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Slow loading times?

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rayfieldclement

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I have a Xbox 360 with 4gb of memory and no hard drive and have NO troubles with the load times on any of my games but yet I hear people complain. The load times can't be all that bad.....
 
... and it depends on how patient you are.

Also, on my old PC I wasn't whining about load times in games, but I still appreciate the SSD in my new one making everything load faster. If you've never had a 360 with hard drive, you don't know what you're missing so it seems OK.
 
The load times aren't as annoying as much as the disc swapping is for some games. Install Mass Effect 3 on your PC and you only ever need to keep disc 1 in the drive to access all the games content. Save both DVD's to the 360's hard drive however and tough luck. You'll be swapping discs back and forth every 20 minutes or so if you do side quest missions as soon as they appear. (Which you pretty much have to do, as they vanish with negative consequences if put on the back burner) I'm pretty sure when both discs are installed on the systems hdd that keeping disc 1 in the 360 should be quite sufficient to not be pestered on a regular basis.
 
jpiniero said:
The PS3 does, but I don't know if you could justify it. Only a few games really load much faster; Gran Turismo 5 is one. Need SATA 6.
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SATAII still has a lot of throughput. Probably the system software can't take advantage of them. Hopefully the PS4 will have good SSD support. Scratch that, hopefully the PS4 will have user upgradable, non-proprietary hard drives.

TakeNoPrisoners said:
Try playing Skyrim and see if you don't start bashing your controller around during the loading screens.
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There are worse games than that. Star Wars: The Force Unleashed had a load screen just to take you to the ability upgrade menu. :\
 
Way back in the dark ages of computing we used to wait about 30 minutes for a game to load....from tape. Nowadays many console games take a minute or two to load up to get to the playable part.

A decent spec PC on the other hand that isn't constrained by stupid title screens that can't be skipped can get there in 10 seconds or so. Even HDD installed xbox/ps3 games can't come close to performing the same as a machine with 5x as much HDD and CPU performance.
 
BrightCandle said:
Way back in the dark ages of computing we used to wait about 30 minutes for a game to load....from tape. Nowadays many console games take a minute or two to load up to get to the playable part.

A decent spec PC on the other hand that isn't constrained by stupid title screens that can't be skipped can get there in 10 seconds or so. Even HDD installed xbox/ps3 games can't come close to performing the same as a machine with 5x as much HDD and CPU performance.
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you don't say
 
Sophitia said:
The load times aren't as annoying as much as the disc swapping is for some games. Install Mass Effect 3 on your PC and you only ever need to keep disc 1 in the drive to access all the games content. Save both DVD's to the 360's hard drive however and tough luck. You'll be swapping discs back and forth every 20 minutes or so if you do side quest missions as soon as they appear. (Which you pretty much have to do, as they vanish with negative consequences if put on the back burner) I'm pretty sure when both discs are installed on the systems hdd that keeping disc 1 in the 360 should be quite sufficient to not be pestered on a regular basis.
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What are these discs you speak of? I have a DVD drive but I forget what you do with it.
 
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