CDs very slow

[S.SubZero]

I am having one issue and that is my burned CDs run very very slow. Lots of stuttering and struggling to load stuff. Images work much better.

This is a laptop, but it's no slouch, Dell Inspiron E1705, 2GB RAM, Vista x64. The DVD drive is a Phillips DVD+-RW SDVD8820 in UltraDMA Mode 2.

Am I alone with this? I may have to try it on my XP64 box later if I ever stop playing Final Fantasy XI.

[Nebelpfade]

Aren't you the one who said that every thread asking things to developers should be closed? :eyemove:

Anyway due that you have such an expensive computer I guess you don't lack disk space, then why don't you make an image from your CD and mount it from the hard disk? It would surely solve that speed problem :)

[S.SubZero]

I didn't ask the developers this question. I asked the other users. The phrase "Am I alone with this?" invited responses from users who may be running the emulator with discs to offer their experiences so I can see if it's something with my laptop or Vista x64 or whatever.

I would rip the disc but I have no tools to do so. I wasn't going to go in that direction on this forum since it might not be kosher.

[refraction]

reading from cd/dvd will always be slower than an image on your hard drive, its common knowledge that the seek times and reading speeds are much faster on a hard drive

[Nebelpfade]

If you have the original CD, it is somehow "legal" to rip it. Indeed some DRM-affiliated music players like Windows Media Player, let you -and even invite you to- rip your originals.

The tool for doing it is PowerISO.

[refraction]

If you have the original CD, it is somehow "legal" to rip it. Indeed some DRM-affiliated music players like Windows Media Player, let you -and even invite you to- rip your originals.

The tool for doing it is PowerISO.

uhm, unless you use some means of a swap trick and rips a drive to bits, its impossible to read a GD-Rom in its entiraty on a PC. the only way to rip it would be to copy the data via Broadband Adapter or Coders cable to the PC from the DC

[S.SubZero]

reading from cd/dvd will always be slower than an image on your hard drive, its common knowledge that the seek times and reading speeds are much faster on a hard drive
That's good info, and I knew that, but seeing as the original Dreamcast, at least that I owned, had all it's media on discs, I would think the disc only needs to be read as fast as the Dreamcast read them. I *think* my DVD drive can read a CD as fast as, if not faster than, the GDROM drive in an 8 year old console. Thus my confusion and my original post.

I'm not buying PowerISO. I have a strong aversion to shareware that functionally limits itself until it's paid for.

[drkIIRaziel]

Since reads are not async , nullDC waits til the read is finished to resume emulation.On real dc the cpu does not stop while reading =P.

[pointBLANK]

Its about having to emulate and blah blah blah..

Just because your laptop can read faster than a DC doesn't mean it'll play like that.
You need to rip them onto your hard drive man, or get ready for slooow gaming until a real good release comes out.


Thats just my theory im also a crackhead when it comes to ripping and every console is modded with an addon hard drive at my house just to kill loading times hahaha. good luck man.

[S.SubZero]

That is useful info drkIIRaziel, thank you. I'm trying to remember if Chankast had this problem but it was so long ago the last time I used it. I'm fairly certain I wouldn't have burned my rips out if that was the case though.