2600Lives Posted January 17, 2010 Share Posted January 17, 2010 Is there either a website that has a list, or a way of finding out what the game updates do? For example, I started up Bioshock again after about 7 months of not playing it, and it had an update available. I'd like to know what these updates actually DO, and if there's a site that lists said patches. Thanks in advance. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
thebiggw Posted January 17, 2010 Share Posted January 17, 2010 I was always told that updates in PC gaming platforms were to keep the game up to date with Microsoft's security updates. I know I have had a few games that after updating windows did not play until I installed the patch. I cannot speak for the 360 platform since I do not own one. However knowing it is a MS product that uses the internet and presumably has updates as well as an OS of some sort I would suspect that the same applies. Here is a PC example I have run across: There were some games and screen savers available from MS called XP Plus! MS discontinued support for the Plus! software and mine quit working after service pack 3 for the XP OS. Now for some odd reason it works with windows 7 pro 64 bit. Go figure, thanks Microsoft! Again just an assumption. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Seob Posted January 17, 2010 Share Posted January 17, 2010 Updates where to fix bugs in games that where discovered when the games had shipped. Since the pc platform didn't have a facto standard. Some combinations of drivers could conflict cause games to crash. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Video Posted January 17, 2010 Share Posted January 17, 2010 If you had played it before, I would have assumed you would have already updated it (since the game will not load if you don't update it. I don't know what the "official" excuse is, but the real reason for the "updates" is to look for mods and such. I've only had a couple that did anything noticeable at all (and those updates all suck ass) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
2600Lives Posted January 17, 2010 Author Share Posted January 17, 2010 Hmmm, never thought of looking for mods and crap. That's a likely solution. I had updated it up till about 7 months ago, but I stopped it to play some more Fallout, then started it up again last night. It had a small update, and was just curious if it added or changed anything. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hyper_Eye Posted January 18, 2010 Share Posted January 18, 2010 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BioShock#Updates Games don't need to be updated to detect modified files. The 360 was able to detect file modifications upon release. That was a major security necessity along with memory leak protection to protect the 360 against softmods and cheats. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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