Thank you for this, it makes understanding this whole storage balancing thing a bit better. I mainly play 360 or Xbox one games so the trick of looking at the info and stuff and knowing where I should download it is helpful.

I play 3 games. Call of duty, madden, and NBA2k. And I have a Xbox series S 😞😞😞 I can only download 2 out of 3 games. This is dumb. I'm starting to dislike Microsoft for this.

I have a Samsung t7, and series x/s games work on it. Only certain games of course. AC odyssey & Orgins works with quick resume functions as well. Skyrim works, master chief collection works. And a few others as well. I was shocked that they all were optimized and quick resume worked for those games listed all being saved on my Samsung T7 ssd

@maxjensenjames9622

Жыл бұрын

Thank you for this info. In the market right now for the best ext ssd for my series S. Need to move shit over before starfield comes. My console is too full anyway. Not all my games are X/S or XboxGen9 so I should be okay. Seems like that Samsung t7 is the way to go. Tho I am looking at the seagate ext game drive/game hub. I basically just want one that can also drag and drop at a decent rate when I need to switch games to and fro. So I don't need to uninstall/reinstall

This video is great! I just got my series X recently and with only 1tb of internal memory every little bit counts. Most of my game library are older games that can go on my usb drive anyway, but I have a couple of the gen9aware games that I would rather keep on external. Thanks for this video!

so what hard drive do i need to be able to have games on it and still be playable? is that possible?

I've got a seagate 1tb hard drive but most games still don't work on there

Okay so I’m confused. I have a 4tb sea gate drive and some people are telling me I can play next gen games off these specific drives, but others tell me I can only play these certain games. Can somebody help me out?

@JoeChip

2 жыл бұрын

You can only play these games and maybe a couple more that I didn’t spot. As I say in the video, there are easy ways to check and see if a game will run from a USB drive.

@ryansmichiganperformanceboats

5 ай бұрын

I have over 200 games on 2 external 10TB HDD drives and never had this problem that this video is speaking of🤷🏼‍♂️

Guys, does xbox recognize Xbox X/S compatibile games, and save them in console storage unit, or Do I have to transfer the games every single time?

It seems to me that whether or not someone can play optimized for Series X/S games is convoluted because it depends on whether or not the file type is Gen9Aware or not. The forward compatibility of your typical external hard drive that is 1 terabyte or more is, therefore, not absolute. I find this to be problematic because if I install a Gen9Aware game on my Seagate Game Drive, I will likely not inherit any of the game's upgrades unless it is installed directly on the console.

@2genders-tk2ue

Ай бұрын

Ps5 is samething.

I got my series S for $280. I personally can’t justify $220 for a 1TB drive when I got like a $30 1TB external drive. I’ll just transfer games even with a 10-20 minute wait.

@DarkLexus542

Жыл бұрын

10-20 minutes ain't bad party store run right there lol

i understand where your coming from but changing external usb to default location doesn’t work for me, dead by daylight installer there as my setting default told it to but it wouldn’t run without being internal

@JoeChip

Жыл бұрын

As I said in the video, X/S enhanced games won’t run from usb drives. There are loads of games (mainly back catalogue games) that will, though.

If I Download a iso file for a 360 game onto a usb Flash drive can I play it on a series x ?

@JoeChip

Жыл бұрын

No, sorry.

Thanks. My question is if I’ll buy external SSD Seagate (not the card) will I able to run S/X games from it? Just because there’s cards hard to come buy and dang expensive. I rather save up on PlayStation then buying that card just for the memory…. Thanks I’m advance. Have a nice day.

@JoeChip

Жыл бұрын

Unfortunately most games that are enhanced for Series X/S won't work if they are installed on anything other than the internal drive or the official. expansion

@ryansmichiganperformanceboats

5 ай бұрын

I have never had a single problem🤷🏼‍♂️ I use a 10TB external Seagate and a 10TB WD HDD drive

I've downloaded Far Cry 5 onto my 2tb game drive and it's Xbox series X/S enhanced and it works

Thanks for this video. It explains a lot. So basically Microsoft's XBSX games require faster storage. It must be a new technology that regular USBs don't yet have. Sounds like they entered into a working agreement with Seagate to develop those faster storage cards. So I'll only install the Gen9 games on there. So that just means I can plug in my external USB drives with my last gen. games into my XBSX and be ready to go once I've installed the game disc, correct??

@JoeChip

Жыл бұрын

I would plug the drive in before inserting the game disk. That way, once you put the disk in the drive it should automatically detect that the game is installed and allow you to play it. It will probably need to update the save file from the cloud but you should be playing in under a minute (depending on your internet speed). Hope that helps.

@magjag8257

Жыл бұрын

@@JoeChip Definitely. Thanks, Joe Chip.

tysm

They upgraded all my fucking Xbox one games that aren’t “new” now I have to do a constant balance of managing my games back in forth between Xbox and hardrive

@JoeChip

Жыл бұрын

It's annoying, isn't it?

@wayne997gbro

Жыл бұрын

Division 2 works from external SSD 3.2

@wayne997gbro

Жыл бұрын

I've bought vermicide too twice as I don't know how I bought it twice the delux version and gold version

Love how Call of Duty, a heavily online based game requires you to be on either the consoles Internal or their ridiculously expensive external SSD slot. I upgraded recently from a WD HDD to a SanDisk external SSD to be greeted to this nonsense. Speeds on the SSD definitely suffice. Anyone know of any work arounds for the online play?

Wow and I thought I have seen the most weird glitches this tops it off

I just bought the series s and have a PS5 should have just got the x with the amount of storage 😂

1tb isn't anything so what are you supposed to do when then that expansion card fills up buy another and swap them out when u wanna play a certain game that's stored on it really stupid, anything to make more money, to be honest Xbox knew the series x games would take up up storage but the series x only gives you 1tb lol, the console should have came with atleast 8tb internal storage since they knew the the games would take more storage

@JoeChip

Жыл бұрын

8TB would have made the console far too expensive, though.

Can you play fortnite and minecraft from external HDD ?

@ryansmichiganperformanceboats

5 ай бұрын

Yes

xbox being ridiculous they should allow you to use any drive

Good

Funny how you can play then via cloud but not via a usb lol

I hate it because COD takes up 90% of the storage on my Xbox series s. I can’t move it to external, so games that I can’t move basically are f*cked because there is not enough room for other games that also can’t be played on external. SMH.

Here's the list of Xbox 23 Series X/S Enhanced games that I found would still run from an external (USB) drive in 2022. If you find others please comment and let me know. Ark Survival Evolved Assassins Creed Origins Conan Exiles Descenders The Division 2 DJMax Respect/V The Elder Scrolls Skyrim For Honor The Good Life Loot River Mass Effect: Legendary Edition Minecraft Dungeons Ori and the Will of the Wisps Sea of Thieves Shadow of the Tomb Raider (Thanks to Indigo Montoya for this one) Sniper Elite 4 Star Wars: Squadrons State of Decay 2 Stelaris Visage Warhammer: Vermintide 2 We Happy Few Zombie Army Dead War

@jam_1138

2 жыл бұрын

Shadow of the Tomb Raider also works 👍

@JoeChip

2 жыл бұрын

@@jam_1138 Cheers, I'll add it to the list.

@darrenscott6982

Жыл бұрын

@@JoeChip Ghost Recon breakpoint also

@r2jannah525

Жыл бұрын

What about gta v xs version?

@dino846

Жыл бұрын

Halo the master chief collection also works

Rocket League does still work

@Clown_Prince_of_Crime1

Жыл бұрын

Fuck that game

@artusanctus997

Жыл бұрын

@@Clown_Prince_of_Crime1 LOL. Same to Fortnite. Hahaha.

Sea of Thieves don’t, trust me, I’m sitting here watching it upgrade😐

@ryansmichiganperformanceboats

5 ай бұрын

Did for me🤷🏼‍♂️

Absolutely ridiculous

Wow Microsoft scummy

@jam_1138

2 жыл бұрын

Which part is scummy? The games that are gen9aware, are titles that have been optimised for the Series consoles but not the velocity architecture. As the games are optimised to take advantage of the velocity architecture needing the faster SSD they lose they ability to run from USB. It would be nice to run everything from usb but I prefer the games to be optimised to the systems full advantage. Sony do the same with the PS5, PS5 titles can’t be run from USB.

@JoeChip

2 жыл бұрын

@@jam_1138 Absolutely. This isn’t scummy at all. And there is still a huge number of back-compat games that run from Usb.

@jam_1138

2 жыл бұрын

@@JoeChip The more storage options, the better! At least you can store the games on there to save downloading the games every time which can be a big help!

@JoeChip

2 жыл бұрын

@@jam_1138 Absolutely. I have an 8Tb usb drive attached to my series X and it’s been really useful. I actually just brought it over from my One X, so it’s mainly got Xbox One and backwards compatible (OG Xbox and 360) games on it. It’s great not having to juggle too much and instead just have a big library of games sitting there ready to play.

@jam_1138

2 жыл бұрын

@@JoeChip I’m lucky enough to have an expansion card but I use an external 1tb SSD for back compatible games. 👍

This is the most annoying shit this generation brought. I don't care if it runs faster. Let me run the games on the drive I want to use. There's no reason some of these games should be SSD only. Things like 2D games especially. I can run them on any drive on a PC. Why does the Xbox gotta treat us like we are retarded? I'll take longer load times. I used to use those for piss breaks.

"hehe heheh hehe " bro this is not laughing matter just get to the point

@JoeChip

Жыл бұрын

😂😂😂

🤷 【ｐｒｏｍｏｓｍ】