re: GTA 5: Red Ring of Death Issue

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Rockstar has advised against installing the second ‘play’ disc for GTA V, with warnings that this could decrease the performance and create more texture pop-in problems than if it wasn’t installed.

As described in our GTA V FAQ the Xbox 360 version (and likely the PlayStation 3 version as well) requires a mandatory 7.7GB install. This is handled automatically by the game and after it’s finished you don’t need the first ‘install’ disc any more.

However, as with all Xbox 360 games you do have the option of installing all the discs, whether the game wants you to or not. This is what Rockstar suggests you don’t do.
They won’t say why exactly but Digital Foundry suggests that it ‘impacts the game’s ability to stream texture data, resulting in regular pop-in of in-game objects and textures.’

As noted in our GTA V review the game already has a small problem with pop-in – background objects appearing out of thin air relatively close to you, or low res textures being displayed until the last minute. However, it’s a minor issue and there are many other big name games that are much worse

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