My 360 Doesn't Like MW2

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scoobyduped

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Ok, so I'm having a weird problem with my 360. Whenever I pop my Modern Warfare 2 disk in, it takes some.....coercing to actually work. At first, it won't even recognize that the disk is there (it'll try to read it, then say "Open Tray" as if there wasn't a disk in). After taking out the disk and restarting, it will read the disk, but try to play it as if it were a DVD (little video pops up saying "to play this disk, put it in an Xbox 360 console" (to which I start yelling "IT IS IN A F%$*ING 360")). Do it again, and it'll read as a game, but the "this disk is unreadable" popup shows up. Try again, and it'll start loading (get to the Activision and Infinity Ward screens, sometimes even to the start menu), then say that the disk is unreadable. Try one more time, and it'll actually work, and I can start playing. The weird thing is, it doesn't seem to be an issue with either the console or the disk. The disk is immaculate, no major scratches or anything, and has worked without issues on my friends' consoles. So it's a problem with my 360, right? Well, that would seem to be the case, except for the fact that I can play every other game in my collection without any similar issues.

So have any other 360 owners experienced anything like this, where one, and only one game doesn't seem to want to work on your console? Was there anything that you did that fixed it, did it just stop happening after a while, or am I just going to have to deal with it? And could there be any actual reason this is happening, or does my 360 just not like MW2.
 

squid5580

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I had the same problem with Prototype. I got a different copy of it and it didn't happen at all. If it is just the one game get a new disc. My first 360 started doing that to all my discs. Had to get a new 360.
 

TelHybrid

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Only problem I've had is with online. Takes ages to find a match, changes host so often, a lot of occasions of lag.

I really hope they sort these problems out as I'm really enjoying it.
 

12345cyclone

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scoobyduped said:
Ok, so I'm having a weird problem with my 360. Whenever I pop my Modern Warfare 2 disk in, it takes some.....coercing to actually work. At first, it won't even recognize that the disk is there (it'll try to read it, then say "Open Tray" as if there wasn't a disk in). After taking out the disk and restarting, it will read the disk, but try to play it as if it were a DVD (little video pops up saying "to play this disk, put it in an Xbox 360 console" (to which I start yelling "IT IS IN A F%$*ING 360")). Do it again, and it'll read as a game, but the "this disk is unreadable" popup shows up. Try again, and it'll start loading (get to the Activision and Infinity Ward screens, sometimes even to the start menu), then say that the disk is unreadable. Try one more time, and it'll actually work, and I can start playing. The weird thing is, it doesn't seem to be an issue with either the console or the disk. The disk is immaculate, no major scratches or anything, and has worked without issues on my friends' consoles. So it's a problem with my 360, right? Well, that would seem to be the case, except for the fact that I can play every other game in my collection without any similar issues.

So have any other 360 owners experienced anything like this, where one, and only one game doesn't seem to want to work on your console? Was there anything that you did that fixed it, did it just stop happening after a while, or am I just going to have to deal with it? And could there be any actual reason this is happening, or does my 360 just not like MW2.
It's you 360. I got rainbow six vegas 2 a while ago and it just wouldn't play it(same problem) but I could play all the other games. Eventually your other games will start to be "unreadable" and you should send in you xbox ASAP. That sucks though, that your xbox starts to break just as MW2 comes out. It happens to everybody eventually though.
 

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It will be your 360.
Mine does the 'Won't recognise the disc' thing time to time on any game.
Solution for that is to switch it from vertical to horizontal or vice versa. This tends to work 99.9% of the time.
I've not had the other problems though so there I cannot help.
 
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You sir have to return your xbox for you have the open tray error. It only gets worse and its best to just get it over with and ship it for a revival. This happened to me before and now mine works like a charm.
 

ae86gamer

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That's never happened to me. But if it did I'd threaten my 360 with a knife... or send it to Microsoft.