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                           - Glitch Solutions -
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- Framerate Problems -
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- The Morrowind Technique -
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(taken directly from aminojaku's thread on GameFAQs)

"I've had the game crash on me a few times, and I've had the framerate 
problems now and then that others are complaining about. It was frustrating to 
say the least. But yesterday I realized I remember another game with issues 
very much like Advent.. Morrowind. So when it crashed for the second time in 
20 minutes last night I decided to try the fix that was used for Morrowind.. 
and it worked. I continued playing Advent for 4 hours, all the way to the end. 
^_^ 

So here you go.. for those who may not remember.. 

What we are going to do is clear out Advent's cache on the HDD. The HDD keeps 
a data cache of the last 3 games played on the HDD in order to cut down on 
initial load times a little. But with Morrowind, once in a while that cache 
gets corrupted and causes the game to keep crashing. The more you play after 
it crashes the first time, the more often it crashes. Very much like Advent. 
And like Morrowind, the fix is simple. Take 3 games that you haven't played in 
a while.. 3 that are not the last 3 games you played. And put them in your 
Xbox and start them up. All 3, one at a time. You don't need to play them or 
save a game.. just load them. So now when you play Advent again, it reloads 
the cache from scratch, eliminating the bad data that was a cause of some of 
the issues. 

Give this a try if you are having a lot of problems with Advent (crash, 
lockups and really bad framerate issues)."

(Thanks to aminojaku)

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- The Morrowind Technique Revisited -
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This is a guaranteed way to stop the Majesco screen from stuttering upon 
startup of Advent Rising.  

Just like in the Morrowind Technique you have to swap out games, but you only 
have to use one of them for this.  Start up any game from your collection, it 
doesn't matter if you just got through with it or if you haven't played it in 
a while just start up any game besides Advent Rising.  Take out the game after 
it has loaded up on the Xbox.  Now put in Advent Rising and the Majesco screen 
should not skip.  You have to do this every time that the Xbox console is 
turned off, but you only have to load up one game when you start it up again.  
I have noticed that the framerate works about 5 - 10% better it seems after 
this is done, but it might just be me.

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- Project: Clean Up -
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If your Xbox hardrive is loaded with saves or especially soundtracks, delete 
some of the files that you may no longer use in the future.  Soundtracks 
usually take up the most room, so delete them first and see if this helps.

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- Frequent Playthroughs -
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Strangely enough, for some people, playing through it many times has resulted 
in the game running smoother on their Xbox.

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- Cutscene Problems -
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- Sneaky Loading -
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If you're having problems with cutscenes try pausing the game right when a 
cutscene starts.  Notice the "Loading" phrase in the bottom right corner of 
the menu.  The game loads the next scene during some of the cutscenes so this 
sometimes causes them to glitch.  Leave the game paused until the "Loading" 
phrase disappears and unpause the game or press "Y" to replay the cutscene.

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- Camera Problems -
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- The Other Use for First Person View -
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Sometimes the camera gets locked-on to an object or enemy that is no longer 
there and stays locked-on to it.  If the camera starts to have a mind of its 
own during gameplay (this generally happens around the last few stages), then 
go into first person view with the "Back" button and this should fix the 
camera to where you can control it once again.

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- Reload Checkpoint -
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This game has tons of random bugs and glitches during gameplay that happen 
randomly usually caused from the objective not appearing on the screen or 
maybe Gideon getting stuck in wall or during a move or, possibly, a door not 
opening when it should.  Also, sometimes the next objective refuses to flash 
across the screen and the game will not let you proceed.  The only way to fix 
these is to restart the checkpoint.  Choose "Load Checkpoint" from the main 
pause menu.

(thanks to the people that emailed me about adding this)

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