Extremely long install times

T-Man_722 · Feb 24, 2015

On Saturday I purchased Forza Horizon 2 through the store. It downloaded pretty quickly, but I've had a hard time installing it completely. For some time, about a day, it was stuck on 2% installing. I decided to disconnect the power and start the One
again. It started to install finally. But, it is now Tuesday, and the game is still only about 50% complete. I've left it in instant on mode, and I've just randomly turned it on even when I had no plans of playing it in the hopes that the install would
finish faster. It has been excruciatingly long. I'm at a point in the game that it needs to install the rest of in order for me to advance, so I'm kind of stuck playing the waiting game.

Is there anything I should do to speed this up, or do I have to just wait?

:)

Fly07 · Feb 24, 2015

Extremely long install times.....

I live in Kansas and all my installs, game discs, game dl's and system updates take forever IMO. Forza horizon 2 dl took 4.5 hours to dl and install, titanfall took 9 hours back in the spring....so I guess it's improving some eh?

goggles007 · Feb 24, 2015

Extremely long install times.....

Thank you for your replies, my upload speed is 5.12mbps down, 0.68 mbps up. Sorry, I made an error. It just seems like it downloading the whole game off the internet even though I have purchased the disk and have it inserted. Dead rising3 took just short
of 24 hours to install, WatchDogs around the same.

I figure the disk should take 30 minutes tops and then whatever updates it needs. Am I being unreasonable? It feels like I'm being discouraged from buying the disks and having a physical collection and sure takes a whopping amount of time.

I really don't understand why it takes as long as it does is all. Thanks everyone.

onyxishere · Feb 25, 2015

Sorry to hear it. When the console is off (in Instant On mode) it will download at a slower speed than when it is left on. Also, use of the internet on other devices will slow the amount of loading that can be done.

What I do when installing games is leave them paused during the day and then make sure that I leave the console on and the game(s) downloading overnight when everyone is sleeping and the internet will not be used should speed up the install process.

Boodaggy · Oct 31, 2018

My xbox downloads at approximately 10% of my bandwidth while in standby mode through wifi. 250mb an hour in standby while on wifi. While on it downloads 4-5 gb an hour. I just tried a wired connection and seemed to fix it. Give it a try.

Spyroman12

I would suggest buying the disc...they are better in my opinion.

My suggestion? Make sure that you are disconnected not only from the Ethernet cord, but also make sure you are disconnected from wireless while installing the game. If they are still taking too long, clear the persistent storage, and perform a hard reset.
I would guess that there could be corrupted data causing the extremely long install times. Hope this helps

pete8475

5.6kb/sec???

Are you on dial up?

If you mean that you have 5-6 megabits of speed, ok that was fast 10 years ago. In 2014 you should have something a bit better, otherwise you need to expect to wait a LONG time to download 40gigs of data. I live in the middle of nowhere and I have 50 megabit
symmetrical fibre at work and 30 down 5 up at home.

EDIT - ookla the company that runs speedtest.net says AVERAGE download speed in Canada is 16.6megabit btw.

Fly07

I live in Kansas and all my installs, game discs, game dl's and system updates take forever IMO. Forza horizon 2 dl took 4.5 hours to dl and install, titanfall took 9 hours back in the spring....so I guess it's improving some eh?

goggles007

Thank you for your replies, my upload speed is 5.12mbps down, 0.68 mbps up. Sorry, I made an error. It just seems like it downloading the whole game off the internet even though I have purchased the disk and have it inserted. Dead rising3 took just short
of 24 hours to install, WatchDogs around the same.

I figure the disk should take 30 minutes tops and then whatever updates it needs. Am I being unreasonable? It feels like I'm being discouraged from buying the disks and having a physical collection and sure takes a whopping amount of time.

I really don't understand why it takes as long as it does is all. Thanks everyone.

NxtDoc1851

No you are not doing anything wrong. And there is nothing you can do personally. Many people have complained of long install times. Personally I average around 10 minutes per install. They are addressing this in the 1408 update. So hopefully after you
receive this update it will be faster.

I also, have never had any issues with my Kinect 2.0 with commercials or shows turning on my Xbox.

Also, no unplugging the Kinect does not add more power. This has been falsely misconstrued by the media (perhaps an agenda, just a conspiracy theory on my part, since it is still being circulated despite Xbox and Phil Spencer as well as Major Nelson confirming
that it does not add 10% more power on his twitter)

Extremely long install times