Dead Rising makes 360s dead? [update 1]

by Richard Mitchell on Aug 15th 2006 12:30PM

Reports are flying, just flying across the internet about Dead Rising wrecking 360s. The symptoms are what we've come to expect: freezing, audio dropping out, graphical glitches, etc. Is it just us, or does this sound all too familiar? We're not saying it's all coincidence, but it seems like every time a popular game comes out, 360s just start breaking all over the place -- Perfect Dark, Oblivion, Chromehounds, Dead Rising, all of them seem like Xbox poison. We're willing to bet that this is more indicative of an overall flaw in our favorite console (or at least a certain portion of them.).

Then again, Microsoft and various game makers haven't really made much comment either way so, who knows. Anybody experiencing Dead Rising problems (other than tiny text)?

Update 1: Wow. Judging from the incredible amount of comments, this topic deserves some more discussion. Check back this weekend for more.

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Tags: capcom, Capcom-Production-Studio-1, chromehounds, Dead-Rising, oblivion, perfect dark, PerfectDark, Survival-Horror

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i got dead rising on the day it came out and when i played it it started to come up disc unreadable so i got another one same thing then popped in another game and it said the same now mircosoft is giving me a new system this will be the third one im on

Dead Rising and my Xbox 360 are working just fine, thank you very much

I don't mean to sound rude just honest.

The number of these cases is highly exagerrated.
One thing is a big percentage of people
that own 360's don't go on blog's, internet forums,community sites ect..
I don't mean to sound like an a** but the internet community has a tendency to over exagerate,example:10 people say on an internet board"my game froze while playing dead rising".
It then becomes like a game of telephone the story changing a little bit each time"dead rising is the reason why my 360 froze".
The number grows as more people give the data to new people, this caused from slight changes getting from all the people to that person.
I myself can be accused of doing this also.

I got a launch 360 and it first died in march when i bought GRAW, microsoft replaced it and i decided to extend the warranty with my shitty luck i knew it would happen again. Last week i was playing the saints row demo and it locked up, and then again, again and again until i couldnt even turn the system on. I knew i would need that stupid warranty, my new box is on its way. This will be number 3 for me...

To #15 you tell em dude. Also it seems bad on this post but that's only because the hundreds of thousands of people that dont have problems aren't replying in this thread. More people need to speak up about their box not frying so it doesn't seem like an epidemic. Also my 360 has only froze a few times all while playing oblivion.

Me either. Had mine since lauch day, bought it at Costco. NO replacements whatsoever. I've had a couple of freezes and I think a flash of lights, but nothing permanent. I'm really lucky. But I tell you what, if it goes down again, I'm just gonna let it go and use my 130+ dollars and buy a Nintendo Wii if I should suffer the same fate as these others. I can sell the games or what not. Oh, and one other thing. I read somewhere that you need to plug the 360 into the wall outlet itself and not the powerstrip or ups. The 'brick' or power supply is it's own powerstrip or ups. Once I figured this out, I never had a problem since, ever. And I do mean EVER.

I bought mine on launch day at Costco. At first I had a few problems with freezing or flashing lights, but I read somewhere that if you plug it into a powerstrip or ups, you will have that problem. The actual powersupply itself is its own powerstrip or ups, so plug it directly into the wall. I did this and keep my 360 well ventilated. Haven't had a problem since. I will definitely get a Wii too. If my 360 goes down, I will want a back up system to play. I'm going to work on my credit too and see if I can't get a signature loan for over 1,000.00 dollars so I can get a PS3. I think it will be worth it since I will be able to cook my food, storage wrap food and also use it as an alternative heat source during the winter as well. 1,000.00 bucks is well worth it if it saves me some money on my heating costs.

Thank you.

I've had my 360 since launch day last year - and even though i've had some games lock up - occasionally - dead rising has not crashed on me. My gaming sessions vary from 3 to 6 hrs in length and for what its worth I keep my 360 in the horizontal position w/plenty of space for ventilation.

Got mine on day one...played DR for 8-10 hours for 4 days strait. It froze on me one time, restarted the console and was back to playing.

If this thing ever breaks on me after spending $60 on a fresh game and M$ start talking that $130 crap...I would tell them to go to hell and send it to them in pieces and buy me a Wii and a PS3, and I hate sony! The PS2 constant breaking is what made dislike sony. They made the PS2 break on purpose...its called job security!

I own about 27 game consoles that all work, and I know that you may get freezes and lock ups....but c'mon. Hardware failure while playing a game? Thats a manufacturing f*ck up!

So far I haven't gotten any red rings, but the consode is obvioulsy working overtime to play this game due to all the heat and noise coming off the box. As long as Microsoft keeps replacing them, I'm going to keep buying their games and breaking their console.

I'm not so sure about these games causing 360s to break, but rather, I'm much more concerned about these refurbs that MS is sending out as replacements. I think THIS is where there is a major problem.

SEVEN!! Cripes. I thought my 4th system in 4 months was bad. I can say that I've covered all of the major issues though...which is nice. Overheating/Red ring of death (check), freezing/checkerboard pattern(check), and DVD drive errors(check). They should give out achievements for each of these...50 GP if your 360 overheats, 25GP for DVD drive issues, and 100GP if you can get your system to freeze while playing Galaga.

Big fan of the system, and I know MS has admitted to several known issues...but can a recall be too far off?

I have a launch system (manufactured in early october too boot).

System works perfectly fine and no freezes with this or other games.

Whats the secret? DONT PLAY ROUGH WITH YOUR 360. Mine has a thick layer of dust on it, as it has never been moved for 8 months. I would certainly be mistified if it was broken.

My 360 died a week after playing Dead Rising every day. It freezes on every game now. Every time. Thanks Crapcom.

Damn OTAM, I feel sorry for you. 7??? I'm barely going to go through my second. But that should tell us something... Micro$oft doesn't give a shit about quality or games. Do you still hate Sony now? Hmm...

None of this had ever happened to me before with any console. The only discs my PS2 can't read are scratched discs (and I mean really scratched ones). Other than that, it works fine, and I bought it in 2000.

This could be the nail in 360s coffin if it keeps happening. If my warranty finishes and my 360 console dies, I'm not buying a new one or paying for repairs. I'll only buy a PS3 and that will solve all my gaming problems.

I have never had any single problem with my 360 and I got it the first day it was launch!

lucky me I don't have to put up with all this trouble you people are going through, and Dead rising works perfectly fine on my 360.

I'm having the same problem a few other people are with the loading screen just after the helicopter chase/rooftop part of the game. I actually played through that part earlier this week and then I died, saved the game (without realizing I was going to be starting over...silly move) and now I can't get passed Carlito's face or whatever that chump's name is,it sucks bad

Actually, there are a fair amount of people on the web posting 'Nothing's ever gone wrong with my 360' so I don't really subscribe to the 'only the people with broken ones post about it' theory. There seem to be a lot of people taking it waaaaay too personally that my 360 and others' have failed.

Stop siding with the corporation and side with FELLOW GAMERS, you sell-outs - this is a 360 FAN site, of course I'm down for the cause (I spent the extra $130 to get mine repaired) I just want Microsoft to build a better product and offer a better warranty.

Good for you if yours still works. I had mine in the same position, horizontal, unmoved, hooked to my HDTV from the Saturday after launch day until it died in July. Again, it's the luck of the draw. So please understand, you aren't invulnerable to this by 'treating your 360 with respect' or whatever you tell us we didn't do - you're just luckier.

On a side note, I wonder if running the HD res versus the SD res makes any difference? More pixels = more processing... Hmmm.

Hmmm, I've had no problems with my console, but maybe I've just been lucky, Its a launch console and It has even been in a serious car accident. My xbox was sitting on the passenger seat when I had a head on (stupid woman drivers) it launched off the seat smashed against the dash and slammed on the floor. It was still in its box, but now theres a screw rolling around somewhere inside the xbox.
Maybe 1 day it will hit a live connection and fry the thing, but until it does..... its been working perfectly.

I've had my 360 since launch and have never had any problems with anything but my brothers had to be replaced because of overheating and then his replacement would not work for more than 5 minutes but after they replaced that one he has never had any problems.

Dead Rising killed my 360. When I first loaded the game it kept freezing during the helicopter part at the begining. I finally got into the main game after several tries, but it would crash within an hour of play time. Now it will crash within the first couple minutes, if it even boots. I have become familiar with the 3 red lights. My 360 HAD crashed before. It would randomly crash when playing Oblivion, always when loading an area, and once or twice on other games. Dead Rising just pushed it over the edge. I got my 360 in March, and oddly enough, when I called customer service and gave them my serial number which they said was still under warranty. Got my box yesterday and shipped it back, hopefully it gets fixxed.

I rarely write into these forums but was prompted by my problems with Dead Rising. I have not had a single problem with my 360, and I own many games for it and have rented even more. I had no problem with the Dead Rising Demo.
I am having problems with the purchased game. The biggest symptom is that the drive spins really really loudly, much louder than any other game. It sound like two pieces of metal grinding together. The other problem is that I frequently get an error saying the disc is unreadable. The game sometimes quits and sends me back out to the dashboard. There is definitely something wrong with this game, as I have not had a single other problem with my Xbox, purchased in April.

Got mine this week (Bundle With PGR3 - No Remote)played Dead Rising nearby 5 x 6 hours in a row. did downloaded nearby all demos on Marketplace and did non get any freeze or glitch. Keep my finger crossed

I got my 360 when it came out and haven't had any problems till I tried to play Dead Rising. It freezes a few minutes into the game. Is it the game or is it something else?

This happened to mine too. I've got a launch day 360 that has never given me a single problem until Dead Rising. Game freezes, red lights- $129 repair. Mine sits out on a long low table with plenty of ventilation, same as the power supply. It's perfectly clean, no dust.

Maybe it's a coincidence but my 360 was flawless until now and a lot of people seem to be having the exact same result after playing this game. Needless to say, when it comes back I'll be getting the extended warranty and playing the hell out of DR.

#72 FYI Microsoft is acknowledging this unreadable disc issue. When I called to get mine repaired, the woman said they were aware of some unreadable DR discs but wouldn't cop to the game killing a console.

NOTHING of the sort has happened to me. People need to learn to leave more than half a gig of storage space for their 360 to use as a cache...do you REALLY need a dozen videos and three demos on your hard drive? I have maintained 11 GB of free space, and everything runs perfectly, including beloved DEAD RISING. The bigger the cache, the less risk of a crash. Give your 360 more room to work with for crying out loud!

@Shaymus22
I see that you pasted the same thing on the other post. My hdd has 10 gigs free on it. Any other suggestions? Who said anything about their hdd being full?

ya i have a problum even thow i beat the game 100% and went back and talked to izibella and made it back to the hellapad 12 hours early i still cant get tthe A ending. i keep getting the C vertion ending and its starting to piss me off ive beeten the game 6 times and it takes me awile to beat it so ya

360 broke today during chromehounds. 3 red lights. Did the diagnosis and got "unknown hardware failure" which most people get with this error. Looks like tons of people have paperweights just like mine...

Mine is down, and it was made 1/10/06. I got it in Feb. My favorite games are GRAW, Oblivion, and ChromeHounds. Never played Dead Rising. Mine died when switching between GRAW and ChromeHounds.

I am on my 2nd Dead rising game. I returned the first one to Best buy thinking it was defective because I would get a message that the disk is dirty. I would then play the game, get to level 6 and then save. The next time I play it, I have to start at the beginning again!!! but I am in the clothes I changed into previously!! This is very frustrating.

Played Dead Rising for a few hours a couple of weeks ago. Ever since, the box has been locking up while playing XBLA games and during the Prey title screen. I even get the ring of death on occasion. I pulled all the plugs, pulled off the HD and my 360 still gave the ring of death. Funny thing is, it still booted and allowed me to play Prey (with the red lights flashing). I turned off the unit and plugged back in the HD. Played Prey for about an hour without problem. I wish it would completley die already, because this random stuff is driving me crazy. I'm afraid to play Texas Hold'em online because I am worried I will lose my buy-in if my system freezes.

My Dead Rising problem is every time i get past Carlito the first time, i follow Brad, and the second set of doors we get to it goes to loading screen and doesn't come off of it. I played it without my harddrive and it worked. so i agree with whoever said its a hard drive issue.

For me, with the Dead Rising Demo, I was frozen twice. Playing with the actual game for the whole week, I have no frozen at all.

The problem arise mostly because there are lot of people are playing Dead Rising right now. As Capcom site has put it, they have shelfed out 500,000 copies of Dead Rising. With so many people playing, we would most likely hear more people with more problems. Think of some non-hit boring game which has less than 10 people playing on the PS2 or 3, does that mean PS2 or 3 is flawless?

I've had my XBOX 360 since launch. I had had a few problems with it locking up during Oblivion but nothing major. That is until I bought Dead Rising two weeks ago. We had no problems the first day or two playing it (maybe 3 or 4 hours) Then it happened!! The Ring of Death!! Now the only thing we get on powering up is the Ring of Death!!

And being a software engineer for the past 15 years I've never seen an application or a game smoke a video card. But thats exactly what Dead Rising did to my councle.

I was able to talk the support manager into a 50% discount but it's still going to cost me $69 to replace my ex-box!!

people those who hate the 360 are spreading a lot of horror stories and rumours on the internet about the 360s problems.i played dead risng for straight 8 hours and didnt have a problem at all,my 360 frozed once when i was playing nfs most wanted,that happened coz ventilation was not good for my 360. and now i have placed my 360 to a better place with lots of ventilation and there aint a single problem at all

mines from november got it for xmas i got the 3 rings once on motogp 06 but i restarted it and it has been working fine but im staying away from dead rising killing zombies isnt worth 400 dollars and 22 games

im tellin ya if my 360 dies after all the money i spent im gonna drop one of those heavey black ones on bill gates head cant even play games without worrying anymore thats bs man

I Like the post That Edmond did and i would like to say that i have had no major issues with My 360 console i have had one freezeing problem that happened with dead rising but i let my friend borrow dead rising and when he went to a loading screen it said It was unable to read disc but the disc was fine and my friend got his 360 in march so think the problems could be random and overrated at least it seems that way to me and it is crap to go out and say one game caused a whole system failure I admit being a 360 fanboy but 4 all of the Ps3 fanboys that think the PS3 is not going to have problems think again i wouldnt be surprised if it had more

* WARNING CONTAINS SPOILERS; AND IS A LONG POST*
My console is always on the carpet, always plugged into powerstrips, I move to between my house, my girlfriends, and 2 of my friends houses at least twice a week for the last 6 months i've had it [I got my on the New Zealand launch 21/03/06].
NO HARDWARE PROBLEMS
but its jammed up once on G.W.A.R and once on DOA4, restarted and away it goes.
Clocked Dead Rising once so far, the only problem is it lagged for about 30 seconds when the Special Forces showed up.
Maybe its your power system of there?
In NZ we have a 230V power supply to the homes...

I hade the same problem with dead rising. I had my xbox360 in a vertical position wich blocks the main air return. laid on side and left system on dashboard for awhile after the last freeze to let the fans cool it down. Then I put dead rising in and it never crashed again. Dont just shut system down after it locks because you will burn you xbox. just my exp.

I RENTED DEAD RISING AND THE GAME LOADED, BUT WHEN I TRIED TO PLAY THE CAMPAIGN, IT SAID,"DISK UNREADABLE..." MICROSOFT GAVE ME THE RUN AROUND BIG TIME! IT WASN'T UNTIL I CALLED CAPCOM CUSTOMER SERVICE THAT I GOT SOMEWHERE. THEY TOLD ME THAT THIS IS A HUGE PROBLEM, AND THAT MICROSOFT HAD TO REPLACE MY 360. I THEN CALLED MICROSOFT AND TOLD THEM WHAT CAPCOM SAID AND ONLY THEN, DID THEY ACKNOWLEDGE THE ISSUE. THE GUY TOLD ME THAT THEY ARE NOT ALLOWED TO SAY CERTAIN THINGS, HOWEVER, BETWEEN HIM AND I, THIS IS A HUGE ISSUE. SO, HE SENT ME A PACKAGE TO USE IN ORDER TO SHIP THE UNIT TO MCCALLEN, TX FOR A NEW ONE. CAN YOU BELIEVE THIS SHIT?! JUST BE STRAIGHT WITH US MICROSOFT, I WASTED 8 HOURS ON THE PHONE DEALING WITH IT. SO, I AM STILL WAITING ON MY SYSTEM TO COME BACK. THANKS A LOT MICROSOFT, I HOPE THIS SHIT COMES OUT ON THE NEWS AND THE MAGAZINES.....

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