Halo 3 Won't Work With HDD Install On NXE

Added 11/19/2008 by Se

One of the key features of the New Xbox Experience, was the feature that allowed gamers to install games on their Xbox 360 harddrives.  Well one major game will not be taking advantage of that feature, and that game is Halo 3.  Bungie's sci-fi shooter actually runs slower when installed on the harddrive than it does when not installed.  So what gives?  Mat Noguchi an engineer at Bungie says that this happens because of the way the game was designed.

"When Halo 3 runs, if a HDD is present, we copy maps from the DVD to the utility partition on the HDD," he says.  "And as a result, it means that even if Halo 3 is already installed to the HDD, it will still copy maps to the utility partition."

So basically, there's just too much going on internally for the game to work without any problems.  If you're hoping for a patch that would alleviate this problem, don't hold you breath as Noguchi goes on to state:  "The risks of doing that and the resources required has to be carefully considered against what could really be a rather insignificant change to the player experience."