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Xbox 360 And Dead Rising: A Disastrous Mix?

Posted Aug 26, 2006 at 2:29AM EST by Mabie A.

Listed in: Xbox 360 Tags: Capcom, customer service, Electronic Arts, Microsoft, Sony

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Speculations are running high as to the real failure rate of the Xbox 360, and Capcom's Dead Rising has been dragged along into the riptide. Apparently, at least as far as his own studio is concerned, Game Daily Biz has been tipped off by an EA employee yesterday that the actual failure rate of the Xbox 360 is much higher than the 3-5% statistics which Microsoft has released. The employee suggested that among the 300 consoles they received, in reality, the failure rate was as high as 30-50%, and being dragged right by the tail of this unpretty observation is Dead Rising, as it appears to be making the problem worse, with many of the consoles getting much hotter than usual when the said game is running.

The tipper has also complained about Microsoft's customer service, saying that owning and maintaining an Xbox 360 costs around 2 to 3 times more the price of Sony's PS3 once you factor in repair fees beyond the three-month warranty. In response to this, Microsoft has released a statement, claiming that "The length of warranty and repair charge for unwarrantied consoles is consistent with electronic industry standards. Microsoft prides itself on excellent customer service, and we encourage anyone with a concern about the functionality of their Xbox 360 to contact us at 1 800 4MY-XBOX."

And what of the role of Dead Rising in all this? The guess is that the game can use all three processor cores of the console simultaneously, thereby making the system run hotter than when playing other titles. What makes it worse is that this speculation seems to be supported by actual Xbox 360-Dead Rising horror stories circulating in the internet. Sites like Ars Technica and other gaming forums have posts regarding the same issue from their members.

In one such post, a user has noted that "Dead Rising is making zombies of 360 systems. This game killed my system last night; thankfully, I have a one-year product replacement plan so I already have a replacement, and apparently the demo did the same thing to another member of our forums. This could simply be coincidence, but as always make sure your 360 is well ventilated and nothing is blocking the vents. This game seems to put the hardware through its paces."

Dead Rising developer, Capcom however, has assured that there is no problem with the game, and that it is not the cause of the console's overheating. "The game works under the specs of the 360 system and was approved by Microsoft. For anyone having issues with hardware, we have referred them to contact Microsoft for hardware support," a spokesperson said. Thinking about it, it really is possible, after all, that there really are Xbox 360 titles that use multiple or all three cores of the consoles. In fact, Gotham Racing 3 and Ghost Recon Advanced Warfighter have also received similar complaints. So, the hypothesis is that certain Xbox 360 games really just make the system run hotter, without necessarily putting blame on the game title, or on the console itself.

A Microsoft representative though, has shrugged off the claims of the EA-employee-turned-tipper as being just an individual opinion, and that they have no reasons to believe that the claims made were based on any factual data. EA, on the other hand, has not yet broken its silence on this matter as of press time.

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My system is still performing beautifully, even with Dead Rising, N3, Madden 07, Oblivion, G.R.A.W., Fight Night, Kameo, Perfect Dark, Amped 3, and any of my other 10 games. People just need to place the 360 in a nice ventilated area, NOT smoke weed, and keep your damn house clean from dust. You want failure rates??? Check this November with PS3. Watch the news...unless "NOSY" payed them off too ;)

-V

# dead rising killed my box... — roseysdaddy 2006-08-26 04:30

...but all i had to do was take it to the mall and it came back to life. well, sorta came back to life...all it did after that was try to eat me.

# stupid people — Guest 2006-08-26 04:36

Well i have had my 360 from day one and no problems. I think it more has to do with people putting the system in places where there is no air getting into the system and also leaving the back of your tv stands and stuff in place where your 360 is going to blowing that hot air out is a big deal i always tell people to put the system where it can have air. I also think once the ps3 comes out is is going to have the same problems becasue people are just note use to these high end systems it's like putting a high end computer in a place where there is no air and it will end up doing the same thing it will just ***** out. if people would read the book the system comes with maybe they would have a clue.

# YES! I am not alone! My 360 started freezing only after I got DR — Guest 2006-08-26 05:02

YES finally some news about this. I NEVER had a problem yet with my 360. I keep it very well ventilated and even obsesivly keep the power unit suspended in air for propper air flow around the AC unit.

My 360 started to lock up ever since I got Dead Rising. Sometimes it will play for a while then I will try to boot up again and I get 3 green 1 red ring of light and the box wont start. After a few times of resetting it will boot up, sometimes I will have to play another game for a minute before trying dead rising again because it will freeze if I try to load it again. (usually on start up of system or game load)

It's Sooooooooo lame! So Microsuck thinks a 3 month warranty is just fine, but over 1 year later when a game comes out that fully uses the hardware finally, crashes the sytstem all the time. This is normal and ok????? I am so mad I am a loyal fan who spent like $1500 on xbox 360 junk so far, and my system is starting to freeze when playing a halfway decent game.... Nooooooooooo! Its not fair!!!!!!!!

Post 1 take your spam and shove it. The rest of the posts including 6: Why are you here you freeking morons?

# now dead rising sucks — Guest 2006-08-26 05:03

because it has revealed the 360's flaws, what a mind set.

# Bull — Guest 2006-08-26 05:11

Saying dead rising is the reason why many 360s are dying is such a false statement.

Thats like saying Perfect Dark Zero killed my first 360 only because it started to freeze at first during that game, but later on the freezing just happened anywhere...

Dead rising does freeze sometimes, but not causing the system to die, unless its only been a few months since you had your 360 and then it dies, thats just normal it seems, dont blame your dead rising, blame M$

# #8 — Guest 2006-08-26 06:01

i thought dead rising sucked long before this news popped out... douchebag.

# False information — Guest 2006-08-26 06:06

NO, NO, NO, NO, NO, Why is this happening? I have had my 360 from day one as one of my friends as well. We have never, ever had any problems with the 360 playing any of the games mention. The problem is, you have inexperienced gamers buying the 360 and not taking care of it. Keep it in open space and well ventalated. You would put your computer in a spot where it could get any air. Come on people. If we are going to move into the nex gen then we need to be prepared in no how to take care of our stuff. Think about it.

# I like honey on my peanuts. — Guest 2006-08-26 06:18

Well, I've always kept my consoles dust-free in an extremely well ventilated place and I'm still on my THIRD xbox360... Can't complain that much seeing as it didn't cost me a penny for either of the replacements and my latest 360 has never froze once. Not even during the DR demo. I'll just have to wait and see if the full game gives me any complaints.

# lol — Guest 2006-08-26 06:18

im laughing at all the dumbassess who think they are taking care of thier 360's and therefore it hasnt crashed.

My console has been clear of anything. its got a spot all its own and theres nothign surounding it , yet the *****er crashed and i had to send it in to get a new one.

the only other person i know who bought a 360 gave it back to gamestation because it crashed within a week.

thats two out of two. EA's 30-do percent failure rate is more believable than the 3-5 percent that micro***** are claiming, and its not like EA has any reason to lie about it.

the truth is that the hardware is damn buggy and all of you who think that its the users fault will get yours tooo hahahha....then you will join the darkside.

# Mine freezes occasionally but it doesnt bother me. Havent played DR (only the demo) — TheProfessor 2006-08-26 06:24

Perhaps I shouldn't get dead rising. BTW blaming DR is valid. It could be that there is bad code in the game that causes some infinite loop of processing making it heat up more than it has too.

Well I am not too surprise since this is the first game to actual use all three cores and I doubt MS tested that properly.

BTW those people saying, no that never happened to me, well yeah there are more people with good 360s than there are with bad ones. You should feel bad for them instead of saying they don't know how to handle their machines. MS announce 5% failure rate did you guys actually believe the number was this low?

# UPDATE from Mr. Mad, problem progressed to 3 red lights — Guest 2006-08-26 06:54

uh oh.

now my xbox wont start and im getting 3 orange lights. i didnt have 1 problem until DR and I started getting freezes.

Im not saying DR is at fault neccisarlily, its just that because it uses 3 cores and is a demanding game the xbox is running fullspeed and more suseptible overheating.

I wonder if they forgot to remove the foil on the chip inside my box... or if the first wave of machines are just faulty in some way.

Either way im getting 3 red rings, no startup and im pissed. This never happened until I played DR.... The game has showed me that the 360 hardware can't support games that actually show some sign of being next gen.

Also Texas Hold Em is freeking stupid as hell all the cheaters online ruined the whole game and someone needs to boot all the cheaters from live or please you morons test the game for @#$ like this before you release it!

# LOL, I like that. THe Darkside — Guest 2006-08-26 07:13

Well, its obvious by everyones complaints that there are some flaws with the 360. Fortunately I have not had a problem but hell you might here from me one day. LOL. The Darkside might call me. Anyway, all first consoles from any generation has issues. They will be all corrected in no time. PS3 will have there own issues that gamers will complain about. M$ has the right ideas and the money to put gaming into the next era. As does Sony but you know what IM AMERICAN and I will try my hardest to stick by our companies. Especially when they produce advances like the 360.

# Wow — Guest 2006-08-26 07:24

Seems legit too. EA has no reason to lie about this. My system from launch has had no problems tho

And before some fa.g comes in here with "PS3 FTW!!!!", if you don't think the PS3 failure rate will be high (especially after the PS2), you are fu*king stupid

Dead Rising is an awesome game, my system does not get hotter while playing it. This is just like that crap awhile ago, where some guys 360 *happened* to crash while he was playing PGR3, so all of a sudden, PGR3 crashes 360s. There's logic for you.

# This is what I don't like about this site. — Guest 2006-08-26 08:01

These are rumors and they put them up as facts. 30-50% is no where near the real failure rate, but neither is 3-5%. Assuming if it is 30-50% why did only one 360 stop working at E305 and none at E306? And do this include devkits from the beta and alpha stages?

# Heat Issues — Vietone 2006-08-26 08:18

The Xbox360 "should" have been designed to tolerate more undesirable locations.

Like most people you place the Xbox360 next to all of your other electronics. The worse place and most commin is above all the other entertainment equipment. The Recievers, DVD players, Set top boxes for all other things and all the heat from those will rise and flow through the Xbox360.

Above all the other electronics is a well ventilated area. Alot of air can pass through but the fact remains that the heat from all your other stuff heats the Xbox360 up till it dies.

The Xbox360 is a poorly designed console. Until Microsoft finally admits to that and makes a new revision, the fault is microsoft, if you cant place the console on carpet, then its not a well designed console.

# to number 4 — Guest 2006-08-26 08:34

"NOT smoke weed"

what the heck does that have to do with anything overheating on your xbox?

# HA — jaydogg691 2006-08-26 09:19

It's funny seeing fanboys defend their systems. Now after hearing all this bad news about Dead Rising, I don't know if I should buy the game or not. I had my 360 since launch and I haven't had any serious problems. The problems I usally get is when the 360 dashbord freezes when playing a game (mostly PGR3) and it won't come off. And the console has only frozen on me 2 times. So what is the problem, the games or the consoles. Being a 360 owner is a mystery, you won't know what will happen next.

# weed hasn't killed my box — Guest 2006-08-26 09:25

my launch box has been working fine from day one, weed smoke included.

infact of the 4 360s in my house, one needed replacing. it was very laggy even in dash, and was bought shortly before the faulty chips were discovered. the other 3 launch boxes have had no serious problems.

# Guest 2006-08-26 09:25

I Hope that this problem is really small and all faulty overheating X360 consoles will be exchanged to new in short time. We all know that all of the consoles had some issues (especially PS2) so what - nothing - if you have a warranty don worry about anything - i'm sure your console would be exchanged for new one and everything will be allright. :)

S**T happens so be sure that have your warranty. :)

# jerks — Guest 2006-08-26 09:36

For all those who poo poo that there is a problem with the Xbox 360 and blame the people whose 360 has been fried...

Vendetta upon you! I curse you all and hereby command that any and all entertainment hardware and software you own of any kind BREAKS down ONE day after the warranty.

Fuc*kers

Curse You!

# i forgot to mention — Guest 2006-08-26 09:39

i've been playing dead rising alot lately and aside from known issues with the game locking up, due to it's own various bugs, i have not had any problem with it negaively effecting my systems.

# real nice... — Guest 2006-08-26 09:47

# .... — Shatterdome 2006-08-26 10:34

Infinite loop of processing.....it's not freaking DR...and this EA dude could be any stupid ***** calling in an anonymous "tip"......wait till the PS3 comes out i'll call in pretending to be f8cking Ken himsself and tell everyone about the 80% failure rate of the PS3....

There have been Many games that use the triple core, and since the 360 is underclocked, if a game runs all 3 cores, then that's as fast as it's getting....no matter how much processing you make it do it's not going to go over a certain point. I've played the demo for hours and I constantly check the heat of my system (Well periodically) and it gets no hotter playing DR then it does playing oblivion, FNR3 or Halo 2......

It just never stops does it.....

# Still swaping — Guest 2006-08-26 10:38

I'm on my 4. xbox 360, hoping I won't have to send it anymore to repair :(

# ... — Shatterdome 2006-08-26 10:38

"since it is NOT underclocked..." sorry

Also this is talking abour red ring of death....not occasionaly freezing.....ALL computer systems will freeze at one point or another....i've yet to have a console that hasn't froze at least once....so far PSP and old school nintendo have frozen on me the most....my 360 has only frozen 4 times, 3 durring oblivion (no surprise with all the ***** that game is doing) and once durring FNR3....as long as I can reboot and it works, I don't care....

# Place on carpet? — Guest 2006-08-26 10:39

To Vietone, once again another dumb post. A poorly designed console? What about PS3? That thing is just as huge as the OG Xbox. Nintendo? Nah. They're cool people.

Place a console on carpet? You're stupid for doing that. Anyone doing that is stupid. Even during N64/Playstation 1 days, I never done that.

PS2 on carpet? what? no console should be on carpet. NONE. The ventilations are somewhat like a suction tube. Attracts dust like a magnet and not enough breathing room. It doesn't provide enough equilibrium either. YOu gonna put a PS3 on carpet?

Blame Dead Rising? Maybe. It's usually the console's fault though. Anyone buying a console today should always buy a one or two year warranty if available. Any choosing not to is a dumb*****. It's a big purchase.

Dead Rising was definitely rushed. No dialog when talking to people and alot of popup. Save system is bull because there's only one save slot available so it is constantly overwriting. The game doesn't suck though. It's fun. Button layout is not hard to learn. Easy to master. Simple. Kill thousands of zombies, fight psychopaths, save victims, and uncover the cases.

# HAH. — Guest 2006-08-26 10:41

Mine perfect no hick up ever. Sucks for the people who have bad systems while mine glides through everything.

# #10 — Guest 2006-08-26 12:20

Your an idiot. This game is pure genious. Game is incredibly fun. Your just a loser homo.

# #19 — Guest 2006-08-26 12:27

>>"The Xbox360 is a poorly designed console."

Says a poor excuse for a gamer.

;)

# hmm — Guest 2006-08-26 14:09

I think people really need to get their fanboy head out of Billy Gates a$$ for a minute and realize most failures with the 360 probably arent user error. Two of my friends my sisters fiancee and myself included have all had their 360 bite the dust. I was the only fool if you wanna call it that who didnt purchase the extended warranty, but out of every system i've owned i've never had one crap out on me and especially after only 4 months. IMO i'd say 30% failure rate sounds realistic.

If Sony actually delivers a decent system with a low failure rate ..that might be the nail that seals the coffin on the 360.

# hmmm...weird... — Vecha 2006-08-26 17:01

I've dropped my 360 5 times from a height of about 4 feet...and it hasn't had any problems...

then i've gone through 4 ps2s since it launched....

I don't think there is an answer...

# are you really 12 vietone? — Vecha 2006-08-26 17:08

" if you cant place the console on carpet, then its not a well designed console."

i guess the ps1 was a poorly designed console also....seeing as those who bought the first shipments...had to turn it UPSIDE DOWN for it to not mess up!

# i got my xbox360 from day1 — Guest 2006-08-26 18:35

and when i run dead rising after 2 hrs it burn up so i think there is some truth to that and i love my xbox360 damn M$ making such a *****ty console :(

# 40real — Guest 2006-08-26 18:36

these failure rates, are they from the launch systems or the ones recently releasing?

# . — Pyro 2006-08-26 19:59

any links to this being one of the few games using all 3 cores? Cuz im calling bs on this. every game should use all 3 cores, there's no reason not to. You guys are probably mistaken that it is programmed to thread seperately in all 3 cores so each core processes a different thing.

# Got me too — Guest 2006-08-26 21:56

Yea, that's really a pain when the system isn't even ment to run at full capacity. Not even one week after getting this game, I was out of a 360.

# Oh sure... — Guest 2006-08-26 22:27

Does anyone notice how these kind of reports ALWAYS comes from an anonymous source? Hmmm.

If 30%-50% of 360's were failing, the XBox 360 forums on the internet would go into meltdown with all the complaints from angry gamers! And yet, go to any XBox 360 forum and there's no sign of a third to half of gamers having problems with their 360!

# powerful xbox — Guest 2006-08-26 22:32

I think that its not the games. its the fact that developers are tryingto force the 360 to do what it cant. it chops and flikers and freezes with some games. Ive seen it. it just cant handle the games. its like trying to install doom 3 on an out-dated computer. you'll be playing frame by frame until it freezes. so much for the almighty 360.it might have the same graphics and look like the ps3 but will it play as fast and smooth. it might have the minimal requirments for the game but can it handle it.

# #44 — Guest 2006-08-26 22:45

---"its the fact that developers are tryingto force the 360 to do what it cant."

That's complete nonsense dave. Of course the 360 can handle it without problems, that's why the VAST MAJORITY of 360 owners are having NO problems with their console or this game.

Those that have a problem are the minority, which is unfortunately for them, just like it was unfortunate for those early Playstation gamers who had to turn their console upside down to get it to work and PS2 gamers with the dreaded Disc Read Error or DRE (as #37 mentioned and reported here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PlayStation).

---" so much for the almighty 360...blah blah blah"

That post makes you no different than all the lame gamers who years ago used to make fun of the Playstation and PS2 for having problems.

# Just so you know... — Guest 2006-08-27 01:09

My 360 works great thanks ;)

# 360 semi-crash 3 minutes into DR — Guest 2006-08-27 01:46

I manage vip pizza in tulare ca and have installed a 174 inch tv and a 90 inch tv and would like to get some x-box tournaments started,there-for I have bought and played every 360 title to date on my day 1 launch 360. I never have had any issues until i played DR, 3 minutes into it, it froze, after a few more tries with the same affects i got the 3 red lights,then i started opening it up and messing around with the controller connect button,oh and i formatted the hard drive,and the lights went away,only to return again when i tried DR again,then far cry,then hitman. After a day of screwing around with it i went and got another one and its playing DR fine, hopefully its just another heat sink problem like the original x-box but i dont know. In my opinion someone screwed up on the first 360 models but sent some out anyway, that would explain why everyone was shorted about half there orders,it was either that or announce that the 360 would not be in for christmas, which would have been a much bigger loss to microsoft,but hey thats my opinion and life goes on!!

# te — Guest 2006-08-27 04:12

I found a SOLUTION!!!!

I FOUND A SOLUTION!!!!!

GET OFF YOUR FAT ASSES AND QUIT PLAYING XBOX 360 ALL DAY LONG. GET A JOB. GET A GIRLFRIEND. Then, and maybe then, your xbox will work perfectly fine like everyone elses.

# dead rising fried my 360,too! — Guest 2006-08-27 05:58

after awhile the screen started to lock up and eventually it corrupted my whole system. 160 hours of oblivion gone forever! thanks god i paid for the extended warranty at launch. microsoft said that it would be $130 to fix it. be careful with dead rising!!!

# teee — Guest 2006-08-27 06:35

Ummmm.... who plays 160 hours of OBlivion/?? WHAT A LOSER!!!!!!!! (I bet thats the same ***** thats played over 10,000 online matches of Fight Night Round 3) aahahhaa

# who cares — Guest 2006-08-27 06:45

so what if they freeze up from time to time, I got my 360 at launch, played most of the games and nothin major has happened and I play about 5 or 6 hours/day so it's all just bull*****

# My system died. — Guest 2006-08-27 11:19

Now I'm not saying it's 100% Dead Risings fault but my 360 died at the end credits of Dead Rising. It also froze multiple times before that. At the credits, after only a short time of playing, my system froze and then I got the 3 red lights and never got it back after that. (tried all the steps people have taken) I had a launch system and didnt have a single problem since day one, not even one freeze, until now. I also have it very well ventilated and air conditioning in the room. But even with all that the heat was pumping from the system. Unfortunately I didn't have the warranty anymore (launch system) and $130 scared me. So I went to my local walmart, and told them I lost the reciept and a friend bought it for me (sorry I know dishonest, but I don't have that cahs laying around). Now my newer system seems to play with less heat coming out of it. Microsoft seems to have made improvements on the system since launch.

Just my thoughts.

# day 1 — Guest 2006-08-27 12:30

have had it since launch no problems nothing play dead rising for hours and nothing whats up with people and ripping on MS cause they were the first with next gen im sure ps3 will have some problems

# hmm — Guest 2006-08-28 01:49

so wait wait your telling me that your all going to believe something EA said about CAPCOM'S dead rising? really now thats like believing anything sony says about microsoft! if a rival company talks ***** about another company that usually means something. i personally have 3 cores and a prem in my house and my nephew has a core all ranging dates and mine havent frozen not even once. however ill be honest and say his freezes but that is cuz he keeps it under a pile of laundry. given the 360 has a few flukes but what console doesnt these days and all following gens will have similar errors till new cooling methods are put in to production. anyways thats my 2 cents.

# also on another note — Guest 2006-08-28 01:54

dead rising cant possible kill a 360 most of u that have a dead 360 from it either got a flawed one that just couldnt take the extra heat, or just didnt give it room to ventilate. any idiot knows a game cant permiently damage a system only screw it up whenever said game is in. but rebooting and taking the game out always works. just remeber the 360 pulls out ALOT of heat u cant just stick it anywhere. and dead rising does raise the cpu temp up a little and if u dont take care of your system the heat could fry a chip (although seeing as how cpu's and chips are designed to handle well over the heat it usually handles. i can still happen)

# whats with the h@t3 — Guest 2006-08-30 11:56

I am a PS owner and proud of it not a fanboy not got an xbox thinking of investing so I got an opinion form a Sony fan who dont wanna pay stupid PS3 prices.

1. XBOX first batch was rushed just like PS2 and PS3 will have the same prob.

2. People do understand the heat probs apart from the few but to be 100% honest the 360 SHOULD have come with better ventilation thats MS fault but you can buy something to help cool it if you so wish too althought paying for a console and then something to cool it isnt fair..just like the hd/dvd seperate but PS players are used to it look at the dvd remote and multitap and even PS2 HDD. So invest in a cooler if your worried.

3. The way I see only 30% of launch consoles will have a prob the few that are faulty just hardly used so you never noticed b4 that it was faulty..

4. MS did f*'k the 360 up but you can fix there mistakes with a couple of accesorys although this game may cause overheating Im 100% sure gears of war and Halo 3 will use all 3 cpu and do exactly the same you not gonna buy them 2??

# to 48 — Guest 2006-08-31 05:04

To 48: How about you?

# Guest 2006-09-02 07:50

Well i dont see why you are all moaning microsoft have never relaesed a system that hasnt crashed at least once, this is the first game that utalizes the full capability the system can "handle" and as it turn out the system cant handle it your all blaming dead rising but truth is: its the 360 and all the new games comeing out that use the full "capability" of the 360 will have the same effect i dont care if it crashes, its only £100 for a new one and BAM you can play again

# Im getting a lawyer — Guest 2006-09-02 17:22

Microsoft and Capcom better fu*cking fix this, a lot of people have the same problem including me!!!! And $130 to fix the console dosent come cheap after u spent $450 on the console and another $150 for games!!! I have the same problem that a lot of people have............. i played my 360 since launch day on November 22nd, i only had few issues (u know the normal when a new system comes out) but then i got dead rising and bam 2 weeks after playing the game the graphics started getting really horible and ps2 like, so i think "hey all games can freeze, just bad luck" i restart my 360 and now i always get 3 flashing red lights every time i turn it on (WTF!!!), i call Microc*ock support and they lie to my face and tell me that dead rising had nothing to do with it, oh and while thier at it they have the nerve to charge me $130 to get it fixed (WTF!!!) Capcom and Micro****** should really get this taken care before it bites them in the @$$ in the longrun.............. the Ps3 is looking mighty sexy right about now........ yep

# My Xbox crashed — Guest 2006-09-21 09:17

I bought my xbox360 the very first week it came out last year.I have had no problems with it no crashes.Yesterday i bought dead riseing.After 20 min playing the game it crashed the screen paused i had to turn my machine off and on again.After it started it did it again.I thought it was a defected game so i took dead riseing back and then got a new copy.Once i got home i put the new copy in and 5 min later it did it again.I knew right away there is a defect in the game so i found this site.I cant play any other game now they all crash even when i just turn on the xbox360 with no game inside the system still crashes.Im liveing in another country right now and the xbox360 was my only sense of enjoyment.It costs 250 bucks to ship back a xbox to the states where im at by ups or dhl.I dont know the reason why the system is messed up im no computer expert but i blame capcom for this because i had no problems until i put dead riseing in.And i also blame microsoft for leting them put out a product that frys its customers system.Microsoft put out a system with no quility control they just threw it out there..........P.S for all of you nerds and geeks who have posted and said it has to do with dust for your info me and my wife are clean freaks and my xbox360 was geting plenty of air and very little to no dust at all. It also has a innercooler attatched to it. Im very insulted by the way some americans act. It sometimes makes me think that this generation has no hope whatever happened to being nice.If your system works fine throw in some insight help us out but dont be rude about it.For all of you who are rude your day will come and oneday we will see you here posting saying why why why.

# REPOST — Guest 2006-09-21 11:42

I finally got a new xbox360 with waranty after my first xbox360 that i had for a year with no problems was killed by dead riseing.I thought i would try dead riseing again.10 min had passed and system crashes all it took was 10 min.Took console back with dead riseing.Shop owner did not belive me he put dead riseing into his stores xbox360 and started to play the game.20 min later a crash the game screen paused and it had lines in it.Shop owner was very mad he gave me a new xbox360.For all of you dumb 13 year old acting non educated idiots out there.Who say it happens because of poor ventalation or dust.Needs to have shock treatment by a trained doctor in psychology.For all of you going to buy dead riseing reconsider or ask yourself is it worth makeing a gamble with your xbox360 for those of you people who have warantys go right ahead take a chance its covered.I laugh at you idiots who think its dust related or poor air circulation haha it makes me wonder what kind of profession you idiots work in.Your either probally a toliet repair man or a pawn shop saleman either case you deserve to die of clymida and burn in hell.And you can take that to the bank

# My rooms dust collection rate is outrages — Guest 2006-09-22 19:17

My xbox 360 crashes but its my own fault i know but my attic is the hottest room in the house and our room is second hottest we will be moving to the attic soon not me but my 2 of my 4 brothers are and taking this pc and xbox 360 with them i fear for the health and i got a question if i get my xbox 360 on 24/7 playing a game i guess i would have overheating problems but what if i played it for 12 ours then gave it 6 hours rest then played it for 18 hours would it overheat?

# Wait a minute — Guest 2006-09-22 19:33

Warning i didnt read anymore posts below the guy who says the xbox 360 has 3 cores so if someone already said this dont get me wrong im not copying ok.To the guy mentioned up above the xbox 360 accuatly has 4 cores and oblivion uses them all but that game only crashes if its not ventilated but if it is then it will not crash because Bethesda SoftWorks are brillant coders im not saying however made dead rising isnt [Yes i dont know how makes it] but maybe the could higher a better coder to makes sure stuff like this doesnt happen

# Man ive posted alot — Guest 2006-09-22 19:35

Its not the 360 that is doing it its the game so dont diss the 360 for god sake dis the ps2 and ps3

# dead riseing crashed my xbox360 — Guest 2006-09-22 21:56

Called microsoft lastnight told them my problem that dead riseing made my system crash.They are going to fix my system for free since my system was one of the first.I think the early 360s have some problems.There must be a bug or something wroung with the hardware.Why else would they fix my system for free.

# xbox360 is doing it — Guest 2006-09-25 07:46

#64 it is the xbox360 that is doing it why is there a free fix on the first gen of 360 systems.

# works well — Guest 2006-09-25 20:10

well i didn't have 360 since launch ,im close to beating DR and no problems but even i know a couple of months later after playing newer games my 360 is gonna get f***ed i blame M$ For designing their s*** wrong. i say they just want our money 160 $ for repair? f*** them. i think they skipped to much on the timeline to make hi-def next-gen crap.Xbox 360 buyers all i have to say is if you want your 360 to not die ur gonna have to treat it like your baby.

# why bash PS3 — Guest 2006-10-11 07:29

this is clearly a story about the 360 and its horrible shortcomings, not about PS3...... someone said "want failure rates wait for PS3" .... well being that I HAD a 360, and HAD an XBOX, and both died I think you are just an apologist, really. I bought a launch XBOX, within 1 year I was getting the "Flashing Light of Death", so I replaced it. AFTER I replaced it MS sent me a letter saying "The Power Cord Makes XBOX Overheat" (I was pissed as this was obviously what happened to mine and they gave me nothing). Then I waited in line at Wal-Mart for a 360 (I figured they would actually TEST this system) and it died in 5 months (playing PGR). MS is crap and so is their customer service, you give me a 3 month warranty and it dies in 5. We have LEMON LAWS its just too bad they don't apply to SHADY GAME COMPANIES (MS)...... So I gotta ask why you would bash SONY, when my PSX (from December '96) and PS2 (January '01) still work WITHOUT flaw.

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