PSA (Gaming)

by cheapLEY , Monday, October 26, 2015, 11:36 (3115 days ago) @ stabbim

This problem gets significantly better when running games from an external hard drive. Apparently the built-in drive is a huge IO bottleneck, and any time the game's using it, system apps load super slow. One your games are running off of a different drive that problem goes away. I mean, there's still a bit of lag, but nowhere near as bad.

I'll be trying that soon. Halo 5 took up the last good chunk of my hard drive space, so I'll have to start using my external.

The new Xbox One dashboard seems to fix the issue even without that, though. It's more 360-like. You double tap the home button and a menu slides in from the left side that has Friends, Messages, Party, Notifications, and Settings, and they all open instantly. It's really slick, and it works extremely well in my experiences with it. It's how it always should have been.