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Re: Apex Legends becoming unplayable on XBox One

@EA_Aljo Thanks for that. No, it's on the Xbox HDD. It wasn't so bad yesterday. I think it gets worse when other apps are accessing the HDD at the same time, like when I was playing and the HD textures were downloading too.

I'll keep my eye on it and splash out on an external SSD if it gets much worse.

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  • @HogynDrwg Yeah I agree, but Apex Legends seems to be the 'fastest' game out there (among the ones I've played, anyhow). It could be that an 18 month old XBox One's HDD access sometimes just is not fast enough to keep up.
  • HogynDrwg's avatar
    HogynDrwg
    4 years ago
    @EdwardDLuffy Thats something i dont understand mate. I havent upgraded my pc for a few years and i've still played apex on decent settings, so the xbox should be equipped enough to play it just like the playstation
  • hayhor's avatar
    hayhor
    Hero
    4 years ago
    @EdwardDLuffy Seems odd. I agree you should not have to use another HD. You mention other apps running. Can you close them all whenever you play? Is there some sort of disk defrag for xbox?
  • @hayhor I don't have other apps running but if a download or update is accessing the HDD it can make things bad. I'll take a peek for defrag. I think I've looked before but there isn't one.

    Having said that it's been pretty good today.
  • hayhor's avatar
    hayhor
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    4 years ago
    @EdwardDLuffy Oh ok I've noticed if I'm uploading or downloading anything while trying to play on my ps5, the ps5 no longer prioritizes gaming so it screws things up. It used to slow the download to nothing to maximize the gameplay.

    PS has a what they call database rebuild which is basically their defrag. I'm sure xbox does too.
  • OldTreeCreeper's avatar
    OldTreeCreeper
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    4 years ago

    @EdwardDLuffy@hayhor there's no defrag on xbox. Only way round that is to uninstall everything and reset the box then reinstall.

    @EdwardDLuffy out of interest how full is your HD?

    My xbox ons s is running fine but all I have on it are fortnite and Apex.

    @hayhor xbox tries to do both at the same time, dl updates and play, so I do that seperately. 

  • @hayhor good find, I do a clean on the pc regularly that includes cashes. I've done it one on my xbox in 2 years. 

  • DoYaSeeMe's avatar
    DoYaSeeMe
    4 years ago
    @EdwardDLuffy Don't have experience with XBox, but they're not that different from PCs. HDDs are significantly slower than SSDs
    and can develop bad sectors over time. Maybe your device is about to get some.

    It might also be something related to how the resources are managed in this game. There's a ton of textures that need to be loaded and unloaded, more and more with each new season.

    Try lowering some video quality settings first, check your drive for errors , maybe do some benchmark tests as well to see if the reported stats are where they should be.
  • Lord_Scorpion34's avatar
    Lord_Scorpion34
    Legend
    4 years ago

    @EdwardDLuffy wrote:
    @EA_AljoThanks for that. No, it's on the Xbox HDD. It wasn't so bad yesterday. I think it gets worse when other apps are accessing the HDD at the same time, like when I was playing and the HD textures were downloading too.

    I'll keep my eye on it and splash out on an external SSD if it gets much worse.

    Can you put an internal SSD in the XBox? I'd just upgrade the internal drive itself if possible. All your games should load a little faster & the console would perform a little better overall.

  • pandareno1999's avatar
    pandareno1999
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    4 years ago

    @OldTreeCreeper You got me kind of curious so I looked and found this:

    "Your Xbox One console is not capable of formatting a replacement hard drive for use as the main drive."

    Sounds like a "no."