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DarkRula

So, the achievement tracking is doing its job well. Just finished a championship on Blizzard Mountain, and despite the fact I have five to go, it's awarded me the complete every championship achievement.

DarkRula

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ThanosReXXX

@NEStalgia About that "instant on" setting: I just checked my settings and I actually have that switched on, as well as instant sign-in and automatic updates for system and games, but I've never experienced any problems so far, so no slow downloads, no freezing or whatever, so I am either REALLY lucky in that regard, or that's simply not the issue.

And as you may remember, I had a LOT of games to download, once I had the system installed in my home, seeing as I had two years' worth of free Games with Gold titles to download, install and update.

Well, not exactly ALL, but I did install a total of 68 games, the first time I powered the system up...

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'The console wars are like boobs: Sony and Microsoft fight over which ones look the nicest and Nintendo's are the most fun to play with.'

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NEStalgia

@ThanosReXXX Interesting. It could be a 1X issue, or it could be because I've been installing a fairly large amount of digital games (but so did you.) Or it could be because the game I've left suspended more times than not has been AC: Origins and it's a Ubisoft game.... take your pick.

My bet is "Windows Update" running in the background leading up to OS updates. It grinds Win10 PCs to a stuttering crawl too.

NEStalgia

ThanosReXXX

@NEStalgia I'm putting my money on Ubisoft...

'The console wars are like boobs: Sony and Microsoft fight over which ones look the nicest and Nintendo's are the most fun to play with.'

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ThanosReXXX

@NEStalgia P.S.

Forgot to mention this earlier:

Your formula of what Burnout Paradise is made up of, wasn't quite complete...
It's also part crash simulator, which is actually what makes the game a Burnout game.

That is a big part of what made the earlier Burnout games so much fun to play, so luckily, that mechanic is also still very much present in Burnout Paradise.

'The console wars are like boobs: Sony and Microsoft fight over which ones look the nicest and Nintendo's are the most fun to play with.'

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ThanosReXXX

@NEStalgia Bravely defaulting? More like finding a Unity of errors and massive patches...

'The console wars are like boobs: Sony and Microsoft fight over which ones look the nicest and Nintendo's are the most fun to play with.'

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NEStalgia

@ThanosReXXX Ubisoft: Game launches Sept 29. Game runs June 15th.

Ahh good point about the crash simulator....a weird but meaningful detail

Edit: Hey, that's actually what makes a good Ubisoft game, too!

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NEStalgia

ThanosReXXX

@NEStalgia Haha, yeah, except the difference being, that Ubisoft's games don't crash in slow-motion...

'The console wars are like boobs: Sony and Microsoft fight over which ones look the nicest and Nintendo's are the most fun to play with.'

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ThanosReXXX

@DarthNocturnal I'd say delete all the data that's already on there, if you haven't done so already, and in settings/system, go to updates, and temporarily deselect "keep my games and apps up to date".

This will prevent the Xbox One from simultaneously gathering and downloading any necessary updates for the game, and/or DLC. And all of that hogs your bandwidth and as such, can slow down or even crash your download, which seems to be happening to you.

After the core game itself has downloaded, you can restore the update settings again, to download the DLC and any patches it might need.

And personally, I do use instant on, AND instant sign-in AND under updates, all options to keep system, games and apps up to date, are also selected by default for me. This means that you can also let the Xbox One download additional stuff in sleep mode, meaning you don't have to bother yourself with waiting for it during the daytime.

'The console wars are like boobs: Sony and Microsoft fight over which ones look the nicest and Nintendo's are the most fun to play with.'

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ThanosReXXX

@DarthNocturnal And one other thing, perhaps needless to say, but still:
Have you formatted the external drive via the Xbox One's settings menu?
You can't just unbox a drive, plug it in and go. The Xbox One uses a non-standard file system,
so you need to tell the Xbox One to format the external drive.

Handy videos about internal vs external and hard drive optimization:

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'The console wars are like boobs: Sony and Microsoft fight over which ones look the nicest and Nintendo's are the most fun to play with.'

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Matthew010

We've got quite a few cars, barn finds and done quite a lot of races in FH3 but we've only completed 3% of the game? What do you need to do for 100%?

Matthew010

Zuljaras

@NEStalgia Ok ... this is just wrong. I doubt it is so hard for them to just let Xbox One X consoles behave the exact same way as One or One S.

This is one of the dumbest things I have heard.

I guess that is why PS4 is beating the Xbox One. Damn and I was so eager to buy it. Xbox One S is looking better and better option.

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DarkRula

@Matthew010 Championships and exhibition races, street races and midnight races. All drift zones, speed zones, speed traps, and danger zones. The 18 original barn finds and all boards. I think you might need at least one visit to the car meet as well.
I might be missing something, but the career and discovery tabs of the stats screen should have everything tracked.

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ThanosReXXX

@DarthNocturnal Ah, but if they were external drives, specifically meant for the Xbox One, then they were probably already pre-formatted. Still: in general, formatting (or re-formatting) remains an option if you want to make absolutely sure that you've tried everything with problems such as these.

But good to see that your issue is solved, so now it's on to the fiddling with settings, and hunting for experience points to be able to unlock those expansion packs.

Hope you will thoroughly enjoy the ride...

'The console wars are like boobs: Sony and Microsoft fight over which ones look the nicest and Nintendo's are the most fun to play with.'

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NEStalgia

@ThanosReXXX The X1(X?) prompts you to format it when you first connect it so you shouldn't need to manually format it unless you're trying to clear it. It could be a file system issue, and maybe that might fix it, but that would imply either drive issues, or some other kind of corruption.

@DarthNocturnal At least I'm not the only one with weird issues now Though I can't say I've had download corruption so far. That said yesterday, this is the second time this has happened, I noticed my external HDD was still on an hour or two after I powered off the system. Not accessing, just on, meaning the console wasn't shutting it off. I turned it back on and off....still nothing. Rebooted, the console turned the screen black but never cut the signal and stayed there forever....eventually had to force reboot. It came up, took a while to really boot and become responsive again...turned it off, but the HDD still wasn't turning off. Finally I turned the HDD off, turned the X1 on, turned the HDD on, the X1 took a while to recognize it (which happens sometimes) and then all was well. I do have to watch those external HDDs, sometimes the box just doesn't want to power them down. (not both, always one or the other...)

@Zuljaras Yeah, it really is. Luckily for me I bought the 1X after a debate between a PC or an 1X as a sort of "congratulations me!" gift after finally(!) getting fiber, as a digital only system to cash in on sales and such, but otherwise I'd have been horrified. And I had a possibility of having bought one and only after finding out about that requirement. I'd considered it. I didn't realize it was fully required until I dug into it after you asked!

There is a chance they fix that eventually. I really can't see them doing pure-digital only and ceding the large physical market to Sony...that's the kind of mess they tried last time. And yet.....if they can't fit content on disc this gen, how will they do it next gen when 4k textures are standard? Especially with all the publisher pushback. This may be the start of digital-only. Retail would still exist like for PC, and empty box with a paper code. Scary thought. But even Nintendo's doing that in Japan now.... and MS wanted to do it 6 years ago. And Sony was planning the same (but reverted last minute after MS crashed and burned.....they're all champing at the bit for that moment...) I fear X1X is our window into PS5/X2.

For now, yeah, X1X is totally out for you (could change in the future with Intelligent Download leading into X2, but for now, it's too unknown.) X1S/PS4Slim...maaaaaybe PS4 Pro remain the options for you.

NEStalgia

ThanosReXXX

@Matthew010 Well, obviously, you'll have to find every secret in the game, do every stunt (successfully, of course) and win every race, AND open all the festivals, so you've got quite a ways to go. But regular races don't get you the most points, so go for all the specials, stunts, barn finds and also look for billboards:
http://www.gamersheroes.com/game-guides/forza-horizon-3-exper...

'The console wars are like boobs: Sony and Microsoft fight over which ones look the nicest and Nintendo's are the most fun to play with.'

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ThanosReXXX

@NEStalgia I've looked into it, and yes, non-Xbox specific drives get an automatic prompt to be formatted before use, the first time you hook 'em up, on all Xbox One models, but he apparently had a drive that was specifically meant for Xbox One, so chances are, it was already pre-formatted, so you can use it right away, but even in those cases, it can sometimes be worth it to still manually re-format it, to be absolutely sure.

You never know how old the drive is, so for example: the drive could have been manufactured during the OG Xbox One days, and although formatting SHOULD be universal, you may never know what older firmware or OS may do to cause slight hiccups or incompatibility issues. Better safe than sorry is still a golden rule...

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Grumblevolcano

@NEStalgia I think physical next gen will use the Switch big 3rd party model. Namely the disc you get only has some of the game and to play the game at all you have to download a mandatory update which includes the rest of the game.

Grumblevolcano

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