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Xbox One X Pre-Launch Discussion Thread
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Jup. At the end it will be 103 total. Thats without the vids.
Thanks.
Good grief. I am carrying over my 2TB external drive from my S but I am definitely going to have to get another drive or upgrade to 4 or 8TB soon enough.
You can do either, but moving games to external is much more efficient. You can jus5 play them from that drive...
:'( Apparently I won't be getting my Scorpio Edition until after the first week of launch. I got off of chat support for Microsoft and the console will not ship until the day of release. I can't change the shipping method (which is Standard) so... looks like I will wait to play Wolfenstein and Assassins' Creed Origins for another week. Blegh.
No more blurry Overwatch confirmed. Stayed sharp the entire time I played. Kinda crazy to see every detail all the time - I've gotten so used to dynamic resolutions going low.
But whoa, this box makes some noise when playing Gears 4 with Visual Rendering Preference. It's similar to its quiet idle dashboard noise when in the menus or loading screens, but it ramps up when the campaign gameplay starts. Not original 360 loud, but you can hear it through some closed headphones if your console is nearby (assuming my unit is representative of an ideal one).
Performance Rendering Preference doesn't make the box anywhere near as loud. And even with some very noticeable drops, performance mode is really cool. It'll be my obvious choice as someone with only 1080p displays. Bring on more higher framerate enhancements!
But whoa, this box makes some noise when playing Gears 4 with Visual Rendering Preference. It's similar to its quiet idle dashboard noise when in the menus or loading screens, but it ramps up when the campaign gameplay starts. Not original 360 loud, but you can hear it through some closed headphones if your console is nearby (assuming my unit is representative of an ideal one).
Performance Rendering Preference doesn't make the box anywhere near as loud. And even with some very noticeable drops, performance mode is really cool. It'll be my obvious choice as someone with only 1080p displays. Bring on more higher framerate enhancements!
Where are you from?& when did u preorder
Im gonna be disappointed it I have to wait longer for mine lol
I'm no SunhiLegend with game captures, but I'll see what I can do. I'll switch Gears 4 back over to visual mode~
Phew, this console is hot! Def ain't (relatively) quiet and cool like the original Xbox One once it's in an enhanced game.
Are the end of match victory poses super clear, sharp and high res now?
No, Overwatch is not enhanced. However, it's the first game I just played on my Xbox One X and it seemed to stay at 1080p throughout (though I'm no Digital Foundry), due to how X1X boosts unenhanced games with dynamic resolutions. It's a really nice automatic upgrade for OW on Xbox One imo.
No blurry endgame lineup screen is nuts.
I am from South Dakota, USA. Preordered the day preorders went live for the Scorpio Edition.
Is it a consistent fan noise or did you notice it going up and down like the Pro? For example when going to the menu does it immediately get way quieter or does it slowly ramp down?
Was that blurry? I don't recall. I haven't played OW in so long on X1.
This is the thing that scares me the most. I know they aren't dumb enough to have a repeat of the 360 red ring era by not testing these things thoroughly but everything I've seen about these systems have been 1) how they are basically the same size 2) how heavy they feel 3) how densely everything seems to be packed in there. Seems like bad news to me
Running games in 4K that the size of the box is shouldn't really warrent this reaction. 4K is taxing.
Pretty sure some MS support staff have no idea what there doing/talking about. I was told to expect mine on the 7th with no delays.
This isn't going to be a helpful comment, but I think I'll have a hard time feeling down or critical about anything like this as someone who won one. Normally I'm hyper particular about any general drawbacks, or what I consider to be manufacturing defects. I look forward to Digital Foundry sharing their objective reports.
I hoping other people's consoles, especially the majority who are paying for it, get a unit they're comfortable and happy with. Maybe mine is noisier than most - and I've only played one enhanced game for a few minutes so far.
It can't hurt to have peace of mind I suppose. It's about $60 though.
Yup I was afraid of that. Should've prioritized silence over the smaller size, when you've made room for the console you won't ever think about a bigger size but a noisy console will annoy you until the end of time :(
People are being naive if they expected a quiet console. You have a small machine, with an internal PSU, working overtime - how exactly did you expect the heat to be expelled? Sheer will alone? Until water-cooled consoles are produced, you will always have noise.
I hope so! I ordered both Assassin's Creed Origins and Wolfenstein II for Xbox One, but am holding off so I can play them on One X. It is getting harder to wait given all the good things I have heard about both, especially the latter.
Remember when Microsoft said something about their "vapor chamber" and everyone thought it was water cooled? Good times
Oh neat, I didn't realize they updated that process. Also neat that you can pick and choose which content to move over.
Would it? I would think it might be faster to go over a gigabit network than to the HDD. It always seemed kind of slow when I was transferring to the external drive on my current system.
Nah. If I bought an extended warranty for every purchase like this, I would end up spending more money than the cost of what it would take just to replace it on my own.
Who thought that tbh. Vapor chambers have been around forever.
Uh, I should test it more, but Gears 4 Visual mode gets abruptly quiet when you exit from gameplay to the menu initially (and then it starts ramping up again). Not consistent in my short experience. Unfortunately, I don't experience with a PS4 Pro as reference.
I wish I had a 4k TV to get a feel for if the extra noise during Gears 4 Visual mode is worth it. I get the feeling it very well might be.
aren't vapor chambers just pockets that make the heat go up? I'm certainly not an expert in any of this shit. That being said, when the Xbox One X was announced I saw a ton of chatter of it being water-cooled, hell look a few posts above us
I mean there is a bit of liquid involved, but it's not being pumped. It's just using water in a 'vapor chamber' to help transfer heat away.
Ugh, well thanks for sharing. I personally hate it when I can constantly hear the fan adjusting to whats going on on screen. Was hoping they did that better with the XB1X.
So, it's bad design basically. I really don't have to have a small console with internal PSU, I never had a problem with the external 360 PSU or the big XB1. A noisy console is sooo much more annoying imo, the talk about the noise differences on PS4 Pro is the main reason why I didn't buy one, my PS4 is almost at 360 level of noisy so I don't want to fall into that trap again. If Xbox One X is equally noisy then I'll be very very disappointed and I won't be quiet about it.
Hopefully it's quiet as a UHD bluray player at least.
Well obiously. I just thought they would have a good cooling solution to counter that. Loud fans is not a thing I want in my console.