Poll: Three Years On, What Do You Think Of Quick Resume For Xbox Series X|S?

It's one of the best features of this gen. I miss quick resume when playing on PS or Switch.

It's the best feature of Series, I use it all the time.

Great when it works.

It’s a brilliant idea, occasionally flawed in its execution. FH4 used to work great with quick resume, not so great nowadays. Sadly, FH5 has never gelled with it.

Actually almost never use it but it was neat in PowerWash Simulator.
I prefer finishing my session with a safe save or intended break point.

It's potentially the greatest gaming feature since saving became a thing back in the day with certain games like LoZ.

Excellent feature, I use it everyday.

Honestly early on I had some issues that now ward me off from using it.

-Bugged my Psychonauts 2 achievements (common in TrueAchievement troubleshooting threads for people to say "don't use quick resume")
-I'm always worried about it throwing my playtime, I prefer to have an accurate reading of how long I played a game

That and backwards compatibility are my favourite features. I love skipping all the logos and loading screens. Microsoft has made console gaming very convenient.

Fantastic feature, shame some games are just too stubborn to oblige.😀

When I first got a Series S, I used it all the time, it was mind blowing. That was all before I realised it caused problems with achievements and sometimes caused the occasional crash. Now I don’t trust it. I only resume something I was just playing and only for a day, I’ll restart the game after that if I’m still playing it.

I feel like people overhype the usefulness of this feature, it isn't the earth-shattering thing it's made out to be.

I do like it though, I agree that Xbox has put a lot of work into adding conveniences onto the console. And the rare time there is an issue with it, the solution is to just restart the game, which is what you would have to do without it anyway.

As someone who often only has time to play in short bursts, and often has a few games on the go, it is brilliant. That along with how quickly the console loads up in the eco mode. Last gen, it rarely felt worth trying to fit in 20 minutes of gaming due to the loading times. Now? I can hop on no problem.

Possibly my favourite feature of this gen.

It's great for single player games, live service or online games it would be nice to be able to exclude them from Quick Resume as it's annoying how they're not optimized for it

I love it and when I go to play games on my PS5, it feels weird not to have it. So nice to avoid loading times, etc. and just pick right up where you left off.

On the games it works on its awesome really good feature.

But obviously as pointed out it doesn’t work on everything.

Literally the best new feature of this gen!

I love dropping back into Ghost Recon wildlands exactly where I left off. Without waiting for eternity on it loading. It's a fantastic feature.

When it works, it's the best. When your game updates or something that goes wrong and it breaks it, its pretty frustrating!

I tend to completely shut down my Series S when not in use so as to save energy and cover the air vent, so sadly I don't really make use of it.

Breaks saves and achievements on quite a few games. Also causes performance issues on others.

Definitely needs a lot of work.

Honestly, I don't trust it as it is unreliable in it's behavior, therefore I don't use. I'll usually only switch game/exit after I see the saving spinner, and with current gen systems time from launch to in-game is counted in seconds.. not worth losing my progress or achievements over.

My favorite feature of this gen. It's a big reason I would prefer to play 3rd party games on xbox over playstation or pc.

It always works for me. I think some people expect it to work with online games or games where you are connected to servers; which obviously isn’t the case. But for single-player games it’s awesome. Supposedly it bugs some achievements though so that’s something to look out for.

A lot of the games I play regularly such as Diablo 4 (or any of the Diablo franchise), The Division 2, ESO among other just don't get on well with quick resume due to their online features. So clicking through the errors negates the benefits of the feature.

It's just as quick to just do a normal start for those gamed With the speeds games load on the series consoles it's saving a small handful seconds at this most.

Last gen the benefit would have been greater and quick resume would have been infinitely more useful given the notoriously bad loading times on all consoles back then.

Useful in some scenarios but generally not so much for me personally

For me it’s a pretty seamless experience and love love love the feature.

It’s a feature that you hardly notice but does its job. I think it’s great.

@CharlieChooChoo I always go back to the title screen when I’m done playing a game. Quick resume is even great then because you’re straight back to that screen when you turn the console on or switch games. It’s not only for continuing from where you left off.

Don’t use it. It makes my Series X crash too often.

@BrazillianCara Shutting down the console isn’t linked to quick resume. As long as you don’t shut down the game you can use quick resume after you’re restarted your console.

The issue I find in most games (but not all games) is once you boot a game up from Quick Resume it can lag or have odd performance and sometimes even visual glitches. But upon app close and a clean reboot everything is completely fine again. So it's best to just close your game when you're done and booting up clean when ready to play again.

@BrazillianCara if you don’t quit the game after playing it, you can power down your Xbox, unplug it from the wall, plug it in later and start it up again and quick resume will still work. I always full power down and switch off at the wall but quick resume still works

Hate it....ive had framerate issues,saving issues,glitches, graphical problems ,and you can't even turn it off ,the ps5s rest mode is much more stable

I sorta hate it. It seems to break all the time with single player gamepass and regular single player games. But I am used to the pick up and play ease of access with the switch so I keep expecting it to work. And then it doesn’t and I lose progress because the game I am playing doesn’t have manual saves. Luckily the game that gives me the most trouble I am just playing until the switch version comes out. PS5 and Switch work better for suspending games.

Useful when it works. If the game has an online component, either for solo play account checking, or you're doing online co-op or PvP, it's a pain! I have to remove games from the Quick Resume list more often than I use it properly as intended.

It's more trouble than it's worth.

Don't really use it much as like other people are saying I heard it will make games crash but even if it didn't it's not that great a feature and with super fast SSD loading it's not really needed as much

I don’t really use it myself. I wish that was an option in the poll.

I’ve used it in some indie games but for online multiplayer line Halo is not worth it. Infinite back at launch wasn’t a good fit for the feature which felt like a missed opportunity.

I use it regularly but not with all the games. Flightsimulator just works better when it has a fresh boot. Some of the time the achievement notification stops showing after quick resume and with new releases it is not as reliable as I wanted and lost progress more than once.

Surprised so many people say they have problems with it. Only issues I’ve had with it are online games that I don’t care if it resumes. Always works perfectly with single player games and not once had it “crash” my Series X. It’s a feature that lives up to the hype for me and saves a lot of time.

Can't live without it 😅. I used to not play a lot of video games because I did not want to go through the long load screens, so I always resorted to FIFA. Now I don't mind switching between games, and don't even play FIFA anymore. Massive win!

I never use it

I like using the Xbox Dev Mode to play emulators, and quick resumes get deleted when you switch back.

It doesn't always work. Like when I turn off the xbox from the switch, n turn it back on. The quick resume isn't there. So I barely used it.

Use it often. Works no probs except with online games obvs.

I use it quite often. There’s been a few minor issues here and there, but for the most part, I LOVE IT!

After uhhhh lots of years of habitually turning off games when I'm done...I barely use it. If I do, it's by accident.

@somnambulance tell me you haven't played starfield without telling you havent played starfield. I have an SX and quick resume has not ONCE "not worked" with Starfield. It works with literally every game aside for a couple online style ones where quick resume isn't allowed because it's online coop.

The bottom half of the poll are 100% Sony ponys

@Krazee5255 just for balance, as I have already stated quick resume is my favourite feature, but i have come across a few games where it fairly consistently didn't work for me. Its rare, but it happens. I have also seen other people saying quick resume didn't work with a specific game, but for me on that game it worked pretty much flawlessly.

I don’t just use it I’m dependent on it. When I boot up switch or ps5 I always forget and cursing usually ensues

Quick resume is a fantastic feature.

What needs to happen is that devs implement a graceful solution for loss of connection in their code. So many games dump you back to the start screen or leave it in the player's hands when a title loses connection to the servers. This often happen after a game state is dormant several hours and QR'ed. Why not code for the game to reconnect automatically?

@Krazee5255 @BowsersBuddy It seems that because they know that it seldom doesn't work, especially in games that connect to servers, some people make a mountain out of a molehill. It's what they do with every negative thing that they can relate to Xbox.

I have gotten so used to not trusting it (had a few lost progress moments in the past) that I forgot it was even a feature.

I still save and close down all my games when I am done playing for the current session. More just a habit than anything at this point.

I have entered my education and work history but cannot figure out how to have my xbox generate a resume

Top feature, although beyond a few niggles, I don’t seem to have had as many problems as others have mentioned. It is a little strange not having it on PS5 but I do tend to quit to menu mostly regardless.

Bought a PC and gave away my xbox. Quick resume is one of the only things I miss.. and having everything integrated instead of having 5-6 launchers and thus certain game pass games not having xbox achievements etc.

@Krazee5255
Starfield is literally my most played game on Series X. Same with my girlfriend and her own Series X. Instant resume caused performance issues for us both. Additionally it has broken several achievements for us we've only been able to go back and get due to having previous saves.

I had to quit out, and reload, and re level up to unlock Space Opera for example.

By your own logic, the upper half of the poll consists of xbots. Maybe, instead, be more open minded.

I’ve only just realised that I’ve never used it.

Tend not to bother with it. I mostly full shut down games after saving them anyway.

@InterceptorAlpha Same. I would say that quick resume failed 1/3 of the time that I played Starfield. I just got in the habit of doing a quick save before quitting.

@themightyant Yep. The Batman Arkham games were some of the first I found the issue on. For example, on the first I have a non missable achievement that didn't unlock. The one for besting Poison Ivy.

I understand it not working on online/gaas games. Though it is my opinion those games should not even have it enabled by default.

But the number of issues I've had on wholly single player games is wild.

I use it all of the time. It’s superb and makes gaming so easy when returning! No fuss, easy to use.

Exactly what accessible gaming should be @fraser

Easily my favourite feature and heavily influences what games I’m playing if I’m in a flick between a few different games period of life.

After I save, I shut down, so I don't use it, as most modern games are either constantly Auto saving or give you the option to manually save when you want.

I don't get some notifications for achievements but when I check the game's achievements, all that I got are unlocked.

Fantastic when it works! But I'm in the habit of shutting down any games that require server connection immediately because it often takes more time to get them working properly than it saves.

Never used it. I'm too old to change my ways and the loading is so quick on the new consoles, its really not something I am that bothered about

I don't use rest mode either, full power down on all my consoles. The consoles boot up quick enough for me.

Quick resume would be good if you could rely on it, but far too many games dont work.
As a result I tend to just use suspend resume for those games that work ok with it. Suspend resume also works fine on ps5.

I think it's really good, but with more and more games having online centric features it can cause annoying issues that mean you have to restart the game. Also there's a couple games (Guardians of the Galaxy is one) that have had issues where quick resume makes the game gradually slow down.

I just think more developers need to take QR into account. Fortnite is the biggest game on the Xbox, and one of the biggest in the world, but still has these issues years later.

@Banjo- I just want the option to turn it off ,if I'm having issues with a certain game you can guarantee its because there's 3 games in quick resume thats causing a conflict ,it takes me longer to shut each of those games down in quick resume ,than it would to load a game up from the start.

Honestly use it all the time

@Mephisto2869 I always wait for checkpoint or manual save, just in case. It's true that for online games it's not convenient so I quit them. Quitting a game is the same as turning Quick Resume off. Anyway, it's my second favourite feature after backwards compatibility. FPS Boost is my third favourite feature. The three of them makes Series X my favourite console.

Honestly, I haven't used in it in ages, as it nearly always casued issues with most of the games. It felt like an empty promise. Switch resume game feature is superior in every way.

I think it's wonderful.

Quick Resume and turning the system off and on with the controller are the main reasons I prefer console over PC. So nice to just suspend a game and not having to worry about a save point if you only got a few minutes to play.

@sikthvash "The superior in every way Switch resume game feature" is nothing, the console just turns the screen off like the 3DS, DSi, DS and Game Boy Advance. The Switch does not turn off unless you keep the power button pressed.

I swear quick resume made Starfield crash a lot. It's also useless with online games. Personally, I think it's quite an overblown "next-gen" feature. I don't think I ever need to have more than 1 game running at a time.

@Banjo- the Gameboy Advance didn't have that feature, unless you are simply thinking of pausing the game and walking away.
I'm aware of how the Switch works bud and I know it's not the same thing as quick resume in terms of storing it in RAM, however it is still a fantastic and convenient feature and one that works. I find a lot of the features across W11 and Xbox simply don't work, including quick resume which apart from a select few titles, I find I have to quit and re-open (& no, I don't just mean games that require an online connection), or the auto HDR, or the auto updates (why is this simple feature still an issue? I have to go in manually & search every time).
Don't get me wrong, I love the console, but I think Microsoft need to tidy things up in the OS and functionality; consistency & realiability doesn't appear to be their strong suit.
If you're enjoying it and it's working for you though, that's great!
Happy gaming dude!

@sikthvash Thanks for the reply. My point is that what Series S|X does, freezing a game and restoring it even after the console has been unplugged is something that no other console has done before. I agree with you, Windows OS is not always reliable and I wonder why if they've been working on it for decades. Xbox uses same OS and sometimes it gets stuck, too, but it has tons of user features and customisation that the other consoles don't have. Game Boy Advance has a "sleep" feature, R+L+Select or something like that, but it was just code in some games, e.g. Donkey Kong Country 3, to turn the screen off.

@Banjo- not really the same as turning the feature off ,but ok

@Mephisto2869 If you quit the game with the controller's menu button, the game is closed and Quick Resume is not activated. Quick Resume turns on when you switch to another game or turn the console off. This is how you can control Quick Resume easily.

@Banjo- id prefer to just have the option to turn it off ,or it works properly when turned on ,for all games,I feel that would be the better option,if the option to turn it off isn't there ,there must be a reason why not,there's clearly issues with it.

It's a great feature but I don't understand why some games don't support it... some of the simplest games too, like the Ghosts & Goblins remake, or others that take AGES to get through the title screen like The Outer Worlds (either the original game or spacers choice edition doesn't support quick resume, yet the other one does! They're basically the SAME GAME! It makes no sense!)