I rented my first game from game fly, DOA4. I am worried now. DOA has locked up my xbox 3 times out of 5 trying to load the game (once trying to connect to xbl game). Also on the character select screen it takes about 5 seconds to bring up the image of the character. Now there are a couple of minor scratches on the disk. Nothing series. Is it the game, or my xbox?

Ive had no issues with loading DOA, and it usually takes only a few seconds for the character to show up.

Im guessing your drive sucks or that disc is in worse shape than you think.

If you don't see scratch rings underneath the CD than it's most likley your Xbox.

now i dont know really for the 360 but the characters delay popping up on the past DoAs on the xbox had to do with the hard drive.

maybe its your HD that is faulty and causing the lock ups in the game. i know that is what they told me when i got my replacement system, PDZ kept locking up while every other game ran fine. if you have or can find a memory card, try playing the game with only a memory card in and no HD.

I'm playing off memory card only and it can take 5++ secs for the charachters to appear.
Hasnt crashed on me yet but I haven't played it online.

i wasnt telling him to play off a memory card to see if it will elimate the delay of character pop up, only trying to explain that the cause of it on the xbox 1 was because it was reading off the HD that caused the delay. not sure how its done on the 360

my point of bringing up playing with a memory card is that it could be the HD causing his game to lock up. so if he played using a memory card with no HD inserted and it didnt freeze up then i guess we found the problem.

that's because the select screen shows the full fledged character model. They're not going to load all the characters + all the possible costumes into memory just for the select screen (it would take longer to load that then the level if they did). Typically the game does cache all of them, however since you don't have a hard drive it can cache them so it loads from disc... hence 5sec + to load the character in the select screen.

When you don't have a hard drive, that sort of think comes with the territory. with the hard drive it's still not instant but it's ~1sec. complete levels take <4sec between select screen and battle begin.

Woot!! I figured out what the issue was, well you guys did mostly! The Hard Drive was not snapped in all the way in the back. After I put it in the models only take about 2 seconds to load and the game itself loads about 4x faster. I also don't see any more lockups. I take back all those nasty things I was thinking about MS!!!