By Nick Pino
Downloading a game from online storefronts like Steam or the Xbox Live Marketplace is the modern equivalent of waiting for your modem to connect to the internet circa 1998: They’re both long, arduous processes that we all know can happen much faster than they do.
The good news is that just like broadband killed dial-up, Microsoft has introduced a new feature called FastStart that will drastically reduce the amount of time it takes to start a new digital game you’ve just bought.
Announced at E3 2018, FastStart is part of Microsoft’s July platform update that brings a number of small – but impactful – updates to the console. While some of these other updates are worth noting (pulling up a search bar from anywhere on the UI should be pretty nifty) the biggest update is FastStart.
According to Microsoft, games that utilize the feature will half the amount of time it takes from when a download begins to the moment you’re actually able to play it. You won’t have to do anything extra to make it work besides updating to the latest version of the Xbox software.
So how exactly does it work? FastStart-enabled games prioritize the most important parts of …read more
Source:: techradar.com – Gaming
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