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Old February 6th, 2008   #60 (permalink)
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GothicIII: The disc slowness is cause mainly because of the automatic speed switching of the drives. The drives are generally idle, and not spinning, so when you start reading key keep spinning up. the more you read the more they spin up to give better speeds, but that also means they PAUSE while spinning up, so the result is you don't get constant speeds at 4x, but 12-16x bursts with bigger pauses in the middle.

That's why peops has an option to limit the speed on the drive itself, so it will get speeds similar to the expected ones, making everything smoother.
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