I dont know why I just assumed PS5 had this as well. If they dont, it's a huge advantage for MS. What a great feature.
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Xbox Series X 'Quick Resume' Retains Around 12 BC Games on Average
- Thread starter Gareth
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Thanks for the explanation. It goes with that whole "convenience" thing people mention when talking about consoles, so it makes sense. Though with MS supporting PC with their games, I'm wondering if they'll start working on features like this on their Xbox App and such. Though I'm not super educated on this stuff so I'm not sure how likely that is.
But up to 12 games in a quick-resume state is definitely an interesting, console-selling feature for some people you'd have to think.
Considering cost of storage and controller, might as well grab the 2nd X. Think about it, "just" for another $200, you have 2 full consoles!
*runs for the hills*.
I was surprised to hear that there isn't a notification when a game state is being purged from quick resume. Seems like something that's kind of important. Also, being able to "pin" a game so other games will be prompted for removal before it would also be a great feature.
This is Game Pass' killer companion feature. Well...at least for people with gaming ADD like me ;).
If there are multiple people sharing a console it will be useful.
Wait, it doesn't warn you? Can you at least manually purge games from that list to preemptively make space? I'm guessing that could be an easy fix with a FW update if it's not already planned for launch. If not, that would be a really big oversight.
It's not just conveniece, that 'trick' is not doing the same thing at all. That is preventing the OS from allocating any processing time to the process but it is still retained in memory, etc. Quick resume is saving the state of the title to disk while freeing the resources it was using
I didn't mean to minimize Quick-Resume, personally I see it as a big system seller for Xbox consoles. I just didn't want to sound like I was dismissing PC as a platform that seems to lack this feature.
Thanks for your explanation, how it works seems so interesting! I'm very excited to put this into practice :) First thing I'dd do is start up Gears and try 5 other games at the same time XD
Holy shit, three to four "next-gen" game save states and around 12 BC games is fucking crazy awesome.
The state of your games is held even if you completely turn off the console. It has been showed in some preview videos.
Is it 3-4 next gen AND 12ish BC titles? I had assumed the save space was shared by both, so if a next gen game is saved, you might be only able to store BC 8 games, etc.
I really like the fact that it works with BC games saved on a USB HDD as well. It makes sense that it does but I hadn't considered it before and it's almost like a cache for a slower mechanical drive. Really nice, as you're not going to want to waste precious internal drive space on BC titles.
Holy moley, this is actually so cool. I had a plan going into this gen that the only games that I was going to buy digital would be huge open world games or long-term multiplayer, but the ability to hold the 3-4 games I typically flip between in constant resume state like this is so tempting.
Can't watch the video right now, but how does save state work? Like copying the entire 16GB files from RAM to SSD for each game? If this is the case and this is my understanding as well, it means 192GB free space should be available on the SSD for 12 games. If there's more space then more can be added too
I remember One X having memory leak issues with its own ver. of quick resume. I hope that issue does not rear its head with XSX.
- can I turn it off and free up space on my SSD (espcially important for XSS owners)
- can I still have a 'sleep mode' current game live suspended with the console sleeping if I turn off quick resume
- does it warn me when I'm going to kick the oldest suspended state out?
- is it a global setting across all users on the console or does every user get that much storage (and therefore increased reserved space)?
- can I still have a 'sleep mode' current game live suspended with the console sleeping if I turn off quick resume
- does it warn me when I'm going to kick the oldest suspended state out?
- is it a global setting across all users on the console or does every user get that much storage (and therefore increased reserved space)?
My three kids who share a console will.
Just because you won't use a feature, doesn't mean no one will.
I hope it works with different profiles.
Quick Resume has to work as dumping RAM onto SSD. That's why you can store more 360 games than X1. It has to be stored at that 120GB reserved space for OS.
These are BC games. OG Xbox had 64MB ram. 360 had 512MB. MS said there will be space for "at least" 3 XSX games so the reserved space for Quick Resume is probably in the 40-60GB range.
Bingo. This sounds amazing for a household with multiple people sharing a single console.
majornelson answered in the drive space thread that no, you can't turn it off
Also, others have said that previews show that it does not warn you which would be consistent with the xbox one, but I havent watched those previews
The Xbox OS is constantly iterating though so if these turn out to be problematic I am sure they will add some options around it
thats true - they update quite often and new consoles esepcially so I hope they allow at least a 'pinned' or 'don't delete without asking' option to certain games.
I love this as I often switch between 4,5,6 games
It's probably my most looked forward to feature of next gen lol
It's probably my most looked forward to feature of next gen lol
