I may soon be on my third 360

steviec

Well, I got Oblivion last friday, enjoyed it over the weekend until all of a sudden I was being told 'the disc could not be read' and thrown to the dashboard with some advice to clean the disc. Brand new game, never been out of the console, and needless to say cleaning was no help.

So back to Gamestop yesterday, they replaced the game fuss free, back home to excitedly get back into it, and guess what? A day later I'm getting the same message and there's a couple of scratches visible on the disc when I take it out.

So I'm about to look up technical support again and see what can be done. Starting to get a little bit annoyed about all this! :mad:

danbhala

oh dear oh dear... horrible stuff.... i had problems with multiple copies of the same game myself.... but it just froze and did nothing.. didnt give me any messages...

go mental on the phone to them and demand some sort of compensation!

Hal1

steviec wrote:

Well, I got Oblivion last friday, enjoyed it over the weekend until all of a sudden I was being told 'the disc could not be read' and thrown to the dashboard with some advice to clean the disc. Brand new game, never been out of the console, and needless to say cleaning was no help.

So back to Gamestop yesterday, they replaced the game fuss free, back home to excitedly get back into it, and guess what? A day later I'm getting the same message and there's a couple of scratches visible on the disc when I take it out.

So I'm about to look up technical support again and see what can be done. Starting to get a little bit annoyed about all this! :mad:

Just to ask something you have done by now. Does it happen with any other games?

steviec

Ok this *might* be a false alarm. Apparently if the hard disk cache the game creates gets corrupted, the xbox will get a loading problem loading this and doesn't differenciate a loading problem from the DVD and the Hard Drive. Which is why same problem persisted across two DVDs.

So I've cleared the cache and played for a while with no issues. However there were visible scratches on the disc, but they were small and thats not uncommon on any disc thats had some use in any disc drive. I want to keep playing oblivion and make sure though before I risk any other game in the drive. If the same thing happens again I'm making sure I get a new xbox.

rip2roar

You havent been moving the console from horizontal to vertical with the disc inside have you?

GrumPy

rip2roar wrote:

You havent been moving the console from horizontal to vertical with the disc inside have you?

well if he did that, he would kill the disc, not just lightly scratch it :rolleyes:

kensutz

I've had the very exact same prob as Stevie but the second disc I'm on is still stuttering a tiny bit.

steviec

kensutz wrote:

I've had the very exact same prob as Stevie but the second disc I'm on is still stuttering a tiny bit.

Have you tried clearing the hard drive cache? Turn on the console with the Oblivion disc in, and hold tha A button till your on the title screen. It seems to have fixed things for me, touch wood.

mcgovern

kensutz wrote:

I've had the very exact same prob as Stevie but the second disc I'm on is still stuttering a tiny bit.

Its an known problem,Bethesda even officially came out with the clear cache thing.
Its been reported on IGN, Teamxbox...

Oblivion uses the Xbox 360 hard drive to cache game data and in some cases the info stored on the hard drive can get fragmented, slowing down the game's performance. Bethesda has already found out a way to fix the issue. Here is the official word:

Oblivion uses the Xbox 360 hard drive extensively to cache (copy and reuse) game data. This is done to optimize all loading the game does. It has been found in rare cases on some Xbox 360s that the cached data can get overly fragmented. This exhibits itself by the game taking a long time to load anything from menus, dialogue, sounds, objects, levels, and more.

To solve this problem, reset your Xbox, and hold down the A button as the game is booting up. If any button is held while Oblivion is loading, it will clear its hard drive cache, and create a new one.

Once you see the “Bethesda Softworks” logo video, the game is already loaded, and the cache should have been cleared.

Note, this does not effect your game in any way other than loading. You will not lose any saved data.

From Here

Julez

Can you not play this game without a hard drive then?! or is it real slow without it or something! I have a hard drive like, but I'm just curious!

GrumPy

Julez wrote:

Can you not play this game without a hard drive then?! or is it real slow without it or something! I have a hard drive like, but I'm just curious!

relax ffs, with all the OMG?!!

you need hdd to play oblivion properly.

Julez

Are you tellin me to relax?! Do I not seem relaxed to you?!

kensutz

Ok time to ring M$ tomorrow and tell them that I'm not happy. Can't play Oblivion now and there's more marks on the underside of the disc

Davexirl

My 360 started to act up yesterday. I was playing Ovlivion and then all of a sudden the game froze, I turned the console off and i got the 3 flashing red lights so plugged everything out and set the console back up and the same thing happend again but this time blue lines appeard and covered the screen,

I tried Fight Night in it aswell and the same thing happend that. I have the 360 since launch and never any problems. I rang Microsoft and they are sending out the UPS tag as the fella on the phone said. I forgot to ask him do you send the Hard Drive in with the console does anyone know if you do? He said it will take about 7-10 days to fix or get me a replacement console. I would hate to loose all me saved games so I might buy a memory unit just incase....

Ciaran500

They normally tell you to return the HDD with the 360. If you do, you will get a new blank HDD.

danbhala

definately back up your game saves on a memory unit... didnt realise it myself and lost all my game saves.... pain in the bum

WarZoneBrother

hey same sort of thing just happened to my 360 it cant read any game and if i dont get a replacement i will be in a lot of hassle selling 10games i also got a hdd there 2nd hand i got the core system what all will i return will i include the wired controller and does this happen on some 360s also my 360 scrached fifa 06 and kameo will i send them back

GrumPy

WarZoneBrother wrote:

hey same sort of thing just happened to my 360 it cant read any game and if i dont get a replacement i will be in a lot of hassle selling 10games i also got a hdd there 2nd hand i got the core system what all will i return will i include the wired controller and does this happen on some 360s also my 360 scrached fifa 06 and kameo will i send them back

PUUUUUUNTUATE ffs.

i ran outta breath reading that

kensutz

WarZoneBrother wrote:

hey same sort of thing just happened to my 360 it cant read any game and if i dont get a replacement i will be in a lot of hassle selling 10games i also got a hdd there 2nd hand i got the core system what all will i return will i include the wired controller and does this happen on some 360s also my 360 scrached fifa 06 and kameo will i send them back

huh?

WarZoneBrother

to put it in short words my 360 will not read games

kensutz

Have you rung microsoft and told them of your problem?

WarZoneBrother

nope do you have number i just went to support and got no word back

kensutz

It's on their website