So my mini-odyssey continues with the 360 and it continues to amaze me… in not so great ways. The demo for the next Burnout was released today. I’d like to play that. I know it will take a while to download (it’s 900MB) but I’ll wait.
But then, I’m already waiting.
You see, I had to update my 360 to the latest version of Live shortly after first boot. That took a half hour. Now I’m sitting here on the Marketplace blade waiting for the system to do something. I ran into this problem before, but I never waited it out which is what I was advised by someone on the official MS forums.
The screen is orange, showing the background of the blade. In the middle of the screen is a little XBox 360 silhouette, surrounded by 16-20 little circles. They flash in order so I know the box isn’t locked up. It’s basically a wait cursor. Only problem is I have no idea what I’m waiting on, other than it’s some kind of download. Is it downloading 5MB and being slow, or 250MB and going at a good speed? Don’t know. I don’t know if it’s 2% done or 80% done. There is absolutely nothing to indicate anything to me, other than the fact the box isn’t locked up hard. I could change tabs, but for all I know that will reset the progress of whatever it is doing back to 0%.
I know it’s network access because I can see the light on my Ethernet hub that corresponds to my 360 blinking. If it wasn’t for that, I wouldn’t have the slightest idea what was going on. Yesterday I just gave up on this and played a game, figuring that Live was down or having problems. This also happens on the Live tab and the Games tab (possibly media, but I don’t want to check at this moment and risk resetting the progress to 0%). To play a game I go to the games tab, press X to cancel whatever it’s doing by signing out of Live, then enter the game. At that point, it connects to Live and everything works normally. Why it can’t do this stuff in the background (or tell me it’s downloading something and that it’s 15% done) I have no idea.
It just finished. That only took 15 minutes or so. Obnoxious.
