MW3 Xbox 360 problems

[Dirty Hipsters]

I'm having some problems installing MW3 to my HDD on the Xbox 360.

I bought the game a few hours ago, brought it home, and immediately installed it to my Xbox 360 to play the game. I install all my games to my HDD or to a flash drive, because I have a launch xbox 360 and the damn thing sounds like a jet taking off when it plays games off the disk.

Well the install went fine, took about 10 minutes, but when I started up the game, it was still being read off the disk instead of the HDD. Deleted it, and tried installing it to one of my flash drives instead, but it still refused to be read of the flash drive, and read off the disk instead.

Is anyone else having this problem? I can't stand how loud this thing is, and it really bugs me because it gets in the way of the game's fantastic sound design.

Anyone have any suggestions for me about how to fix this?

 

[Sassafrass]

I get the same issue with Gears 3. I've installed but every time I start it up, it whirrs loudly. It does go away after a while though.

So, I'd suggest giving it a while to see if the whirr stops, around 5/10 minutes, and see if that does anything.

 

[Jeralt2100]

I'm having some problems installing MW3 to my HDD on the Xbox 360.

I bought the game a few hours ago, brought it home, and immediately installed it to my Xbox 360 to play the game. I install all my games to my HDD or to a flash drive, because I have a launch xbox 360 and the damn thing sounds like a jet taking off when it plays games off the disk.

Well the install went fine, took about 10 minutes, but when I started up the game, it was still being read off the disk instead of the HDD. Deleted it, and tried installing it to one of my flash drives instead, but it still refused to be read of the flash drive, and read off the disk instead.

Is anyone else having this problem? I can't stand how loud this thing is, and it really bugs me because it gets in the way of the game's fantastic sound design.

Anyone have any suggestions for me about how to fix this?

My copy read from the disc right up until it started loading the first campaign level and then it stopped. My guess is the menu/front-end for the game doesn't install.

 

[Rad Party God]

I guess that the game installs itself only partially, something akin to what PS3 users are used to.

 

[madster11]

FM4 does the same thing, after 5-10 minutes it usually stops spinning though.

Don't ***** too much if the only reason you install is the noise. My 360 has a habit of stuffing discs if they spin and it gets bumped by even a damn feather, so i have to install or risk having the disc get mangled.

 

[Dirty Hipsters]

Without looking up anything using the almighty google... It still has to read the disk for every game you install from a disk to the HD. It's just not as much, eh? They are only partially instal me thinks.

No, for xbox 360 when you install the game onto the HDD the disk is only initially read on start up to confirm that you actually HAVE the disk, and everything else plays off the HDD. That's why the noise gets reduced so much, because the disk drive doesn't have to spin up.

My copy read from the disc right up until it started loading the first campaign level and then it stopped. My guess is the menu/front-end for the game doesn't install.

I wouldn't be complaining if that was the case, but I played 2 games of multiplayer, and it never stopped.

Maybe it was just a glitch?

 

[Jamash]

There's nothing to be fixed.

It's the new disc format that they are now using, even when the game is installed there's still disc activity for a minute or two even though the game is running off the hard disk.

I'm not sure whether it's the actual new disc format that is being read for longer, or if it's just the new firmware update they added to the drives (in order to read the new disc format) that causes the extra drive activity (or a combination of both), but whatever the cause of it, it's perfect normal.

This has been happening with all new games since they updated the DVDs and the DVD drives, I've experienced it with both Space Marine and Forza 4 and it's nothing to be concerned about... or rather there's nothing you can do about it.