But for today’s guide, we’ll point you to an easy alternate: Downloading the ISO.

You can check out our upcoming guide on how to rip games on Xbox 360 disk and dump the files on PC. Once you own a legal copy of the game you want to emulate, you need to obtain a soft copy that’s in a format Xenia can use. You’ve probably spent more on Candy Crush. You can pick up used disc copies for as little as a few dollars on eBay. Fortunately, it’s very easy and super cheap to get hold of seventh-gen games. (Disclaimer, don’t take our word as valid legal advice). But you’ll (probably) be safe from a legal standpoint if you use it emulators exclusively to run games you already own. For starters, you need a legally-purchased, licensed copy of any game that you plan to emulate in Xenia. There are a couple of things you’ll need to have ready before continuing with this guide.

Today, we’ll be exploring how to emulate Xbox 360 games like Red Dead Redemption on your PC with Xenia. The Xbox 360 has an advantage here because its 3-core IBM PowerPC architecture is better understood. And this makes creating a performant emulator even more difficult. The PS3’s Cell architecture was infamously hard to code for back in the day. But in terms of usability right now, we’d have to give the edge to Xenia. Both of these emulators are highly capable. Otherwise I think I will be moving my media back locally to the Windows 7 box.But Xenia and RPCS3, the two best Xbox 360 and PS3 emulators respectively, when paired with a powerful PC, can let you experience these games without seventh-gen hardware. If anyone could provide some insight or suggestions on how to fix my issues I would be grateful. Although I don't think that should matter much, the fact that I have them wired and wireless should be enough. I have everything connected via CAT-5e and am in the process of upgrading my switches to Gigbit, so right now there is mix of 10/100MB and 1000MB. If I move the media back to the Windows box, the problems go away. I tried tweaking different aspects on both the Windows box and the FreeNAS box, but no success.

Since moving my videos/movies to the NAS and trying to stream them, I've noticed hugh delays along with skipping and pausing. Which I use the Windows Media Center Extender to stream media to my Xbox 360. Running a Windows 7 machine with 8GB of memory and an i3 Proc. I currently am running a FreeNAS 8 config with 4 2TB drives in a RAID-5 configuration. I've searched high and low for some explantation or tutorial on how to tweak my setup, thus far I've been unsuccessful.

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