I read an article which I'll give a source to that stated some people have had issues with Forza 2 for the 360. Users are saying the game is bricking their systems. This may be a very small issue if it's really happening, but I'm wondering if anyone here has had an issue with the game and their system.
Microsoft Denies Forza 2 Causing 'Major' 360 Issues
no issues here, but i also didnt play it as much. i was too involved in GH2 and R6V. i have friends on other message boards that play this game religiously and havent had issues (they were aware of this news about a week ago).
i still dont see how software can damage hardware when all the the system can do is read stuff off the disc. i remember when people claimed that dead rising bricked their systems too. now i played that a lot and besides a couple of random freezes, no serious issues. i believe their systems were probably on their way out already and it just seemed to have happened while playing a high profile game.
If this is even true, which it really might not be, I wonder if the hardware runs hard and makes the system overheat...shutting everything down. It would have been nice if the article would have given a little more info about it. I do find it odd how any forum would start taking down post that claim this is an issue as a way to "preserve them", but maybe the whole thing got out of control on their forum.
I think greaser lee pretty much summed it up. All the system should be doing is reading the data off of the disc. The system was probably on life support long before they started playing Forza. And when your system froze while playing R6V, gl, I don't think you blamed the game for it.
I'm not trying to act stupid, but if it's not the games working a system too hard, then what else could it be? I mean when you play on your computer and your in an intense game your video card will ramp itself up and get hotter, so I'm guessing a graphics chip within a game system is gonna do something similar and if the system can't get rid of enough heat, it's gonna freeze or brick the console.
Oh yeah, I understand that. I was just thinking that from the way these people were explaining things, the games somehow changed or hacked into the 360's firmware to brick it, which didn't make much sense.
Hmm I didn't get that impression, I figured they had gotten the red ring of death due to the game which would have been a hardware failure which "might" have been to system getting too warn.
I'm sure we'll hear more about it in the coming weeks.
I'm not an expert, but I don't think the game changes the firmware in anyway. I mean the game is by Microsoft Game Studios.
I'm not an expert, but I don't think the game changes the firmware in anyway.
I don't think any game should even have the ability to do something like that.
there are some games that come with firmware updates though. one of my friends who wasnt connected to live got his firmware updated when he bought and inserted the game into the system. It was GH2, btw. I think the Splinter Cell has one of the earlier updates too. you don't hear the media talking about how actual firmware updates, on non MGS games, are bricking people's systems.
if you've got a crappy graphics card and put a game's video setting all the way to high, will it overheat your card? no. there's no reason why one game will fry a system's innards.
if you've got a crappy graphics card and put a game's video setting all the way to high, will it overheat your card? no. there's no reason why one game will fry a system's innards.
Actually this is what I wrote.
I mean when you play on your computer and your in an intense game your video card will ramp itself up and get hotter, so I'm guessing a graphics chip within a game system is gonna do something similar and if the system can't get rid of enough heat, it's gonna freeze or brick the console.
We already know that the 360 has issues with overheating, so if your playing a game like Forza 2 which looks amazing, then the graphics chip within the 360 is getting hotter then if you were playing some simply download game off live.
Does the 360 shut itself down before things get too hot or does it just do the red lights and warn the user to shut the system down?
umm, durr? do xbla games use the disc drive too?
point is, games dont fry systems because it was too taxing on the GPU.
Does the 360 shut itself down before things get too hot or does it just do the red lights and warn the user to shut the system down?
you've answer this question in another thread yourself. "the green light progressively gets more red". rofl.
I also read that the 360's power brick might also be a big problem. There saying that it gets very very hot. Some people have devised ways of keeping it cool. I'm not sure if you'd done anything like that to your system?
Well. I haven't had anny issues so far. I play it quite a bit, but I have my xbox in the open, so it is fully circulating.