Brace yourself for the new Xbox 360 System Update

by Justin McElroy on Apr 2nd 2009 9:45AM

We don't think we're being presumptuous when we say that April 2 will forever be remembered as the day when the New New Xbox Experience went live. Just how epic is it going to be? Well, as you can see, we've chosen a picture of a totally sweet phoenix rising from the ashes to accompany the post so you tell us.

Grab a glass of iced tea, power on your 360, and get ready to address "interruption issues that some Xbox LIVE users may have experienced when playing a limited number of Xbox 360 games." Also new? Nothing. Sorry.

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Tags: firmware, microsoft, nxe, system-update, xbox-360

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God, I get disconnected when playing Street Fighter all the time. It's during player matches with friends so I know they aren't rage quits, christ, it happened 3 times immediately in a row yesterday, before we were even able to get past the character select screen. I already called my ISP and had them monitor my connection, they claim the signal is great, I'm not dropping packets, etc.. So I hope this helps. Curiously, sometimes when I get disconnected I also get that "disconnected from messenger" notice. I don't even use this messenger.. Could it be interfering with my connection somehow? How to I tell the 360 not to sign into that messenger crap?

Somewhere deep in the bowels of the NXE, there are the auto sign in options, allowing you to tell the xbox to auto sign in a certain profile. In that area is the option to turn off the auto messanger sign in. I think you get to it from the guide---> settings, profile settings, or something like that, then auto sign in options. Hope that helps.

Yes, that auto sign-in is somewhere... Took me a couple of days after my 360 came back from the RRoD factory to find it. It's definitely in the guide somewhere...

Press Guide and tab right to Settings. In the Edit Profile menu, the last option is Auto Sign-In.

I would check whatever hardware is between your xbox and your isp. Also, tweak router settings. I gotta say, I've been on live with an isp that's crap and the only disconnect I had with Live was when COD4 came out and they had that crushing demand of new online gamers. And that didn't last long either, but before or after that I've had no problems.

Messenger might be causing a problem, but it's doubtful. Mine is disabled. I think you can do that from the messenger tab itself, or in the startup preferences, iirc.

Does anyone here know if there's also an auto-storage selection option as well? When I got my 360 back from the depot, EVERY single game asks me which storage device I would like to use. I only have my 20gig harddrive, no memory cards or anything.

Any ideas?

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The updates, they do nothing!!!

I've just got it and it's made my start up of me console rely slow it just sits there and then goes to the dashboard. I had to reset 3 times to get it to work.

And it would recognize halo 3 untill I rebooted a fourth time

mine seems a little quicker, in the menu's.. marketplace itself is still slow at first, even with a game that only has a trailer, like R.U.S.E. (yeah, me neither).. but seems to sort itself after that one search, like Rock Band 2 content is up in a few seconds now

try reinserting the disc rather than rebooting the entire xbox

Yea I did the tray reload an wouldn't work untill I rebooted

i have a similar problem but only with my halo 3 disc for some reason. I think the disc may be scratched a bit.

What ever happened to Primetime?

What ever happen to watching Netflix movies with your party?

That's a good question.

What ever happened to predictability? The milk man, the paper boy, evening TV?

Man I really want Nextflix Partys. I'd love to watch Air Force One with some of the guys. That'd be a blast.

Overall I want a more stable system and free stuff more often.

@jbuers

You just made me spit coffee on my keyboard. Now that song is in my head with flashes of the Tanners driving their convertible on the Golden Gate, riding the trolley, and having a picnic.

Thank you

Am I the only one who though Netflix Parties sounded like the dumbest thing ever thought of?

All I'm saying is MS promised Primetime in spring and we didn't hear anything at GDC.
So what's up, MS?

i think this pic should have been used with file front

I get disconnected from Team Fortress 2 all the time. Usually at the least convenient time.

that's valve's problem

I sent an email to support asking what the update consisted of. Haven't heard back yet.

Wow, Sexualchocolate, your comment certainly went off the rails in a hurry.

Unfortunately, the update didn't fix the problem I'm having in downloading some of the Oblivion DLC that went on sale yesterday. *sigh*

Better not be Horse Armor...

You too? I can't download the Orrery to save my life, but the rest of the content went fine...

I'm not sure what to do about it.

I've been getting disconnected from Left 4 Dead recently and it's really annoying. Then shortly after, I get disconnected from Xbox LIVE altogether. I hope it's related to this and I hope the update fixes it. Otherwise I'm going to throw Bellsouth DSL in the shitter and find something else.

+2 to that (same with one of my friends).

I just hope this update doesn't brick my xbox like the last one did.

Same here. Made Left 4 Dead unplayable a couple weekends ago. Constant disconnects.

Hopefully this update fixes it.

Same here, I get kicked out of Live, too. My ISP says there are lots of errors on my line and they won't/can't fix it. TDS is the only ISP in the area. F****** sucks.

LOL +1 for you good sir.

meh....just done it....

i guess its under the hood update

oh well

i hope they release a really cool one this year....

like adding an update where if you put in ur copy of SF4 then you get to play the future and see what SF7 looks like

now that would be WIN!!!!!

i enjoy pressing

enter

way too

many

times....

better than reading a wall of text right??

"meh....just done it....
i guess its under the hood update
oh well
i hope they release a really cool one this year....
like adding an update where if you put in ur copy of SF4 then you get to play the future and see what SF7 looks like
now that would be WIN!!!!!"

Hmm I don't think seven lines really constitutes a wall of text.

Didn't the powers that be at MS say that the one of the things they liked about the NXE is that they were going to be able to do a lot more system updates and things of that nature much more frequently than they did before when they had those ridiculous "spring updates" or "fall updates" that you ended up getting at the last possible second. I just wondered because that doesn't really seem to be happening like they said. I could be wrong if things like this count. Any thoughts?

I haven't had many disconnect issues with games (although some days I can't connect with some of my friends...getting someone else to host fixes that).

Hopefully a party chat fix is included with the "interruption issues" fix. I get disconnected (it tells me that everyone else has left) from it a lot and the voice chat drops for around 20 seconds quite often.

I have a feeling the party chat issue is related to my SF4 disconnect issue. I recall playing this particular friend (that I mentioned having DC issues with in above post) once but we were talking in party chat instead of via the SF4 lobby, and when we got disconnected from our game, I'll also get the notice that my friend has "left the party." This is SF is my first real online gaming experience on Live (just got a 360 several months ago and primarily played single player RPGs and stuff before this) and I have to say it's been rather frustrating...

have they fixed the dropping of players from party chat yet?

vagina + no life + troll - brains = Cody

Wow that was so anticlimactic I thought I was somehow watching Fox News....

did I miss the part where they said the Liberals are running the country into the ground?? lol

LMFAO, seriously though I enjoy fox news for entertainment purposes, I watch my local channel CLTV for my news. Back to the dumb ass update, what exactly does it do, I'm so tired of these fucking mystery updates. I've already been hit hard by the NXE virus, and to this day Microsoft refuses to remove if from my console. SMH, for now I will sit quietly and wait for a unified console...and, no I don't mean PC or Mac.

I'd bring a book because you'll be sitting for a while.

This update is more likely to help those with lagging with the guide button. I've had a lot of slowdown using the blades menu. After applying the update it seems a bit faster. Not something significantly better, but there's improvement.

Oh how I hope so. Since NXE, I've been stuck in the guide for 20-30 seconds while my friends play on without me. One of the most annoying things possible next to being constantly booted from LIVE as one friend experiences now after NXE. I've had three RROD since NXE as well but I'm still on the fence about them being related, despite my pals arguing for that being the case. Plus I now refuse at times to invite friends to games until we are all in a lobby because of fear of freezing.

Anyhow can anyone else confirm?

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