Sorry, this game cannot be played from external storage.

You can buy old gen games not cross gen which relies on smart delivery to detect the best option for your console

You wouldn't want a 200gig game install with uhD textures for xbox one on a series s

You would.want the 100gig series s compressed install without uhd textures

Games designed for Series X/S consoles often require internal or expansion packs due to the SSD. These games are optimized to leverage the newer hardware, particularly the SSD, which significantly influences game development and storage, even if it may not be immediately apparent in gameplay.

While some games claim to be enhanced for Series X/S, not all of them actually have these enhancements integrated. Consequently, you can continue playing such games from external drives. It's unclear why this discrepancy exists; it would seem more logical to allow users to select their preferred version regardless.

For Series X/S games, playing from hard drives isn't feasible; instead, you'll need the speed card they offer. The only games compatible with external drives are those designed for Xbox One and earlier consoles.

Well it's easy 12x the speed difference and games designed to Access to gpu CPU and memory at 4.8gbps vs the users 500mbps using the ancient bus master system which the 4-5 buses are the bottleneck at 500mbps vs 12 paths to CPU gpu and memory at 4.8gbps

Even new computers and laptops don't support hdds any longer because they were invented over 30 years ago and rely on the bus master system

Why even bother with that when you have 4.8gbps without waiting for bus master timings USB USB host pci express host and the North Bridge on the bus system

You also have the option of a Western Digital Black expansion card as well. But if you don't want to purchase one of them, then your only option is to use the console's internal storage to play Xbox Series X|S optimized games.

Well np as it's not.a format issue

It's a performance issue

Your hdd needs to be 10x faster

Which isn't possible wirh the connection you are using.not to mention sitting behind bottlenecks

Your only option would be tp store games on that drive and swap.them in and out to internal.drive as you play them

You are talking about.a 500mbps external.hdd sitting behind a lot of controllers vs a nvme running at 4.8gbps. With direct access ro the cpu and GPU and memory

I dunno how you can even compare the two

This is why pcs moved to.nvme performance