Play Q3 while burning...????

[Lombardaga]

I want to get a sony 10x8x32x CDRW with 4 mb buffer and a IBM 30 GB 75 GXP HD. Can I play for example Q3 while burning or would this cause bad burning???

 

[Elbryn]

you dont really want to be doing anything with your computer while burning something. Besides at the speed you got it wont take very long for something to burn anyways.

 

[Noriaki]

Unless the drive has burnproof you'll probably get a buffer under run.

besides using IDE in Programming I/O mode uses so damn much CPU Quake3 would run like crap any ways.

Go SCSI (with or without Burnproof) if you want to play quake3 while you burn.

 

[NOX]

Normally I?ll burn and browse the web, but never playing a game, it doesn?t take that long anyway.

 

[nEoTeChMaN]

8x SCSI-2 burner allows me to play Quake3

 

[LocutusX]

Maybe it's because my burner runs at only 4x, but I've played a few Q3A deathmatches while burning in Win2k with no problems. As a a matter of fact, my IDE burner has only given me a buffer underrun twice - once was when I tried to burn all the way to the end of an 80min CD without applying a firmware patch, and second was inserting a DVD into the DVD-ROM while the burner was going (both are on the same controller).

 

[flood]

plextor 12/10/32
burning at 12x while playing counterstrike

 

[Linh]

i burn and play Q3/UT all the time. no coasters on my all scsi system.

 

[Shagga]

What a pathetic and pointless question......

 

[ArkAoss]

i have burner on one ide channel, dvd and a hard drive on another, and udma 66 drive on its own, i can play games from the dvd while burning off of the hard drive the dvd's on, while playing mp3's off the other hard drive thats alone. wierd thing though, i was burning mp3's from one hard drive, and playing a game off the other hard drive, and the game was very jumpy jerky, wierd

 

[thorin]

"What a pathetic and pointless question...... "

What a pathetic and pointless comment......


Heh

Thorin

 

[Moving Target]

Get a Plextor Burn-Proof and Frag away!!



"What a pathetic and pointless question......"

Shagga - Where you born this big of an ASSHOLE!

 

[NOX]

<< What a pathetic and pointless question...... >>

What was that about dude? People come to get info, that's what this forum is here for. If you don't respect people, people will not respect you.

 

[Oreo]

I think it should work. You could just try with a CD-RW disc and then it doesn´t matter if it gets an error.

 

[Train]

jeeze, are you that addicted to Q3 that you can wait for a CD to burn? lol

 

[LarryJoe]

TDK 12/10/32 w/burnproof. I can play Q3 and even watch a DVD from a drive on the same chain as the burner.

LJ

 

[Gatsby]

Hmmm maybe I should try that to see if I can max out my cyurrent system.

I have tried unraring, surfing, downloading, winamp, icq and aim at the same time while burnning..a ctually I do it all the time and I have never gotten a buffer underrun.

Maybe its just me and my box but who knows
Abit BP6 c400@468
256 Megs of Infineon Cas 2 RAM
2 x 18 22GXP in Raid 0
IDE plextor 8432 2nd master

Gatsby

 

[Zucchini]

Tried it successfully once when i had a p2 400 and scsi 2x burner

 

[Shagga]

Thorin - Perhaps it was!. But he always asks crap like this. Why not search the forums and see for yourself?

Moving Target - Those who swear have a very limited vocabulary. Go back to school and learn ya ABC's fool.

NOX - Just seemed to me to be a pretty pointless question. Everyone's system is different. It might work for one and not for the other. Why doesn't he just try it and find out...thats all... I really can't believe that not being able to burn a CD while playing Q3A would stop anyone buying a burner!

 

[Sir Fredrick]

I can do anything with my all SCSI system...defrag, frag (in quake), etc. I only run into trouble when adding new users in Win2k, because for some reason that takes 100% of my CPU for several minutes.

 

[NOX]

The point is who the hell died, and made you moderator? If you don?t have anything to add to this thread don?t post! Is that so hard for you to understand.

 

[Moving Target]

Shagga - My term for you was the first thing that came to mind. You can try to insult my intelligence all you like, but you are the one who looks rather stupid by your uncalled-for post.

GET A LIFE!

 

[Syborg1211]

I have done so with my old cpu too. A p3 550 was the old one. Playing Ut and burning. Nothing like coming out of a tournament with a new cd or porn.. I mean music.

A pathetic and pointless question? I dont think there are too many of those things. Just because you know something, doesn't mean someone else would. It's like asking if a 200 thz cpu would be fast.

 

[Howard]

<< The point is who the hell died, and made you moderator? >>



Damn that's funny

 

[OS]

For dual systems, burning a cd and playing Q3 at the same time is such a non-event that it makes a walk in the park look hard.