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Post by pole on Sept 27, 2006 17:32:24 GMT -5
I've tried the 1.8 version and it worked perfectly. When you came out with the new version, I tried it but I found something odd. The CD was spinning annormalously (not sure of the real word, I am not english native) fast. It was so fast it was noisy. My CD was in tact, but I didn't dare using the emulator again. What is this kind of problem and is there a workaround?
Note that I only tried Final Fantasy Tactics and I didn't had time to try other games.
My drive is a DVD-ROM 8x drive and I am playing on a laptop.
Thanks in advance, even if you don't have a clue.
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Post by pSX Author on Sept 28, 2006 0:33:28 GMT -5
Nothing has changed with the CD code, so I guess its something on your end.... probably its just your CD drive spinning up to its highest read speed.
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Post by pole on Sept 28, 2006 14:29:03 GMT -5
That's what I thought. But what I don't understand is that it WASN'T running at full speed in the previous version and it is now. Maybe that's because I copied and pasted the ini file, or maybe it has something to do with the "CD tweaks" you made to solve a compatibility problem with Ape Escape.
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Post by pSX Author on Sept 28, 2006 14:34:55 GMT -5
All of the CD changes were to do with CD controller emulation on the PS1 side - nothing to do with actually reading physical CDs.
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Post by pole on Sept 30, 2006 21:41:00 GMT -5
Then perhaps this is an issue with my DVD-ROM drive, or my lack of RAM (I seriously doubt that it is, but these are the only reasons I can think of).
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Post by patrickp on Oct 1, 2006 7:46:42 GMT -5
Well, I'm not sure exactly how it would work, pole, but I would think that if you don't have much RAM, the emulator may need to access your drive more frequently. And if we assume that, along with CPU usage (which IIRC some people have observed with v1.9), the emulator may also have increased its RAM usage, maybe that's why your drive is having to work harder. It's often been said that RAM is the cheapest and most effective upgrade you can do and, despite RAM price increases in recent years, it's still true. Perhaps you should be thinking about it.
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Post by pole on Oct 1, 2006 12:40:30 GMT -5
I already considered buying more ram for my PC (it is a laptop by the way, so this is the only upgrade I can do).
Guess 256 MB of ram with Windows 2000 isn't enough. Oh and my CPU is a P4 1.8 GHz
What is bothering me is that it was not using that much ram (if it was the case) in the previous version. Did the update (like the many tweaks you did) increased that much the ram and CPU usage?
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Post by pSX Author on Oct 1, 2006 15:47:28 GMT -5
It almost definately is not a RAM problem - pSX only needs about 30-40mb of RAM.... I don't think there is a problem at all - I just think you heard your CD drive spin up to its fastest read speed.
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Post by Sune on Oct 1, 2006 15:51:50 GMT -5
@ OP
You can use a tool like Nero Drivespeed to limit the speed of your drive. I'm sure there are others but that's what I use.
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Post by pSX Author on Oct 1, 2006 16:14:09 GMT -5
Why would you even want to though? The drive is designed to read at its maximum speed...
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Post by Ultima on Oct 1, 2006 16:29:50 GMT -5
Hm... maybe if they want to preserve the life of their drive, it works to their benefit to not have it spin too much unnecessarily? Spinup and spindown are probably worse for drive health, but constant high-speed spinning probably decreases life some as well. Pure speculation, of course =|
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Post by Sotho Tal Ker on Oct 2, 2006 4:47:53 GMT -5
He could also make an image of the game and play with that ;D
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Post by Deleted on Oct 2, 2006 6:08:35 GMT -5
Hm... maybe if they want to preserve the life of their drive, it works to their benefit to not have it spin too much unnecessarily? Spinup and spindown are probably worse for drive health, but constant high-speed spinning probably decreases life some as well. Pure speculation, of course =| Exactly. Older games don't really need the fullspeed, and reading at full speed can be quite loud as well. Sometime ago I was playing Heroes 3 from my old HoMM3 Complete pack, and the constant spinup to fullspeed and down again gets on my nerves really fast.
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Post by seiferalmasy on Oct 2, 2006 8:36:06 GMT -5
Whilst we are on the subject. The real PSX doesnt stop spinning so it is always ready. Anyone know how to force CD drive to keep spinning the disc?
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Post by Haldrie on Oct 19, 2006 14:30:54 GMT -5
The only way I can think of the prevent the drive form "spinning down" is to use "Nero DriveSpeed". This tool can change the max read speed of the drive and there is an option to change the amount of idle time before the drive "spins down". Set this option to "Infinite" and the disc will never stop spinning until you eject the drive or change this option to something else.
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