EternallDarkness Posted October 7, 2018 Share Posted October 7, 2018 it would seem my xbox has died probably from playing so much Forza. It started freezing for a few moments here and there over the last day or so and now I keep getting "GAME X took too long to start' or some such nonsense. So if I pick up a new one do I just plug my external drive into the new one? 1 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
HGLatinBoy Posted October 7, 2018 Share Posted October 7, 2018 Yes. Grab an Xbox One X, sign-in and plug your old HDD in and it should start just fine. Also just make your new one one your home one and use the old one as long as its not bad for netflix and other media. Consider it an unexpected upgrade. Also what HDD do you use I'm really curious. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
EternallDarkness Posted October 7, 2018 Author Share Posted October 7, 2018 6 minutes ago, HGLatinBoy said: Yes. Grab an Xbox One X, sign-in and plug your old HDD in and it should start just fine. Also just make your new one one your home one and use the old one as long as its not bad for netflix and other media. Consider it an unexpected upgrade. Also what HDD do you use I'm really curious. seagate I believe. I don't have a 4K tv and have no plans to pick one up anytime soon so I doubt I'll get the X Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The def star Posted October 7, 2018 Share Posted October 7, 2018 29 minutes ago, EternallDarkness said: it would seem my xbox has died probably from playing so much Forza. It started freezing for a few moments here and there over the last day or so and now I keep getting "GAME X took too long to start' or some such nonsense. So if I pick up a new one do I just plug my external drive into the new one? Have you tried doing a hard reset or restore before giving up on it. I occasionally get the "Game X took too long to load" but I just try again and it works. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
EternallDarkness Posted October 7, 2018 Author Share Posted October 7, 2018 2 minutes ago, The def star said: Have you tried doing a hard reset or restore before giving up on it. I occasionally get the "Game X took too long to load" but I just try again and it works. I've done the rest a number of times. What is the restore and what do you think that would do? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The def star Posted October 7, 2018 Share Posted October 7, 2018 14 minutes ago, EternallDarkness said: I've done the rest a number of times. What is the restore and what do you think that would do? The restore function pretty must resets everything and it will make you download the latest firmware upon boot up. So it pretty much makes it into a brand new xbox software wise. https://support.xbox.com/en-US/xbox-one/console/reset-console-to-factory-defaults Just make sure you move all your games and apps to your external so you don't have to redownload them. Have the restore function erase everything on the console. If you are still having issues. It could be your HDD so check that out. If you are still having issues after that then yeah you should probably get a new Xbox Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Paperclyp Posted October 7, 2018 Share Posted October 7, 2018 God I wanna get forza for my PC but I just don’t have the time for it right now. Edit: Hmmmm I just realized I can do the two week free trial. That might be perfect... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
HGLatinBoy Posted October 8, 2018 Share Posted October 8, 2018 1 hour ago, EternallDarkness said: seagate I believe. I don't have a 4K tv and have no plans to pick one up anytime soon so I doubt I'll get the X You dont' need a 4K TV to enjoy the benefits of an Xbox One X. I don't have a 4K TV either but I still wouldn't buy a shitty old Xbox One from 2013 in 2018. Before you were getting 720p'ish at 60 fps and 1080p'ish at 30 fps. With an Xbox One X you'll get 1080p at 60 fps with better textures and effects and in the future you'll get 4K'ish at 30 fps But seriously the 1080p 60 fps is probably the most compelling reason to get a Xbox One X aside from 4K movies Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Keyser_Soze Posted October 8, 2018 Share Posted October 8, 2018 The X still has supersampling so you can see the benefits without having a 4K TV, unless you have a 720p, which I wouldn't be shocked if you did. There's really no reason to aim low when it comes to technology. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
EternallDarkness Posted October 8, 2018 Author Share Posted October 8, 2018 17 minutes ago, Keyser_Soze said: The X still has supersampling so you can see the benefits without having a 4K TV, unless you have a 720p, which I wouldn't be shocked if you did. There's really no reason to aim low when it comes to technology. lol my tv isn't that old. Just don't know if an X is the extra 200 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cusideabelincoln Posted October 8, 2018 Share Posted October 8, 2018 45 minutes ago, EternallDarkness said: lol my tv isn't that old. Just don't know if an X is the extra 200 It's way more powerful; totally worth it. Newer games will do things like increase texture quality, draw distance, framerate, shadows, and lighting on top of supersampling. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The def star Posted October 8, 2018 Share Posted October 8, 2018 2 hours ago, EternallDarkness said: lol my tv isn't that old. Just don't know if an X is the extra 200 It means you can play Forza Horizon 4 at 1080p/60fps Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
EternallDarkness Posted October 8, 2018 Author Share Posted October 8, 2018 well it looks like it's my external drive! I have like 2.5 TB of games on the damn thing Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Keyser_Soze Posted October 8, 2018 Share Posted October 8, 2018 That seagate quality Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
EternallDarkness Posted October 8, 2018 Author Share Posted October 8, 2018 29 minutes ago, Keyser_Soze said: That seagate quality Quality indeed. Though not really any better than WD (had an external drive for my PC which failed as well.) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JPDunks4 Posted October 8, 2018 Share Posted October 8, 2018 How large is your external? I currently have like 12TB of external plugged into my Xbox, and I've yet to have issues with any of it thankfully. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
EternallDarkness Posted October 8, 2018 Author Share Posted October 8, 2018 5 hours ago, JPDunks4 said: How large is your external? I currently have like 12TB of external plugged into my Xbox, and I've yet to have issues with any of it thankfully. 4TB Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
skillzdadirecta Posted October 8, 2018 Share Posted October 8, 2018 So it was the external Harddrive and not the Xbox? I get that message every now and then too and all it takes a s power cycle to fix. I don't think your Xbox is dead... neither of mine are. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AlwaysDyingX Posted October 8, 2018 Share Posted October 8, 2018 I came in here expecting a parody rant from a "Sony Pony". I leave so disappointed. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Spawn_of_Apathy Posted October 8, 2018 Share Posted October 8, 2018 20 hours ago, EternallDarkness said: seagate I believe. I don't have a 4K tv and have no plans to pick one up anytime soon so I doubt I'll get the X Even if you do not get a 4k tv the X still gives you benefits over the One and S. It downsamples from 4k to 1080p, so you can still get a bump in graphics. Frame rates are more stable on X. Faster load times too. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TomCat Posted October 8, 2018 Share Posted October 8, 2018 Dude even doe it seems like your problem is fixed you would greatly benefit from getting the X. I dont have a 4k Tv and I can tell you the difference is extreme. The Supersampling down from 4k makes it totally worth it. I dont even want to play the original xbox anymore. The load times are probably twice as fast. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
EternallDarkness Posted October 8, 2018 Author Share Posted October 8, 2018 47 minutes ago, TomCat said: Dude even doe it seems like your problem is fixed you would greatly benefit from getting the X. I dont have a 4k Tv and I can tell you the difference is extreme. The Supersampling down from 4k makes it totally worth it. I dont even want to play the original xbox anymore. The load times are probably twice as fast. I probably could benefit from an X, but I'll wait til it's less than 500 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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