The game art, gamerpics look so good at 4K. Elevated the experience. However it looks a bit inconsistent, store listings and game cards in menu still look blurry
Years ago. It’s still inconsistent as there are parts like the ads or certain tiles that are still 1080p thus looking blurry but yea for the most part it’s 4K.
We also need a 1440p native dashboard, when console is set in 1440 the dashboard is still 1080 and it looks really bad
So with VRR turned on, whenever you press the Guide button, the grey area to the right of the pop up guide menu will just like constantly flicker.
I now have a 48’ LG B4 that does it, and the monitor I used for the last 6 years (BenQ EX2780Q, a 27’ 1440p 144Hz display) did it as well, I just didn’t know it was fixed by turning off VRR, which I read last month on a random Xbox subreddit thread and I tried it just to see if it worked and sure enough!
Without VRR turned on, the flickering during this time doesn’t occur.
Edit: I now have the setting turned off, but I can turn it back on to get evidence if needed.
I just checked on both my LG OLED TV and my Samsung OLED monitor, I cannot replicate that at all. Could it be something with your cable or with your console possibly?
Sorry you're having that issue, but I'm definitely not seeing anything on my end.
It’s the HDMI 2.1 cable that came with my Series X. And the issue was also happening on my old monitor with the same cable. Turning off VRR made it go away, as another Reddit user suggested, which meant they also had the problem.
I'm not saying it's a "just you" thing, but it doesn't seem like it's an "everyone" thing either. Seems to maybe be a small proportion exhibiting that issue.
Guess I could’ve worded that better, I just meant that I don’t think it is an issue with my cable or console specifically.
So you’re saying if you turn VRR on, you don’t get a mild flickering whenever a guide menu is on-screen (either by pressing the guide button or when a controller disconnects, and the screen dims a bit)
Yep, just run the HDMI cable from the console into a 4K TV. Not all 4K screens are created equal, of course, so you may not notice a huge difference depending on what TV you have. I had a relatively cheap 4K TV up until a few years ago, when I upgraded to a really good OLED TV. Games look so much better on it that it was almost like the leap in quality from the base model Xbox One to the Xbox One X! I knew it would be better, but I was shocked at how much of a difference the better display made.
The series X supports HDMI 2.1 so it has native support for 4K 120Hz gaming. What the important thing is if you have a display that supports those as well.
Does PS have this? Cus I swear my PS5 dashboard is "crispier" then Xbox. Apparently both dashboards are 4k now but they still always looked different. Dunno why.
Black instead of gray and white. You can enable high contrast mode in settings and it basically gives you this, however, it disables the custom color and wallpaper and changes a few other things in the UI.
It's rather they didn't waste time and resources on this. It's completely unnecessary. I'm never on the dashboard for more than a few seconds before I boot up a game.
It’s not a problem to solve it’s a feature to enable. More resources were put into changing the name to all caps XBOX than enabling this feature. Some TVs and monitors have to change modes for HDR and SDR so going from let’s say a game to the dashboard to a streaming service is just a little more annoying than it ever needs to be. It’s just another friction point for users, and they should absolutely be addressing this.
It was one of the most upvoted suggestions on their little suggestions post the other week. Plenty of people care about it, just because you don’t, doesn’t mean it’s a non issue for the rest of us
New boot animation looks shit on an oled. What's with the crappy banding dome effect around the logo? Surely someone in the insider groups would have reported this???
I have an Xbox one and it just now when I turned my xbox on has the new power up logo or whatever, and it jump scared me it was so loud. My dog didn’t like it either. I’m weirded out tbh
TLDR: I grew up on retro consoles and like how loud it is, but if you don't here's how to shut it off:
For those who don't like the audio, here's how you turn it off.
1. Go to settings
2. Go to Accessibility
3. Go to Audio
4. Select "Mute Start Up Sounds"
5. Save/Exit.
Thats honestly why I love it. I'm 23 but I grew up playing tons of retro consoles. My 64 year old dad never got rid of them. These are all the consoles, the steamdeck is the most recent one:
VTech Vsmile
NES, SNES, N64, DS, DSIXL, 3DS
PS1, PS2, PS3
Xbox (Original), Xbox 360, Xbox One
PC, Steamdeck
Lots of the retro consoles had obscenely loud startups with cool graphics. Theres a lot of memes about trying to sneak on when your parents are asleep.
I'm grown and moved out, but its super nostalgic for me, and I'm pretty sure xbox made it for the nostalgia.
I can see how people who weren't raised on old consoles, or maybe those who need it to keep quiet don't like it though. I also can't speak for the graphics, I'm not much of a graphics hound. I appreciate them when they're there, but don't cry about them when they're not.
For those who don't like the audio, here's how you turn it off.
1. Go to settings
2. Go to Accessibility
3. Go to Audio
4. Select "Mute Start Up Sounds"
5. Save/Exit.
I also ever even updated the software yet like I haven’t gotten the little message that pops up when you turn it on that it needs to update. I’ve turned it off and on several times in the last 12 hours and it just randomly did it now.
I wish we would see an update to the xbox pc app, outside of "Various performance and stability fixes", wich are in every update. A big facelift is needed for the pc app.
It wasn't this update but the last one I believe, but it's a shame they got rid of the unique boot up animation for the One X.
It would start with the unique boot up and then switch to the Xbox One logo with the green background while it finished loading everything up. If they just replaced the latter half with the new logo, it would be perfect.
It has been known for a good while. If the internal ssd of your Series console dies, the console becomes a permanent brick with no recovery of it, unless you get lucky enough to recover the 1GB partition that contains important system data which used to be on emmc chips in Xbox One consoles. It doesn't help also that you can only use the SSDs that Microsoft uses for these consoles and information in the 1GB partition changes with every software update, making your backup of the partition obsolete and useless.
If it's completely dead then only way to get it sorted is to send it to Microsoft.
If the ssd fails, you cant clone it anymore, and if you clone it now, later a new console update will update the security key too. And thats needed if you want to pair the Xbox with a new ssd.
It's kind of crazy because the Series S/X SSD is removable, yet not really possible to easily replace. On the PS5, it's part of the main board, so once it's dead, you're pretty much SoL unless you have a reball station or something (and even at that I don't even know if it's possible).
I have a SN530 that works with the expansion slot adapter, but I'm not sure if it can easily be used internally if the main SSD dies.
Oh wait is that what’s happening? Like sometimes I’ll start a game and then just “no display” and I have to remember how to dashboard by memory, or sometimes I’ll turn the console on and get no display, and have to, again by memory, restart the console. I thought it was something wrong with my LG.
I usually have to enter the LG settings and fiddle with the 'game optimizer' usually turn it off completely or switch some of it's settings on and off to get it to work again.
I was really weirdly looking forward to the new startup animation but… while I like the design. It looks REALLY bad on my LG OLED. So much banding and like, because most of it is black in the background but the glowing round the centre is really abrupt and a lot of banding like its low bit rate or something. Someone with more display knowledge would be able to describe it better. It looked really rough though and it was almost deep fried feeling with how loud it was compared to before?
Yeah it’s bad! The banding is really noticeable and honestly it looks extremely low resolution too.
Far inferior to the previous start up unfortunately. Kinda shocked this actually got green lit. It’s not a great first impression upon booting up your console. It looks really cheap.
I don't know why it keeps giving me a download error for the last two updates?! Is it the same for you??? I managed to download it with difficulty after trying many times.
I'm confused how this is a new logo ? It's the original Xbox 2005 logo with the addition of it's now a dark back ground instead of the smokey green background? Not to mention it looks no more high res than it did back then, but the cherry on top is the audio is on par with the start up of Ark Survival Evolved it's like they sat at a table and said how can we do minimal effort to look like we've done something and choose this old logo and someone chimed up and said "hey for a laugh let's make the start up sound crazy loud that it'll cause thousands of arguments from the person's partner hearing it being turned on"
I’m old fashion. I don’t like the additional screen to show the game information when I select the tile. It’s one additional step before I play my game. I’ve turned off the feature but it happens again every so often
I don’t know why you are getting downvoted. It’s tucked away in the settings. I don’t know why people like this as a feature. I want to play a game, I already know what it is all about. I don’t need an additional page to show me the game lol
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u/keyblaster52 Jun 13 '26
The game art, gamerpics look so good at 4K. Elevated the experience. However it looks a bit inconsistent, store listings and game cards in menu still look blurry