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Xbox One/360 Dashboard & Update Discussion (Retail/Beta/Preview Versions)

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  • #1742
    qrx
    Closed Accounts Posts: 642 ✭✭✭qrx


    [Deleted User] wrote: »
    See a huge thread on reddit about the same problem , mine is fine snappy almost. Still does that thing were it take 5 seconds for the guide to appear 1st time you use us it on that boot. There's definitely an issue there for some though, were you in the preview? It could be a case of me not noticing an issue as I was using the new dash for months and am used it being a certain speed :D
    Are you saying the os is not supposed to be slow and sluggish? I thought this was just the way it was, probably since they gave up the dedicated core to game devs. It's borderline unusable for me, seriously. To the point I use the Xbox app on my phone for whatever I can rather than navigate the Xbox.

    The worst us booting up. Takes about.4-5 mins.

    What's the solution? A full reset?


  • #1743
    MiskyBoyy
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,856 ✭✭✭MiskyBoyy


    Wow I never realised some people were having such a bad experience. Mine flies along!


  • #1744
    runawaybishop
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 9,523 ✭✭✭runawaybishop


    MiskyBoyy wrote: »
    Wow I never realised some people were having such a bad experience. Mine flies along!

    The vast majority of sluggish experiences are service issues. There are loads of calls to live as you navigate.


  • #1745
    MiskyBoyy
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,856 ✭✭✭MiskyBoyy


    runawaybishop wrote: »
    The vast majority of sluggish experiences are service issues. There are loads of calls to live as you navigate.

    So what you're saying is someone with a decent fibre internet connection will have a "faster xbox" than someone with a slower ADSL connection? Interesting.


  • #1746
    runawaybishop
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 9,523 ✭✭✭runawaybishop


    MiskyBoyy wrote: »
    So what you're saying is someone with a decent fibre internet connection will have a "faster xbox" than someone with a slower ADSL connection? Interesting.

    Not always as often it's live services that are the issue. They also run a/b tests on preview so not everyone has the same experience.


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  • #1747
    qrx
    Closed Accounts Posts: 642 ✭✭✭qrx


    I've got 100mb fibre. I'm using WiFi but it's a good router. I wonder if it's anything to do with instant on? I don't use it. I wonder does it cache content while it's sleeping? Whereas for me it's loading everything for the first time whenever I navigate.

    Either that or people have a different opinion ti me on what is considered sluggish :P


  • #1748
    Renata Enough Gentry
    Posts: 0 ✭ Renata Enough Gentry


    Can somebody invite me to the preview update?


  • #1749
    MiskyBoyy
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,856 ✭✭✭MiskyBoyy


    M!Ck^ wrote: »
    Can somebody invite me to the preview update?

    Stick your gamertag here, someone will invite you: http://www.boards.ie/vbulletin/showthread.php?p=95887896


  • #1750
    Renata Enough Gentry
    Posts: 0 ✭ Renata Enough Gentry


    MiskyBoyy wrote: »
    Stick your gamertag here, someone will invite you: http://www.boards.ie/vbulletin/showthread.php?p=95887896

    Thanks but I would prefer PM it


  • #1751
    MiskyBoyy
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,856 ✭✭✭MiskyBoyy


    M!Ck^ wrote: »
    Thanks but I would prefer PM it

    Just for consistency, post there that you want an invite. Then PM me your GT and I'll invite you.


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  • #1752
    MiskyBoyy
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,856 ✭✭✭MiskyBoyy


    Excellent news. Clubs & Looking for Group features are being added to Preview with tonight's update!


  • #1753
    MiskyBoyy
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,856 ✭✭✭MiskyBoyy


    DETAILS

    OS version released: rs1_xbox_rel_1610.160901-1900
    Available: 2:00PM PDT 9/6 (1:00 AM GMT 7/9)

    NEW FEATURES

    • Clubs

    Check out the Community tab on the dashboard to find the new entry point for Clubs on Xbox Live. Create your own Club or explore the Clubs our team has created. You can request an invite to a Club, share content to the Activity Feed, and check out Clubs on Game Hubs and your friends profiles. We’ve got a lot more functionality coming soon!

    Join the Xbox Preview club for all the latest information on Xbox Preview, comment on posts from the Xbox Preview team, and interact with other Xbox Preview participants.

    • Club Quests:

    Check out the following Quests for Clubs:
    • Joining a Club
    • In The Club
    • Mod the Club
    • Create a Club

    • Clubs FAQs

    • I just joined a Club, but I’m having problems posting or sharing to the Activity Feed.
    Workaround: Please wait for 5 minutes after joining a Club before posting or sharing to the Activity Feed.
    • I requested a Club invite, but it still hasn’t come through!
    Workaround: Club notifications aren’t yet functional, and it can take a while for moderators to check for new Club invite requests. You can also try messaging the Club owner directly.

    • LFG (Looking for Group)

    Need to find players to help unlock an Achievement, complete a weekly quest, or build a team? Xbox Looking for Group allows you to post a “want ad” that other players can see and answer. Each post can contain a description, number of players needed, and searchable tags. You can tag a post with communication and playstyle preferences like “Mic required” or “Cooperative”, Achievements you want to pursue, or custom tags created by the community for each game. Once you’ve found other players who share your goals, you can quickly and easily form a party and get into your game.

    We’ll be adding new features and upgrades to Looking for Group over the course of the preview, but we’re excited to get this build into your hands so you can start giving your feedback.

    Note that you may not find Looking for Group posts for every game due to the limited size of the Preview community. In general, we recommend trying out LFG for multiplayer games that involve co-operative gameplay or team competitions such as:

    • Halo 5: Guardians
    • Minecraft: Xbox One Edition
    • Destiny
    • Call of Duty: Black Ops III
    • Tom Clancy’s Rainbow Six Siege
    • Overwatch: Origins Edition

    • LFG Quests:

    Check out the following Quest for LFG:
    • LFG

    • Find Looking for Group

    • The easiest way to get started with Looking for Group is to open the Parties tab on the Guide.
    • You can browse and search a game’s LFG posts on its Game Hub. Choose from your games by clicking the “Looking for Group” button on the Parties tab of the Guide.
    • When you Host or request to join an LFG, you can find it in the “Upcoming” list on the Parties tab of the Guide. The Parties tab will also show you LFG posts your friends have made.
    • If you’re the leader of a party and need more players, you can also create a Looking for Group post directly from the Party roster.

    • LFG Known Issues

    • LFG posts do not yet show up in user profiles, Clubs, or the friends list.
    • LFG posts can currently only be posted to all of Xbox LIVE, visible to everyone on each Game Hub’s “Looking for Group” page.
    • LFG posts can currently only be posted for “right now”. LFG posts will time out if you disconnect from Xbox LIVE for more than 5 minutes.
    • You can currently only host one LFG post at a time, however, you can request to join as many as you want.
    • On the Game Hub “Looking for Group” page, posts do not yet update in real-time. You’ll need to hit the refresh button or change your search tags to get fresh results.
    • Currently, all LFG posts for a game are visible in all regions and languages.
    • Currently, custom tags cannot start with a number.
    • When creating an LFG post, creation will fail if your custom tags or description contain profanity.
    • When selecting tags to create or search for an LFG post, Achievement tags are not yet sorted by whether they are locked or unlocked.
    • Currently, Party Chat sessions linked to an LFG post can be joined (without having to use Looking for Group) if the Party is set to “Joinable”.
    • The Posted Time is not yet shown when browsing LFG posts on a Game Hub, however, posts are sorted with the newest at the top.
    • To create or view LFG posts, your Privacy & Online Safety setting, “Others can communicate with voice, text, or invites” must be set to “Everybody”. Don’t worry, Looking for Group will let you know if this setting isn’t set to “Everybody” and will help you change it if you like.
    • You cannot currently view previous LFG posts.
    • At this time only Xbox LIVE-enabled games support LFG posts.
    • At this time LFG posts for Xbox 360 games will not show up in the Game Hub, but will be visible to you and your friends in the Party tab of the Guide.
    • At this time when choosing a game for a Looking for Group post, search may not find a game if you haven’t played it before.

    FIXES

    • Backward Compatibility
    This build contains a fix to address stuttering and framerate issues in backward compatible games.


  • #1754
    [Deleted User]
    Posts: 15,661 ✭✭✭✭ [Deleted User]


    I've had problems receiving the most recent updates, the only way I'd know I had one was when it says I'm not connected to live on the dash but I can see friends online , then when I go to settings and see there's an update nothing happens so I hold power button down and reboot twice and I get prompted :mad:

    This one is a 4.1 gb one for me so I must have missed one somewhere.


  • #1755
    MiskyBoyy
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,856 ✭✭✭MiskyBoyy


    Deleted User wrote: »
    This one is a 4.1 gb one for me so I must have missed one somewhere.


    It's 4.1gb for everyone alright.


  • #1756
    MiskyBoyy
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,856 ✭✭✭MiskyBoyy


    Thanks for participating in the Xbox One Preview program!

    We’re excited to announce that starting today we’re beginning the rollout of the new 1610 update to Preview. This update contains a number of fixes and new features, including Clubs and LFG (Looking for Group).

    The 1610 update will first become available to a subset of our most active Preview participants, followed by the rest of the Preview audience. The rest of the Preview audience will all receive the update at the same time (there won’t be a gradual rollout like we did last time).

    In addition, a small group of Preview participants will remain on the previous 1608 build to validate additional fixes.

    In the future Preview participants will be able to opt in and opt out of the larger Preview group (which receives the latest updates, but more frequent updates) and the smaller group (which sometimes remains on the previous update, but receives fewer updates). We’re working on this solution and hope to make it available to the Preview audience sometime in 2016.

    We look forward to your feedback!


  • #1757
    CatInABox
    Moderators, Computer Games Moderators, Recreation & Hobbies Moderators Posts: 10,785 Mod ✭✭✭✭CatInABox


    MiskyBoyy wrote: »
    Thanks for participating in the Xbox One Preview program!

    We’re excited to announce that starting today we’re beginning the rollout of the new 1610 update to Preview. This update contains a number of fixes and new features, including Clubs and LFG (Looking for Group).

    The 1610 update will first become available to a subset of our most active Preview participants, followed by the rest of the Preview audience. The rest of the Preview audience will all receive the update at the same time (there won’t be a gradual rollout like we did last time).

    In addition, a small group of Preview participants will remain on the previous 1608 build to validate additional fixes.

    In the future Preview participants will be able to opt in and opt out of the larger Preview group (which receives the latest updates, but more frequent updates) and the smaller group (which sometimes remains on the previous update, but receives fewer updates). We’re working on this solution and hope to make it available to the Preview audience sometime in 2016.

    We look forward to your feedback!

    Great that the fix for the BC issues is in there, was getting it on Bomberman of all games.

    Sucks to be one of the guys on the group that stays behind, I'd say that there'll be a lot of complaints about it on the Preview forums.


  • #1758
    qrx
    Closed Accounts Posts: 642 ✭✭✭qrx


    Any plans to get a boards group going?


  • #1759
    Mickeroo
    Administrators, Computer Games Moderators, Sports Moderators Posts: 32,774 Admin ✭✭✭✭✭Mickeroo


    qrx wrote: »
    Any plans to get a boards group going?

    We might as well :) not sure if I got the update but I'll see if I can set one up later on. (Or if anyone has access to it sooner go ahead and make one!).


  • #1760
    qrx
    Closed Accounts Posts: 642 ✭✭✭qrx


    Mickeroo wrote: »
    We might as well :) not sure if I got the update but I'll see if I can set one up later on. (Or if anyone has access to it sooner go ahead and make one!).

    I'm not in the preview and I think it will be a few weeks before it rolls out to the public.


  • #1761
    CatInABox
    Moderators, Computer Games Moderators, Recreation & Hobbies Moderators Posts: 10,785 Mod ✭✭✭✭CatInABox


    I've set one up, called the rather unimaginative "Boards Xbox Group". It's private at the moment, but only because I wanted everyones feedback on how this should be set up. Pretty sure it's easy to request entry on the xbox, so do that and I'll let you in. As far as I'm concerned, I'll let in everyone who applies, as I'm not going to run around checking your boards credentials.

    So describe your ideal group then? Throw out some suggestions for names, etc, should it be private, hidden, or public?

    I'll set up a few more admins in the group as well, once people are in.

    EDIT: Apparently there's no notifications of new member requests, so it might take a while between your request and getting access. There hasn't been an update to the Xbox App on mobile either, which means that I can only accept new members on my Xbox, so it'll probably be later today/tonight.


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  • #1762
    TitianGerm
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 29,402 ✭✭✭✭TitianGerm


    CatInABox wrote: »
    I've set one up, called the rather unimaginative "Boards Xbox Group". It's private at the moment, but only because I wanted everyones feedback on how this should be set up. Pretty sure it's easy to request entry on the xbox, so do that and I'll let you in. As far as I'm concerned, I'll let in everyone who applies, as I'm not going to run around checking your boards credentials.

    So describe your ideal group then? Throw out some suggestions for names, etc, should it be private, hidden, or public?

    I'll set up a few more admins in the group as well, once people are in.

    EDIT: Apparently there's no notifications of new member requests, so it might take a while between your request and getting access. There hasn't been an update to the Xbox App on mobile either, which means that I can only accept new members on my Xbox, so it'll probably be later today/tonight.

    It's a good idea alright.

    Can you set up sub groups in the main group?

    Say you have sub groups set up for different games and then you can add people to your friends list who are members of the sub groups of the games you play?


  • #1763
    CatInABox
    Moderators, Computer Games Moderators, Recreation & Hobbies Moderators Posts: 10,785 Mod ✭✭✭✭CatInABox


    emmetkenny wrote: »
    It's a good idea alright.

    Can you set up sub groups in the main group?

    Say you have sub groups set up for different games and then you can add people to your friends list who are members of the sub groups of the games you play?

    You can't set up sub groups like that, but you can set up parties within the club. The LFG functionality will help with what you're talking about as well, but I'm not sure if you can restrict it to only a club or not.


  • #1764
    fataleight
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 58 ✭✭fataleight


    I like the idea of groups, I wouldn't mind a middle-aged gamer group for those of us long past our prime who get to game when the wife let's us and when we don't need to drop the kids to one thing or another :(

    Or maybe a grumpy old gamer's could be good too lol


  • #1765
    Gizmo55
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,293 ✭✭✭Gizmo55


    Ah feck, left the preview yesterday as navigating my xbox had become so slow.
    Groups sounds great.


  • #1766
    MiskyBoyy
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,856 ✭✭✭MiskyBoyy


    Gizmo55 wrote:
    Ah feck, left the preview yesterday as navigating my xbox had become so slow. Groups sounds great.


    You can rejoin any time you want...


  • #1767
    Gizmo55
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,293 ✭✭✭Gizmo55


    MiskyBoyy wrote: »
    You can rejoin any time you want...

    Ah I know, it was so slow though (for me anyway) I had to opt out. :(


  • #1768
    CatInABox
    Moderators, Computer Games Moderators, Recreation & Hobbies Moderators Posts: 10,785 Mod ✭✭✭✭CatInABox


    Have to admit, these new features are excellent and well thought out. Looking For Group is so well implemented, so easy to get going on it with the provided tags, popular tags and achievement tags, stuff that once you see, you'll wonder how this wasn't a feature from the start.

    The Clubs I'm still playing around with, but these are well featured as well.


  • #1769
    qrx
    Closed Accounts Posts: 642 ✭✭✭qrx


    fataleight wrote: »
    I like the idea of groups, I wouldn't mind a middle-aged gamer group for those of us long past our prime who get to game when the wife let's us and when we don't need to drop the kids to one thing or another :(

    Or maybe a grumpy old gamer's could be good too lol
    Sounds good. We could play that fishing game ;-)


  • #1770
    fataleight
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 58 ✭✭fataleight


    qrx wrote: »
    Sounds good. We could play that fishing game ;-)

    Now that sounds great lol


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  • #1771
    amadablam
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,728 ✭✭✭amadablam


    qrx wrote: »
    Sounds good. We could play that fishing game ;-)

    What fishing game...... The mere mention has me hooked :D


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