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most responsive cd/dvd drive?

QuantumPion

QuantumPion

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For my new rig I decided to go with a single drive, a lite-on dl dvd recorded for a one-drive-fits-all approach. However this thing has been getting on my nerves, it seems like it takes forever to spin up and read disks, and the performance is pretty poor (the burning works just fine, I'm talking about game loading and such). So I'm thinking about returning this drive to get a single regular dvd drive for normal uses, and then later getting an external cd burner for occasional burning.

So, what is the fastest and most responsive internal dvd reader on the market?
 
huh?

all modern games games require the cd to load or change maps...

eta: well half life 2 doesn't. but everything else that I play does and several of them have methods of defeating cd emulators.
 
Everything eventually has to load to your RAM, so its either streaming from your Hard Disk or from your CD.

It depends on the installation size you chose (if there was a choice). If you choose smaller installation sizes, media like movies, and sound will stream off the CD when its required. However, everything else is loaded off of HDD.

If there are no installation sizes to choose from, chances are you are loading completely to RAM off of the HD, and the CD is only used for checking purposes. That's why so many games have no-cd patches : )

So to your quote, no, modern games don't require the CD to load or change maps...unless we are talking about 8 CD RPGs from 1997...the data for most games are heavily compressed and their purpose is merely for installation decompression...loading a map from a CD through this process would take like half an hour...first to decompress the entire CD, cache it to your HD, then to locate the file...and load to your RAM.
 
It takes awhile to queue up--DVD drives are just that way.
Your best solution will be to use full installs and no-CD cracks, OR to buy something like Alcohol, so you can back up and mount the disc virtually.
 
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