Nero Burning Rom: Buffer

[arcenite]

Nero says that you shouldn't use more then 80mb as a buffer, is there any particular reason? Thanks!

 

[ShadowFox]

i believe it may just be because its not necessary

 

[arcenite]

Are buffers really necessary any more due to BURN? Cause i was thinking of using 256 megs of my ram for when i was burning, because i was burning with a 60 meg buffer and the buffer went all the way to 0% (if it wasn't for BURN i woulda had a coaster) because I loaded another application that took alot of resources... So basically I'm wondering, is it necessary to have much of a buffer at all, but is it safer if I do? Thanks.

 

[arcenite]

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[CQuinn]

What CD-R drive are you using?


You could try:

Burning at a lower speed.

Launching any other apps you are going to use

Setting your files to burn on a separate defragged partition, or better yet as separate drive for burning.

Get a drive that supports Burn-proof?

I use automatic config for the buffer settings with Nero, and take a break when I burn,
or make sure I already have whatever else I want to do set up beforehand.
No coasters so far (12x10x40 CDRW).

 

[arcenite]

I have a Yamaha 24/10/40, just wondering how much of a dif a larger buffer makes

 

[CQuinn]

Nevermind, I checked you Rig stats.

Even at 24x burn speeds (about 4MB/s), an 80MB buffer should take 20 seconds to run out.
If your system is taking that long to launch some other program, then the problem is not your buffer.

I don't know why Nero recommends no higher than that, but I suspect because that memory can be
better used elsewhere, and any system issues that would impact the max buffer setting would probably
be better fixed by other tweaks and upgrades to the system.

 

[arcenite]

Yeah I think my buffer problem at that time was because of the fact that I was running another burn program and burning and then loaded Nero, so it was scanning my drives therefore slowing it down and probably caused something to stop...

what happends if the buffer does run out with a drive that supports BURN?

 

[StanTheMan]

the buffer is only used when u burning some cds. you can see it by pressing ctrl-alt-del (winxp) or ctrl-alt-del and click task manager (WinNT/Win2K).
Large buffer are required for old and slow CDRW without justlink or burn proof feature, esp when copying on the fly cd to cd.
with the new cdrw with burn proof or similar feature, they are not that important.