Xbox 360 Fall Update

[magik]

Games disable it when they enter online mode to preserver your network for speed.

soem older games, the coders where sloppy and they just enabled online gamign mode when you started the game :)

Yea, that's what I meant by "bandwidth reasons"... or were you just trying to clarify it more? Heh :)

[zerolimit]

the way it looks like we are not getting any info until major nelson releases something! sucks!

[magik]

Yea, I haven't heard a peep about the update from any blog or official announcement yet. Strange.

[Nicholas-c Veteran]

a menu system i can use would be nice :p

[Ayepecks]

^^

A quicker way to shut down instead of having to go through the personal options (or settings, whatever), then shutdown would be nice, too.

(Don't say "press the button.")

[LightIdea]

^^^^

Errr... You just hold down the guide button, and you have an option to turn off the controller or the console.

[magik]

^^

A quicker way to shut down instead of having to go through the personal options (or settings, whatever), then shutdown would be nice, too.

(Don't say "press the button.")

Yea, EchoNoise beat me to it. Doesn't get much easier/faster than that. If you think it should, you're really lazy/impatient. :p

[Elessar]

BROWSER

i dont care what anyone says about it not being a computer and just a console...theres f'in media center/ movie dls/ they want it to be a computer but not giving the browser...and i really want a browser on my 360

Codec...other stuff would be nice too.

A browser would be great, especially if they implemented it so that you could press the guide button and navigate to the browser while in the middle of a game and browse the web.

I would take more codec's over a browser though if i had to chose. .avi would be a dream come true.

[HawkMan]

alternatively, the power button on the media remote works pretty well too :)

[.Markus]

Personally, I only need 16*10 support, plus DivX/XviD codecs...

[NoLiMiT06]

Still with my first vote, browser :p oh and hey while they are at it include Office 2007... :p

[Cormier6083]

I heard they are switching the Black screen to a Blue one now.

lol, j/k.

[neoadorable]

guju's right, she's a computer alright.

a browser would be super awesome, and yes nolimit, office as well.

[Kushan]

I'd actually like to see something along the lines of Folding@Home as well.

[Olemus]

folding@home was announced for it ages and ages ago but nothing more was said. Besides with all the consoles issues, i dont think id be running it very much.

[magik]

folding@home was announced for it ages and ages ago but nothing more was said. Besides with all the consoles issues, i dont think id be running it very much.

IINM, Folding@Home was announced for the PS3 by Sony... not by Microsoft.

[Guest]

IINM, Folding@Home was announced for the PS3 by Sony... not by Microsoft.

There has been something similar hinted at in the past.

http://www.gamesindustry.biz/content_page.php?aid=24855

[DrunknMunky Veteran]

folding@home was announced for it ages and ages ago but nothing more was said. Besides with all the consoles issues, i dont think id be running it very much.

Indeed, Folding@Home was never announced for the 360, but in an interview last year, Peter Moore said they were interested in it and they may offer something similar on the 360. That's the last heard of it afaik.

[PL_ Veteran]

I heard the 360 simply isn't powerful enough for F@H.

[Olemus]

I thought it had been announced but im probably wrong, the 360 is powerful enough though.

[HawkMan]

That's stupid.

Anything can do folding. how ffective it can do folding is an entirely different matter.

Due to the way the PS3 Cell CPU works it's extremely effective at folding type calculations. While the 360 wouldn't be as aeffective, it's 3 real cores would be VERY effective still, and wouldn't be that far behind the Cell. and certainly faster than most x86 based dual cores computers out there.

The 360 would be able to do folding just fine. and with the numerical advantage in users, the 360 as a whole would probably outperform the PS3's.

[Kushan]

Actually the thing about folding is that it uses floating point calculations. Now although the CELL will outpace the 360's processor when it comes to floating point operations, the 360's GPU is essentially a dirty great big Floating point processor (all 3D graphics cards are) and rumour has it, it'd be more effective, if not just as effective, at folding@home than Sony's CELL.

[Smashing Pumpkin]

I don't know if I would be comfortable leaving my 360 on to fold.

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[cha0s]

until I feel comfortable leaving my 360 on all the time and not worry about over heating, I'm not taking the chance of coming back to a 360 with RROD. Sorry, but my folding@home experiance will have to stay with the PC.

Now on topic: I think my vote would have to be for xvid/divx codec support.

Anybody know when the standard "fall updated" arrives? being new to the 360 scene, this would be my first "fall update"

[HawkMan]

I leave my 360 on all the time. either in pause in a game, in a game menu or on the dashoard, or any number of things. but generally it usually spends more time on than off.

If I get a RROD then I'm protected by MS warranty. and besides the RRORD is probably more likely to occur form turnign yoru 360 off anyway, seeing as the issue happens because of deformatiosn in the materials due to heatign then cooling down then heating again. wich is why it usually tqakes some time for the issue to appear.

nad yeah, I just wanna know when it arrives. at this point hoping for any specific features isn't going to change anything. but from MS changes regarding MCE's it seems likely that we will get divx/xvid support, wich would mean I'd use the media center a lot more than I currently do.