OK, I upgraded, but how do I see how long I’ve got GPU for what I’ve already paid. It’s still unclear when I go to my Microsoft account and looks like I’ll be charged 15 bucks next month. This appears on the page:
Duh, n/m, I should read the year there. It’s late, I’m tired.
Looks like you got your year of Game Pass, no?
Yes, I realized my mistake. I am a silly man.
Razgon
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So, I got myself an Xbox Series X - YAY!
I then proceeded to install quite a few games, and filling up the harddisk quickly, and tried out a few, and immediatly had some issues.
Fallout 76 - Extremely faded colors, like colors are turned way down.
Conan Exiles - Sluggish, not 30 FPS I am sure (This could be the game, of course, but shouldn’t it be able to run at 4K since the game and Xbox defaults to this?)
Destiny 2 - Poor colors again (I started out in some icelandscape and that did not help, but the colors were once again faded).
So - what am I looking at here? The xbox defaults to HDR and auto HDR and my 2 year old Samsung does work with HDR (It works fine on PC, usually), and I think this is the issue - That, combined with the default 4K, which seemingly the games just can’t really run?
No Mans sky were fine, the colors looked great, but I did notice a slight fps issue, coming from a PC with a 2070 Super GPU.
What is everyones default setup for games? Do you have 4K enabled? Do you use HDR?
I am slightly disappointed I have to admit - I use a console to avoid all the various settings I have to use on tweak on PC.
Help me Qt-wan-3nobi - you are my only hope!
Thanks!
Did you dig into all the display settings in the Xbox settings?
Are you using the HDMI cable that came with the XSX, or one of your existing HDMI cables?
Razgon
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I use the HDMI cable I already had - you think that might make any difference? Its the one I used to my previous Xbox.
Damn - I hate having to get the TV out, but if that makes a difference…!
As for digging into the settings, I checked it out, and saw most was checked off as standard, and it said my TV could do pretty much every thing. I also did the HDR setup once, which made no difference.
Use the cable that Microsoft provided.
Razgon
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Thanks, I will do so.
What about having the console in 4K all the time? Is this recommened, performance-wise? As I mentioned, the fps loss was obvious in Conan Exiles, and Fallout 76 also lagged.
I assume if I set the Xbox to 1440, then the games will do so as well, if I uncheck the Allow 4K in settings?
Also mentioned here:
https://support.xbox.com/en-US/help/hardware-network/getting-started-set-up/set-up-new-series-x-s
Using the ultra high speed HDMI cable
The Xbox Series X console comes with a 2-meter Ultra High Speed HDMI cable that supports HDMI 2.1 features. This cable is required to support 4K gaming at 120Hz. Using a different HDMI cable may impact your video quality. Be sure to place your console within 2 meters of your TV so that this cable will reach.
If you require a longer cable, be sure to purchase a certified Ultra High Speed HDMI cable.
Razgon
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Cheers - appriciate the feedback!
Apologies for not being able to provide feedback on the 4K question. I haven’t managed to source a Series X yet. But isn’t it the case that the usual way of going about this would be to always let the console output at 4K but then use the in-game options (if they exist) to switch between quality / framerate / …?
I would have thought that a 4K game with the console outputing 1440p to the TV might simply mean that the image would be rendered at 4K then downsampled to display on the TV?
I don’t have a 4K TV, so I run my Series X at 1080p output, so I can’t answer any 4K questions either. Sorry.
RickH
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I used the SX w/ the Sony X900H in my living room for a while, and it may take some tweaking to get things all sorted out. I haven’t tried these specific games, but if the SX detects the features on your TV, they should work. I had some issues with a cable not being up to spec and limiting to 1080p, as well as making sure the HDMI input in the TV was set up properly (each input has a settings function). Also, you might make sure you are on the “game” or whatever low-latency, non-processing setting that input has. “Cinema” mode or anything like that will change how the colors are displayed. You might also try a game that has more visual pop, the colors in F76 are indeed washed out. Consider Forza 4.
I’d also note that the PS5 seems to be more visually dramatic w/ the HDR effects, I don’t know if MS decided not to push them as much on the XS, but Horizon Zero Dawn, Ratchet & Clank, and Ghost of Tsushima look amazing on my set.
So here are a couple of questions: when I was setting the console up yesterday, I had it hooked up to my 4k TV with the cable that came with the console, but at first I couldn’t pick a 4k resolution. I found out later that I have to explicitly pick “Allow 4k” in the settings. Is that everyone’s experience?
Also, I left a couple of GamePass games downloading last night when I went to bed. Can I trust that they did so completely before shutting off the console*? I didn’t see any equivalent to my PS4’s “rest mode” that allows for downloads to continue. If it makes a difference, I’m using “Power saving” mode.
*does it consider the “turn off after 1 hr of inactivity” to be after things have stopped downloading? I turned off the controller before going to bed.
Not sure about 4K, since I don’t have it, but I put my consoles in Instant On mode, not power-saving mode. In the Instant On mode, when I setup the download queues, I know that I can safely turn off the console, and it stays on enough to be downloading and installing while it’s sitting there, and then stops when its done. I haven’t checked recently, but I don’t think it does that in energy-saving mode. Not sure if it counts downloading as an activity or not for auto-off.
If I remember correctly, the Xbox detected that I had a 4K capable TV and adjusted its settings appropriately. I’m not totally sure what my settings are at the moment, but I can take a look if it’s helpful.
In my experience, no. It will download up until it reaches the 1 hour without input or activity and then shut down. But it will pick the download back up when you turn it back on.
Aww, crap. Guess I’ll change the mode then. I just didn’t need the other features described. How much power does the thing use in the other mode, I wonder. To the internets I go!
BTW, did it auto-detect your 4k TV during the setup or only after? Because my console sort of told me about the Allow 4k thing later. During setup the best it could offer me was 1080p. And yes, it’s hooked up directly to one of the LG CX OLED’s HDMI ports.
When an XBox is in instant on mode, it will automatically download system updates and game updates in the background even while “off”. Like you said, it increases power consumption. But it means you should not have to wait for a patch to download when ready to start playing.
Another quick question: do game downloads/installations continue if the TV isn’t set to the particular HDMI port or if the TV is off? Because on the PS4 Pro for some reason if I turned my TV off the console would turn itself off if I was installing (an admittedly disc-based) game. It was annoying.
System updates on the XSX take less than a few minutes at most, unlike the 10-15 minute process of the Xbox One.
Boot up from cold takes about 20 seconds, if that much.
That leaves huge patches. They can be a bit annoying, but they still go a lot faster on the XSX thanks to the much faster CPU, storage, and I/O.
