For the past few months I have gotten a variety of freezes and crashes while playing MCC on my Xbox One S. I know some others have had this problem on other Xbox One models as well. I’ll try to list each kind and how/when they occur:
-Main Menu freeze/crash (almost 100% of the time): this always happens around the time when the loading circle pops up on the main menu. The circle will freeze, the audio will stutter and then the game will crash to Xbox dashboard. The only way I have been getting around this is fully restarting the console, then starting MCC, after which it will only work until it is closed. If it is closed, or any other app is opened and then I go back to MCC, it will freeze at the main menu loading screen every time and I cannot play it until I restart the console.
-Freezing during loading screens: these are more infrequent. One time my game froze when loading a cutscene on the Halo 3 level The Covenant. The cutscene would not load, the game stuck on a black screen and even after restart the checkpoint was broken and the mission was bugged. Twice, while resuming Halo: CE checkpoints on the levels Assault on the Control Room and 343 Guilty Spark, the game has frozen on the level loading screens requiring the same restart process as above.
-Console crashes: I have only had this happen once, the only description is that a freeze as mentioned above did not just crash the game, but caused my entire console to turn off on its own.
Due to it freezing while loading the main menu and personal settings (like my brightness levels), I don’t know if it’s linked to individual levels as opposed to something involving saved data or profile. I did remove and redownload my profile from the console but that did not fix the issue. I don’t know what is causing this to affect only a certain amount of people. Some people with this issue have reported that even restarts/hard resets do not allow them to play the game. Any insight appreciated but I have been reluctantly doing the workaround as long as it means my data is intact.
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> For the past few months I have gotten a variety of freezes and crashes while playing MCC on my Xbox One S. I know some others have had this problem on other Xbox One models as well. I’ll try to list each kind and how/when they occur:
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> -Main Menu freeze/crash (almost 100% of the time): this always happens around the time when the loading circle pops up on the main menu. The circle will freeze, the audio will stutter and then the game will crash to Xbox dashboard. The only way I have been getting around this is fully restarting the console, then starting MCC, after which it will only work until it is closed. If it is closed, or any other app is opened and then I go back to MCC, it will freeze at the main menu loading screen every time and I cannot play it until I restart the console.
> -Freezing during loading screens: these are more infrequent. One time my game froze when loading a cutscene on the Halo 3 level The Covenant. The cutscene would not load, the game stuck on a black screen and even after restart the checkpoint was broken and the mission was bugged. Twice, while resuming Halo: CE checkpoints on the levels Assault on the Control Room and 343 Guilty Spark, the game has frozen on the level loading screens requiring the same restart process as above.
> -Console crashes: I have only had this happen once, the only description is that a freeze as mentioned above did not just crash the game, but caused my entire console to turn off on its own.
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> Due to it freezing while loading the main menu and personal settings (like my brightness levels), I don’t know if it’s linked to individual levels as opposed to something involving saved data or profile. I did remove and redownload my profile from the console but that did not fix the issue. I don’t know what is causing this to affect only a certain amount of people. Some people with this issue have reported that even restarts/hard resets do not allow them to play the game. Any insight appreciated but I have been reluctantly doing the workaround as long as it means my data is intact.
Ive been fighting that same circle of death for several months since the May 1st update. I have the XBox One X. I have taken same steps as you. Regardless if I load game from disc or save data on console.
I’ve found a workaround.
I’ve had the same crash with my console turning off during the first bridge battle of Assault on the Control Room.
I loaded my last checkpoint, switched to old graphics, completed the battle, got my next checkpoint, then switched back to the new graphics.
It’s a minor annoyance, but it allowed me to progress.
Hope this works for you.
Edit: I’ve encountered this on a few levels now. It seems to be triggered by the updated graphics. Switching to and playing with the old art style allows completion of the mission.