Technical Problem

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It started when I turned on my xbox. Instead of automatically signing me in it made me select my account then it sat there trying to load up the dashboard forever. I could make and join parties with my friend, just not access anything on the dashboard. I
restarted it and it came up just fine. I tried to play Happy Wars with my friend which was more or less successful for a while. Occasionally it kicked one of us out for connection problems. Both of us have great connections and it was nothing on our end. After
a while I got in a game and some things just wouldn't work. Gameplay seemed fine but it wouldn't let anyone build anything and the game was pretty much unwinnable. The next game, when it started up it just said "saving" for a good long time until I had to
just go to the dashboard. When I got to the dashboard it said some xbox live services were unavailable. None of the advertisements were displaying and when I went in to play Happy Wars again it said it couldn't connect to the save network. It eventually let
me back on but I got the save problem again and then I get removed from games every now and then now. I'm not sure what's going on, but my friend has been having the same problems as me and it's not just something with an individual game, it appears to be
something with xbox live as a whole.

Unfortunately, Microsoft hasn't been kind enough to offer an explanation in any announcements that I've been able to find.

Anyone else having difficulties?

[/quote]Xbox live seems to be acting up recently, but it could also be your connection, you don't have a Virgin Media connection by any chance? Because it sounds like an issue a lot of Virgin Media customers have had recently...

Hi,

If you change your desktop resolution to 1920x1080 instead of the game resolution, does that show the game full screen?

You should contact Amazon about this issue or you can try and contact xbox phone support.
support.xbox.com/contactus

Although when I changed my desktop res. to 1280x920 and then the game's resolution to the same one it works fine. But still, that's not the ideal solution, since the game is now blurred and stretched.

My advice would just be unplug the Xbox for a few hours and let it cool off, might just have too much use on it.