New Xbox One Preview Alpha Update Available with Multiple Bugfixes

A new Xbox One Preview Alpha System Update build has been released that brings about more than a few bugfixes and some known issues that are being explored.

As far as significant changes go, this update is relatively light in terms of content. Most of the areas being addressed take shots at profile problems as well as those that have been affecting the dashboard. Miscellaneous fixes for various problems were also deployed, though the update notes didn't go into detail about what those may involve.

In addition to the solutions, there are also multiple known issues that were mentioned in the update notes, the most notable of which is likely the issue that's affecting games' ability to launch. There's a workaround to solve the issue at the moment while Microsoft looks into the problem though, a solution that's explained in the full update notes found below:

New Features:

• Installation Progress in Guide
  • In-progress installations are now visible from a tile at the bottom of the Guide. When selected, this tile opens a new interface showing items in the queue and their status, and allowing some basic functions like pausing or cancelling the installation.

Fixes:

• Profile
  • Fixed an issue which caused some elements in Profile to appear misaligned.
• Home and Dashboard
  • Resolved an issue which sometimes caused unexpected crashes.
• Miscellaneous
  • Miscellaneous fixes and improvements.

Known Issues:

• Games Installation
  • Games that are installed fail to launch. Workaround: If the games are installed to an external drive please copy the game to the internal drive or attempt to delete the title and redownload to fix the launch error.
• Display
  • We are investigating the inaccurate RGB colors that have been reported when displaying in 4K HDR mode when playing a UHD disc.
• Tournaments
  • The left and right navigation for selecting date and time during Tournament creation is currently reversed when the console language is set to Arabic or Hebrew.
  • Left and right navigation in Tournament twists is reversed when the console language is set to Arabic or Hebrew.
  • Left and right navigation in the bracket view of Tournaments is reversed when the console language is set to Arabic or Hebrew.
• Avatars on Home
  • Users wishing to represent themselves as an avatar can do so by changing their settings under My profile > Customize profile > Show my avatar.