Does anyone have any 360 games that your system just won't read well? I have two games that I have replaced, taken over to a friend's house, cleaned, etc...that seem to work perfectly in everyone else's 360 but my system fails to read the disc well. I get to a certain point with both of these games, and it's as if the game is buggy.
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Lurknomore: Does anyone have any 360 games that your system just won't read well? I have two games that I have replaced, taken over to a friend's house, cleaned, etc...that seem to work perfectly in everyone else's 360 but my system fails to read the disc well. I get to a certain point with both of these games, and it's as if the game is buggy.
I've come across some 360 games that will only run properly when my 360 is laying horizontal, rather than standing vertically. The discs weren't scratched at all. When I replaced them with a different copy of the same game, they worked fine. Very odd.
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Thanks for the suggestion. I'll definitely try that. My console is currently in the horizontal b/c of my HD-DVD drive...but vertical may work if it solves the disc issues.
I have a few games like that, Forza 2 has been doing it to me. I have had some success with turning it off, removing the hard drive, then turning it back on. Letting it turn on without a hard drive, then turning it back off, re-attaching the hard drive then again turning it back on. This has worked both times that I've tried it. I guess it could be coincidence but it has been way more successful than just turning it off, wiping off the disc and then turning it back on.
I had the same problem with NCAA Football 07 but have not tried the same "fix" with it.
Anyways, I guess it something you could try.
I had this problem with Gears of War. At first I exchanged my copy of the game with no luck. Then, thanks to a Best Buy warranty I exchanged my 360. Was able to finally play Gears. Before I exchanged my 360 every other game would work fine on my system except Gears. I spoke with Microsoft, posted futilely on the official Gears forums and every other trick I could find on the interwebs to get the game to work. I even sang sweat love songs to my 360, all to no avail - Gears simply did not want to play on my (at the time) six month old 360.
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You can most likely contribute this to your machine. Unfortunately it's a sign that it's failing. No matter how new or old, 360's just aren't very reliable. They use very cheap pcb plastic circuit boards which warp very easy with the heat of the machine. The GPU has ball solder under it that softens and when the board warps, the solder doesn't make a god connection to the GPU which causes a lot of problems and eventually you will end up with the red ring of death. I'll share a few secrets I learned while dealing with MS about this.
First, if you haven't registered your xbox (hopefully you didn't if you have had it awhile) when you call them they willa sk you if you have registered, tell them no (if you have, then they can find out) and then they will ask you if you have had it for a year or less. Tell them you haven't had it for a year yet (doesn't matter if you've had it for 12 years, tell them you have had it less than a year). They will ask when you got it and tell them you don't know. They will give you one more month of warranty and assume you have had it 11 months. They will then have you send it in. They will send you a box to ship it for free. So you send it in, they fix it or in my case send you a completely different machine (best case scenario is they do this as you then get another year warranty). Then they will send it back for free and give you a free month of Xbox Live gold for the trouble.
That's what happened to me when I got my red ring of death. At first a few games would glitch out and not work or i'd get freezes and lock ups and sometimes artifacting. Then eventually the machine just died so I did a bunch of research. I found a trick that switching the switch on the AV cable from HD to standard definition got it to work for a few more days just fine. But I didn't want standard def, so I still called MS. I actually switched the cable after that worked from the components to a VGA PC cable and it worked for a couple days. then eventually the red ring came back.
So that's my experience.
360 problems, I have had similar issues with the other 360's i've had and like the other have said this is how it starts, the occasional freeze-up, then it will freeze and the screen will get little squares all over it you reboot the system. Then there it is, the RED RING OF DEATH. It has happened a few times, to me.
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I have been having problems with my system since it was new. When I play for more than an hour it will tell me I need to clean my disc (this has happened on the three games I play the most). Usually I can just turn it off and turn it back on again and it is fine, but it is frustrating have this happen (even more if you haven't saved in a while). I have called Microsoft about this several times and they act like it is the first time they have ever recieved this complaint. They tell me to "take my hard drive off, turn the machine on, turn it back off, hook the hard drive back up. Did that fix it?" Of course it works now, but as soon as I play for another hour it will do the same damn thing. I feel like the customer service reps at microsoft are playing games with me and know that my machine needs service, but don't want to admit it. I am completely frustrated with this POS machine. I am seriously considering selling it on ebay and buying a PS3 before the 360 dies and has no value. This is the only system I have ever had hardware issues with.
The only way that I have gotten Microsoft to do anything in all seriousness is to file a BBB report. No joke. It has gotten them to do things that I cannot get them to do otherwise.
The good old dirty disc. I had the problem so bad with NCAA 07, it took me 10 tries to make it through 1 online game without a error. Since then I really haven't had an issue.
I have had problems with either my 360 and/or MLB 2k7, so I did what I had to do,...I traded away 2k7. I love the game, but I'll have to settle for the PS3's The Show. Not a biggie, but I wish that I wouldn't continually run into disc stuttering and unreadable disc issues. This is a mounting concern, but for now, I'll just trade away what I cannot play.
I keep getting a problem where I put the disc in and it says to put the game in a 360 console to play the game, despite the fact that it is in a 360. Or sometimes it just won't read it at all. I have to keep taking out and putting it in until it reads it. It usually only takes a couple times.
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