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A few years ago, I really tried to get CD drives working well with epsxe. What I found is that some drives worked well, while some just simply did not. The main issues were:
*noise: Most drives spin up to very high speeds. Some can be slowed down with Pete's plugin or Nero drivespeed (8x or 16x is more than enough and usually relatively quiet), but some do not allow this to be throttled down.
*spin up: After a period of inactivity, drives spin down; then when accessed again, they need to spin up to high speeds... this causes a stall in gameplay.
*decreased fps: with some drives, disc access caused slowdowns.
In the end, I now just use disc images to save headaches. I just view it like "installing" a game on the hard disk... I have plenty of room to spare and save wear and tear on the original discs.
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