Xbox performance with Halo 4

[JoshB]

Hey everyone on the forums. I recently heard 343 industries say that Halo 4 will "push the 360 to its limits". now i have an xbox 360 arcade with a 120gb Hard drive with a HD cable (and all the xbox live updates), since i cannot contact 343i directly. i was hoping this message/forum would get around. would my arcade console be able to play Halo 4 without significant problems? with the time before its release i want to know if i should buy a new xbox for Halo 4 in case my arcade cannot handle it.

 

(note: my xbox has never had any major problems so far besides these: disk tray sometimes not opening, disks not being read and freezing)

[skummgummigubbe]

it will probably work, to ease up on your xbox, be sure to install halo 4 on the xbox, then it doesn't read all the info straight from the disk

[Giofosho]

If your xbox has problems reading disks and the tray does not open. Send it in for repair. or get a new xbox.

[fzdw11]

If your xbox has problems reading disks and the tray does not open. Send it in for repair. or get a new xbox.

^ This.

 

But to answer your question fully, no, you shouldn't have any major issues with the hardware, as long as you've taken good care of your XBox. Since I haven't played the game yet, I don't know how completely it will push the XBox, so I can't give you a definite answer in that regard. The only thing to worry about would be overheating, and since I don't know how hot your current XBox gets playing a game, it's hard to say what Halo 4 could do to it.

 

Check out these threads here with some helpful tips from The Director: http://www.343industries.org/forum/topic/7591-tips-to-avoid-the-rrod-and-rdod/page__hl__%2Btips+%2Bavoid+%2Brrod

[Minuette]

just like Fzd said it won't have major problems, each xbox upgrades a little bit each one they do so just install the game and be sure every few hours to see if it might overheat cause some games that requires a lot of resources it will heat up your xbox faster, my xbox is pretty corrupted as it is, I'll probally be seeing errors in the future

[DoctorB77]

I'm going to play campaign and then install. I want to get that done first.

[BLiX]

all i know is that 343 is going to make halo 4 amazing

[JoshB]

thanks for all your help guys, ill probably buy a new elite console (because they are pretty cheap and i can keep my hard drive the way it is). and like i said my xbox has never had major problems (such as RRoD), but it probably won't last much longer anyway due to a crap-load of games being played (around 30-40 between me and my brother). Here's hoping the reclaimer trilogy will be incredible!