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Xbox 360 problems with Oblivion
Lanz
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My girlfriend has recently been having problem's with her Xbox 360 while playing Oblivion, and we're not exactly sure what could be the trouble with it and/or how to fix the problems. The Symptoms include:
-when she initially puts the game in the system and turns it on, she's presented with a white screen that says "To play this disc, put it in an xbox 360 console". She can eventually get the game to work after several tries, but this message seems to come up most of the time she tries to play it
-near the inner circle of the disc, there are little dash-like scratches that she doesn't remember being on the disc before putting it in her system
any help you guys can offer would be appreciated.
-when she initially puts the game in the system and turns it on, she's presented with a white screen that says "To play this disc, put it in an xbox 360 console". She can eventually get the game to work after several tries, but this message seems to come up most of the time she tries to play it
-near the inner circle of the disc, there are little dash-like scratches that she doesn't remember being on the disc before putting it in her system
any help you guys can offer would be appreciated.
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One of the posters said 'not the xbox' because of bad quality control (he was getting a lot of returns) - the drive would scratch up the drives.
Look for the post, and see if the drive is scratching up the dvd.
edit: seems like you noticed something like that, but in any case you should be able to use the warantee on it or whatever
I dunno what the fuck the issue is, as none of the other games I own have had this problem.
It gets some loud sounds only once and a while at bootup. She says it'll boot up without humming loudly, and sometimes she hardly even notices it.
Somewhat unrelated (due to the error being different from the Oblivion one), she has noticed getting strange sounds when geting DRE's on other games. For example, in Lost Planet and Dead Rising, she'll hear the 360 give a strange sound before it gives her a pop-up message telling her the disc can't be read. She says it sounds like "peeling off a sticker from plastic in the tray or like the CD is falling off of it." The disc is fine though when she inspects it afterwards though.
and While noticeable, it's not really that loud
EDIT: Also, Oblivion, Lost Planet and Dead Rising are all rented games. So far she hasn't had any problems with her brand new games
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If you tilt it while it's on it will, but just having it vertical shouldn't scratch your discs.
she has it vertical
I had always had the machine Vertical and had never moved it with a disc in the drive.
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I have the EXACT same problem with my disk. There are those little scratches that come from nowhere, and it keeps crashing my game when I'm trying to talk to somebody. My best advice is to get a disk doctor and some of those little protector skins. Or just go to the Bethesda site for more info.
I just got a ticket number to send mine in for the same problem. Previously they thought my hard disk was bad (because I would get 'disk cannot be read' errors while playing the downloaded Tony Hawk demo) so they made me go buy a memory unit and play from that. I was still getting system lockups, but I wasn't sure if the problem was dirty disks or what. Well, I just bought Crackdown. I held it carefully by the edges, looked at the disk surface and confirmed it was perfect, inserted the disk, and got "To play this disk, put it in an Xbox 360 console." I've tried restarting the game at least 10 times, and the game plays for about 5 to 15 minutes before the system freezes, every single time. I think ONCE I was able to play for 20 minutes straight. I called it in and told that story, and they promptly agreed that I needed to swap my console.
I have a theory about this: I think these launch-model DVD drives have copy protection problems. I have a feeling that at some point during gameplay, the drive decides it can't confirm the disk is genuine any longer, so it freaks out, and I think that's causing the lockup. That's why the disk still looks like it contains something -- it still looks like a DVD -- when it has a problem.
(That's just a naive guess though. It could be wrong.)
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Then I just have to open and close the tray and everything is back to normal and I can continue playing after loading my last save. Other games don't have these problems.