This simple change to your Xbox account could make your games run much smoother

A Halo player tried it and noticed it instantly: this change in Xbox improves the experience when playing.

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A curious discovery is generating debate in the Xbox community. A well-known competitive Halo player claims to have identified what he describes as a “major design flaw” in Xbox consoles, directly related to the number of friends and messages linked to the account.

The warning comes from Brett Leonard, better known as Naded, who shared on social media a series of tests performed on his Xbox Series X. According to him, after deleting over 1,000 friends and a large volume of messages, he noticed an immediate change not only in the system interface but also in game performance.

Fewer friends, better performance: the theory that’s unsettling the community

Leonard claims that after cleaning up his account, the console started working with much greater fluidity. The interface became faster, but the most striking thing happened when playing: better shooting registry, less input lag, smoother animations, and an overall feeling of instant response, especially in Halo series titles.

According to his explanation, background processes would be constantly checking the status of hundreds or thousands of friends, consuming resources and indirectly affecting the system’s response. By eliminating that data, those processes would stop interfering, freeing up entries and improving the real-time experience.

The player even claims to have solved other common problems, such as failures to reconnect matches or strange system behavior, simply by cleaning up his social list and messages.

For now, there is no official confirmation from Microsoft, and this is just one user’s experiment. Nevertheless, it’s not the first time similar complaints have surfaced, and the case has reignited the debate about how Xbox handles social data in the background.

If confirmed, we’d be facing a serious problem… and one that’s surprisingly easy to mitigate.