CD speed problem with 1.9

[pSX Author]

Yeah - this is unfortunate.

The MMC spec actually specifies a generic way to set the power saving options on CD drives (which I could do if your drive supports ASPI or IoControl), but I'm not sure I should really be sending commands like that from pSX. If the emulator crashed it would not set the options back to default, so you could end up with your CD drive spinning forever (when a CD is inserted).

Maybe I'll do it but make it optional and put a big warning message there...

[Haldrie]

You could also try having an external program to control this just in case of pSX crashing that could work similar to Nero DriveSpeed. This could be useful for people that don't have or don't want to get Nero and if pSX does crash with this option on people can use that tool to reset their drive without have to reset their computer.

Just a suggestion.

[Sune]

admin said:

Why would you even want to though? The drive is designed to read at its maximum speed...

I do it because my drive makes a lot of noise when it's running full speed.
It has some kind of auto speed feature that works well with some things (audio CDs for example) but with pSX it seems to be spinning at full speed the whole time, trying to read as fast as possible.

I don't see any performance difference in pSX when limiting the speed of the drive to 24x. Plus it doesn't sound like I'm sitting in a wind tunnel.