Xbox One Console Thread

[stefcha]

15 minutes ago, SeanR said:

its still very slim, but if you want to increase your chances there are ways and means.

 

 

Increase your chances of a fire? We need look no further than your fine example of a disaster-waiting-to-happen setup

[wavey]

9 minutes ago, stefcha said:

That also means you've probably fucked your chances of performing some minor chicanery in order to get up to 3 years worth of Ultimate for £3 a month, thus saving yourself up to around £275.

 

Depending on how attached you are to your Gamertag, there's always the nuclear option of abandoning it and starting a new one to get the 3-years cheap deal. (It's what I did recently, but I never play multiplayer, so don't care about friends lists, and don't have many purchases on my old account.)

[T Pot]

1 hour ago, stefcha said:

That also means you've probably fucked your chances of performing some minor chicanery in order to get up to 3 years worth of Ultimate for £3 a month, thus saving yourself up to around £275.

 

You can do this at any time using the cheap GamePass link in the bargains thread. Current price works out at £3.50 per month for GP Ultimate.

 

Edit: @wavey no need to do that really! Just do this one, you can keep extending at the cheap price too.

[SeanR]

1 hour ago, stefcha said:

 

 

Increase your chances of a fire? We need look no further than your fine example of a disaster-waiting-to-happen setup

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[stefcha]

1 hour ago, Mr Tony said:

You can do this at any time using the cheap GamePass link in the bargains thread. Current price works out at £3.50 per month for GP Ultimate.

 

I said that in the next paragraph, and it was £7.99 when I checked hence £4 per month. Still better than £10.99 per month either way obviously.

[T Pot]

17 minutes ago, stefcha said:

 

I said that in the next paragraph, and it was £7.99 when I checked hence £4 per month. Still better than £10.99 per month either way obviously.

 

Ah yeah I see it's changed again. It jumps up and down in price a couple of times a week I've noticed.

[womblingfree]

I played Halo CE last night. Great! 
 

Except now the XboxOneX is stuck in 640x480 and won’t even let me turn it back to 4k manually. WTF??

 

Restarting hasn’t worked either.

 

Edit: ok, turning it off fully in settings worked, but fucked if I’m going to do that every time I fancy a game of Halo.

[Quest]

I've had a few things like that since buying a One X. Somehow, opening certain screenshots would shunt the resolution to something unsupported by my TV. No idea why it was happening, but only a hard reset by holding down the power button for about ten seconds sorted it

 

[Mars]

1 hour ago, womblingfree said:

 

Except now the XboxOneX is stuck in 640x480 and won’t even let me turn it back to 4k manually. WTF??

It’s downgraded itself to a normal Xbox One  

[ScouserInExile]

6 hours ago, SeanR said:

Man trained to deal with fires, deals with fires shocker. I’m not sure that someone who job is “fires”... scale it up, how many electrical appliances does he not attend fires for?

 

To put it another way:

 

everyone on this forum is up to their eyeballs in electricals. 4000+ members. Yeah? How many of you had had an electrical fire that wasn’t your own fault?

 

its still very slim, but if you want to increase your chances there are ways and means.

For a kick off, which bit of describing her as "my cousin's daughter" made you think she was a man?

 

Secondly - the fact that they get called out to fires caused by electrical items catching fire shows there's no harm in being cautious, because it does happen. I've never been in a car accident where wearing a seatbelt prevented me from getting hurt, doesn't mean it doesn't happen or that I don't wear a seatbelt every time I'm in a car

 

And thirdly and finally - I had it happen to me. As mentioned in my post, my PC caught fire. An ide to sata power converter that had been in there for years suddenly decided it wanted to burn my house down. It failed, but the way, though it did have a good go.

 

@rafaqat was being a bit snidey with his post, IMO. A short step from twirling a finger next to their head.

[womblingfree]

2 hours ago, Mars said:

It’s downgraded itself to a normal Xbox One  

640x480? It’s downgraded itself to an original Xbox. 

[Superunknown]

That's great, you can play JSRF now!

[Superunknown]

59 minutes ago, ScouserInExile said:

Secondly - the fact that they get called out to fires caused by electrical items catching fire shows there's no harm in being cautious, because it does happen. I've never been in a car accident where wearing a seatbelt prevented me from getting hurt, doesn't mean it doesn't happen or that I don't wear a seatbelt every time I'm in a car

 

We'd really need to know what percentage of those electrical fires are started by well made, standards-approved devices/plugs/whatever, and what percentage are started by cheap imported shite people have bought from eBay/Amazon/their local market.

 

There's nothing wrong with being cautious, but I would guess that the vast majority of such fires are caused by sub-standard components, and not the PSU from a Virgin or BT-supplied modem.

[JPL]

Obviously, there’s nothing wrong with being cautious, if that’s your thing, but you can’t start complaining things that haven’t fully installed are disappearing from your downloads list if you’re switching off your console AND router before it’s had chance to download!

 

Just leave them plugged in and stick your Xbox in instant on with background downloads activated. If your house burns down I’ll buy you a new one.

[Mr. Gerbik]

Either download one game at a time while your Xbox is on. Or, if you absolutely must download a few dozen all at once, then you'll have to leave the router on overnight for this one time. Those are the most sensible suggestions in this thread.

[mogawoods]

4 hours ago, JPL said:

Obviously, there’s nothing wrong with being cautious, if that’s your thing, but you can’t start complaining things that haven’t fully installed are disappearing from your downloads list if you’re switching off your console AND router before it’s had chance to download!

 

I didn't realise it was such a weird thing to do. I thought most people went round switching everything off before they left the house but I guess not.

 

I've also never had any problems with other consoles in this respect. The PS4 and Switch always resume downloads when I turn everything back on, as do Steam and GOG, I think. So does the Xbox, in fact, most of the time, and when it doesn't, it's because something has gone wrong. So, yeah, I shall continue to expect games consoles to resume downloads after breaks without power, and complain about them when they don't, particularly when some single file sizes are 100GB+ and BT broadband speeds here are under 5Mb/second (yes, that's 5 megabits - slooow).

[gooner4life]

1 minute ago, ann coulter said:

 

I didn't realise it was such a weird thing to do. I thought most people went round switching everything off before they left the house but I guess not.

 

I've also never had any problems with other consoles in this respect. The PS4 and Switch always resume downloads when I turn everything back on, as do Steam and GOG, I think. So does the Xbox, in fact, most of the time, and when it doesn't, it's because something has gone wrong. So, yeah, I shall continue to expect games consoles to resume downloads after breaks without power, and complain about them when they don't, particularly when some single file sizes are 100GB+ and BT's broadband speeds here are under 5Mb/second.

 

You will be seriously hindering your broadband connection by turning your router off, particularly after prolonged periods downloading large amounts of data, it will keep trying to re-train your line believing the downloads have caused a period of instability and will reduce line speed and increase latency to try to achieve a more stable connection, the DSLAM will expect the modem to be on the majority of the time.

[mogawoods]

1 minute ago, gooner4life said:

 

You will be seriously hindering your broadband connection by turning your router off, particularly after prolonged periods downloading large amounts of data, it will keep trying to re-train your line believing the downloads have caused a period of instability and will reduce line speed and increase latency to try to achieve a more stable connection, the DSLAM will expect the modem to be on the majority of the time.

 

Well, I'm not leaving this rickety ass old BT hub switched on for too long at a time. It's got to be over a decade old and is clogged with dust. I don't trust it for shit. Thankfully I'm getting fibre in April so we can all relax in a couple of months. Mark it in your calendars.

[JPL]

15 minutes ago, ann coulter said:

 

I didn't realise it was such a weird thing to do. I thought most people went round switching everything off before they left the house but I guess not.

 

I've also never had any problems with other consoles in this respect. The PS4 and Switch always resume downloads when I turn everything back on, as do Steam and GOG, I think. So does the Xbox, in fact, most of the time, and when it doesn't, it's because something has gone wrong. So, yeah, I shall continue to expect games consoles to resume downloads after breaks without power, and complain about them when they don't, particularly when some single file sizes are 100GB+ and BT broadband speeds here are under 5Mb/second (yes, 5 that's megabits - slooow).

I just thought it was funny, that’s all!

 

As boozy said earlier, just pause the download before you switch everything off and you should be fine.

[Uncle Mike]

32 minutes ago, gooner4life said:

You will be seriously hindering your broadband connection by turning your router off, particularly after prolonged periods downloading large amounts of data, it will keep trying to re-train your line believing the downloads have caused a period of instability and will reduce line speed and increase latency to try to achieve a more stable connection, the DSLAM will expect the modem to be on the majority of the time.

 

That's probably not entirely true, especially for the sorts of speeds he's talking about. It's entirely reasonable, even if it seems old fashioned, for people to want to be able to turn things off and have them carry on working.

[rafaqat]

19 hours ago, ScouserInExile said:

For a kick off, which bit of describing her as "my cousin's daughter" made you think she was a man?

 

Secondly - the fact that they get called out to fires caused by electrical items catching fire shows there's no harm in being cautious, because it does happen. I've never been in a car accident where wearing a seatbelt prevented me from getting hurt, doesn't mean it doesn't happen or that I don't wear a seatbelt every time I'm in a car

 

And thirdly and finally - I had it happen to me. As mentioned in my post, my PC caught fire. An ide to sata power converter that had been in there for years suddenly decided it wanted to burn my house down. It failed, but the way, though it did have a good go.

 

@rafaqat was being a bit snidey with his post, IMO. A short step from twirling a finger next to their head.

 

He comes across as anxious about something which almost never happens. Electronics spontaneously bursting into flames.  So I was just asking if he was seeing someone about his anxiety.   Just an assumption.   No twirling of fingers.  Apologies if anyone took it that way.

 

[gooner4life]

13 hours ago, Uncle Mike said:

 

That's probably not entirely true, especially for the sorts of speeds he's talking about. It's entirely reasonable, even if it seems old fashioned, for people to want to be able to turn things off and have them carry on working.

 

I mean it is entirely true, it wont be so apparant on the sort of connection he has, but it definitely is what happens from a technology point of view, it probably isn't worth leaving the old router switched on now but i'd definitely recommend changing the behaviour once the Fibre gets installed, it's even more aggresive with VDSL lines.

[T Pot]

@wavey @stefcha - GPU is back to £3.40 a month

 

 

 

[Fletch]

I've just requested my first ever digital purchase refund, for Jalopy. I didn't really know what to expect but I didn't like it at all. I used the purchased in error option so I hope it works. 

[Hitcher]

How long did you play?

[Revival]

How long has Space Engineers been in development? 5/6 years? It's finally out on April 15th! id@xbox uploaded the wrong trailer early as The Survivalists...

 

 

 

 

 

[HarryBizzle]

Desperados looks great. Like one of the Commandos games. 

[womblingfree]

So I’ve had a my One X booting up into 640x480 several times now, not just when it’s been playing an old game. Only a full reboot fixes it which is really annoying.

 

Also had an issue where I was watching a 4k disc, paused it, and when I tried to start it up again I got the “your hdmi cable may not support...” whatever it was.

 

Rubbish.

[Super Craig]

Might be worth trying a different HDMI cable?

[Altabani]

36 minutes ago, womblingfree said:

So I’ve had a my One X booting up into 640x480 several times now, not just when it’s been playing an old game. Only a full reboot fixes it which is really annoying.

 

Also had an issue where I was watching a 4k disc, paused it, and when I tried to start it up again I got the “your hdmi cable may not support...” whatever it was.

 

Rubbish.

 

 

On the 360, holding down Y when booting reset the video output, does that still work on the One?