What are the advantages from Loading/Playing games off the 360 hard drive?

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  1. atomick

    atomick Regular member

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    From what I’ve researched the advantages of ‘Loading/ playing the game from the hard drive’ are:
    1 – Quicker loading times (Much quicker! I timed a load on ‘Quantum Of Solace’ and it went from disc load ’30 secs’ to hard drive load ‘10 secs’)
    2 – Installing the game to your hard drive fixes a lot of those texture loading issues on certain games like ‘Gears Of War 2’

    My question is: Are there any other advantages of Loading/Playing games off the hard drive?
     
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    Your 360 will be quieter.

    The DVD Drive's laser won't wear out as fast.
     
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  3. trav1085

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    Halo 3 told me I shouldn't use the hard drive caching feature or whatever as it said it will make the game slower as they optimized it to run from the DVD on Xbox's hardware.

    I would imagine this could cause problems with other games, thought not all developers are nice enough or smart enough to be aware of the problems
     
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    creaky Moderator Staff Member

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    I recently played Halo 3 (via hard drive) thru to completion with no slowdowns whatsoever. I have however read about the so-called caching problems allegedly associated with running games off the hard drive.
     
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    So far ‘Gears Of War 2’, ‘Tomb Raider Underworld’ and ‘Quantum Of Solace’ have run brilliantly off the hard drive! It really made a huge difference on ‘Quantum Of Solace’!
     
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    xbox will be quieter when you using hdd to play games, textures in advanced graphics games will load faster
     
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    food for thought...if you save game to hdd then i guess backing up games to cheaper media is not a big deal if all youre going to do is use it once to save it to hdd? yes, no?
     
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    chnky that is correct, it is only verifying the security via the disk therefore the cheap media should not strain the laser. However i would not suggest copying the game via that cheap media, but instead from the original.

    As far as saving to the drive one specific example i have heard of was it fixing the problem backed up copies of gta had w/ the benq drives (the graphics glitches). Plus the faster loading, saving the laser, and potentially better graphics, this is the reason that lead me to doing the hard drive mod.
     
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  9. chnky18

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    so rip it to hdd with original and then use cheap media for security verification....always looking for ways to save a few bucks.
     
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