RROD soon?
May 22, 2012 10:39 AM Subscribe
Playing multiplayer Battlefield 3 on the weekend on an Xbox. My Xbox was juttery and slow. Not laggy from a poor internet connection, the problem seemed to originate on the Xbox itself. Animated loading screens were stuttery. Walking in the game felt like traipsing through mud. My only solution was new batteries in the controller, to no avail. Anyone else have a suggestion?
Response by poster: It stutters right from boot. I would guess if it was heat it would take at least a few minutes to manifest itself. I also made sure it was clean and dust free.
posted by Keith Talent at 4:46 PM on May 22, 2012
posted by Keith Talent at 4:46 PM on May 22, 2012
Don't be so quick to discount the overheating. The entire CPU chip is very small, and very conductive. It heats up and cooldown in seconds. When I'm running benchmarks (on PC) it only takes 1-2 seconds to go from idle to full load temps, and from full load back to idle. If there was something wrong with the fan or the thermal paste it would absolutely manifest itself immediately from boot with no delay.
The kind of overheating that takes "minutes" to manifest itself is related usually to airflow circulation within the entire case - it's not effectively dumping heat out as fast as its being generated.
posted by xdvesper at 7:09 PM on May 22, 2012
The kind of overheating that takes "minutes" to manifest itself is related usually to airflow circulation within the entire case - it's not effectively dumping heat out as fast as its being generated.
posted by xdvesper at 7:09 PM on May 22, 2012
Response by poster: Everything runs fine and jitter free if I'm not playing online. I just did a ping test and it's 68ms. This is my problem I think? I've checked it in the past and seen much lower values, at least twice as quick if not more. Maybe the problem is with my ISP?
posted by Keith Talent at 8:53 PM on May 22, 2012
posted by Keith Talent at 8:53 PM on May 22, 2012
Response by poster: I just ran a ping test on a server in the Bay Area, I'm in Vancouver. It was 126ms. This is definitely a problem for gaming, no?
posted by Keith Talent at 8:56 PM on May 22, 2012
posted by Keith Talent at 8:56 PM on May 22, 2012
a 68ms ping isn't really that bad, 126 isn't horrible either, but not awesome. You're likely dropping packets rather than having latency issues.
Reset your router to start with.
posted by TomMelee at 7:45 AM on May 23, 2012
Reset your router to start with.
posted by TomMelee at 7:45 AM on May 23, 2012
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