is it at all possible for me to stream an xbox backup from my pc and play the game off my xbox, or is that way too much to ask for. also does ne one know where i can find some larger dvd-r's than 4.7gigs? thanks for your help in advance.
Xbox game stream?
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Ok for the disk's try your local computer store, i suggest something like maplins or pc world. For the streaming, not so sure about that... if there is something it would be torrent download and the files would be huge and you would be waiting ages for them to download. Have you just tried renting the games from a video shop and burning them onto your hard drive with DVD2XBOX or something? thats what i do...
Hope this helps.
Hope this helps.
I'm guessing that you have a stock hdd, (because 4.7gb is about the most you can put on a stock hdd, so you would need a double layer dvd-r to play a halo2 backup for instance). I would get it upgraded and just put your games on there like desolate_one said. I have read about double layer dvd's not loading the games correctly here on these forums, so hdd backups are much easier to do and work every time, they also load faster than from disc.
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Streaming your games????? I like the idea and it could possibly work but I would not know how to. You might run into latency issues though. But with a clear 100MB network you might get away with it.
I think what he's trying to say is to put the game files on a shared folder somewhere on his network and play them from there. I wouldn't mind doing this myself as I can't be bothered to upgrade the HDD in my Xbox.Micric said:
Surely it wouldn't cause latency problems? A 100mb network must be a fair bit faster than the Xbox's DVD drive?
Yes, but all it takes is for a few more users and you could run into latency from the switch having to queue traffic. Though it would take a fare few systems to do that.
Mikekirk if you read what I put then you would see that I was thinking along the same lines. As for the bus speed thing. the CD and HDD are on a 33Mb cable in the standard system. You could upgrade to 166Mb but yeah, a 100MB network SHOULD be faster.
Just wish I could think of an easy way to stream these files reliably. Maybe I just found my project.
Mikekirk if you read what I put then you would see that I was thinking along the same lines. As for the bus speed thing. the CD and HDD are on a 33Mb cable in the standard system. You could upgrade to 166Mb but yeah, a 100MB network SHOULD be faster.
Just wish I could think of an easy way to stream these files reliably. Maybe I just found my project.
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Consider that windows will not utilize full network resources to stream it, so even if you do have a 100mb connection, the chances of your stream utilizing it would be slim to none, although a good idea, its doubtful unless you want a nice long serial cable...
still very doubtful on even a 1000Mb network. the limitations are not hardware but software. good luck, youll have to do your own coding, and it will take a high performance pc to be able to do much... not to mention getting the box to even load the stream.
if you can do it thats AWESOME! ill be following this thread to see how things come out. Good Luck.
still very doubtful on even a 1000Mb network. the limitations are not hardware but software. good luck, youll have to do your own coding, and it will take a high performance pc to be able to do much... not to mention getting the box to even load the stream.
if you can do it thats AWESOME! ill be following this thread to see how things come out. Good Luck.
With a 100MB switch you can expect to utilise around 80-95% of the bandwitch so that is 80 - 95 Mb/s. The DVD drive your using is only using 33Mb/s. You tell me where the bottle neck is. As for the gigabit network.....well yes, you would get that sort of speed but only if you changed the LAN controller chipset.
I recon you could stream games but I would need to get another copy of my .net pre-requisits disk. It has decided to **** up. Problem is that I cannot get another copy downloaded under my MSDNAA licence till I can get my administrator to fix the download problem that cuts my connection after 2 mins and also reset a counter that dictates how many times I have TRIED to download it.
I recon you could stream games but I would need to get another copy of my .net pre-requisits disk. It has decided to **** up. Problem is that I cannot get another copy downloaded under my MSDNAA licence till I can get my administrator to fix the download problem that cuts my connection after 2 mins and also reset a counter that dictates how many times I have TRIED to download it.
No - you cannot stream games and run them. The bios can handle one process at a time - Such as one dashboard, one program, one game. It cant do both at once, making it impossible for it to run a program to stream the game and run the game.
Amen, soul brother! I abandoned that operating system about three months ago, and I am never going back! I love Linux, and would gladly have it's children.Chipmonk4604 said:
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