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Re: Stores Reporting Bugs In Microsoft's Xbox
Posted By: Matt <matt@bungie.com>Date: 10/26/01 6:48 p.m.

In Response To: Re: Stores Reporting Bugs In Microsoft's Xbox (Louis Wu)

: This story keeps coming up. Makes me wonder...

Stefan just heard this from one of the MS testers...apparently some of the software on the demo discs was accidentally built with an old video library. A conflict between the finished hardware and the old library will, under certain conditions, manifest itself as the weirdness reported over the last few days.

For anyone concerned, the final version of Halo uses a more recent library which does not have this problem. I expect other Xbox titles do as well.

It's still an unfortunate gaffe, as it has generated so much bad publicity in such a short time. But it's also nice to hear that it's an easily fixed software thing, rather than a hardware issue as per internet speculation/accusation. I suspect MS will update the demo discs on the Xbox kiosks (which they were planning to do periodically anyway) with a more recent build, and the people with axes to grind will have to complain about something else.

-Matt


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Stores Reporting Bugs In Microsoft's XboxMorphius 10/26/01 8:39 a.m.
     Re: Stores Reporting Bugs In Microsoft's XboxLouis Wu 10/26/01 8:51 a.m.
           Re: Stores Reporting Bugs In Microsoft's XboxMorphius 10/26/01 9:13 a.m.
           Re: Stores Reporting Bugs In Microsoft's XboxFriendlyFire 10/26/01 12:22 p.m.
                 Re: Stores Reporting Bugs In Microsoft's Xboxdave withers 10/29/01 9:46 a.m.
           Re: Stores Reporting Bugs In Microsoft's XboxMatt 10/26/01 6:48 p.m.
                 I wish I had an axe :-( *NM*Jester 10/26/01 7:32 p.m.
                 about that article...zoso 10/26/01 10:22 p.m.
                 Re: Stores Reporting Bugs In Microsoft's Xboxjamesa 10/27/01 1:16 a.m.
                       Re: Stores Reporting Bugs In Microsoft's XboxMatt 10/27/01 3:06 a.m.
                 The plot thickens...FriendlyFire 10/27/01 9:54 a.m.
                 Post linked by Penny-Arcade. Duck and cover! *NM*Forensic 10/29/01 9:25 a.m.
                 Re: Stores Reporting Bugs In Microsoft's XboxBachus 10/29/01 9:26 a.m.
                 Re: Stores Reporting Bugs In Microsoft's XboxMorphius 10/29/01 9:43 a.m.
                 Re: Stores Reporting Bugs In Microsoft's XboxDarkAngel 10/29/01 11:10 a.m.
     Re: Stores Reporting Bugs In Microsoft's Xboxjamesa 10/26/01 11:31 a.m.
           Re: Stores Reporting Bugs In Microsoft's XboxMorphius 10/26/01 3:59 p.m.
                 Don't make this any more of Mac/Pc thing thing...Cannibal Harry (Friendly warning) 10/26/01 4:34 p.m.
                       PC or XBOX,its still winblows *NM*Matt(Uh...#5?) 10/26/01 6:10 p.m.
                             Bring it assmacs!!! Your OS suXs!!!Jester 10/26/01 7:45 p.m.
                                   I have a windows machine numbnut... *NM*Matt(Uh...#5?) 10/27/01 12:38 a.m.
                       Re: Don't make this any more of Mac/Pc thing thingMorphius 10/29/01 12:25 p.m.
                 Re: Stores Reporting Bugs In Microsoft's Xbox[Tycho?] 10/26/01 6:27 p.m.
                       Re: Stores Reporting Bugs In Microsoft's XboxMorphius 10/29/01 2:17 p.m.
                 Re: Stores Reporting Bugs In Microsoft's Xboxjamesa 10/27/01 4:24 a.m.
                 Re: Stores Reporting Bugs In Microsoft's XboxXBOX ROX 10/29/01 4:22 a.m.
           Re: Stores Reporting Bugs In Microsoft's XboxXBOX 10/26/01 4:25 p.m.
                 Why am I not surprised?brendan 10/26/01 4:33 p.m.
                       Re: Why am I not surprised?XBOX 10/26/01 4:37 p.m.
                       To be fair...Cannibal Harry (Friendly warning) 10/26/01 4:39 p.m.
                             Re: To be fair...Morphius 10/29/01 12:47 p.m.
     Perhaps more "unscientific" data.a communist 10/26/01 1:10 p.m.
           Re: Perhaps more "unscientific" data.Louis Wu 10/26/01 1:42 p.m.
                 Re: Perhaps more "unscientific" data.Cannibal Harry 10/26/01 1:52 p.m.
                 Re: Perhaps more "unscientific" data.FriendlyFire 10/26/01 2:18 p.m.
                       Re: Perhaps more "unscientific" data.Nate from school 10/26/01 2:54 p.m.
                             Re: Perhaps more "unscientific" data.Morphius 10/26/01 4:18 p.m.
                                   Re: Perhaps more "unscientific" data.Max Payne 10/26/01 4:29 p.m.
                                         Re: Perhaps more "unscientific" data.Blizzard 10/26/01 9:32 p.m.
                                   Re: Perhaps more "unscientific" data.Malloc 10/26/01 4:37 p.m.
                                   Re: Perhaps more "unscientific" data.Merc248 10/28/01 10:13 p.m.
                                   wait wait waitNate from school 10/29/01 1:54 p.m.
                 Re: Perhaps more "unscientific" data.Dan Rudolph 10/27/01 3:23 a.m.
                       Re: Perhaps more "unscientific" data.mAcMaRtYr 10/28/01 8:34 p.m.
                             Re: Perhaps more "unscientific" data.Morphius 10/29/01 10:16 a.m.
                                   Don't you see?MSN 10/29/01 10:23 a.m.
                                         Re: Don't you see?Morphius 10/29/01 12:54 p.m.
                                               Re: Don't you see?Louis Wu 10/29/01 1:15 p.m.
                                                     Re: Don't you see?Morphius 10/29/01 1:22 p.m.
                                   Wow.mukuface 10/29/01 7:37 p.m.
                                         Re: WowwieLophan 10/30/01 8:56 a.m.
                                         Re: Wow.Morphius 10/30/01 11:34 a.m.
     From One of Those Stores' Employees...Stevedroid 10/29/01 11:59 p.m.
           Check this out:Miguel Chavez 10/30/01 1:40 a.m.
                 Re: Check this out:Blizzard 10/30/01 2:29 a.m.
                       Re: Check this out:Lophan 10/30/01 9:09 a.m.
           Re: From Another of Those Stores' Employees...Nijhazer 10/30/01 7:38 a.m.
                 Re: From Another of Those Stores' Employees...MSN 10/30/01 9:54 a.m.
           Re: From One of Those Stores' Employees...Morphius 10/30/01 11:56 a.m.



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