Saving games to the hard drive?

ian 123 · 02-01-2009 12:43pm #1

Hi is it true that you can save games to the hard drive of the xbox and play them with out using the disk? If so,how do I do this? Cheers,Ian

FutureGuy · 02-01-2009 12:48pm

You can save the games to the hard drive but you still need the disk in the drive to actually play it. The advantages are that you experience shorter loading times and the system stays cooler.

dreamers75 · 02-01-2009 1:13pm

On the My Xbox screeen highlight the game in the drive and press Y, an option to install to HD appears.

doesnt seen to make much difference imo and some games like HALO 3 tell you not to do it.

BFassassin · 02-01-2009 1:30pm

dreamers75 wrote: »

On the My Xbox screeen highlight the game in the drive and press Y, an option to install to HD appears.

doesnt seen to make much difference imo and some games like HALO 3 tell you not to do it.

It makes the xbox a lot quieter. No disk spinning in the drive so its just the noise of the fan.

Phototoxin · 02-01-2009 4:17pm

how do you do that seeing as sooner or later the gtaIV disk will weld itself to the (rather flimsy imho) disk tray

Masada · 02-01-2009 4:29pm

are you sure you cant play them without the disc in the console?
I only got round to doing this update last night and i had heard the disc was still needed so i tried playing rainbox6 vegas 2 off the hard drive while army of two was in the disc tray. it worked no problems.,

would it be that my update is newer than yours or something? or has it always been the case that you can play them without the disc?

phototoxin,connect the console to the internet and download the update,
the go to "my xbox" then go right until you get to "game library". when you have the disc in the console the game will be in the list there, then just select the game and click "install to hard drive".,
then when you want to play it in future, go to the games library again and it'll be there.,

stevejcraven · 02-01-2009 4:36pm

vtec wrote: »

are you sure you cant play them without the disc in the console?
I only got round to doing this update last night and i had heard the disc was still needed so i tried playing rainbox6 vegas 2 off the hard drive while army of two was in the disc tray. it worked no problems.,

would it be that my update is newer than yours or something? or has it always been the case that you can play them without the disc?

phototoxin,connect the console to the internet and download the update,
the go to "my xbox" then go right until you get to "game library". when you have the disc in the console the game will be in the list there, then just select the game and click "install to hard drive".,
then when you want to play it in future, go to the games library again and it'll be there.,

You definitely need to have "a" disc in the drive but if what you say is true maybe you don't need to have the same disc as the game you're looking to play in it.

Another thing. Unless you have a big HD I wouldn'y bother as downloading the game uses up an awful lot of space.

dreamers75 · 02-01-2009 9:40pm

vtec wrote: »

I only got round to doing this update last night and i had heard the disc was still needed so i tried playing rainbox6 vegas 2 off the hard drive while army of two was in the disc tray. it worked no problems.,

Im off to xtravision to rent out everything i cant afford to buy so :P

ShoulderChip · 02-01-2009 9:48pm

no it couldn't possibly work like that.

seanybiker · 02-01-2009 9:55pm

xbox is way quieter without it. I presume that can help protect against rrod

02-01-2009 10:09pm

vtec wrote: »

are you sure you cant play them without the disc in the console?
I only got round to doing this update last night and i had heard the disc was still needed so i tried playing rainbox6 vegas 2 off the hard drive while army of two was in the disc tray. it worked no problems.,

It dosn`t work, your loosing your marbles.

tman · 02-01-2009 10:10pm

seanybiker wrote: »

xbox is way quieter without it. I presume that can help protect against rrod

Aye, the HD is kind of external, so less heat should be being produced inside it...
Slightly quicker load times and a much quieter console = win

Masada · 02-01-2009 11:21pm

cisk wrote: »

It dosn`t work, your loosing your marbles.

Well, ive just tried it again, incase i was going a bit mad. and it does work.

At the min im playing COD4.,:)

Gunmonkey · 03-01-2009 9:27am

Installing also does away with a lot of the texture pop-in and lag of some unreal engine games like The Last Remnant and Mass Effect. Pity I have only a 20Gig HD so only one install at a time.

chrislad · 03-01-2009 9:47am

vtec wrote: »

Well, ive just tried it again, incase i was going a bit mad. and it does work.

At the min im playing COD4.,:)

I tried launching L4D, Force Unleashed, Lips and Fallout with Sonic Unleashed in the tray. None of them worked. There may be some games that don't read disc IDs or a publisher may have the same disc ID for a number of games, but I'd be betting on the latter.

robk24 · 03-01-2009 1:01pm

same here, tries to launch fallout 3 with the rs2, gta4, condemened2 and sr2 disks and it wouldnt load with any of them....

tman · 03-01-2009 1:12pm

Keep trying, you just have to get the right combination of games.

I launched Gears 2 with the Kung Fu Panda disc in the drive:eek:

kaimera · 03-01-2009 1:33pm

/subscribes to thread.

interesting...can't say I've tried to launch with a diff game disk in the drive.

Keep the combos coming

ShoulderChip · 03-01-2009 3:01pm

surely this can't have been discovered here there must be a list somewhere, can anyoen else confirm the gears of war 2 one?

dreamers75 · 03-01-2009 3:51pm

ShoulderChip wrote: »

surely this can't have been discovered here there must be a list somewhere, can anyoen else confirm the gears of war 2 one?

you own kung fu panda too :eek:

tman · 03-01-2009 3:56pm

I was only joining in on what seemed like an obvious troll tbh, there's no way that MS could possibly be stupid to release an update that allows something like this, and if they were it would have definitely been patched by now/splashed all over Kotaku

ShoulderChip · 03-01-2009 7:19pm

tman wrote: »

I was only joining in on what seemed like an obvious troll tbh, there's no way that MS could possibly be stupid to release an update that allows something like this, and if they were it would have definitely been patched by now/splashed all over Kotaku

killjoy.

Mr E · 03-01-2009 7:22pm

Heh... on the plus side, sales of Kung Fu Panda probably went up 500% this afternoon. Good work.

Turncoat · 03-01-2009 7:28pm

I installed Bully to my hard drive and it worked without the disc whereas COD4 doesn't. Maybe it depends on the game title or something

bennyc · 04-01-2009 1:00pm

My Fifa disk got borked so i rented a copy and loaded it to hdd , the origional disk I have still loads the game as it only reads the first few rings on the disk to verify.