have you installed any games into HDD

and did you see better performance...

 I installed fifa 09 and so far i havent noticed any improvement.well i think the startup got a little quicker but thats it.

I have installed Gears2 but I didnt see any improvements. The 360 is as loud as ever and I cant even play gears2 splitscreen without experiencing horrible FPS's. Am I doing something wrong?kunggustaf

You must have a bad disc or your system is dying. Or you could be accidentally playing it off the DVD instead of the HDD.  Splitscreen works fine for me.

I have installed Gears2 but I didnt see any improvements. The 360 is as loud as ever and I cant even play gears2 splitscreen without experiencing horrible FPS's. Am I doing something wrong?kunggustaf

I have the 20GB as well and I installed my bud's COD4 on it, I went to go play it at my house an hour later or so. I clicked on it and it said, "Insert Call of duty 4 disc to continue" I dont know what the point of putting games on your harddrive is if you still need the disc. My question is, Is this a problem or did this happen to you aswell. And, If you do need the disc, what is the point of putting games on your HDD? dysp1994

The points is that it reduces loading times/texture pop in, the drive isn't running so it isn't loud, and there are some other advantages. Did you really think Microsoft would be stupid enough to let you play without a disc? Why not just give the games away for free then.

I did PGR4 and load times are WAY better. It used to take upwards of a minute to load a race and now it takes less then 15 seconds. Unfortunately since I only have a 20GB harddrive I'll only be able to have 1 or 2 games installed at once. The installs are actually quite huge (Halo 3 6.9GB, PGR4 6.0 GB). It took about 9 minutes for each one to install.howlrunner13

 you are not suppose to install halo 3 to ur HDD, because the load time for everymap gets worst, even bungie them selft said it.i suggest you delete it.

[QUOTE="howlrunner13"]I did PGR4 and load times are WAY better. It used to take upwards of a minute to load a race and now it takes less then 15 seconds. Unfortunately since I only have a 20GB harddrive I'll only be able to have 1 or 2 games installed at once. The installs are actually quite huge (Halo 3 6.9GB, PGR4 6.0 GB). It took about 9 minutes for each one to install.ravinshield

 you are not suppose to install halo 3 to ur HDD, because the load time for everymap gets worst, even bungie them selft said it.i suggest you delete it.

http://www.xbox360fanboy.com/2008/11/19/bungie-addresses-halo-3-nxe-install-performance/

Yeah I know. It was the first the thing I did just to see what size it was and how it was withoutthe drive running and to see if it made any difference for campaign.

[QUOTE="kunggustaf"]I have installed Gears2 but I didnt see any improvements. The 360 is as loud as ever and I cant even play gears2 splitscreen without experiencing horrible FPS's. Am I doing something wrong?eXists

My 360 still makes loud noices even when I play from the harddrive, however it isnt strange when I think about it. My console was made in 2005...

I installed Fable II. It was very loud and very anoying, but now it is so much more silent. Loading time is the same or at least not enough for me to notice. Yea Micro is not that stupid not to require the disc. Could you imaging renting a game and allowing all your friends to copy it. That would have been awsome for us but Micro is in the buisness of well being a buisness who wants to make money.

[QUOTE="eXists"][QUOTE="kunggustaf"]I have installed Gears2 but I didnt see any improvements. The 360 is as loud as ever and I cant even play gears2 splitscreen without experiencing horrible FPS's. Am I doing something wrong?kunggustaf

My 360 still makes loud noices even when I play from the harddrive, however it isnt strange when I think about it. My console was made in 2005...

mine is from 06 and its still kind of loud

I have the 20GB as well and I installed my bud's COD4 on it, I went to go play it at my house an hour later or so. I clicked on it and it said, "Insert Call of duty 4 disc to continue" I dont know what the point of putting games on your harddrive is if you still need the disc. My question is, Is this a problem or did this happen to you aswell. And, If you do need the disc, what is the point of putting games on your HDD? dysp1994

I installed Fable II. It was very loud and very anoying, but now it is so much more silent. Loading time is the same or at least not enough for me to notice. Yea Micro is not that stupid not to require the disc. Could you imaging renting a game and allowing all your friends to copy it. That would have been awsome for us but Micro is in the buisness of well being a buisness who wants to make money.

rafaronie

Not to mention allowing such things would inevitably kill the 360. No one would buy games, then developers would stop making them, then you would never have anything new to play. It would be the PSP all over again.

I installed COD4 and Gears of War. I saw no improvement except the disc didn't spin so there wasn't the semi truck level noise. I'm about to try it on Oblivion and see if it cuts down on the loading times.mohfrontline

It greatly cuts down on load times and also makes the game itself run so much smoother.

I've only installed two games:

Left 4 Dead  - 5GB

It feels just slightly faster.

Fable 2 - 6.8GB

DOES load faster.

I'm really happy with this feature. My 360 stays cool and does not make that much sound when I play those two games.

I installed Cod4, its great, no sound at all from the disk drive. But I have one question. Say, like in the future I want to remove Cod4 from my hard drive, will delete all my saved games?kamikaze-jk

No. If you check it under your memory tab the installed game is a seperate file from your saved game file.

[QUOTE="kamikaze-jk"]I installed Cod4, its great, no sound at all from the disk drive. But I have one question. Say, like in the future I want to remove Cod4 from my hard drive, will delete all my saved games?DJSAV_101

No. If you check it under your memory tab the installed game is a seperate file from your saved game file.

and did you see better performance...

 I installed fifa 09 and so far i havent noticed any improvement.well i think the startup got a little quicker but thats it.

ravinshield

im glad i installed mass effect, now i dont hear my drive eating my mass effect cd and its more smoothravinshield

I have installed Gears2 but I didnt see any improvements. The 360 is as loud as ever and I cant even play gears2 splitscreen without experiencing horrible FPS's. Am I doing something wrong?kunggustaf

Maybe they will make games in the future that use this function better....