Talking Point: How Useful Do You Find Quick Resume On Xbox Series X|S?

I honestly couldn't live without it now. I have been using it since it was released and I cant go back to a time without it. To be able to turn my xbox on and jump right into the game and not wait for a startup screen, not have to load a game... Those days are gone and I'm happy they left.

I like it a lot when it works. I have gotten used to it so much that I only notice it when a game doesnt support it or it doesnt work correctly.

I noticed mass effect LE doesnt support it. I am on the 3rd game and finding it harder and harder to only play mass effect. You would think all games in Game Pass would support it. But then again load times are so much better now that it isn't really worth complaining about.

My only problem is it's turned on for some games that are multiplayer focused. For aliens even as host I have to fully close and reboot or nobody can seem to join the lobby.
But for things like Yakuza, nier it's a god send

It’s great when it works. However, many of the games I play aren’t supported so :/

So I'm conflicted. On one hand, it's awesome. It is amazing to open up a game right where I left off or back to the main menu without having to wait 2-3 minutes to load up a game and see logos.

But on the other hand, because we are dealing with technology and software, there have been some annoyances:

-it broke achievements for me in Psychonauts 2 and The Evil Within 2. Meaning, I wasn't getting the achievements you get for progressing the story (this was a complaint for Psychonauts completionists online)

-it's useless for Halo Infinite. For whatever reason you can't use Quick Resume and come back and connect to multiplayer lobbies. So I see the 343 logo every time I play

-it has ballooned my playtime for certain games, where I will come back the next day and the in game timer shows that I have "played" for the previous 23 hours. I don't know how long it took me to beat Psychonauts 2 because the in game timer shows over 200 hours

Obviously these are specific scenarios for specific games, but that's kinda the point. I don't know how Quick Resume is going to effect the specific game I am playing. So I wonder if it is going to have any annoying effects.

Er. Never used it. Seems unnecessary. As long as it's saved when I leave. Then I can live missing a minute of life for a load time.

I'm on team waste my time. In order to get games to load I have to quit out making quick resume useless in many cases and is more like long resume because I have to take extra steps now.

Great for the single player stuff. Not always great for the online stuff, but a great feature I like

As an achievement hunter, I don't use it. I'm glad it's a useful option for others though.

It's incredible, and tbh one of the most impressive things about the SeriesX. Despite having a gaming laptop more powerful than the SeriesX, Quick Resume is the main reason I would choose to play on the SeriesX rather than my PC.

The game would have to look significantly better (FH5) or run at 60 (Microsoft Flight Sim) for me to choose PC over SeriesX.

And that's mainly due to quick resume and how quick and easy everything is on the SeriesX.

Note - I only play single player games which is maybe why I've had a better experience than most. But it really has worked on basically every single game I've tried it on.

Honestly, my favorite feature of the new generation. I can't imagine life without it. Huge huge selling point of the console hardware. When I have to boot up a game cold I am always shocked at how long it takes in comparison.

I keep having to remind myself of it as it only works on internal HD games. That and years of reflexively closing games make me forget constantly.

When I first got my Series X I played Shadow of Mordor and Shadow of War and couldn't imagine playing those games without it. 30 mins of gaming time and you are getting 29.5 mins of playing from the time you turn your Xbox on and don't have to get to the next save point or restart your journey from point a to b of you get pulled away from your Xbox for any reason. I am disappointed when games don't support it now. No splash screens and all the rest of the blurb, no loading up your latest save. As long as it works, what's not to love about it? Use the same thing on my Switch but one game at a time there.

I don't use it often as load times are quick but having it for MS Flight Sim is handy due to the time intensive nature of the game

I love it for single player games. Just have to remember to restart multiplayer games because most don’t resync the connection. Load times are so quick now too which makes this generation the best.

@Darylb88

Don’t you have problems with the game becoming very glitchy , buggy and after that the inevitable CTD ? I have to say that my Flightsim is as buggy as it can be. I probably have to redownload it completely to see if it fixes something because it is completely unplayable now.

With some exceptions I really love it. Would like to see more games supporting it. I kind of miss it when playing a game that doesn’t support it and has a lot of start up screens and loading time , even on a series X.

@k3lt0n I have a 1tb USB drive full of older games and it works on every game I've tried from there. There's usually at least one Xbox One or 360 game on my Quick Resume list.

That's something that again I was amazed by, I did only expect it to work on Series X games, as I thought it perhaps had to have some developer input too. But no, it seems it really does just copy the game state from RAM to the SSD and load it. Works brilliantly.

PS - any idea how much space is reserved for quick resume on the internal SSD? 50gb maybe? Well worth it tbh, the size of one game, for a really fast next gen experience.

@Medic_Alert Sounds about right. I have actually had around 6 games in quick launch, which is very impressive, but that did include a couple of 360 games.

When it works, its invaluable! I just wish it worked for every game and perfectly every time but its certainly improved over time...

I absolutely love Quick Resume and get irritated when games don’t have it. It could use a bit of tweaking because it doesn’t always work properly, but overall it’s great.

There’s only two things I really notice the absence of when jumping between my series X and my ps5… those are smart delivery, and quick resume. Both may get taken for granted if you’re only on Xbox. And down played if you’re only on PlayStation. But I’m telling you now, you notice their absence.

Quick resume is great. A very handy option indeed.

It's a great feature that I don't use as much as I should since it's proven to be unreliable in the past.

But, with load times being so fast for many games, about the only thing it's good for is bypassing all the developer logos and legal language prior to the main menu.

Never use it personally

I've only used it a few times and all those by accident but was nice to save the time.

At first it got issues especially when playing LaD and Gears 5. But then it almost always worked when playing Arise.

Simply the best next-gen feature. Who gives a crap about raytracing? xD

Yeah, It's great, we love Quick Resume! This is Fact Thanks Team XBOX

It's certainly a cool feature but I don't use it. I wish it could be disabled to give more usable space on the SSD.

It's a great concept, when it works correctly. It is buggy as hell though and not just when you need to sign in for online stuff. Psychonauts 2 in particular, locked up on me a few times and I had to reset the box completely. If that's gonna continue to be an issue, moving forward on modern games, it won't be worth the hassle.

@Somebody im on the first game and it worrks just fine for me! its the only game besides MLB the show thats in my quick resume eveyr other game i play quick resume sucks for cause of the online connection aspect.

@Rural-Bandit thats pretty much my experience its great for story based games but on line based games its just a hinderance and actually slows down your ability to play...example Apex legends quick resume works but when you go in you either have to wait 45 secs(longerr then a cold boot of game) for the game to realize you cant reconnect...

It's a great feature to have, But honestly i never use it, I can only play 1 game at a time..

It is the reason I originally upgraded to the series x from the xbox one. There is something wonderful about being able to immediately start playing a game, without any loading, and also having no loading menu. I play a lot of games streamed from my Xbox, and it really helps there too. It basically makes launching into something instantaneous.

It's great and all, though since most of the games I play regularly i have to still connect online, it isn't a "WOW OMG" feature for me. The real star of the show with Series X for me is the almost non-existent load times to begin with. Games that used to take me 3-4 minutes just to load up now do so in ten or twenty seconds. Even with connecting to online servers, I can click on a game icon and be boots on the ground playing in 45 seconds - now that's a game changer.

I mentioned this on another recent article about it, but I think it's the only true "Next gen" feature we have on Xbox.

When you compare a One X and Series X there's not really that much of a difference unless you were to have them side by side. They play all but a handful of the same games, the interface is the same, and the graphical improvements are incremental at best.

It's Quick Resume (and the faster loading in general) that make you go "wow" so you can just jump back into where you left off in seconds.

I wouldn't give it top marks though as I've found with some games (particularly ones with online components) it can cause some issues, or it'll just boot you out and re-load anyway. As these make up a decent chunk of my most played titles you don't really get any benefit.

@Blessed_Koz it didnt work once for me on any of the 3 games.

yea i realized its not working im not sure why i thought it did i could have sworn it was in my quick resume but for a while i was only playing that game so maybe i just assumed and made a ass out myself lol