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Comparison for those that are tracking, on my PS4 Pro with SSD, RDR2 was 48.09 seconds. I can imagine optimization if it happens would shave even more time off on the XSX so should be good for y'all!
Funny side thought... as we all get used to these fast SSD times, they will eventually become "slow" lol...
Funny side thought... as we all get used to these fast SSD times, they will eventually become "slow" lol...
As mentioned in a lot of the articles, this is really bringing consoles up to speed with PC NVMe speeds which is both great and a little underwhelming, I really hope actual next gen titles can go further.
Wait they can't do this? I thought they were just putting disc in and reporting back.
It's a fantastic piece of kit and an absolute bargain if you like WRPGs.
Out of curiosity, how many games would you say you would normally buy in a year that you would get on gamepass instead?
The crazy thing is, like everyone is saying, these are all unoptimized and older BC games. I'd imagine optimized games load near instantly. But yeah, BC is going to be amazing next gen.
no one is explaining this. They keep saying it's only 500 games but how is this being limited
Preview beta test version of the software on the machines. Public update day one. They can restrict what you can do, add timers, telemetry tracking and more. I have no direct knowledge of the Xbox tools, but what I describe is based on other industry abilities.
Is frame pacing something that better hardware alone can't fix?
That game is probably not storage-bound. They generate their world with maths™.
BC on Xbox One doesn't play off the disc, it downloads the digital version for install. MS probably has fine control over this for the preview units.
So a month to go and they only have 500 ready? Especially a game like GTA. I though BC was just pop the game in.
So none of their BC is based on just popping a disk in.
It is a preview/beta system, obviosly MS can "block" games for running. Actually they (MS) are testing games, I guess that 500 number is for already tested games.
No? MS is testing BC games, we don't know how old is the "build" of the system that press are testing.
NMS is structured in a completely different way to most games with regards to loading assets, it's most likely a CPU bound issue here, as the engine constructs the environment/game world through the use of procedural algorithms.
Not saying they can't make improvements with an update, but rather you aren't ever going to see it come close to some of the other titles in that list with regards to % improvements on loads times from the current batch of consoles.
Yep. Very similar to my games on PC in a ssd/nvme.
Very curious for PS5 games.
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So you are telling me they can just block games from not being BC.
BC games are downloaded from MS servers. Yes, they can block games to download.
Not gonna lie, this might make me pick the game back up. Only put in about 50 hours on the one X, but the load times were killing me.
I see. I thought anyone can put their game in and have it work, but you all are saying that pretty much its up to MS making the game available to BC.
You can't play an Xbox One game natively on One S without installing.
It's in beta(preview). Of course they're gonna test it before allowing it to make sure there aren't any unforeseen issues.
That's great numbers. It really improves your playtime and surely helps you to make more of your life in general.
I mean look at the wasted time while waiting for a game to load over the course of a whole year for example. It counts in hours if you are a regular player.
I mean look at the wasted time while waiting for a game to load over the course of a whole year for example. It counts in hours if you are a regular player.
I don't think anyone said that, only that they can control what you are allowed to play on a preview firmware. They might have a whitelist of 5 or 500 games that are allowed only, even if there are 5000 total that do work. Whether it's disc, download, BC or whatever method you want.
installing is not the issue, installing what ever is on the disk. BC is pretty much up to MS making the install compatible on their servers.
this is not how i understood their BC to work. so this is why i am confused.
this isn't correct.
journalists were provided a list of 1000 guaranteed compatible back-compat games.
if it's on the list they can try it in any way you normally would (buy it via the console store and download it or put a disk in)
they are not allowed to provide the list of games
they apparently can be asked/respond to individual questions about whether a game is on the list
Are you joking?
You do realize these are for unoptimized BC games, right? Just popping an older game on and seeing what the difference is without any optimization in the slightest?
There is an "emulator" that is downloaded game by game and contain the game itself
Most anticipated load time increases:
Forza Horizon series (that first load in is always a huge barrier to me playing a couple of races)
The Division 2 (expect to be playing weekly into March, and the load times are really bad)
The Witcher 3 (never finished the DLC)
Control (haven't jumped in yet, but had heard the load times were atrocious)
Forza Horizon series (that first load in is always a huge barrier to me playing a couple of races)
The Division 2 (expect to be playing weekly into March, and the load times are really bad)
The Witcher 3 (never finished the DLC)
Control (haven't jumped in yet, but had heard the load times were atrocious)