Reducing annoying CD-ROM seek time?

[MistaTastyCakes]

I play a buncha games that access my CD-ROM on and off, and it's getting annoying every time my CD-ROM spins up, my games'll freeze for a second, waiting for the thing to initialize. Is there anything I can do about this? I'm using a Lite-on CDRW that reads at 48x.

 

[spanky]

copy the contents of the cd to ur hd and use the no cd crack (if on exists).

 

[Woodchuck2000]

Yeah your best bet is either to copy the data to the hard drive, or possibly better, to make a disk image in iso or bin/cue format using a program such as blindwrite and then to run the game from that image using something like to daemon tools to mount the image.