Space Giraffe - Player's views, help needed, etc.

fog · Post by **fog** » Sun Aug 26, 2007 9:36 am 0

Barry_X wrote:I have now had three 'two red light' occurences with the 360 since getting SG. It's never happened before. Does SG throw more stuff around on screen than other games and could this be the cause of overheating? I've played games like GOW when it was much hotter (weather wise) for longer periods without it overheating.

Or is my 360 just heading for the three red lights of 'certain death'?

I thought 2 red lights just meant you didn't have a cable plugged in properly? IIRC it has nothing at all to do with the 3 red light problem.

SpookyElectric1 · Post by **SpookyElectric1** » Sun Aug 26, 2007 9:58 am 0

fog wrote:I thought 2 red lights just meant you didn't have a cable plugged in properly? IIRC it has nothing at all to do with the 3 red light problem.

Two red lights means the system has overheated.
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/907533

My point is that it's never happened before, only since playing SG!

SpookyElectric1 · Post by **SpookyElectric1** » Sun Aug 26, 2007 6:24 pm 0

How on earth can you get a good score on level 18? I think the best I've managed is about 1.1m.

fog · Post by **fog** » Sun Aug 26, 2007 6:45 pm 0

Barry_X wrote:
fog wrote:I thought 2 red lights just meant you didn't have a cable plugged in properly? IIRC it has nothing at all to do with the 3 red light problem.
Two red lights means the system has overheated.
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/907533

My point is that it's never happened before, only since playing SG!

I stand corrected. Any link to SG must be purely coincidence though.

axel000 · Post by **axel000** » Sun Aug 26, 2007 6:53 pm 0

The idea that a game can cause a 360 to overheat is at best ludicrous. The speed of the CPU and GPU is tested and set to a certain clock frequency, a game cannot "overclock" this.

Your 360 is likely on its last legs.

SpookyElectric1 · Post by **SpookyElectric1** » Sun Aug 26, 2007 7:03 pm 0

axel000 wrote:Your 360 is likely on its last legs.

Excellent. That means it will have lasted about 5 months!

SpookyElectric1 · Post by **SpookyElectric1** » Mon Sep 10, 2007 3:35 pm 0

axel000 wrote:The idea that a game can cause a 360 to overheat is at best ludicrous. The speed of the CPU and GPU is tested and set to a certain clock frequency, a game cannot "overclock" this.

Okay, so yesterday afternoon I played my newly acquired copy of Bioshock for about an hour and a half and then had a quick blast on VT3 for about 45 minutes. No problems at all. Temperature in my office/games room, according to the Science Museum clock/thermometer was around the 23/24 degrees mark. Window slightly ajar.

Out all evening, back around 11:45pm, wife gone to bed so I fired up SG. Played for just over 40 minutes and I got the two red rings (during the rather sedate bonus level). Room temperature was 20 degrees AND I'd moved the 360 to a slightly more airy position than I'd had it when playing Bioshock and VT3 in the afternoon AND I'd opened the window slightly more than it had been all day. (I'd been to a hot sweaty concert and needed the air).

Now I know everything you're saying makes sense but I've played GOW for over four hours in one session before and I know I've put in three to four hours on VT3 and Geometry Wars solid and it's never overheated. Go figure.

Gnarf · Post by **Gnarf** » Mon Sep 10, 2007 11:43 pm 0

ERROR_SUCCESS

I'm all kinds of happy now.

Game is super awesome and brilliant and fantastic. Yak and Giles are goats among men. Holy shit. And that. Etc.

Now. Calming down. Training them last levels a bit more. Getting that LNLM

Oh, and the Caprichoso one : |

shock combo · Post by **shock combo** » Tue Sep 11, 2007 12:35 am 0

Barry_X wrote: Excellent. That means it will have lasted about 5 months!

hey mine lasted a whole 4 days lol beat that
i've had the new one since july and the only problem i've had is that it destroyed my gears disk when i moved it with the disk spinning.
all in all the 360 is good in concept but sucks in reality

Shakey · Post by **Shakey** » Fri Sep 14, 2007 1:11 pm 0

Jesus fuck, I'm completely stuck. I've got to level 32 with about 60 million, and just cannot get past it.

Is anyone else stuck here or is it just me! It's just me isn't it.

benedictw · Post by **benedictw** » Fri Sep 14, 2007 2:21 pm 0

Shakey wrote:Jesus fuck, I'm completely stuck. I've got to level 32 with about 60 million, and just cannot get past it.

Is anyone else stuck here or is it just me! It's just me isn't it.

I felt the same about level 16 and 64 - cant remember level 32 much though... Keep trying!

Shakey · Post by **Shakey** » Fri Sep 14, 2007 2:27 pm 0

Level 32's a straight tunnel that loops right round in a connected circle, but the tracks don't run straight so you've got to be sat to the left of anything to shoot them.

Plus, the screen's all wobbly and that.

gravy · Post by **gravy** » Fri Sep 14, 2007 2:31 pm 0

Shakey wrote:Level 32's a straight tunnel that loops right round in a connected circle, but the tracks don't run straight so you've got to be sat to the left of anything to shoot them.

Plus, the screen's all wobbly and that.

You need to direct your fire with right stick on that one, doing your best to shoot the aggressive boffins as soon as they come onto the web

KlaxonCow · Post by **KlaxonCow** » Tue Sep 18, 2007 2:58 am 0

benedictw wrote:
Shakey wrote:Jesus fuck, I'm completely stuck. I've got to level 32 with about 60 million, and just cannot get past it.

Is anyone else stuck here or is it just me! It's just me isn't it.
I felt the same about level 16 and 64 - cant remember level 32 much though... Keep trying!

16, 32, 64?

So, the real bugger levels are all powers of two, eh, Mr.Minter?

That's just so very..."Knuth" of you.

(I suppose, therefore, everyone's very lucky that 128 is the next in the sequence and as there's only 100 levels...)

benedictw · Post by **benedictw** » Tue Sep 18, 2007 9:55 am 0

80's a sod as well - so its every 16.