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Anonymous
10 years ago

first installation on xbox 360 help

i just bought bf4 for my xbox 360 slim and it wont instal the firs installation. ive searched it up and now i was wondering how do i overcome this? could i buy an external xbox hard drive and download it on that or would it be the same as the memory units which it cannot be downloaded to.

battlefield 4

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  • CUTlEPAW's avatar
    CUTlEPAW
    10 years ago

    First off How much starage space do you have on your current drive on your Xbox 360 ?

  • Anonymous's avatar
    Anonymous
    10 years ago

    about 2.5gb but thats not the problem its the fact that the slim didnt come with a hard drive. I think the only way to fix it is to buy a xbox hard drive. do you know any other ways of doing it as i don't want to have to buy a hard drive?

  • CUTlEPAW's avatar
    CUTlEPAW
    10 years ago
    Battlefield 4 on the Xbox 360 will come with two discs: one for multiplayer, the other for single player.

    The first time you start your game, regardless of which disc you use, you will be asked to perform a required installation of 2 GB worth of game content to your hard drive.
    Note, the above-required and below-additional installations can only be installed on internal Xbox 360 hard disk drives only, and cannot be installed to USB drives, or other alternative storage devices.
    • Battlefield 4 cannot be installed and played on the Xbox 360 slim model's 4GB internal flash drive without an additional hard drive with a minimum of 2GB of space available. Hard drives are sold separately for the Xbox 360 slim, Arcade, and Core models but must be internal for this content to work.
    You will have the option to accept the 2GB install or quit. Quitting will return you to the Xbox dashboard, and you will not be able to play Battlefield 4.

    As with many Xbox 360 titles, in addition to the required installation each disc can be installed to your hard drive to minimize game disc access and improve load times.

    These additional installations are not required, but doing so can further improve and speed up your Battlefield 4 experience.
    • The Multiplayer Disc, or Disc 1, has an additional 6.6 GB of content
    • The Single Player Disc, or Disc 2, has 5.8 GB of installation content
    Note: Be sure you install the mandatory installation content before you try installing each game disc’s content.
    • If you do try to install the optional disc-content before the required game data installation, your install will stop before completion, and ask you to install again.
    • If your install does fail due to installing content in the incorrect order, your second or subsequent attempts at installing the required content should complete successfully.
  • ragnarok013's avatar
    ragnarok013
    Hero+
    10 years ago
    @Chizpigz wrote:

    i just bought bf4 for my xbox 360 slim and it wont instal the firs installation. ive searched it up and now i was wondering how do i overcome this? could i buy an external xbox hard drive and download it on that or would it be the same as the memory units which it cannot be downloaded to.

    You stated that you have an Xbox 360 slim, is it the 4GB internal flash drive one or the 250\320GB internal HDD?  I ask because having the internal 250 or 320GB drive is mandatory for BF4 and it will not install on the 4GB model. You can see that both EA and Activision has this restriction for BF4 and Ghosts that launched at the same time.

    If you have the 4GB model you can simply purchase a used HDD from a store like GameStop or via Amazon rather inexpensively, remove the right side cover and literally slide the HDD into the 360 without any tools involved and then you'll be able to install BF4.

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