Chronic HDD Activity

roundwave · April 2nd, 2004

No actual problems running ePSXe, speed/sound/etc is perfect. Its just that after a couple minutes of running an ISO, my hard drive light blinks like mad, and doesnt stop for some time.

Sorry, just read the rules...

System Specs--
2.4 Celeron Ghz
40 Gb HDD
248 Mb System memory
Radeon 4X AGP

ePSXe 1.6.0
-P.E.Op.S. Soft 1.15 (everything set to 'nice,' save scanlines & uses system memory). Prob still occured when I had 64 Mb allocated to video memory, so I set ePSXe to try use system memory instead.
-Eternal SPU 1.41 Lite (DirectSound, 'Timer' audio out waits for XA buffer)
-P.E.Op.S. CDR 1.4 (IOCTL scsi, BE-2 ATAPI 2, 'Thread read' cache mode)

Specific games that exhibit the problem range from Castlevania SOTN, to Fatal Fury WA, to Einhander.

**n_w95482** · April 2nd, 2004

Did you try defragmenting your hard drive?

roundwave · April 2nd, 2004

Hi. Yah, I defrag regularly.

One more thing I should have mentioned is that the problem more or less goes away whenever there is a loading point in the game (whether loading a new level, or repeating a music track). I've fiddled with the sound & CDRom plugins, but should they even matter even when the emu is not reading off an actual CD?

**n_w95482** · April 3rd, 2004

You could try using Mooby's plugin and increasing the cache size. I wouldn't set it very high though, since you don't have too much RAM.

April 2nd, 2004	#1 (permalink)
roundwave Registered User Join Date: Apr 2004 Posts: 2	Chronic HDD Activity No actual problems running ePSXe, speed/sound/etc is perfect. Its just that after a couple minutes of running an ISO, my hard drive light blinks like mad, and doesnt stop for some time. Sorry, just read the rules... System Specs-- 2.4 Celeron Ghz 40 Gb HDD 248 Mb System memory Radeon 4X AGP ePSXe 1.6.0 -P.E.Op.S. Soft 1.15 (everything set to 'nice,' save scanlines & uses system memory). Prob still occured when I had 64 Mb allocated to video memory, so I set ePSXe to try use system memory instead. -Eternal SPU 1.41 Lite (DirectSound, 'Timer' audio out waits for XA buffer) -P.E.Op.S. CDR 1.4 (IOCTL scsi, BE-2 ATAPI 2, 'Thread read' cache mode) Specific games that exhibit the problem range from Castlevania SOTN, to Fatal Fury WA, to Einhander. Last edited by roundwave; April 2nd, 2004 at 09:08.

April 2nd, 2004	#2 (permalink)
n_w95482 Administrator Join Date: Apr 2003 Location: California Posts: 4,684	Did you try defragmenting your hard drive? __________________ Main PC: DFI LAN Party nF4 SLI-DR Expert w/406-bta BIOS, AMD Opteron 165 (CCBBE 0615 EPMW) @ 3 GHz (334x9), 1.55v w/D-Tek Fuzion WB; 2x1 GB OCZ PC4000 EB Plats @ 250 MHz, 3-3-2-8, 3:4, 2.7v; ATi Radeon X1900XT 512 MB @ 668/855 w/DD Tyee WB, 150 GB WD Raptor, 4x500 GB WD RE2 (RAID 10), SB Audigy 2 ZS, 700w OCZ GameXStream, CM Stacker 810, Windows XP Pro

April 3rd, 2004	#4 (permalink)
n_w95482 Administrator Join Date: Apr 2003 Location: California Posts: 4,684	You could try using Mooby's plugin and increasing the cache size. I wouldn't set it very high though, since you don't have too much RAM. __________________ Main PC: DFI LAN Party nF4 SLI-DR Expert w/406-bta BIOS, AMD Opteron 165 (CCBBE 0615 EPMW) @ 3 GHz (334x9), 1.55v w/D-Tek Fuzion WB; 2x1 GB OCZ PC4000 EB Plats @ 250 MHz, 3-3-2-8, 3:4, 2.7v; ATi Radeon X1900XT 512 MB @ 668/855 w/DD Tyee WB, 150 GB WD Raptor, 4x500 GB WD RE2 (RAID 10), SB Audigy 2 ZS, 700w OCZ GameXStream, CM Stacker 810, Windows XP Pro

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April 2nd, 2004	#3 (permalink)
roundwave Registered User Join Date: Apr 2004 Posts: 2	Hi. Yah, I defrag regularly. One more thing I should have mentioned is that the problem more or less goes away whenever there is a loading point in the game (whether loading a new level, or repeating a music track). I've fiddled with the sound & CDRom plugins, but should they even matter even when the emu is not reading off an actual CD?