Hard Play Series

[Janoc Florez]

Asstated in the title, my Xbox Series X has a tendency to hard crash when I play darktide. By this I mean the entire console shuts down, as if someone pulled the plug. This has never happened with any other game.

A lot of players have been having this issue since launch and it leaves then unable to play the game for more than 2-3 minutes at a time. WHY IS THIS STILL BEING IGNORED!? You have a decent chunk of your player base effectively locked out of the game they purchased 2 YEARS AGO!!!!! Why hasn't this been solved, EA? Reach out to Microsoft and work with them together to solve this * issue, it's not on your customers to "contact microsoft" when it is specifically YOUR PRODUCT AND YOUR PRODUCT ONLY THAT IS HARD CRASHING THEIR SYSTEM. This is straight up unbelievable how you guys have handled this. TWO FREAKING YEARS! We want answers and an actual resolution! Not the copy paste "have you tried turning it on and off again" you guys keep hitting us with.

Ok so i reset the Xbox back to factory settings and installed this game, I thought i will login to my account this time not my sons account and guess what i played a whole round this was on Manifest, i logged into my sons account on same map played the whole round, now i changed to a map with all air vehicles like spearhead and it crashed in first 5 minutes! so i logged back in same map but now with my account and played the whole round!

Product: Battlefield 2042

Platform:Xbox Series X

Please specify your platform model. Microsoft Xbox Series X

Are you using any software with an overlay? Yes

If yes, can you list them here? External Hard drive

If you disable this software, does that have any effect? No

Which part of the game is the issue happening in? Multiplayer

Which part of the mode? Conquest

Please select your region Europe

On which server did this happen? Conquest

When did this happen? (dd.mm.yy hh:mm)

Summarize your bug Crashes every 5-10 nins shutting off my Xbox Series X

How often does the bug occur? Every time (100%)

Steps: How can we find the bug ourselves? Play on Xbox series X with Elite series 2 controller on conquest.

What happens when the bug occurs? Ot shutdown crashes every 5-10mins

What should be happening instead? Run normally

As a school student in Pokhara, I suffered from a bone disease that caused body ache, restricted my mobility and caused recurrent fever. After expensive visits to hospitals, I finally landed a good doctor in Delhi who cured me. Had there been a delay in treatment, he said, and I would not have been so lucky.

I developed a love for sports, especially volleyball, which I was surprisingly good at. Standing tall at 1.88m, I was the best spiker and was known for my ability to jump high. My interest in studies decreased as my love of the game increased. The cheers of supporters made me feel formidable. On the volleyball court, I was king.

I was getting noticed and had started to build a fan base. The chief of Pokhara police recruited me, and I got even better at the game with practice and training. Before long, I was in the national team playing in different tournaments, including the South Asian Games.

In 2002, I got on a plane for Qatar where I was to work as a security guard. My wife was pregnant back in Pokhara with my daughter, our second child. This was a time when there were not as many Nepalis in Qatar.

I eventually spent 14 years in Qatar, my new home. During that time, I was promoted five times, and ultimately became a branch manager overseeing other security guards in the company. My starting salary was 900 QAR but by the time I left, it was 7,000 QAR ($1,900).

I also managed to find time to play volleyball in tournaments organised by the Qatar Volleyball Association between various nationalities. There were moments when cheers from fellow Nepalis gave me an adrenaline rush and a powerful feeling.

I was lucky enough to go home frequently, every two years initially and once a year after my last couple of promotions. But then my daughter Alisha became ill, and I had to rush back to Nepal.

I could not extend my one-month emergency leave. My wife stayed back in the village with our two sons while I took my daughter to hospital in Kathmandu. Doctors removed her tumour, after which she had to go through several rounds of aggressive chemotherapy.

My savings from the job in Qatar made it possible for me to afford to pay her medical bills which had racked up to almost Rs6 million. Friends who had known me through volleyball across the world as well as colleagues in Qatar pitched in, donating Rs1.7 million. This generosity brought enormous relief at a time when I was feeling lowest.

My daughter kept her spirits up throughout her struggle. Once, she told me that she was not going to make it and had a premonition that the end was near. Her body was unable to handle the painful side effects of chemotherapy. I could feel her slipping away.

The image of her looking frail and small in the ventilator is etched in my heart. It is painful when I remember how we communicated with each other through eyes blurred with tears, as she tried to make a few feeble gestures and I struggled to mumble words of comfort. I was not ready to say goodbye.

I study hard and am a grade topper in my cohort. But university homework does not relieve me from my household responsibilities, I am up by four am every morning taking care of household chores, including tending to our cow and buffalo.

So once you have got your hard drive sorted and your enclosure ( I used the Orico enclosure from Amazon )has arrived you easily slot the hard drive into the enclosure as shown. There are no screws needed and is very easy to do. Once this is done connect the USB cable to one the USB A ports on the back of the console.

The good thing with Xbox is that you can move XS-optimised games to the external drive temporarily and then move back if you want to play them again. In my example, I moved a couple of large Xbox One games over and that way they can run direct from the external hard drive. The only way you could play Series X optimised games is by using the official Seagate 1TB memory card. I think I may get this one day once the prices have dropped but for now, this allows me to keep some old Xbox One games on my console and frees some space up on my internal drive.

In summary, this is a great affordable way to get some external storage plus if you have the enclosure you can easily upgrade the drive at a later date. Maybe one day when 4TB SSDs are cheaper an upgrade may be on the cards.

External SSDs are getting pretty powerful, and brands like Samsung, WD Black, and Crucial all have some excellent portable options. We prefer the WD Black P40, the Samsung T7 or T9 models, or Crucial's X10 Pro. There's also the option to go for an Xbox Series X expansion card, which gives you the very best performance possible from an Xbox SSD.

If you want to expand the storage of your Xbox Series X or S, you have the choice of an officially licensed expansion card from WD or Seagate, an external SSD, or a traditional USB hard drive. If you want to launch and Quick Resume from additional storage, you'll need an expansion drive. If you're on a tight budget, an HDD will do the trick, and a happy middle ground is a portable SSD.

With one of the best Xbox Series X hard drives, you can upgrade your console's out-of-the-box storage. For the best results, we'd recommend the WD Black C50, since it's better value than the Seagate Expansion Card. Both of these will let you increase your internal capacity, and use features like Quick Resume.

If you want one of the best Xbox Series X hard drives to hold the entire Game Pass library, and spend an awful long time getting it all downloaded, you'll need a hard drive that can hold give or take 10TB at last count. In short, you'd need a gargantuan size of hard drive. For example, this WD hard drive can hold the entire Game Pass library four times (and still have space left over).

The best Xbox Series X hard drives will also work with the Series S, which will no doubt be a lifesaver for anyone who immediately starts eating into that limited storage space the Game Pass machine offers. Of course, the Series X's internal storage doesn't last too long either, especially if you like to peruse the Game Pass library like you would the menu at a wine tasting.

Annoyingly, there's no M.2 port in the Xbox Series X or S, which means you won't quite get the benefits of the best SSDs for gaming as PS5 owners do. Having said that, you do have a similar amount of storage space out of the box. Just like the PS5, the 1TB claimed on the packaging of the Series X actually equates more to around 800GB once the OS bloat is factored in. As for the Series S, you're cutting that down by half. So either console can really benefit from one of the best external hard drives for gaming.

The fastest solution available to you (for the time being) is undoubtedly going to be the officially licensed Seagate Storage Expansion card or the WD Black C50. These allow for native performance that's on par with the Xbox Series X's very speedy internal SSD. Keep in mind that you cannot boot Xbox Series X games off of an external hard drive at present, whether it's an SSD or HDD, so we tend to view these options more as expanded storage for unused last-generation games. They also make transferring game captures and screenshots a lot easier.

There's a new king of Xbox Series X and S storage, and it's the WD Black C50. This is as close as you'll get to the best SSDs for PS5 because it boosts your console's internal capacity without dropping performance rates. In testing the C50, we found exactly what was promised, and it's almost a like-for-like match with the original Seagate Expansion Card.

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