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
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