Good news for Xbox Alpha and Alpha Skip-Ahead Insiders! In yesterday's patch, which went live at roughly 3pm PT, Xbox targeted guide button lag. It's a common complaint among Xbox users and to be honest, it's good that it's finally being addressed.
We've experienced these issues here at Pure Xbox, especially when accessing the guide during certain games. It's not consistently laggy, but it crops up often enough to be a problem. Hopefully that's no longer the case after the Insider patch.
The update also addresses local language inconsistencies, network problems when first switching on consoles, and an offline error code relating to games not launching.
The Xbox team is asking for feedback on the Insider patch, especially relating to these guide issues. If the patch works out, we should see the changes come to all Xbox users in the near future. We're eagerly awaiting that!
Have you noticed any changes after the patch? Let us know in the comments.
[source news.xbox.com]
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Let's see i will test this out as yes, the guide initial press should pop but as off fails some hope we feel a difference.
Good to see. Hopefully they'll keep on top of bugs and issues. Particularly the Blu Ray playback problems that were reported on recently.
The patch works great ,what a difference
Edit : also my Xbox never automatically connected to live after a full reboot but did on a soft reboot ,that's no longer a problem for me
This has gone to beta and delta now. Just switched to delta and downloading.
I hope this does get sorted. I've lost count of the number of times I've had to multi-press the button, only to find myself on the console shutdown screen by accident...
What happened to the comma in your gamerscore? Has it now gone?
Nice. Now they gotta fix freezing/crashing when resuming Quick Resume.
YES!!! Often. Console Shutdown? No!!!
Though it's at it's worst during quick resume, which I use daily. If an alert comes up for Game Pass Quests after starting a game and I hold to skip to it the system has a minor seizure.
MS Rewards app also buggy as hell, doesn't always load and often registers double inputs in quick succession putting you back where you were. Thought my controller was drifting but it's only in that app, every cloud and all that...
Finally! That was an annoying issue I thought we'd just have to ignore forever. Sometimes it works fine, and sometimes I press it like 6 times and nothing happens and then it just pops up the shutdown screen.
@isturbo1984 yeah, that's a big one. A lot of games have issue, but I've been playing Tales of Arise and it's so bad, it's guaranteed to freeze the next cutscene/dialog after QR.
Ummmm, but did they address the issue with no audio going into headset with the update released last week? That is really infuriating. How you break that?
@NEStalgia yeah, i hate to trash the feature. its very on a case by case basis. requires a lot of experimentation. its great when it works. i always save and quit out to the main menu in-game before using QR. as it stands about a third of the time i Resume Gears Tactics, it freezes as soon as i hit continue.
What a difference i am happy it now snaps to great work team great work it does what it should and fast.
@Martsmall does it work well? Im having this issue with series s and all consoles, when im using edge or run some games, the guide is so buggy and can pop out rly unpleasing.
@TryToBeHopeful its omly for alpha insiders?? Im in delta btw
@isturbo1984 QR is the single best feature of the whole XSXS platform. I ended up using my XSS I bought as an XSX backup after mine broke as a local streaming server to keep games for streaming in QR since with cloud you can't do that. It's great. BUT....it's soooooo buggy with soooo many games. Some it works just fine, but others, like Arise, if you don't forcibly restart it every time, you're just going to freeze anyway.
@Xboxlegend124 yeh it does ,the guide pops up near instantly , it used to take approx 3 seconds to load up lately for me but now straight pop up
@GuyinPA75 if you mean not having audio on boot that's is being fixed tonight in the alpha skip ahead update
Xbox Insider Release Notes – Alpha Skip-Ahead (2202.220118-2200)
Audio
Fixed an issue where some users report not having audio on boot.
Note: If you still encounter this behavior be sure to report the problem from the console before trying any troubleshooting to resolve.
Fixes to address headset audio not working on boot with the latest update.
@Martsmall I'm referring to start up Xbox, then start a game, then start a party, there is zero audio. Nada. Nothing. But if plug the headset into USB it works. Lke Todd Howard level, it just works! Pretty frustrating. But that's what us alpha testers sign up for though.
@Xboxlegend124 you can definitely get it on delta.
@TryToBeHopeful no its not for delta insiders. Only for alpha.
@Xboxlegend124 I’ve got it on delta. 100%
It’s also on beta.
@TryToBeHopeful how do u know exactly?
Because I have it, and I have access to the beta ring as well and I can see what versions available through the insider app.
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