DVD Writer Problems

[leafman]

I have an LG 4163-B DVD Writer. It is listed as max speed 16x on DVD+Rs. I use Ridata 8x medium, but when I choose 8x speed in dvd-decrypter(my burning app), it only burns at max 6x. I was wondering whats causing the bottleneck. I have SATA-150 200gb HD.

 

[Hurricane Andrew]

My guess is that the drive doesn't support 8x on that media. Have you updated the firmware for your drive? If you have an early version of the firmware, the drive may not recognize the media as 8x capable.