- StinkyGimp
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I've had no actual DRE message. What I have had is numerous lockups/freezes, mainly in Firefight. In our oh...four hour session the other night, I locked up six or seven times, and all at different points. Sometimes it was on the initial game screen, sometimes in-game, sometimes in the Firefight "pick mission" screen.
On some of the lockups I'd also get blocky red graphics glitches, other times just an ordinary frozen screen.
I'm afraid to even try the campaign at this point.
I also had issues with the multi-player disk which also froze up several times, mainly in the screens where you choose the game or map. On the 4th try or so I let the default map finish loading and it seemed to be fine after that.
My situation as it stands now certainly sucks but at least I can play, unlike many others.
My XBOX is definitely one of the earlier generations, but it's never had the RROD nor have I had any significant issues with any other games...so who knows at this point if it's more a hardware issue, a disk issue or what...but I'm sure as heck not going out and buying a new XBOX just to play ODST smoothly.
Update: tried the campaign and it locked 4-5 times before I even got past getting out of the pod. Locked at different points each time. Decided to try a different game just for the heck of it, so I popped in COD4. Played about five minutes and it locked---I'd never had a problem with COD before so that made me say "hmmm...". Rebooted the box and BLAMMO! RROD.
Long story short: no idea now if any of the problems were actually with ODST, if ODST somehow caused my box to RROD, or if my box was already in the process of dying and it just coincided with my playing ODST.
Turns out my box is two months out of warranty as well, so MS wants $100 to fix it. Sweet.
[Edited on 09.27.2009 11:03 AM PDT]