NXE woes continue with Bungie asking Halo 3 players to not install the game on their 360′s. Given that being able to install games and run them of the 360 HDD was a much appreciated addition, this new stick in the mud will just add to the fast pile up of issues plaguing the NXE.
According to Bungie Chief Caching Officer, Mat Noguchi, when Halo 3 runs, if a HDD is present, it copies the maps from the DVD to the utility partition on the HDD. With Halo 3, this means that installing it increases the games’ loading time significantly.
Stating that the cause of the problem is the way Halo 3 works with the 360 HDD, he goes on to explain,
“You read and write through the same mechanism (i.e. the hard drive read/write head) and those reads and writes cannot occur simultaneously through a single mechanism.”
Citing that this issue does not hamper the gaming experience for the player in any significant way, Bungie has stated that they aren’t looking into any possible solutions for this problem. Not pushing this under the rug, one must give Bungie credit, for at least considering this a “problem”.
Source: Edge Online
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