SATA DVD player affecting framerates

[perdomot]

Decided to install an old game Serious Sam II on my main PC and got horrible play since the CD has to be in the drive in order to work. This is a E4400 cpu, 7600GT, 2GB ram rig running XP. Decided to install it on my back up pc which is a Pen 805, Ati 9550 AGP, 1GB ram running Win 2000 and got excellent play. Only real difference I can figure is my new rig has an sata burner and the old one has IDE. Anyone know if this is a known issue and how to fix it???

 

[perdomot]

Bump

 

[digiram]

I'm not sure if the drive is the issue, but try this.

Get Daemon Tools to use as a virtual drive, and grab the iso of the game with Isobuster or something similar. Try playing it off the virtual drive.

Best solution would to find a no cd crack of course.

 

[chizow]

Hmmm considering just about everything else in your old/new PC are different I wouldn't automatically assume its an optical drive problem. What makes you think it is? Most games, even back when SS2 was new, just installed from disc and then required them to be in the drive for DRM purposes. An optical drive impacting performance would only really be an issue for something like a DVD if it were constantly reading from the disc to advance, like the old Dragon's Lair games.