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Written by Administrator
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Monday, 25 June 2007 |
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If you've entered the world of Santos over the weekend you'll have noticed a request to download an update for the game. This initial patch has addressed some issues but the game is still suffering in its matchmaking and lag issues online. A second patch is being worked on and that is promised to cover a lot more issues but for now this patch doesn't appear to have made much difference, personally it appears to have made the game worse to play after half a dozen dropped connections in a row I suffered just last night. We've got details of the what this first patch 'fixed' after the link.
Vista - Addressed a problem with viewing Shadowrun in the Games Explorer on the Vista versions for Portugal and Finland.
- Fixed an issue involving removing the controller while playing on Vista.
- If you lose your connection to LIVE while playing on Vista, the UI behaves correctly now.
360 - Fixed a hard lock that can occur when a player signs out of a profile on 360.
- Fixed a hard lock that can occur after starting a bot match in Chapter 4 of the training.
- Fixed an issue that affected voice-over in the Italian 360 version.
Common - Fixed a small memory leak that could affect performance and stability in some situations.
As with everything released though, there are a few problems. Not with the game (although lag still persists) but the actual downloading of the patch. FASA are looking into it, but they recommend doing the following: - Open 360 Dashboard
- Navigate to System Blade
- Navigate to Network Settings
- Select Test Xbox Live Connection
If it all goes OK then log in to Live again and it should work. If the test fails then that is your problem, but if the patch still doesn’t work then the Maintenance fix to clear the cache supposedly helps, but don’t forget Microsoft do not recommend that. As a quick reminder: Press Y on either the HDD or a MU and then press X, X, LB, RB, X, X. Once you do this a blade will pop up saying: “This will perform maintenance on your Xbox 360 storage devices. Do you want to continue?” Then you simply pick the yes option. It clears out a load of other stuff too, such as all other downloaded patches, but they can be re-downloaded. Use at your own risk though.
 One person has commented on this article. Quote(1) bleugh25-06-2007 10:10:43 This patch is bloody awful, changed my search time from under a minute to anything up to 4 or 5.. Matches drop more than ever and im seeing alot more lag.. |
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