Can't update/download and play (different games) at the same time

The game can't be played on different consoles at the same time.

The 15GB Halo Update can be downloaded while playing Campaign. Just set it downloading and load back in to game and off you go playing Campaign until the update downloads.

Some games allow you to update and play at the same time, others don't similar to the PS4. It depends what the game is updating and whether it is critical files. For example if they need to update the exe file then you probably can't play and update but
those updates are usually the smaller ones.

Hi,

You can pause updates, but you can't cancel them. The reason is because updates modify the contents of the already installed game files directly. Incidently, this why you can't play a game that is in the process of being updated.

This isn't something that can be fixed in a dashboard update. The files for updates aren't downloaded then installed, they are downloaded and installed at the same time.

Updates overwrite the original game files. If your installed game is say 40GB, and the update is 10GB, this won't necessarily mean your updated game now uses 50GB.

Alot of the disc install times were caused by the console downloading updates for the game at the same time as installing the game. There is a noticable speed difference if you go offline before installing.

This worked!

But... I just bought CoD MW3 and now it's not letting me download the game update, therefore I can't play the game on Live. I get the same exact error code. Seems I can't download ANY updates. I can, however, download apps (EPIX, Hulu+), and stream video.
Strange.