4749

Pretty much, yeah. There’s definitely bugs in the Standby mode. It’s especially bad if you’re in the middle of doing something, and a 2 year old presses her finger on the glowing white xbox symbol on the box. Suddenly, there’s nothing you can do to prevent it from going into standby (unlike voice commands, where it asks you to confirm first) and when you come back from standby mode in that instance, things are almost certain not to work.

4750

I tried music snap with forza last night and it did the same stupid focus thing to me too. I usually don’t mind in game music but literally I think there are only 2 tracks of music in this game: one for the menus and one while racing. Talk about cutting corners and content.

4751

I guess it goes to show that I shouldn’t have complained about the way music streaming is handled on the XBox. The universe showed me that it could indeed be worse!

4752

Maybe Microsoft will allow you to purchase additional music tracks for $1.99 a piece in the future!

4753

I’ve still to hit issues with standby mode. My One is always in standby mode, and I use Xbox on and Turn off to manage power. I will power it off completely once every few days though. But that’s mainly because my Chromecast needs resetting.

Wendelius

4754

Thanks for the replies. Just to be clear, “standby mode” is the same as what Microsoft calls “instant-on” mode? And “energy-saving” mode is what you guys mean when you say “power completely off”?

NBA 2K14 really doesn’t handle controller-swapping well. I was enjoying a game vs the AI, and someone wanted to try it for a sec, so I handed them the controller. (I guess we should’ve covered up the Kinect.) Poof: the AI immediately assumed control of MY team, and we couldn’t undo this. We had to watch the rest of the game play out as an AI-vs-AI affair. Surely there’s a workaround?

4755

I can think of 3 not great workarounds. Cover the Kinect. Select to have all accounts login manually instead of being recognised automatically (It’s an option when you set up the account. Acts the same as 360, essentially). Own more than controller and avoid swapping them around.

The Kinect auto login should ideally have a system option to temporarily disable it. I wouldn’t be surprised if user feedback meant we will get that in a future OS update.

Wendelius

4756

Thanks for your reply. We do own two controllers, but swapping those also causes confusion. I might try disabling automatic login. Thanks.

4757

I always assumed that standby sucked on windows because ms had to support so much random hardware. But if they can’t get it right on their own custom hardware, it might be that ms just sucks at standby mode.

Not that other hardware is immune. My ps4 seems to have some kind of standby related audio bug.

The only mostly solid implementation I’ve ever seen is on the Mac.

Diego

4758

I went into my settings today and found this “energy-saving” mode you were talking about. Yes! This is a great option. The only other way I knew of turning it off was to pull the power cord out, which is what I’d been doing, since I couldn’t find an off switch, only the glowing Xbox symbol, which just sent the box into standby mode. Now that I changed it after reading your post, it automatically switches off completely when I switch it off (either through the glowing Xbox symbol on the box, or through the controller, or by saying “Xbox Turn off”, all three ways now lead to it turning completely off).

Thanks for the heads up Spock! I knew there had to be a way I was missing. It seemed weird that the only way to turn it off was to pull the power cord out.

4759

Played a lot of Forza tonight while snapping Hulu Plus on the side. Watched South Park, which was automatically followed by latest episode of Family Guy, American Dad and the Simpsons. Those last 3 shows I haven’t watched in years, so it was kind of a surprise that I enjoyed them all a lot, all while racing. I could get used to this multi-tasking thing. I always thought I had to make a choice: games or TV. But now I can have both!

4760

That sounds really cool and would really work for me. However this stuff is just not supported yet and may never be in the UK.

4761

Is anyone else playing Assassin’s Creed IV on the XBox One? Is your game really, really buggy? I’m trying to figure out if Assassin’s Creed is really buggy or if my XBox has a problem. Assassin’s Creed seems to hang pretty frequently. I haven’t had any problems at all with Forza, Ryse, or with any of the apps, but AC4 is just crashing all over the place – maybe once an hour.

4762

Never had an issue with the PC version - so I don’t think it’s the game in and of itself.

4763

I’ve been playing it for hours on the Xbox One and never had a freeze or crash.

Wendelius

4764

I have it on the One and it has never crashed. Probably played 25-30 hours. Is there a way to delete the game and reinstall? It seems like there should be but I don’t know that you can do that since they hid storage settings from the user.

4765

I believe if you hit the Menu button (aka Start) on the tile for the game, there’s an option to uninstall.

4766

Thanks guys, I didn’t see an uninstall, so I took the rather drastic step of wiping the machine and resetting to factory settings. :-(

I thought it might be related to either my running the Assassin’s Creed IV tablet companion with it, or possibly something to do with the UBIPlay account, since it’s stalled out before trying to connect to UBIPlay. Unfortunately while I did see a setting to turn off automatic connection with the tablet companion, I didn’t see anyway to undo auto-login to UBIPlay.

4767

Oooh, Peggle 2 is out. I had some credits so I grabbed it, haven’t downloaded it though.

4768

My first set of batteries that came with the XB1 controller finally ran low last night after 2 and a half weeks of heavy use. I found out because vibration had been automatically turned off in Forza.

It’s pretty amazing that they made the controller take so much less power compared to the 360 controller and the DS4, and that’s despite adding vibration feedback in the triggers, which I’d been using daily since launch. I was beginning to think they’d figured out how to break the laws of thermodynamics, but the batteries did eventually run low. Very impressed.