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Call of Duty 4 Beta To Require Hard-Drive For Full HD-Experiance

August 05, 2007 in News comments 10

When the XBOX360's Basic Package was revealed, not many people minded that a Hard-Drive wasn't included, although it was only when the Core package was sold that most people baught the Basic Package. However it seems those that were 'unfortunate' enough to get the basic package and haven't gotten themselves a Hard-Drive may have problems making the most out of the new sequel for CoD - Call of Duty 4: Modern Warfare.

People that want to play the Beta were warned that they would require quite a bit of space on their hard-drive to play the game in HD otherwise it wont work as well as it should. Will the same be true for the final build of the game?

How much space will the Public Beta take on my hard-drive?

Approximately 1.7 gigabytes. Xbox Live will notify you if you don’t have the space required. Try and make sure you have at least 2 gigs free before attempting to download the Beta, you don’t want HD to chug at all.
Krunal via gamerconnector.com »
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  • 1
    JJBDude Aug 5, 07
    You should really re-phrase the title of this article, I was lead into thinking that Call of Duty 4 was going to be unable to be played unless you had a Hardrive which would be a big bummer, however reading the article makes me believe this is only the case for the BETA demo? I'm confused.

    Kru Edit: I've amended the title, hopefully that's better. I've also added a line at the end of the article, that really says the question that the title was meant to ask.
  • 1
    Aciph3x Aug 5, 07
    You even said so yourself that the BETA requires a hard drive (duh) and yet you fail to mention this in your title and opening paragraph, VERY misleading.
    • 1
      Xenctuary Aug 6, 07
      The real point of the article is the small bit of information that says you'll want to have more than two gigabytes free on your hard drive if "you don’t want HD to chug at all".
      • 0
        Aciph3x Aug 7, 07
        I know what the real point of the article was. But it doesn't neglect the fact it was both conflicting and misleading. But it's been corrected. :thumbs:
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    Jeterocks Aug 6, 07
    Wouldn't you figure that if the BETA requires the hard drive for the full HD experience...then the Game sure as hell would? Do you think that magically the full experience will be on the disk or something?
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      JJBDude Aug 6, 07
      Well yeah one would assume what you are saying is correct but remember we are not game developers and we are probably unaware of ways to resolve this problem for the final copy of the game.

      I don't know if there is a way, I'm just making an assumption.
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    Sergeant JoKer Aug 6, 07
    Hi All
    The point I was trying to make in the article was that, yes, of course you need a harddrive to play the demo, but while the demo needs 1.7 gb, they tell you to have at least 2 otherwise "HD will chug." I think they are using the extra little bit on the (the extra .3 gb the recommend) hard drive to decompress some of the files used in HD playback. It's just my thought on it. But continuing on that thought, then it is reasonable to assume that the hard drive will also be used in the final game to hold some decompressed HD functions so that it will all run smooothly.
    I may be wrong though, so if I am, then please correct me.

    And on a positive note, This site is great. Lots of good stuff and the comments, at least this one, aren't full of flaming
    • 0
      sten mk II Aug 10, 07
      Wouldn't it take forever to download the demo? 1.7 GBs! It will probably be an over night thing. It takes a while just to update the system's drivers etc.
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    tidus04 Aug 6, 07
    You need to have a hard drive to play the full experience of this game, that is a bit of a kicker for the people who dont have the space available.
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      JJBDude Aug 6, 07
      We don't know that yet, it was just said that you need a hardrive for the demo, which is quite obvious really as your not going to get a 1.7gb memory card for the 360 are you?

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