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“There’s been great tricks that [Xbox] taught us,” Howard said. “My favorite one in Morrowind is, if you’re running low on memory, you can reboot the original X
by havblue 4y ago
“There’s been great tricks that [Xbox] taught us,” Howard said. “My favorite one in Morrowind is, if you’re running low on memory, you can reboot the original Xbox and the user can’t tell. You can throw, like, a screen up. When Morrowind loads sometimes, you get a very long load. That’s us rebooting the Xbox. That was like a hail Mary.”
- mywittyname 4y agoHearing this makes me feel better about some of the asinine things I've done to keep software going.
- ridgered4 4y agoI never played on the xbox, but I remember when traveling between cells in Morrowind (like into a dungeon or building, etc) I never could figure out why it sometimes only took a few seconds and other times I was sure the game was locked up. I saw this behavior on several PCs and don't ever remember it going away. Morrowind had a much more interesting world than Oblivion, but I really appreciated that Oblivion did not do that. And that NPCs could chase me out of buildings.
- jhgb 4y agoAnd they say that games can't do stop-the-world garbage collection...