when burning dvds comp is really slow, need more RAM?

[hinduluv]

whats up guys,

pretty dumb question but i was wondering what i should do.

when im burning DVDS with dvd decrypter my comp slows down incredibly should i get more ram to solve this problem? i mean programs still work but the comp is slow to open apps and stuff.

p4 3.2 ghz
512MB Dual Channel DDR2 SDRAM at 533MHz
nec nd-3450a burner

on a sidenote has anyone been able to flash the 3450 with the 3500 firmware?

 

[membreya]

Checked in task manager to see the CPU usage?

Also is there much disk activity?

 

[hinduluv]

thats the funny thing, very low cpu usage. like less than 15 percent when burning at 4.1x yes there is a lot of disk activity but i would expect that burning to disk from a hard drive iso file.

 

[jjyiz28]

make sure you ide channels are not runnign in PIO mode. should be DMA. check in ur device maanger

 

[membreya]

Also what type of harddrive are you using? specifically what sort of cache and seek rate does it have?

It may not be able to pass information to the DVD Burner fast enough.

 

[hinduluv]

brand new dell comp.

SATA maxtor 7200 rpm 8mb cache 250gb.

set in dma mode and not pio

the buffer is fine when im not using the comp. when i start opening mozilla or soemthing the buffer sometimes goes down to 0 and even stops buffering until mozilla fully loads up.

 

[membreya]

have you tried increasing the amount of harddrive space the program is allowed to use to buffer ? or allocate it more memory?

 

[imported_Chemist]

Not to barge in on the thread, but do you need a DVD-RW to used DVD-Decrypter, or will a regular DVD drive suffice?

 

[membreya]

Originally posted by: Chemist
Not to barge in on the thread, but do you need a DVD-RW to used DVD-Decrypter, or will a regular DVD drive suffice?

reg is fine...though personally for decrypting DVDs I use AnyDVD

DVD Decrypter

 

[hinduluv]

man, ill just leave the comp alone when burning.

 

[aznbomber]

I had the same problem as you do. I also have a Dell computer with a DVD burner and 512mb ram. If you are burning a dvd with a lot of files in it, it will use up a lot of buffer. But if you are burning a dvd with like 10 files in it, it should run fine. When i was trying to burn a game with over 1000 files in it, i couldn't use my computer at the same time, but when I was burning 10 video files I was able to use my computer at the same time without any problems. My best guess would be HD, but then memory does sound possible as well. Too bad i dont have the money to test out 1gb of ram atm.

 

[hinduluv]

haha, ye thats the problem money.

 

[hinduluv]

problem fixed just reinstalled dvddecrypter. go figure.