The 360 thread!

[Flabio]

I'll check later. Admittedly, it's something of a non-starter in terms of fixing the problem, as you can't play XBCG titles while offline...

There's the possibility it's struggling to contact live due to, well, all sorts of reasons. The 360 isn't generally all that happy with any NAT lower than Open, for example.

[RiK]

I've never really noticed any speed issues with the NXE myself though, maybe I've just been fortunate.

Popping up the guide has a massive and annoying pause in it. Other than that, I'd agree it's pretty quick.

Oh hell yeah. The lag is ridiculous. So much so that it's completely unusuable from within a game now. I don't dare pop up the guide to write a message or leave a review etc. as I know I'll be locked out of the game for ages before it gives me control back again.

[hyphz]

I get huge delays in NXE when trying to even open a game page or a download list.

There's an animation of the Xbox 360 pulling a number of green circles towards it. It's oddly apt that during these delays they would use an animation of an Xbox 360 sucking..

[mrsmr2]

It's not just the marketplace either. If I exit an XBLA game and return to my game library then I have to wait a good 30 seconds while it repopulates the list before I can play something else.

I've had the same since launch of the NXE - it takes ages to load the library the 2nd time. However, it does this regardless of whether I'm connected to Live or not so I would suspect it's an NXE issue rather than a connecting to Live issue.

[RageMatrix]

Anyone had a crack at Battlefield 1943 yet? Going to buy it when I get home from work. Apparently the lag is pretty bad at the moment though...

[Ratsoap]

I had a look, but it doesn't appear to be on the marketplace yet.

[RageMatrix]

I had a look, but it doesn't appear to be on the marketplace yet.

Apparently it is...just hidden. I believe (after reading some other forums) that you have to go to Game Marketplace -> Game Videos -> Browse, B -> BF1943 and it'll be there under all downloads. Going to give it a try later.

[chub]

It's in the main Welcome section when you switch on the console now, but still not in the Marketplace 'new releases' yet.

[Ratsoap]

It's on the web marketplace here http://marketplace.xbox.com/en-GB/games ... 25841097e/

Had a very quick blast, didn't really know what I was doing. Seems quite good though.

[RageMatrix]

Tweets by DiCE regarding the lag issue: -

"Bad News, Europe is having heavy Packet Loss causing lag, Good news, we are aware and putting fixes in place as I type. This will be fixed."

"Another Good News, the Packet loss is Data Center network issue, not game or server caused or related. Keep playing to help us sort it."

...and an official EA post on their forums. Looks like the BF1943 servers are at capacity: -

"Good News, the game is incredibly successful beyond even my expectations. We have reached server capacity, but the bad news about this now some people can't join unless someone leaves. But don't worry, we are adding more servers ASAP to Xbox and in preparation PS3 that should start going up ASAP with priority on Xbox 360.

We have also isolated the issue and improving until we have close to 0 packet loss.

Please keep an eye here for updates.

Update#1: We are adding new servers, this may cause some disconnection from now until 17:30."

[Jonesey]

This is looking good! It also looks as though I'm going to have to add a few more Yakkers to my friends list if there's going to be any hope of enjoying a friendly game or two...or lots.

[benedictw]

Dear God, I've forgotten HOW slow the NXE is. Its been at least 5 mins since I clicked on the Battlefield 1943 and it hasn't even shown the Buy\Trial game as active yet.

[RageMatrix]

I don't remember being this shit when I played BF1942....perhaps I'm getting old. On the other hand, Master of Your Domain Achievement Poor bastard never saw it coming...

[ESY]

Demo downloaded - my five year old son is having a blast shooting the shit out of trees!

[benedictw]

Played through the tutorial - pretty impressed by it all. The 'old' battlefield never was as destructible as this. Its a welcome change from indestructible buildings in other games.

Shame I can't get online. I suspect I'll leave it a week or two for EA to get a clue and add some servers.