The 360 thread!

[Rod_S]

I just gave my 360 a good clean out with the Henry and circular brush attachment with the long bristles to get deep into the fan vents, it's quieter by about 10 billion decibels now. Thought it had been getting noisier and an inspection with the maglite revealed clogged fans and much grime behind the ears - playing from the HD now is lovely and quiet. Looking forward to the no_dvd_patch exploits.

[Tarjei]

Updated my 360 yesterday - I actually thought I'd hate the avatars more. One huge disappoitment in the fact that I'm yet to find the Community Games tab. I live in Norway, haven't this been released here yet?

Gamertag: shuffleyJoe

[RiK]

How annoying is this!

I was looking forward to the new update supporting the native res of my monitor (1440x900). It's one of these hanns-g jobbies discussed in this thread.

Now here's a thing, I can put the 360 into any resolution other than the monitor's native res and it's fine - the monitor auto-scales and fills the screen. However, put it in 1440x900 and it letterboxes the display. Nothing I adjust on the monitor makes any difference.

Gnnf, and ARSE.

[Al]

How annoying is this!

I was looking forward to the new update supporting the native res of my monitor (1440x900). It's one of these hanns-g jobbies discussed in this thread.

Now here's a thing, I can put the 360 into any resolution other than the monitor's native res and it's fine - the monitor auto-scales and fills the screen. However, put it in 1440x900 and it letterboxes the display. Nothing I adjust on the monitor makes any difference.

Gnnf, and ARSE.

The Xbox does widescreen at 16:9 and your monitor is not of that ratio so it letterboxes at 1440x810. This means the aspect ratio should be spot on (i.e. circles are actually circles) and you're getting a 1:1 pixel mapping.

[Flabio]

Games are developed to work in 16:9 and 4:3, so the 16:10 support letterboxes rather than stretching.

[RiK]

How annoying is this!

I was looking forward to the new update supporting the native res of my monitor (1440x900). It's one of these hanns-g jobbies discussed in this thread.

Now here's a thing, I can put the 360 into any resolution other than the monitor's native res and it's fine - the monitor auto-scales and fills the screen. However, put it in 1440x900 and it letterboxes the display. Nothing I adjust on the monitor makes any difference.

Gnnf, and ARSE.

The Xbox does widescreen at 16:9 and your monitor is not of that ratio so it letterboxes at 1440x810. This means the aspect ratio should be spot on (i.e. circles are actually circles) and you're getting a 1:1 pixel mapping.

Do what?

The 360 lists 1440x900, the monitor *is* 1440x900, so why would it do something other than what it says?

[RiK]

Games are developed to work in 16:9 and 4:3, so the 16:10 support letterboxes rather than stretching.

Well that's a bit of a bodge then isn't it? It's hardly an uncommon screen res. and why not at least run the daskboard at full res even if you need to letterbox the games?

Nice of them to actually mention that somewhere too. I wonder how many other people have wasted a couple of hours pissing around thinking there was something wrong with their monitor.

That makes that aspect of the update about as useful as a chocolate teapot then. Back to 1360x768 for me then

[Flabio]

It does mean your monitor is running at native res, no scaling, which might well be less laggy for stuff like Guitar Hero. I suspect that's the main reason they added it.

It's not like PC game dev where you have access to the current screen res, what res we run our game in and what res gets displayed are totally decoupled. The 360 scales whatever we've chosen to the user setting before outputting it.

[Muttley]

How annoying is this!

I was looking forward to the new update supporting the native res of my monitor (1440x900). It's one of these hanns-g jobbies discussed in this thread.

Now here's a thing, I can put the 360 into any resolution other than the monitor's native res and it's fine - the monitor auto-scales and fills the screen. However, put it in 1440x900 and it letterboxes the display. Nothing I adjust on the monitor makes any difference.

Gnnf, and ARSE.

The Xbox does widescreen at 16:9 and your monitor is not of that ratio so it letterboxes at 1440x810. This means the aspect ratio should be spot on (i.e. circles are actually circles) and you're getting a 1:1 pixel mapping.

Do what?

The 360 lists 1440x900, the monitor *is* 1440x900, so why would it do something other than what it says?

Would you prefer stretched or cropped with that resolution?

AFAIK, the 360 has an internal target resolution of 1280x720 that games are supposed to use. So anything display that doesn't match that aspect ratio will have to be either letter/pillerboxed or stretched.

[RiK]

Would you prefer stretched or cropped with that resolution?

AFAIK, the 360 has an internal target resolution of 1280x720 that games are supposed to use. So anything display that doesn't match that aspect ratio will have to be either letter/pillerboxed or stretched.

I would prefer that if the 360 is going to letterbox my display, then it makes it VERY clear when you select that res that it is going to happen so that I don't spend hours trying to figure our what's wrong with my monitor.

What's the point in advertising 1440x900 as an available res if you're not actually going to get it?

[DocDaneeka]

Reinstalled Gta and now it's working. Seems to be slightly less popup as well as the quicker loading times which is nice.

I think my disc drive is going to properly break at some point though.

[fog]

Right WTF have they done to Neon? It's completely broken. The framerate is all over the place meaning 90% of the stacks are a total mess and even the ones that "work" are too fast and with no smooth transitions any more.

I play nearly all my music through the 360 so had Neon on daily, but now it's virtually unwatchable. Seriously, try it if you haven't already.

Did nobody at Microsoft bother to see what impact NXE had on it? Useless twats. Maybe they can fix it when they fix the bug that causes the dash to freeze when you view your friends details?

[HGFB]

I had my entire dash freeze last night when I tried to access part of the marketplace. Had to poweroff.

[axel000]

Right WTF have they done to Neon? It's completely broken. The framerate is all over the place meaning 90% of the stacks are a total mess and even the ones that "work" are too fast and with no smooth transitions any more.

I play nearly all my music through the 360 so had Neon on daily, but now it's virtually unwatchable. Seriously, try it if you haven't already.

Did nobody at Microsoft bother to see what impact NXE had on it? Useless twats. Maybe they can fix it when they fix the bug that causes the dash to freeze when you view your friends details?

Yep its rightly buggered. I can't access xbox.com from work but someone should probably report this over on the support forums. Maybe MS will need Llamasoftie help to fix ?

($$$)

[Bubba]

Yeah, it seems to cope particularly badly with not getting data back from live. At least I'd guess that is what causes the freezes. Still, it's early days - by yesterday evening it was working quite a bit better, I could browse the marketplace and such. Haven't tried Neon though, it's a shame the framerate has been ruined, I guess the new dash uses quite a bit more CPU / GPU power than the old one did.

Cheers

Bubba