Spring Dashboard update bugs out

by Ken Weeks on Jun 9th 2006 8:00AM

"It looks like consoles just turned into unreliable PCs." Chilling words for those naive souls who thought background downloading came without a Mephistophelian price. Xbox 360 owners across the web report various problems with the Spring Dashboard Update ranging from choppy, unwatchable video clips to negative effects on certain games. Here's a a list of complaints collected from the GamePlanet forums and comments on this site:

Alright, I was playing burnout, no problems. This is after I downloaded the update, well in the middle of the game it crashed.NEVER had this happen before. got a error that said disc read error, clean disc. Well, ok fine i eject it, PERFECTLY CLEAN. reinsert it, and what is this? it says to play this disc insert it into an XBOX360. WTF do you think i just did? Now it wont play it at all. I will try to restart and go again. WTF did microsoft do to me?!?

Well now I can't play Half Life 2. It loads almost all the way to the main menu, freezes and then the screen turns black. I can't even return to the dashboard! This sucks! I even tried downloading the backward compatible disc thing but now it won't reconize the file on the disk. WTF? This sucks M$!

I don't know if it was just because of the latest update, but i just downloaded 'A scanner darkly' trailer.... And it is skippy as!!!

I'm having real issues with Oblivion at the moment as well. Everything is taking 10x longer to load, even the main menu etc.

I have also heard of problems with Half-Life 2. Is anyone else experiencing the same issues or different ones? Are bugs like this going to be a fact of life as consoles become more PC-like, or should we be going after Microsoft with a can of Raid?

[Thanks Donutta]

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Tags: bugs, dashboard, update

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The private chat still does not work for me.

31. Peeps.

We are dealing with a dynamically upgradable console. These things are going to happen. Even though all units are made to spec, some are ever so slightly differnt than others (unavoidable), and because a company can't forsee all of these potential problems, they run the risk of triggering problems in a small percentage of units with any update.

Admittedly, the PC mentality is "try your best to get it right, but if something happens, patch it."

This cushion necessarily creates an attitude that is more lax than of an old school console game developer/console manufacturer that knows they have exactly one chance to get it right.

It is the nature of the beast.

But as a last word, I will say that if there were genuine bugs, everyone performing the exact same steps would experience them.

Posted at 11:19AM on Jun 9th 2006 by Thomas Crymes 7 stars

I agreed with you up until you said, "if there were genuine bugs, everyone performing the exact same steps would experience them." I'm sure if you were experiencing these issues it would be a "genuine bug" then. (rolls eyes)

You know what I think? I think that it's all the whiners fault. They were pushing Microsoft to release the Update faster and Microsoft did a bad job with the bug testing. Fuck you people that pushed for a faster release date. This is what you get.

No problems with mine, I have been using active download regularly without any issues yet.

since the update games and the dash run much nicer on my 360.
the one game that i certainly noticed this immedietly was with Oblivion. Smoother, faster loading screens, and the game has yet to crash on me. before the update this title would crash while loading every now and then. if you oblivion game is still crashing a lot try clearing the cache.

I'm seeing texture corruption on cars in PGR3!!!

well im having zero problems. i have every 360 game to date and all of them play very well. i guess only a few ppl r having problems but mine is actually working a bit faster than usual. hitman used to chop a little bit but now its very stream line. so i have zero problems at all. and i have one of the original launch 360's too. so i feel bad for those ppl who ar ehaving problems. hope it gets fixed cuz man this 360 is freakin sweet.

No problems for me!

The same thing happend to me with Call Of Duty. It first told me to clean the disc and then at another time it told me to insert the disc into an XBOX 360. I tought my copy was damaged somehow.

scanner darkly trailer (720p one) no problems at all was very impressed by the quality of the picture actually

cant comment on burnout but oblivion, half life 2 are fine for me

Ever since I downloaded the update about a third of the times I go in to Multiplayer on CoD 2 it says I need to download the new maps (I already have both map packs). Luckly I can fix this issue by switching to single player and then reloading the multiplayer, but it is rather annoying.

I noticed some chop in video playback, but I just figured it was because I was downloading a ton of stuff at the same time...

just people causing drama. update works wonderfully. so smooth. they did a really good job with this one. lots of appreciated features.

Problem: Ghost Recon Advanced Warfighter

Well there are two problems that are really bad, one possibly being within the game itself.

Well just last night we were having a clan match and for over an hour we were running lag tests, and everytime there was always 1-6 people getting dropped to the menu screen. We tried 8 people hosting all having the same problem, we never had a problem until the update.

Another problem is the Xbox 360 freezing on the Xbox guide, it freezed on me aswell as others where I tried sending a message or private chat and then trying to exit. It freezes on that screen where you can't get out but if playing a game in the background it still runs.

Pretty lame...I wish they never came across this update...

I just went to watch a dvd and it won't read any discs whatsoever. Now I have to send it back to have it repaired.

Thanks a bunch, microsoft.

Just wanted to make it up to 60! Everything works fine ;)

Thanks Microsoft for the patch. In Table Tennis it would always freeze when accessing information on my Ipod. But now it runs smooth without any pause when listening to Dani California by Red hot chilipeppers or Dramamine by Modest Mouse. Keep up the good work Microsoft.

lmao @ 61

Duh, of course it runs smooth without any pause. Didn't you know that those were the only two songs they were trying to fix?!

Not problem one here, and I've beat the hell out of every feature...I basically did the same throwdown with it that Joystiq posted a few days ago. I think maybe people are a little quick to blame problems on the update that might be caused by ventilation/heat problems or Oblivion cache screw-ups...I love my 360, and if you own one you should too. This upate was the shizzle!

im having problems with oblivionit takes a while to load and would freeze for like 5 secoends on the menu screen!!!!!!!!!!!!!

No problems to report here, and I've been playing Burnout every day since the update.

Someone mentioned UNO crashing earlier. That's happened to me to, but long before the update. There are simply some bugs in that game. There's been reports of this for a while now.

No problems here either. I been playing Battlefield 2 for hours the past coupld of days and not one issue. The blades do open alot faster now and I love the fact that I can boot my console and go straight to dash :)

First of all, people are only 'whiners' and 'drama queens' when the person handing out those titles isn't experiencing a problem. It's usually those same people that suddenly go "OMGWTFDIEMS!" when they're faced with a problem.

That said, I'm hardly whining. The only issue I can find so far is that a couple of the videos don't play now, mainly DOA: Beach Tittyball. It seems odd that this happened *right* after the update, so I wouldn't imagine that it's anything to do with ventilation problems. Unfortunately, I don't know anyone else with that trailer who can tell me if they have the same problem.

I just figured I'd bring this to attention as it seems some people are having problems. If you're not, awesome, but you don't need to be tools about the people who do. We're fanboys, but we shouldn't be dicks.

I'm experiencing problems with Oblivion. Loading screens stay up for literally minutes at a time where they used to only take a few seconds. Where's Ctrl+Alt+Del what you need it, eh?

Everything has been fine, except when i play COD2 it says that i don't have all of the downloaded maps, which i do have in my Hard Drive stored, So I have 2 download them again so they can show up. So thats kinda of dumb.

The number of people complaining about problems with the update is far smaller compared to the number of people who have updated. The same thing happened at the 360’s launch (the same thing will happen when the PS3 & Wii launch guaranteed), where a few exceptionally vocal people blow a minor issue out of proportion.
One big thing to keep in mind is that the update was the same for everyone and affects every 360 in exactly the same way. Thus, if one person had a specific problem, everyone would experience the same problem. Because not everyone is having an issue with the update that means that any problems that are occurring already existed.
p.s. The problem with the Bungie trailer was a plain old codec encoding bug that appeared after the recent Xbox 360 dashboard update. No reason to freak out, as it will be fixed soon.

#67: Since the dashboard update, I'm also experiencing non-real time titty bouncing. Even after a reboot and without any active downloads, the DOAX2 trailer plays very choppy (especially in the part with the jet skis). At least on my console, this is very reproducable. Seems that this is also caused by the WMV "upgrade" that was part of the patch (and that's also causing the Halo 3 trailer issue). My guess is that we'll soon be seeing another update to fix these codec problems...

Several crashes that never happened before.

Battlefield ("unreadable disc") a few times!!! Oblivion slow loading big time!!! Plus: the entire console froze when I tried to reload battlefield. WTF!!!!?????

well today I just got the disk error but I think its coinceidential that the update just came out, at anyrate there was no fixing it so I had to call 18004myxbox and talk to one of their people there and apparently its something hardwarebased and I have to send it in...hopefully ill get it back soon =*(

Something with the update killed my 360. I get the three red lights. Luckily I am still in my warranty, so they are shipping the box. This is so disappointing. I was just about to play online. Hm...

it seems that my ipod shuffle doesn't work with the 360 anymore since the update. kinda sucks...

Not a single problem here. Working flawlessly...games, videos, arcade, everything is great!

I had a dirty disc problem with Oblivion BEFORE the update, and only once in over 100 hours of playing. The Hitman Demo also gives a dirty disc error (which is sort of odd since it's on the HDD), but again, that was prior to the update...

It now takes much longer for my xbox to boot up.

No problems here. Background downloading works beautifully, videos, games and Media Center all operating at 100%...

Mine has been freezing alot. Basically, When I play a game online and decide to go to the dashboard or go to invite a friend it freezes.

For some reason, since the update, when I switch my Xbox 360 off the fans inside are still whirring away. I'm aware that if it is still hot then it would still attempto to cool it even with the power off, but they (the fans) continue to stay on. Only after I do another power cycle will they die completely.

I'm having random problems (mostly graphic glitches) with San Andreas since the update. I have to quit the game and load it again. Don't know if it's related or not but it just started happening since the update.

I've experienced that FIFA Worldcup 06 freezes over and over during online play, and only after I updated the 360. It is incredibly annoying and has caused me to stop playing that particular online altogether.

Well,

I have had no issues since the update. I really appreciate the new features. It seems after reading through all of the posts here that the majority of users have had no problems. Funny what a few loud people can stir up on the Intarweb!

After I downloaded the update, i went back to see the "How The 360 Was Made" video and it was very very choppy!!! MS, wassupwtdat!?!?

Ok, anyone else get an update message today? Is this an update for the update? What is going on?

Five minutes after the update, I went to play UNO online in a quick match, and the 360 just hard locked. i did not even have a chance to make one move before it ceased. It also killed the audio as well. Usually when Burnout freezes, the audio keeps playing. Not too confident thus far.

I've had a couple of wonky bugs since the update...

In DOA4 it looked like my dave profile bugged out and lost all of my unlocked costume/character data (which already happened to me once before), but upon clearing out to the start menu and retrying, everything was fine.

I also had an issue where I pressed the guide button when a friend's signin notice popped up, while a game was loading: the blade popped out, and subsequently froze my system- this happened three or four times in a row.

Other than that I've had no problems with any software updates for any games.

yeah half-life 2 is broken big time I cannot even play it. time to dust off the ole xbox!!

if not for the close proximity to where i sleep, i wouldnt have noticed (its pretty loud), but... my 360 has started turning "on" by itself. on the ring of light, there are no controller designations... so i assume this is an internal glich.

I have not had any problems with my Xbox 360 since I purchased it on November 22. I don't believe that the Spring 2006 Update had a negative effect on my system in any way.

However, I have a friend who recently purchased an Xbox 360 last week, and he started having Need for Speed and Halo 2 freeze on him. Thankfully, my friend is still under warranty.

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