Best Method for Burning Games

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Best Method for Burning Games

Post by jmwtac » Tue Jan 11, 2011 12:34 pm

I have spent the last few days with about 20 coasters trying to find the best way to burn 3DO games for my FZ1.

As we all know the minimum burn now is 4x. If you try to burn in Win 7 or Vista I always got a coaster. However I came up with a plan to have Windows XP as a virtual Machine using VMWare. I then burnt my disc through this at 4x and all of them work flawlessly. no skipping etc.

No Idea why but if you are having problems try XP !!

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Post by Tatsumaru » Fri Jan 21, 2011 1:35 pm

I have Windows XP on my PC and somwhow I can burn on 1x. :?
I never heard about the minimun writing speed being 4x, when does that happened? O_o

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Post by BryWI » Fri Jan 21, 2011 5:52 pm

It's dependant on the burner. The hardware makers assume no one wants to wait 80 minutes for a CD to burn.

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Post by phatrat1982 » Fri Jun 17, 2011 4:10 am

I have a brand new laptop running windows 7 and it only burns cd's at 24x nothing slower. I always buy good media though so I rarely have problems but cd's are so damn cheap anyways it's nothing to throw a few coasters away.

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Post by sneth » Fri Jun 17, 2011 5:57 pm

good media is one of the stronger points here. I've had piss poor burners from time to time as well.

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Post by Austin » Sat Jun 18, 2011 12:31 am

phatrat1982 wrote:I have a brand new laptop running windows 7 and it only burns cd's at 24x nothing slower. I always buy good media though so I rarely have problems but cd's are so damn cheap anyways it's nothing to throw a few coasters away.
That's most likely due to your CD burner or the software you are using. I am using Windows 7 as well and can burn at 4X or 8X in at least one of my drives using Nero (version 7, I think? It came with one of my burners a few years back).

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Post by phatrat1982 » Sat Jun 18, 2011 1:29 am

like I said it is brand new, everything the laptop the burner everything actually it is a Blu Ray drive it just happens to burn cd and dvd also but will not go below 24x. But I don't think I said it was because I was running Windows 7 I only meant it was because my hardware was too new. And I am running Nero also.

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Post by Austin » Sat Jun 18, 2011 1:42 am

Yeah, again, it's probably your drive causing that limitation.

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Post by BryWI » Sat Jun 18, 2011 2:19 pm

The lower speed burns now-a-days are being blocked by the hardware. This is correct. I dont know why it's being blocked out though. That I can't tell you. Im not sure if there is software out there that will override what speeds the burner reports that it does, but it is possible i would think.

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