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pumaphil89 schrieb:

sag mal Boarder hatte man als deutscher/europäer überhaupt eine chance?

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n385055 schrieb:

pumaphil89 schrieb:

sag mal Boarder hatte man als deutscher/europäer überhaupt eine chance?

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Ja, definitiv! Soweit ich das mitbekommen habe, wurden die Europäer sogar bevorzugt!

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Boarder schrieb:

Und bevor einige gleich weider rumschreien.... das Video kommt nur beim ersten Start.....

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Gerri schrieb:

mh soll ich mir das Starter Pack mit 60GB holen oder gleich die 120er?

Die 60er kostet dann ja 60€ (20 muss man von den 80 für die 3Monate ja abziehen) und die 120 gibts bei der Grotte für 109......

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dweezzu schrieb:

Hier ein Vergleichsvideo von IGN.
Fable II, normal und per installation gespielt.

http://media.xbox360.ign.com/articles/924/924651/vids_1.html

Nicht soo tausendprozentig aussagekräftig, aber ich freu mich total auf die Funktion.
Nur wirds knapp mit meienr 20 (/14) GB-Platte

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Grand Theft Auto IV
While 1 minute and 20 seconds might not be a long time, when you’re itching to roam the streets of Liberty City, it can seem like a small eternity. That’s how long it took to go from the dashboard to taking control of Nico. Could help be on the way? I certainly hoped so. After waiting a little over 10 minutes to install the game, I gave it another shot. The verdict? The hard-drive installation saved me about 25 seconds. Better yet, it was whisper quiet, which was a nice change of pace from the racket that the DVD drive usually spat out. Load times between missions were also reduced, and the whole experience felt tighter overall.

Halo 3
After see how GTA fared, I was stoked to see if Halo 3 would benefit from the same treatment. The initial time was 1 minute and 3 seconds from title screen to gameplay—shorted than GTA IV’s stock time, but still a little slow. The install time was shorter this time, with the 6.8 GB file taking around at 7 minutes and 18 seconds to install, but the results were a disappointment. One minute and 3 seconds. To be fair, it’s not like Bungie advertised time savings, and there aren’t any guarantees.

Viva Pinata 2: Trouble in Paradise
Viva Pinata 2 enjoyed the most dramatic time savings in my experiment—going from 1 minute and 2 seconds to 35 seconds after a 9-minute install. Loads throughout the game were reduced, too, which is a boon to anyone who enjoys fiddling around in the virtual garden but gets tired of watching spinning load boxes. It took 5.2 GBs of space on my hard drive to install the game files.

Fallout 3
I was originally pretty happy with how quickly the game loaded up, and while 48 seconds doesn’t exactly set any land-speed records, it beats some of the other loading times out there. After waiting 8 minutes and 37 seconds for the 5.9 GBs worth of files to install, I gave it another shot. The second time around, times were cut to an even better 25 seconds from the dashboard menu to the action. I also timed the loading times for transitioning between inside and outside game environments. Before installing the game, these transitions took about 20 seconds; afterward, it was halved. If you’re planning on spending a serious amount of time with the game, that time savings is going to stack up over time.

Rock Band 2 (anecdotally)
The first game I downloaded to my hard drive was Rock Band 2, and I didn’t time the process, unfortunately. I don’t have hard numbers to back up my impressions, but everything about the game felt faster after doing so. The time between songs in multi-track sets was reduced, so my virtual band doesn’t have to wait around awkwardly as the music is retrieved. The initial loading time is a lot faster, too.

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So when it’s all said and done, is it worth ripping your games? I’d have to say yes, with a few caveats. If you’re only planning on renting or borrowing games from your friends for a few days, it’s probably not worth going through the process. (You can’t play the game without having it in the drive, either, before you get any sneaky ideas.) I’d recommend it mostly for games that you play a lot and plan on playing a lot in the future. If you run out of space on your drive, you can delete the game data without compromising any associated save games.

Microsoft is playing up the noise reduction, but having speedier game experiences is certainly a welcome side effect of ripping games. When I spoke with company reps a few weeks ago, while they didn’t seem to think that developers would specifically optimize disk-based games for such functionality, they wouldn’t outright rule such a thing out entirely. For people who are as impatient as I am, let’s hope that kind of optimization is something that upcoming games are designed for. We’ve got other things to do than wait!

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