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Xbox Series X Can Resume Games After Reboot

gamingbolt.com

In a recent podcast, Larry “Major Nelson” Hryb, Microsoft’s director of programming on Xbox Live, talked about the feature. “I had to reboot because I had a system update, and then I went back to the game and went right back to it. So it survives a reboot.”

The feature will work even if you’re resuming the console from standby. It’s unlikely to have much impact on always-online titles since they require a constant server connection and will often quit if that’s severed. But the convenience of just pausing and switching off the console rather than worrying about save points is nice.

 

[Great Hair]

How does that work? If ya reboot, da ram gets flushed? AKA data gone ... ?

 

[Heimdall_Xtreme]

Mehhhh.

Its doesnt bother me reboot a game.

We need a real option to buy the console like play all of xbox games or better exclusives.

Or at least put my library games that i got of 360 and play in the NEW console. Not like PS store that is different plataform.

To be honest this things dont make me buy a console honestly.

 

[hunthunt]

How does that work? If ya reboot, da ram gets flushed? AKA data gone ... ?

Something like save states in emulators?

note: I have zero knowledge on computers

 

[Vol5]

How does that work? If ya reboot, da ram gets flushed? AKA data gone ... ?

I believe that a memory snapshot of the game is made to disk then placed back into memory after the power-cycle. Since it's SSD it should be relatively quick.

edit: Would be interested to know how much system space is reserved for this if multiple games can be supported.

 

[01011001]

How does that work? If ya reboot, da ram gets flushed? AKA data gone ... ?

the SSDs are fast enough to just save the current RAM state on the SSD and load it from there I bet.

 

[-Arcadia-]

This kind of thing is going to be amazing next-gen. Being able to do it with multiple games as well.

Goodbye pointless, annoying logos and start-up sequences. You can just pick up your Cyberpunk (or whatever we’ll be playing) adventure exactly where you left off, whenever you feel like it, no strings attached.

Which gives me more incentive to game, frankly.

 

[SimonGosejohann]

Mehhhh.

Its doesnt bother me reboot a game.

We need a real option to buy the console like play all of xbox games or better exclusives.

Or at least put my library games that i got of 360 and play in the NEW console. Not like PS store that is different plataform.

To be honest this things dont make me buy a console honestly.

the fuck is this? get out with this console warrior bullshit!

this IS an amazing feature! stfu

btw you can play MOST xbox 360 games for free on series x and even on one / one x, you know that right? lol

 

[CatLady]

It already resumes after you turn it off if you use fast start (don't really turn the console all the way off), but resuming from a full shut or reboot? That's cool if true.

 

[NeoGiffer]

How does that work? If ya reboot, da ram gets flushed? AKA data gone ... ?

 

[Hawking Radiation]

This and jumping straight into games or game modes your friends are playing is one of the best next gen features.

 

[M1chl]

How does that work? If ya reboot, da ram gets flushed? AKA data gone ... ?

Like a hibernation on your PC, but thanks to games being in VM, it's way easier. It's like a pausing VMware image and restarting your main computer. It just dumps the part of RAM into HDD (sorry SSD in this case, because I understand how important is the marketing talk). Nothing about "super fast SSD"...

 

[Shin]

How does that work? If ya reboot, da ram gets flushed? AKA data gone ... ?

Google translate from Dutch (I'm too lazy to do it myself):
In the Scarlett video they mentioned using the SSD's as virtual memory so that might be it as there shouldn't be a loss of data.

Larry Hryb, director of programming at Xbox Live, also took part in the podcast episode and spoke about the Quick Resume function of the console, among other things. This gives gamers the option to end a game session at any location and to continue at a later time at that point, without there being loading screens or waiting times.

According to Hryb, this function is thanks to the custom built-ssd in the XBox Series X available for different games. Players can therefore quickly switch between the sessions of those games. Hryb explains that the option to continue quickly at a point in a game is also possible after a reboot of the console. This means that a system update does not interrupt progress in a game session and that players can simply turn off their console to continue where they left off at a later time.

 

[ThaMonkeyClaw]

How does that work? If ya reboot, da ram gets flushed? AKA data gone ... ?

Probably similar to how the hibernate mode on a PC works, writes the RAM state to HDD so it doesn't get lost.

 

[darkinstinct]

How does that work? If ya reboot, da ram gets flushed? AKA data gone ... ?

You copy the 13 GB to the SSD. Doesn't take more than a few seconds.

 

[Night.Ninja]

Its a great feature, i already love the current suspend and resume

 

[MDSLKTR]

 

[DunDunDunpachi]

If you can resume after reboot, it implies something to the effect of save-states.

In which case....

Console save-states finally? Goodness yes.

 

[Virex]

Mehhhh.

Its doesnt bother me reboot a game.

We need a real option to buy the console like play all of xbox games or better exclusives.

Or at least put my library games that i got of 360 and play in the NEW console. Not like PS store that is different plataform.

To be honest this things dont make me buy a console honestly.

Not me bother either. I turn off after play not care to exist game.

 

[Virex]

How does that work? If ya reboot, da ram gets flushed? AKA data gone ... ?

Sheer will fueled by hatered, revenge, doritos and gamer fuel

 

[Mass Shift]

Actually this is useful if you constantly get interrupted as much as I do.

 

[Journey]

 

[01011001]

well at least it's not a PS4 where after downloading the patch you would sit there for at least half an hour to copy it

 

[quickwhips]

How does that work? If ya reboot, da ram gets flushed? AKA data gone ... ?

You sound like sony.

 

[LemmingWithaParachute]

So basically the same as using snapshot ( i think thats the option) in VmWare. Instant resume session?

 

[sdrawkcab]

Mehhhh.

Its doesnt bother me reboot a game.

We need a real option to buy the console like play all of xbox games or better exclusives.

Or at least put my library games that i got of 360 and play in the NEW console. Not like PS store that is different plataform.

To be honest this things dont make me buy a console honestly.

Then why not stop talking about not buying it, and just not buy it. Agreed?

 

[Heimdall_Xtreme]

the fuck is this? get out with this console warrior bullshit!

this IS an amazing feature! stfu

btw you can play MOST xbox 360 games for free on series x and even on one / one x, you know that right? lol

Actually im pc gaming too.

I have never had favoritism on consoles or in a company, I try in all areas

I know, but what is needed is to respect the purchases we made in past generations as in Steam

Then why not stop talking about not buying it, and just not buy it. Agreed?

It is a forum, everyone can comment, it is in each of us whether we take the opinion into account or not

 

[Bladed Thesis]

How many of these threads can we expect once this one falls off the front page of Gaming?

 

[CitizenX3639]

Ive seen paper, tflops, streaming, services, etc and nothing about games. As it is said, and so it is actually written(for a decade ), MS could fold up their tents tomorrow and zero.zero of actual players would care.

 

[quest]

Ive seen paper, tflops, streaming, services, etc and nothing about games. As it is said, and so it is actually written(for a decade ), MS could fold up their tents tomorrow and zero.zero of actual players would care.

Says the youngins who never been in a near monopoly market. If you don't think Sony won't fuck customers over the second MS left and are the only game in town I have a bridge to sell you. It was not cool when Nintendo ruled with an iron fist and sure as shit would not be if Sony does. They will bully publishers, developers and screw over customers who are forced to into their eco system. When the PS5 turns out to be a beast thank MS.

 

[LOLCats]

Im thinking like save states, the way you can do with emulated games.

 

[HaveButOneLife]

So it's not rest mode?

 

[SimonGosejohann]

This will be much faster going forward though, using SSD it will be much faster to install games.

 

[Coolwhhip]

So like on Switch?

 

[Gavin Stevens]

This will be much faster going forward though, using SSD it will be much faster to install games.

Last time I checked SSD didn’t improve download speed

As somebody that hd to update his pc install of modern warfare recently, trust me... patch installs are a TWAT. Something like 60 odd gb and 50 odd gb patches in the space of a week or so...

*shoot me*

 

[Gavin Stevens]

So like on Switch?

Switch doesn’t do a hard boot when you “turn it off”, it doesn’t flush the memory the same way a cold boot does. It essentially does the exact same thing your phone does, you can turn it off (sleep) or turn it OFF (and reboot). (But yes of course you can do a full reboot of the switch, but this will flush the memory and stop the resume).

This Xbox news essentially means you can reboot the console and turn it off fully, and your state is saved.

Pretty nice to be fair, and if the consoles have an ultra fast boot from cold, then you won’t even need to use sleep mode.

It’s worth noting that the PS5 will do the same btw.

 

[policestationx]

Another awesome feature

 

[SimonGosejohann]

Last time I checked SSD didn’t improve download speed

As somebody that hd to update his pc install of modern warfare recently, trust me... patch installs are a TWAT. Something like 60 odd gb and 50 odd gb patches in the space of a week or so...

*shoot me*

idk, I can't complain on XBL:

On PSN on the other hand...

 

[azz0r]

How does that work? If ya reboot, da ram gets flushed? AKA data gone ... ?

Same way it works with laptops, store an instance of the game in a giant PAGE file, load it to resume.

 

[MiyazakiHatesKojima]

This kind of thing is going to be amazing next-gen. Being able to do it with multiple games as well.

Goodbye pointless, annoying logos and start-up sequences. You can just pick up your Cyberpunk (or whatever we’ll be playing) adventure exactly where you left off, whenever you feel like it, no strings attached.

Which gives me more incentive to game, frankly.

No.

 

[SimonGosejohann]

This kind of thing is going to be amazing next-gen. Being able to do it with multiple games as well.

Goodbye pointless, annoying logos and start-up sequences. You can just pick up your Cyberpunk (or whatever we’ll be playing) adventure exactly where you left off, whenever you feel like it, no strings attached.

Which gives me more incentive to game, frankly.

you know what would be epic?

that you can continue the games at the exacpt same sport from your ipad, or laptop, or phone on the go using xCloud! Imagine that.

 

[MiyazakiHatesKojima]

So like on Switch?

 

[xool]

Goodbye pointless, annoying logos and start-up sequences. You can just pick up your Cyberpunk (or whatever we’ll be playing) adventure exactly where you left off, whenever you feel like it, no strings attached.

I'm so dumb I didn't even think of this. It's true.

 

[xool]

If you can resume after reboot, it implies something to the effect of save-states.

In which case....

Console save-states finally? Goodness yes.

Yay!

Will they let us have more than one save state per game though .. - it's a console - you know the answer already..

 

[SimonGosejohann]

So like on Switch?

huh? not with mine, after an update, I have to reopen the game, also if there is a power loss, i.e. battery died. does your operate different? how?

 

[GymWolf]

Nice feature but i probably never had this problem tbh.

 

[existensmaximum]

Sounds like a really, really nice feature to me!

 

[EightBit Man]

So basically a sleep function I have used since the PSP?

 

[WilliamSBirkin]

The Amiga was so ahead of its time it is not even funny....

the RAD: disk

 

[Bandi]

So basically a sleep function I have used since the PSP?

huh? no. if you turn off the PSP complete - remove the battery - and then start it again and you can still remove the game, then it would be like xbox series X.