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XBOX SERIES X/S | LAUNCH OT | THE X-FACTOR

dolabla

Member
Is it normal for the disc drive to make a higher pitched noise when it's pulling in the disc when you insert it? Mine accepts the disc fine, but I noticed it sounds different than One X.
 

Komatsu

Member
LIST OF BACKWARDS COMPATIBLE GAMES THAT SUPPORT AUTO HDR

Below is a list of all BC games compatible with the Auto HDR feature.

Armed and Dangerous
Black
Blinx: The Time Sweeper
Breakdown
Conker: Live & Reloaded
Crimson Skies
Dead to Rights
Destroy All Humans!
The Elder Scrolls III: Morrowind
Jade Empire
Mercenaries: Playground of Destruction
MX Unleashed
Panzer Dragoon Orta
Prince of Persia: The Sands of Time
Psychonauts
Star Wars Battlefront
Star Wars Battlefront II
Star Wars Jedi Knight: Jedi Academy
Star Wars Knights of the Old Republic
Star Wars Knights of the Old Republic II
Star Wars Republic Commando
Tom Clancy's Splinter Cell: Pandora Tomorrow
Tom Clancy's Splinter Cell: Chaos Theory
Unreal Championship 2: The Liandri Conflict

0 Day Attack on Earth
3D Ultra Mini Golf Adventures
Ace Combat 6: Fires of Liberation
Aegis Wing
Age of Booty
Alan Wake
Alan Wake's American Nightmare
Alien Hominid HD
Aliens vs. Predator
Altered Beast
Anomaly Warzone Earth
Aqua
Arkanoid Live!
Assault Heroes 2
Asteroids Deluxe
Astro Pop
Asura's Wrath
Axel & Pixel
Banjo-Kazooie
Banjo-Kazooie: Nuts & Bolts
Banjo-Tooie
Batman: Arkham Origins
Battleblock Theatre
Battlefield 1943
Battlefield 3
Battlefield: Bad Company 2
Battlestations: Midway
Bejeweled 2
Bejeweled 3
Beyond Good & Evil HD
Bionic Commando ReArmed 2
Blood Knights
Blood of the Werewolf
Bloodforge
BloodRayne 2
BloodRayne: Betrayal
Bomberman Live: Battlefest
Boom Boom Rocket
Bound by Flame
Brain Challenge
Brothers in Arms: Hell's Highway
Brütal Legend
Bullet Soul
Bullet Soul: Infinite Burst
The Bureau: XCOM Declassified
Call of Duty 3
Call of Duty: Black Ops
Carcassonne
Comix Zone
Command & Conquer 3: Tiberium Wars
Command & Conquer: Red Alert
Counter-Strike: Global Offensive
Crackdown
Crackdown 2
Crysis
Crysis 3
Dark Souls
Daytona USA
Dead Space
Dead Space 2
Dead Space 3
Deus Ex: Human Revolution
Disney DuckTales: Remastered
Disney Epic Mickey 2: The Power of Two
Disney-Pixar Brave
Disney-Pixar Toy Story 3
Doom
Doom II
E4 - Every Extend Extra Extreme
Eat Lead: The Return of Matt Hazard
The Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion
Enslaved: Odyssey to the West
Fable Anniversary
Fable II
Far Cry: Classic
Far Cry 3: Blood Dragon
Hitman HD Pack
Final Fantasy XIII
Final Fantasy XIII-2
Gears of War 3
Geometry Wars: Retro Evolved
Geometry Wars: Retro Evolved 2
Golden Axe (not the same as Sega Vintage Collection: Golden Axe, which isn't supported)
Hard Corps: Uprising
Hexic HD
Hitman: Blood Money
Hydro Thunder: Hurricane
Ikaruga
Jet Set Radio
Jetpac Refueled
Kane & Lynch 2: Dog Days
Left 4 Dead 2
Lightning Returns: Final Fantasy XIII
Lost Odyssey
Lumines Live!
Mass Effect
Mass Effect 2
Mass Effect 3
*Mirror's Edge (supported HDR beforehand, TBD if it's Auto HDR or using different HDR method)
Monkey Island 2: Le Chuck's Revenge - Special Edition
NIGHTS into dreams...
Ninja Gaiden II
Pac-Man Championship Edition DX+
Pac-Man Museum
Perfect Dark
Perfect Dark Zero
Portal: Still Alive
Portal 2
Prey (2006)
Rayman 3 HD
Rockstar Table Tennis
Saints Row
Saints Row: The Third
Sega Vintage Collection: Monster World
Sega Vintage Collection: ToeJam & Earl
The Secret of Monkey Island - Special Edition
*Skate 3 (supported HDR beforehand, TBD if it's Auto HDR or using different HDR method)
Sonic & All-Stars Racing: Transformed
Sonic CD
Sonic Generations
Sonic the Hedgehog 3
Sonic Unleashed
Soulcalibur
Soulcalibur II
Spec Ops: The Line
Spelunky
Super Street Fighter IV
Super Street Fighter IV: Arcade Edition
Syndicate
Tom Clancy's Rainbow Six: Vegas
Tom Clancy's Rainbow Six: Vegas 2
Tom Clancy's Splinter Cell: Conviction
Ultra Street Fighter IV
Vanquish (yes, the XB360 version supports Auto HDR while the XB1 version does not)
Virtua Fighter 2
Viva Pinãta
Viva Pinãta: Trouble in Paradise
The Walking Dead: Season 2
Zone of the Enders: HD Collection

11-11 Memories Retold
1979 Revolution Black Friday
20XX
2Dark
8-Bit Adventure Anthology Vol. 1
8-Bit Armies
8-Bit Hordes
8-Bit Invaders!
#IDARB
#KILLALLZOMBIES
Aaero
Abo Khashem
Abzû
ACA NEOGEO Alpha Mission II
ACA NEOGEO Baseball Stars 2
ACA NEOGEO Burning Fight
ACA NEOGEO Crossed Swords
ACA NEOGEO Fatal Fury 2
ACA NEOGEO Football Frenzy
ACA NEOGEO Ghost Pilots
ACA NEOGEO Karnov's Revenge
ACA NEOGEO Magical Drop III
ACA NEOGEO Metal Slug 4
ACA NEOGEO Ragnagard
ACA NEOGEO Samurai Shodown IV
ACA NEOGEO Samurai Shodown V
ACA NEOGEO Savage Reign
ACA NEOGEO Sengoku
ACA NEOGEO Shock Troopers
ACA NEOGEO Stakes Winner
ACA NEOGEO Super Sidekicks
ACA NEOGEO Super Sidekicks 2
ACA Super Sidekicks 3 - The Next Glory
ACA NEOGEO The King of Fighters '95
ACA NEOGEO The King of Fighters '97
ACA NEOGEO The King of Fighters '99
ACA NEOGEO The King of Fighters 2000
ACA NEOGEO The King of Fighters 2001
ACA NEOGEO The King of Fighters 2003
ACA NEOGEO Waku Waku 7
ACA NEOGEO World Heroes 2
ACA NEOGEO Zed Blade
Ace Combat 7: Skies Unknown
Adios Amigos
Adventure Time: Finn & Jake Investigations
Adventure Time: Pirates of the Enchiridion
AER Memories of Old
AereA
Aeterno Blade
Aeterno Blade 2
Afterparty
Agatha Knife
Age of Wonders: Planetfall
Agent A: A Puzzle in Disguise
Agents of Mayhem
Air Guitar Warrior
Alien: Isolation (potentially broken?)
AlienCruise
All-Star Fruit Racing
Amazing Princess Sarah
Amnesia Collection
Anima: Gate of Memories
Anima: The Nameless Chronicles
Anode
Anodyne
Another World - 20th Anniversary Edition
Aqua Kitty UDX
Aragami
Arcade Game Series: Galaga
Aritana and the Harpy's Feather
Armello
Armikrog
Arslan: The Warriors of Legend
Ashen
Assassin's Creed: The Ezio Collection
Assassin's Creed III Remastered
Assassin's Creed Unity
Assassin's Creed Unity
Assassin's Creed Chronicles: China
Assassin's Creed Chronicles: India
Assassin's Creed Chronicles: Russia
Assassin's Creed Syndicate
Assault Android Cactus
The Assembly
Assetto Corsa
Asterix & Obelix XXL2
Asterix & Obelix XXL3: The Crystal Menhir
Atomicrops
Attack on Titan
Aven Colony
The Awesome Adventures of Captain Spirit
Axiom Verge
Bad North
Baja: Edge of Control HD
Banner of the Maid
The Banner Saga Trilogy
The Bard's Tale ARPG: Remastered and Resnarkled
The Bard's Tale Trilogy
The Bard's Tale IV
Bastion
Batman: Arkham Knight
Batman: Return to Arkham - Arkham Asylum
Batman: Return to Arkham - Arkham City
Batman: The Telltale Series - The Enemy Within
Battle Chasers Nightwar
Battlefield 1
Battlefield 4
Battlefield Hardline
Battleship
Beyond Blue
BioShock: Remastered
BioShock 2: Remastered
BioShock: Infinite - The Complete Edition
Blasphemous
Bulletstorm: Full Clip Edition
Burnout: Paradise City Remastered
Call of Duty: Infinite Warfare
Castle Crashers Remastered
Cities: Skylines
Control
The Council
Crash Bandicoot 4: It's About Time
Dante's Inferno
Dark Souls: Remastered
Dark Souls III
Dead Rising
Dead Rising 2
Destiny
Deus Ex: Mankind Divided Natively supports HDR.
Devil May Cry HD Collection
Diablo III
Dishonored: Death of the Outsider
Doom (1993)
Doom II (Classic)
Doom 64
Doom 3
Doom (2016)
Dragon Age: Inquisition
Dragon Ball FighterZ
Duke Nukem 3D: 20th Anniversary
Dying Light
Eastshade
The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim - Special Edition
Fallout 4
Far Cry 3: Classic Edition
Final Fantasy VII
Firewatch
For Honor
Forsaken: Remastered
Forza Motorsport 6
Gears of War: Ultimate Edition
Gone Home
Grand Theft Auto V
Guacamelee! Super Turbo Championship Edition
Halo 5: Guardians
Halo Wars: Definitive Edition
Hollow Knight: Voidheart Edition
Hotshot Racing
Inside
Ion Fury
Killer Instinct
Killer Instinct Classic
Killer Instinct 2 Classic
Kingdom Come
Kingdom Hearts HD 1.5 + 2.5 ReMix
Kingdom Hearts 3
Layers of Fear
Mad Max
Marvel Ultimate Aliance
Metal Wolf Chaos XD
Metro 2033 - Redux
Metro Last Light - Redux
Middle-Earth: Shadow of Mordor
Mirror's Edge: Catalyst
NHL 21
Night in the Woods
Oceanhorn: Monster of Uncharted Seas
Ori and the Blind Forest
Ori and the Blind Forest: Definitive Edition
Outbreak
Outbreak: Epidemic
Outbreak: Lost Hope
Outbreak: The New Nightmare
Outbreak: The Nightmare Chronicles
Outer Wilds
Overcooked
Pac-Man 256
Pac-Man Championship Edition 2
Pathologic 2
PGA Tour 2K21
Prey
Prey: Mooncrash
Prey: Typhoon Hunter
Prototype
Prototype 2
Quantum Break
Rage 2
Rare Replay (excluding Kameo)
Rayman Legends
Red Faction Guerrilla Re-Mars-tered
Redout
Resident Evil 4
Return of Obra Dinn
River City Ransom
Rock Band 4
Sayonara Wild Hearts
The Shapeshifting Detective
Shenmue I & II
Sherlock Holmes: The Devil's Daughter
Shovel Knight: Treasure Trove
Sid Meier's Civilization VI
The Sims 4
Sleeping Dogs: Definitive Edition
Sonic Mania
South Park: The Fractured but Whole
South Park: The Stick of Truth
Spyro Reignited Trilogy
Subnautica
Sunset Overdrive
Tales from the Borderlands
Tales of Vesperia: Definitive Edition
ToeJam & Earl: Back in the Groove
Tom Clancy’s The Division
Tomb Raider: Definitive Edition
Turok 2
Ultimate Chicken Horse
Ultimate Marvel vs. Capcom 3
Undermine
Unravel
Unravel Two
Valkyria Chronicles 4
The Vanishing of Ethan Carter
Virginia
What Remains of Edith Finch
The Witness
The Wolf Among Us
Wolfenstein: The New Order
Wolfenstein: The Old Blood
Wolfenstein II: The New Colossus
Yakuza 0

Second post updated with a comprehensive list of all titles that support Auto HDR.
 

kraspkibble

Permabanned.
well, that's my Series X being returned :messenger_crying:

randomly shut off and wouldn't turn back on. was pressing the power button but it just flashed and went off. fans didn't even spin. i noticed a burning smell coming from it. i shouldn't have smelled it becausee now i have a headache and my throat feels strange. eventually got it on. then the controller/wifi kept disconnecting. i tried reconnecting to my wifi but it couldn't find it. the screen kept flickering on/off and there were artifacts across the screen.
 

Dr.Morris79

Member
Looks like my Series X has shit the bed. Played all of nine hours of valhalla, via three different sessions. Last night I turned the console off as normal and it switched off FAST, beyond normal speed for a shut down

Now when it turns on, black screen. After pushing the power button to turn it off

It stays on

It's fucked.
 

Flintty

Member
well, that's my Series X being returned :messenger_crying:

randomly shut off and wouldn't turn back on. was pressing the power button but it just flashed and went off. fans didn't even spin. i noticed a burning smell coming from it. i shouldn't have smelled it becausee now i have a headache and my throat feels strange. eventually got it on. then the controller/wifi kept disconnecting. i tried reconnecting to my wifi but it couldn't find it. the screen kept flickering on/off and there were artifacts across the screen.
Looks like my Series X has shit the bed. Played all of nine hours of valhalla, via three different sessions. Last night I turned the console off as normal and it switched off FAST, beyond normal speed for a shut down

Now when it turns on, black screen. After pushing the power button to turn it off

It stays on

It's fucked.

Damn that sucks. Sorry for both of you.
 

Dr.Morris79

Member
Damn that sucks. Sorry for both of you.
Just literally managed to get it back. Had to hold down the power button for ten odd seconds, remove the power lead, removed expansion drive and USB externals. Plug the power back in, after three attempts it booted up.

I think i'll be going back to the One X for a while, at least until a firmware update

The series X seems flaky at the moment.
 

Flintty

Member
Just literally managed to get it back. Had to hold down the power button for ten odd seconds, remove the power lead, removed expansion drive and USB externals. Plug the power back in, after three attempts it booted up.

I think i'll be going back to the One X for a while, at least until a firmware update

The series X seems flaky at the moment.

Sounds odd. I had a random issue with the console shitting itself when a bluray film had a finger print on it. I read someone else’s comment that they’re gonna hammer using it as much as possible to fully stress test it and I’m inclined to agree. If it goes wrong I’d rather it happened now whilst I can get a full refund.
 
Has anyone with an LG C9 tried to enable chroma 4:4:4 by doing setting their input to 'PC' rather than Xbox/Games Console?

I did this but then I got a weird flickering ghosting on the screen. Definitely not what this chap got in this video. I have switched it back to 'games console' for now:

 
Did anyone buy the external SSD card? And if so, does your console also now only crash on start up when the card is plugged in?
 
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Dibils2k

Member
Has anyone with an LG C9 tried to enable chroma 4:4:4 by doing setting their input to 'PC' rather than Xbox/Games Console?

I did this but then I got a weird flickering ghosting on the screen. Definitely not what this chap got in this video. I have switched it back to 'games console' for now:


based on that video if you set it to 4k/120fps and 10bit color depth, you should get 4:4:4 without needing the PC Mode

does that introduce the problem aswell?
 

German Hops

GAF's Nicest Lunch Thief
A quick qiestion for the thread(I've been living under a rock) :

Does the Series X require online check-ins?
 

Warnen

Don't pass gaas, it is your Destiny!
Woot was able to get 2 Xbox series x (one for me and one for my bro) for a small mark up and shipping. This will hold me over till the digtial ps5 are available retail.

should have them early next week.
 
Can I ask you guys to do me a favour?

I plugged both of my headsets tonight into the XSX controller to play some Ori and the sound volume was really low. I then plugged it into my old xbox one controller and the sound was loud and perfect.

I have done various restarts and twiddled with settings but the volume to the headset using the new pad is obviously way lower than it should be. With the old pad, it's perfect.

Am I imagining this or do I have a dodgy joypad?

Can someone who has an old pad test this for me?
 
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Komatsu

Member
Can I ask you guys to do me a favour?

I plugged both of my headsets tonight into the XSX controller to play some Ori and the sound volume was really low. I then plugged it into my old xbox one controller and the sound was loud and perfect.

I have done various restarts and twiddled with settings but the volume to the headset using the new pad is obviously way lower than it should be. With the old pad, it's perfect.

Am I imagining this or do I have a dodgy joypad?

Can someone who has an old pad test this for me?

I will test it tonight and let you know.
 

DustQueen

Banned
Playing BC games on my Series S...I was really disappointed when I heard that S plays One S versions... But I actually surprised how decent many of em look. I kinda expected them to be a disaster...but they are fine
 
When I try to use any EA Access title from Game Pass my only options are to subscribe to EA access for 4.99 a month, or go to Microsoft store to buy the title. Anyone have any ideas? I've seen a handful of people report this problem on the web, but I can't find a solution anywhere.

It's real lovely to have a massive banner that "EA Play brings the best of EA to Game Pass" which I have to scroll through but the functionality doesn't work.
 

FatCamperBear

Neo Member
When I try to use any EA Access title from Game Pass my only options are to subscribe to EA access for 4.99 a month, or go to Microsoft store to buy the title. Anyone have any ideas? I've seen a handful of people report this problem on the web, but I can't find a solution anywhere.

It's real lovely to have a massive banner that "EA Play brings the best of EA to Game Pass" which I have to scroll through but the functionality doesn't work.
Isn't ea games available only to game pass ultimate subs?
 
Isn't ea games available only to game pass ultimate subs?
I don't think regular game pass even exists anymore, regardless I have game pass ultimate.

The best part is it is all a loop of broken. If I try to buy EA Games for 4.99 it gives me an error code. If I go to Full Library and click on EA Games it takes me to the renewal screen for my Game Pass Ultimate. Game Pass has all the EA games listed but my only option there is the broken link to buy EA Games or to buy the game from the MS Store.

There are only a handful or reports of this. Articles just say to go to the Full Library and click on EA Games, but like I already said that just doesn't work for me.

I should go plug my Xbox One back in and see if maybe I can get it to work from there, and then maybe it'll just work when I go back to the Series X.
 
The sound was a bit dimmer on the new XB controller, but other than that I seem to hear everything just fine.

Thanks! I was able to sort it. For some reason the volume on the new controller defaulted to very low and it took me ages to find the setting. The old xbox one controller didn't do this however, thus my puzzlement! Regardless, all sorted :)
 

jaysius

Banned
HDMI-CEC isn't working for me any many others on my Series X, it will turn it all OFF, but won't turn it ON and the remote won't control any of the UI. Also the TV isn't going into auto scene modes like GAME when the Xbox is playing a game. It's not the cables, it's not my gear(the PS4 does all this perfectly) it's the Series X. My PS4 works like this, even my old Raspberry Pi 2 and 3 works like this.

Some people have VOLUME control issues via HDMI-CEC but they have the UI is working fine with their TV's remote control(this is how HDMI-CEC works).

If anyone else has this issue please report the bug to MS to get more attention to it, so they'll actually FIX IT.
 
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Kagey K

Banned
Thanks! I was able to sort it. For some reason the volume on the new controller defaulted to very low and it took me ages to find the setting. The old xbox one controller didn't do this however, thus my puzzlement! Regardless, all sorted :)
Every controller gets it's own sound profile in the chat mixer. Now that you have it set it'll remember those settings until you change it again.
 
I fixed my EA Pass issue by adding a "renewal" to my Game Pass Ultimate. Apparently without that even though I have ~20 months still left on it it didn't add EA Pass. Seems likely to just be an oversight on Microsoft's part.
 

Riky

$MSFT
Dirt Rally 2.0 is on sale at the moment and runs brilliantly on Series X, it was pushing 4k 60 on X1X bit now seems to just stay there. GRID is also looking really good as well and is on sale to.
 

JimmyRustler

Gold Member
Do physical Xbox and 360 games work on the series X without issues? I still have Double Agent for both Xbox and 360 on my backlog and it would be neat if I do not have to get my 360 out of the cellar to play those.
 

Men_in_Boxes

Snake Oil Salesman
Sorry if this is a bad bump but I have a couple of questions for you XBox kids...

1. How do you download games in your queue (GamePass) when you're not playing? I assume there is a sleep mode that does this like PS4?

2. Why the fuck is the d-pad so God damn loud. I swear my neighbors can hear me navigating the menus. Are all SX controller d-pads this loud? Does the DualSense have anything on it's controller that loud?

That's all. So far so good. GamePass is interesting at the very least. Haven't owned an XBox since the OG so there's some games to check out...
 

NeonGhost

uses 'M$' - What year is it? Not 2002.
Do physical Xbox and 360 games work on the series X without issues? I still have Double Agent for both Xbox and 360 on my backlog and it would be neat if I do not have to get my 360 out of the cellar to play those.
If it’s part of the backwards compatibility list and your Xbox is connected to the internet to down download it
 

pasterpl

Member
Sorry if this is a bad bump but I have a couple of questions for you XBox kids...

1. How do you download games in your queue (GamePass) when you're not playing? I assume there is a sleep mode that does this like PS4?

2. Why the fuck is the d-pad so God damn loud. I swear my neighbors can hear me navigating the menus. Are all SX controller d-pads this loud? Does the DualSense have anything on it's controller that loud?

That's all. So far so good. GamePass is interesting at the very least. Haven't owned an XBox since the OG so there's some games to check out...

try gamepass mobile app you can add game to to queue from there (same is possible via Xbox store app on Xbox), to make sure that games and updates download at all times go To settings -> general -> power mode & startup and set the power mode to “instant-on”.
 
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