always need a connection so that was messy for a few minutes playing before it connect back to the Ubi servers.
That seems to be the source of all the issues I have had with it. Any time the game requires a constant bloody connection to some bullshit server, even if it's single player only, then the qwick resume messes it up. I don't blame the Quick Resume for that.
That seems to be the source of all the issues I have had with it. Any time the game requires a constant bloody connection to some bullshit server, even if it's single player only, then the qwick resume messes it up. I don't blame the Quick Resume for that.
Save files can't be corrupted by Quick Resume; when a game saves, it doesn't write the data itself or open any file handles. Instead it makes a simple data buffer in memory and hands it off to the Xbox operating system. The OS then handles the drive and cloud storage itself, entirely independent of the games actions.
Essentially the moment the game hands off this buffer, you could just immediately kill the entire game hypervisor (the OS container the game runs in) and the save data will still be 100% intact, because the game isn't controlling any of it. Quick Resume will be much the same, as it's just chucking the game's execution state to the drive and then closing the process.
As for the console, no this is impossible. Impossible like eating the sun, that is. Software cannot damage hardware*. NCIS and Bones are not even remotely accurate to how computers actually work. :P
Besides, all Quick Resume does is store the execution state to the drive. You can think of it like how save states work in emulators, except without the hardware emulation.
*Yes, you could have software configure things to overclock hardware to unsafe conditions, but that is extremely non-standard, and not something the Xbox has anyway. Also any program that is able to do that will require hardware capable of accepting the parameters, such hardware will also be designed not to accept unsafe parameters, so...
Here you go
Xbox Insider Release Notes - Alpha (2203.220209-2330) - Xbox Wire
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Thanks!Here you go
Xbox Insider Release Notes - Alpha (2203.220209-2330) - Xbox Wire
Hey Xbox Insiders! We have a new Xbox Update Preview coming to the Alpha ring...
Really cool feature! But I think most times games leave quick resume for me is when they're updated, which will still be true with this feature. I don't think I play enough different games for this feature to make much of a difference.
What games are you playing? I've had no issues with Quick Resume at all
This happened right around when the pandemic started. With everyone at home, servers were suddenly getting very overloaded. To help mitigate this, automatic update queues are now staggered.
This applies to everything, not just Xbox.
Where's the quick resume game ban list that'd be much more useful. Hate having to close out and reboot apex or smite every time I play them
For non online focused titles it works great.
Pretty sure I had AC Odyssey in QR untouched for like 8 months and went back to it right from where I left off.
Pretty sure it got an update in that time too lol
Pretty sure I had AC Odyssey in QR untouched for like 8 months and went back to it right from where I left off.
Pretty sure it got an update in that time too lol
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What's more egregious are the first party titles
Halo Infinite: MP straight up breaks from QR and they say it will corrupt campaign data too
ESO: Yea it's an MMO I didn't expect QR to take you the game but the client can still screw up when QR takes you to the login screen.
FH5: Haven't played it in a minute but had plenty of friend convoy/general connectivity issues that we nailed down to QR's fault.
Updates rollout gradually over a period of time. Over time, an increasing subset of consoles get the update automatically, until it becomes mandatory toward the end of that period of time.
During that time, of course, anyone can manually go to system settings to force the update sooner.
