| Looks like Bungie have given out the real reason for the XBox crashing in 
various stores. : This story keeps coming up. Makes me wonder... 
 Stefan just heard this from one of the MS 
testers...apparently some of the software on the demo discs was accidentally 
built with an old video library. A conflict between the finished hardware and 
the old library will, under certain conditions, manifest itself as the weirdness 
reported over the last few days.  For anyone concerned, the final version of Halo uses a 
more recent library which does not have this problem. I expect other Xbox titles 
do as well.  It's still an unfortunate gaffe, as it has generated so 
much bad publicity in such a short time. But it's also nice to hear that it's an 
easily fixed software thing, rather than a hardware issue as per internet 
speculation/accusation. I suspect MS will update the demo discs on the Xbox 
kiosks (which they were planning to do periodically anyway) with a more recent 
build, and the people with axes to grind will have to complain about something 
else.  -Matt  |