Good news! Install disc size reduced on new NXE update!

http://kotaku.com/5328027/xbox-live-preview-dropping-game-install-sizes

Good News: The new NXE produces smaller install sizes for disc based games. While you still need the disc to play the game from the HDD, the amount of space taken up by the installed game is smaller than before. Aside from The King of Fighters XII, the following were tested out for this quick evaluation:

-Street Fighter 4 - 4.6GB
-Raiden Fighters Aces - 484MB

Bad News: This change in installation size means that almost every game will have to be re-checked on the new NXE. Over 400 games being checked again doesn't exactly spell fun.

Good News: From what I could tell, the reduced file sizes don't seem to change the performance ratings from before. While this may mean that Halo 3 still runs poorly off of the HDD, it also means that not all 400+ games have to be checked for performance again. Raiden Fighters Aces and Street Fighter 4, for example, had the same performance ratings as before.

This is good news. Even my 120GB HDD fills up pretty fast when I install games, and reducing the install size of games 10-15% is fine by me.

When does the update come out?

Hinesmdc said:

When does the update come out?

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the 11th

I don't know about this. I would like to know what exactly isn't being loaded. This means that the disc will still be accessed if it's not loading the entire game onto the HD. Unless it's compressing the data somehow.