Hi my new xbox x will not load my games from drive do l need to send it back or is this...

Ok...please follow me. I backed up my old xbox 360 to USB. I just plugged into front of 360. I transferred the old Dr Woj account back to the 360...it asked if it wanted me to delete the new one...

I said yes. I was then able to access all my old FallOut games using the USB. Now when I restarted and did the same thing....but wanted to use the hard drive....it would not load the games....probably because they were now coded with the new tag? So how
can l load the save games from the USB....start the game....and get the new saves to the cloud. Or what should I do?

hi there i buy today the call of duty vengard l tried to play the game but the game crash l can't play the game l tried to do restoring the console but nothing wha is the problem l have the new xbox series x

how long is too slow tho? a millisecond? a couple seconds? i'm fine with slower loading times and longer loading screens if it means i can actually have my games installed, the internal storage is about 800gb then the expansion cards cost from half to the same amount as the console, i'm fine if it means my games will have slower loading times if it means i can go buy a 5 TB hard drive to have modern games on when modern games take up about 100gbs minimum atm, i just wanna know why it isn't optional, like why? its a worse user experience in my opinion

It may be a little bit complicated to understand but it's not just about the games being slower to load. Essentially, Xbox Series X games are coded differently to previous Xbox games that used be loaded on slow mechanical hard drives.

Xbox Series X games have much larger complex textures than those from the previous generation of consoles. External hard drives are made up of a platter of spinning discs with read/write heads, the technology of these drives back to the 1980's.

The Xbox Series X uses its GPU to load textures faster. The console's custom DirectStorage API allows the GPU to directly access the SSD without going through the CPU. This reduces the amount of CPU overhead and allows the GPU to load textures more quickly.

In addition to using its GPU for texture loading, the Xbox Series X also uses its custom hardware decompression blocks (HDBs) to decompress textures on the fly. This further reduces the amount of CPU overhead and allows the GPU to load textures even faster.

As a result of these enhancements, the Xbox Series X can load textures significantly faster than previous consoles. This allows for more detailed textures, smoother gameplay, and shorter loading times.

Because mechanical hard drives are far too slow, the Series can't use it's custom architecture to load games faster.

In addition to these new techniques, Xbox Series X games also use new file formats that are more efficient than the file formats used on previous consoles. This further reduces the amount of data that needs to be stored on the drive and improves the performance of the game.

As a result of these changes, Xbox Series X games cannot run on mechanical hard drives. These drives are simply not fast enough to keep up with the demands of the new games.

I found the solution. Credit goes to PCaddict365. This is his post below

Hi,

I had the same issue where my xbox one x asked if i wanted my 5tb drive to be used as media storage or storage for games and apps. I chose media but then it kept saying to format the drive on pc as NTFS, which i did but it still didnt work on the xbox for game captures. Good news is i found out how to solve the problem.

What happens is the drive has 2 partitions on it so you need to go on your pc and go to disk management then select your hard drive and remove the "efi partition" from your external hard drive, be sure you select the right drive! After that you will need to right click in disk management on your external drive and change it to gpt from mbr if its bigger than 2tb. Just google if you need to know how. Then click on the drive in disk management again and create a new simple volume to get the drive working again. Format it on the pc and then plug it back into the xbox one x and when asked what to use it for choose Media. You should now be able to select the drive as a capture location! Hopefully this helps and i will try to post a tutorial on youtube to show what to do. It will be under my channel "PCaddict365". Best of luck and have fun gaming!

yes you can play all your games from your hard drive you can plug a 3.0 hard drive in to the new xbox series x and can copy xbox series x games to the hard drive but you will need to copy them back to the xbox if you want to play them again