10 Massive Xbox One Secrets We All Missed

Rolling out in 2018 and soon becoming available on more and more titles, Fast Start is an extremely useful tool that will get purchasers of digital content into their games in at least half the time. No, it doesn’t give you better internet speeds, Microsoft aren’t that good. Instead, it gets fancy with the file management and allocation.

When downloading, unfortunately, only at over 20MB a second, the Xbox One is able to sort through the different data coming in and prioritise the necessary parts of the game that will allow it to boot as fast as possible.

This means that textures for endgame levels come last, characters you don’t meet until midgame won’t slow you down and you’ll be playing the first level within minutes. It’s genuinely smart tech and whether you know about it or not, I feel the issue is that some people simply don’t have fast enough internet speeds to utilise it.

However, you can pair this in with the now typical concept of pre-load for games and you’ll at least be playing by release day. Simply pre-order a title digitally before its release and your Xbox will download 99% of the game, ready to finish and unpack on launch.