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[NinjaBoiX]

Hopefully this will be a short lived thread, but figured this was the best place to ask:

My Series X is behaving strangely, or to be more specific, slowly. Games seem to take 5-10 seconds to launch from the dashboard, I can move around the dash for a few seconds before the game suddenly boots. Seems to be every game I’ve tried.

Just finished up Inside yesterday, and it hung on the loading screen for ages with the “…” just looping for around 20-30 seconds, just booted up Horizon 4 and that took far longer than usual too.

I’ve cleared the quick resume cache and rebooted to see if that fixed anything but no luck. There’s no background downloads happening either, I know that can slow things down.

It’s not a huge issue in and of itself, I just hope it’s not symptomatic of a more serious issue with the SSD or something.

Any advice?

 

[jasondefaoite]

Assuming you have the time to redownload your games, I'd ensure your saves are backed up then reinstall the OS on the xbox. If you still have issues after that, most likely it's a hardware issue.

 

[cormack12]

Are you in any insider rings with alpha/beta/delta releases?
Did you do a full shutdown or just restart?
Try disconnecting it from the internet and try again
Try another profile (or set up an empty test one)
Is anything in quick resume or downoad queue?
When was the console last updated and is there one downloading in the bg
Any external drives plugged in? Unplug them

 

[Esppiral]

Power off your console completely disconnecting the power cable for a few minutes and power it on again that solved the issue for me.

 

[NinjaBoiX]

Cheers for the advice guys, got it sorted.

Power off your console completely disconnecting the power cable for a few minutes and power it on again that solved the issue for me.

This did the trick, thanks!

 

[eastcoastkody]

whenever my xbox is taking forever to launch games....its the internet. I unplug the ethernet and switch to wifi. And that fixes it

 

[ShakenG]

Good old pull the plug.

 

[Damigos]

My external HDD creates a 20 sec window on PS5 where i can do nothing. After that everything works perfect. Any chance you got external drives connected? Especially HDD ones

 

[Boaty McBoatface]

Welcome to web connected consoles.

 

[TintoConCasera]

Power off your console completely disconnecting the power cable for a few minutes and power it on again that solved the issue for me.

Old tricks never fail.

 

[Hawking Radiation]

Open it up.

Give it a clean.

 

[Filben]

Have you tried offline mode, as in disable WiFi?

I had my PS5 having a short lived issue with taking literally forever booting a game, sometimes checking for cloud save games for an eternity.

Disabling Internet on the console fixed it. By the time I re-enabled it again they either fixed their servers or my WiFi was acting normal again.

I had this three or four times now over the course of one year.

 

[The Cockatrice]

Stop using quick resume.

 

[NinjaBoiX]

Stop using quick resume.

I don’t.

 

[IFireflyl]

This is why you have to wash your Xbox in the bathtub or sink every couple of months.

 

[Kacho]

Sounds like the good old power cycle did the trick. Not sure why this has been a thing since the OG Xbox One. It’s really annoying.

 

[ShadyAcshuns]

I used to take part in the Xbox Insider early access program. Buggy software issues are par for the course. Got tired of the hassle and left it behind with no regrets. No issues since.

 

[Panajev2001a]

Power off your console completely disconnecting the power cable for a few minutes and power it on again that solved the issue for me.

Was it once in a blue moon kind of thing or only once and never happened again? I get OCD about this and may just do the power cycle trick once a week if needed .

 

[MarkMe2525]

Stop using quick resume.

I don't see how quick resume would create the symptoms described by OP. Also, he was able to fix it with a full power cycle.

 

[Panajev2001a]

I don't see how quick resume would create the symptoms described by OP. Also, he was able to fix it with a full power cycle.

Some background process that never terminated unless you cut the power off (so turning it off leaves it running / waiting)?

 

[Gudji]

There's nothing wrong with it the console just became carbon aware.

 

[Aldynes]

Since it probably the place to report what happened to my Series X a while back, I had an issue with backward my Xbox originals / 360 games, my console no longer detected the discs, after insertion the console would make reading noises then stop, sometimes it would detect the game but I had to try a couple of times for it to work.

Then one day that no longer worked, so went on GAF to ask you guys what could be done, tested everything like reseting the console to factory settings, to trying different versions of the same game (different copies) and we pretty much found what was the culprit, the Disc drive was faulty maybe the lens that detect DVD was dead, blue-ray worked fine.

Used my warranty to have it repaired, pretty fast less than 10 days, works like a charm now.