Is Dead Rising Out to Take Your Xbox 360 to the Grave? |
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Upon reading the various posts in one forum, we have taken note that a lot of players have been experiencing one or more of the following symptoms:
- the game continually hangs or freezes
- graphic glitches that are composed of sudden bright flashes or weird color patterns suddenly appearing on the screen
- freezing in the middle of loading saved games
- audio dropouts
- freezing while escorting survivors at various points
In the meantime, we'd like you to take a look at this video clip sample that shows the game freezing up:
Via ArsTechnica
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Microsoft Need To Fix Up! 1st POST ;@)
I havent had any problems with mine. Ever.
Before Dead Rising came in I did take it apart and replace the TIM with AS5.
It may well be the power supply. Keep it unplugged when not in use. As soon as I started to leave my power supply on permenantly (orange standby light) I started getting problems.
Now I leave my supply unplugged when not in use, and my 360 has been perfect ever since.
ive never had problems with my 360, ive even droped it (accidently), and its only frose up once. I have dead rising and i have had none of these problems.
At where the persons 360 is in this video, theres not enough air getting to hes/shes 360. Its overheating.. A tip move your 360 from there and it will work fine.
I have a 360 too and I have never experienced any overheating problems and I don't even have that much room for my 360. Barely an inch on both sides (my 360 is in a vertical position) but quite some room behind it. The main problem is not that there is not enough room for the air to get out but not enough cooler air to get in. In spaces like in this video the air can only escape going by the intake of the 360 meaning the hot air gets sucked back in and thus heats even more. Hot air always goes up so try to leave a lot of room behind and above the xbox and you will be fine. I do and I never had any problems with heat although I had a few days with 35°C room temperature in mid summer.
My 360 froze on DR 2 times, and it always do in the same circumstances, when I have an incoming message froim Otis and try to exit the current area.
anyway it never froze out of normal circumstances. Like in Oblivion it freezes if I duplicate items in too great number.
if your 360 is well placed you won't have any problem.
I havent had any problems on either 360s at my house over the weekend which had at least 10+ hours of play. I bought both in the first 2 shipments. Maybe just another wave of internet bashing of 360s after a popular communtity game??
But I use the intercooler for insurance really. I do have it in a open area with plenty of ventilation but just that little extra is nice. Plus when the game is on you can't hear it anymore
I have bought the console 2 days ago because I wanted Dead Rising and Oblivion so badly. It freezed about 3 times in 2 days playing Dead Rising and 1 time playing Oblivion. It is in a cool place and it's greatly ventilated. Thinking about switching my console for another one right about now.
I was just gonna go pick this up, now in a way i want to wait. I have my 360 in a prety ventalted area, but i still get errors somtimes after about 2 hours od play.....
i wonder hos it will handle
h a l o 3
But Saint Rows demo did! crap
While I know its kinda stupid the problems you have to do to keep it cool but its obvious in this video why his is freezing, None of the air coming out of the back is escaping. I have my 360 Vertical on my desk next to my Monitor (everyone thinks my 360 is 2nd Comp) and it doesnt freeze at all, One thing I can confirm is the NyKo intercooler does cause Red lights and has Ruined 1 of my HD's. 100% on that BTW.
Why not try to fix the problem yourself instead of trying to make a case about your 360 not working. Also with this guy set up he just turn to its side. It will be much cooler that way i have the same thing.
Enough of this. First off, Microsoft shouldnt have to fix anything. If you ask me, games freezing is the fault of poor development, not the console. When was the last time windows froze on you and you put your PC under a fan to fix it? I have a launch 360, wedged up between an old tank of a TV and a wall, with little to no room behind it, and the power supply sitting about 3 inches from it, and ive never had a problem. Oblivion has froze on me once during loading, and i did the cache clear (hold A while booting game) and it ran fine after.
Too bad this game is so buggy, I was seriously considering buying it.
The only problems I have had with Dead Rising is occasionally while in a cutscene the disc becomes unreadable. A box pops up and says disc may need to be cleaned. Now there is a way to not get this but you have to skip the cutscene. I now save after every successful escort. I sure wish the 360 wasnt such a pain in the ass to play.
I was thinking of getting this game, but now that I heard all these problems with the game like the small text. Now there is this. Is it really the game that's messing up the 360 or is it just the 360. My 360 is in good condition, but it has frozen a couple of times. These types of problems should have been fixed in the beginning. I hope these problems don't happen with other games like Gears of War, Mass Effect, or Halo 3.
" But some have reported that moving the console to a cooler spot has done the trick."
so you are telling me that when they moved the console in an opened area...they didn't have issues?
did everyone miss this part?
Its your xbox nothing like this happend to mines =)
never hapened to me
this game works great no problems yet but it leaves a round scratch around the disk like all my games idn why it does
... ive had 2 consoles since launch, 1st one fixed twice and second one is currently in for repair. Mine is well placed, infact its on a table top, so theres nothing surrounding it or near it, and the plugs are always switched off when out the house or at night. Suppose its just luck or not if your console doesnt brake
...putting their 360 in an enclosed space. My Dead Rising is fine, I haven't noticed any problems with it or any other game for that matter.
I have an idea.... maybe its freezing on you guys because you are a bunch of fat asses that sit around all day playing video games and stuffing your faces with calorie loaded foods. Maybe if you'd quit playing xbox 360 all day and go meet some women, you wouldn't be having issues.
Possible that the older systems have some issues?
I got mine in June and havnt had any problems with it, dead rising or any other game.
see what happens to 360 it freezes in side the box. you bought junk that is not able return to the store. that is why xbox 1 and 2 doesn't sell well in japan. japan hates its guts. there has been alot from the machine who isn't able to full %100 backwards compatible. i heard disc very bad. machine is too hot to touch. it never cools down. 4 blinks of doom = death of the machine. i can't believe people just don't read the manual to correct the problem. i have to buy HD-DVD whichs cost more again. no microsoft support just computer machine on phone. and don't forget about the glitches in the games.
And what happened with the PS2 hmmm?
Hahaha "too hot to touch". Please stay off American sites you nazi
s#!t im sick of hearing xbox 360 messing up
I have had my copy of Dead Rising lock up twice. I took my 360 to a friends house since he never played one and I had audio dropouts and the game froze after an hour and a half. I think I scared him away from getting one.
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I've been playing it a fair amount and i've had about 6-10 freezes. Twice when i was running for a save point.. Piss me off... that and the text... otherwise a great game.
OK, now iknow this sounds kind of funny, but my 360 is over a year old and I never had real problems (it froze 2 or 3 times in the whole time). When I played the DR demo for the first time, it froze a couple of times. And from that on this sort of thing keeps happening over and over again. No matter if I play an COD2, PacMan or DR. I called customer support and they told me to send it in for repair. I think the problem isn't DR itself, but was the all-night-download that caused some kind of overheating (though the console and the power supply were perfectly ventilated and never seem to be to warm). But it sure is a funny coincidence!
edit to #34
it's over half a year old, not a year.
Sorry!
Playing Dead Rising this past Friday, game freezes, shut down console, powered it back on, no ring of light, no picture, controllers wont connect.
Called support, had me fiddle with all the connections, nothing worked, said to send it back, warranty expired, $130 to fix. Sucks.
F'ing thing lasted less than a year. Can't do a thing about it.
I don't know if this was really because of Dead Rising, but it is a coincidence. I hope it was because of the game though, maybe I can get my f'ing money back.
Good game though.
I only get SLIGHT frame rate drops when at night in the northern plaza, when you jump ontop of construction beams ect. But No freezes.
Never had a SINGLE game freeze on me. My xbox 360 is sitting in an entertainment center as well cooking, but still, no over heating signs, nothing.
My Power Supply though on the other hand, isnt even CLOSE to the 360, its on the other side of the entertainment center.
never had any problems with my 360 until dead rising. Game froze with vertical square artifacts, and that was that. No more 360.
Mine froze twice during the heat wave over here in Europe a few weeks ago. Not just with the DR demo, but with other games too, and always after about 45-60 minutes after a cold start. My solution:
I attached an old 8cm 12V PC fan to an adapter, and tie-wrapped the to the back of my console, as an extra outtake. Never had freezes or anything when room temperature was lower.
mine crashes every time in the helicopter scene i've got ten other games never hade a problem till i put d/r & only d/r crashes my mfr date is 12-8-06 w.t.f??? this over heating crap is a myth heck the thing crashes when system is only on for 2min' power brick my arse it's the system cpu or cheap dvd drive m's used to cut cost's crap like this make's me want to get out of gaming ever since ps1 came out people seem to just accept buggie systems im fed up!!!!!!!!!
I turned my XBox on, put the game in and hit start....it froze the system and gave me the Red Ring of CHAOS. I now have to send my system to MS for repairs. Never had any problems with the 360 previously.
Why doesnt Microsoft get it right, and stick to making SOFTWARE, not HARDWARE..there way over there head. They think that a successfull launch of there first XBOX, was going to be a sinch for the launch of 360..you uys dont know what your doing.. you send out products that arent even ready for the market..test your ***** right before you put it out..too many overheating problems/
Buddy from JP came over....Wanted to show him how fun Dead Rising was....played for about 45 min...game froze .....restarted system crashed at dashboard.....unplugged everything waited 30 min.......turned on and got the red lights of death......360 is only 5 months old, less than 100 hours played....called MS ....a box arrived the next day.....got 360 5 days later.....the lady at Puralator said "hey thats a 360 isn't it?" I replied "How did you know?"
"I've seen so many come thru that i can tell just buy looking at the box" thought that was pretty funny....
It can't be a heat problem, just like HINSDALE I turned it on after it had been off for a few hours, loaded up Dead Rising and it crashed on me after 3 mins or so. So far today it has crashed at least 8 times. (over a period of 7 hours - with time in between to cool down).
I have plenty of room at the back and sides of the 360 and the power box is "suspended" over a cut-open PSP box - giving that plenty of air to cool also.
So if it's not the heat killing my machine - what have Capcom done?! There must be MAJOR bugs still in the code of DR or we wouldn't be seeing such a mass posting on here or anywhere on the Web - funny how there's nothing on Capcom.com or Xbox.com --- has someone got something to hide?
My copy of DR exhibits graphical glitches and freezes frequently. None of my other 360 games exhibit these problems so I'm inclined to think Capcom is to blame.
I called Microsoft thinking that my 360 may be in need of service, and was told by MS that they are experiencing a very high volume of calls surrounding DR and its various glitches.
I don't expect to get anywhere with Capcom technical support, but I'm going to give it a whirl and will post any relevant findings.