Will burning a DVD while playing a game cause skips?

[RollWave]

Anyone know if thats safe? I'd like to play BF2 while I burn stuff. Is it ok to do so with the above system?

 

[imported_Kensai]

Doubtful. Try it when you get a dual-core CPU.

 

[SlitheryDee]

I dunno. Seems possible though if the game is eating up all CPU time.

Just bite the bullet and do it. At worst you'll have to weather the loss of one DVDR.

 

[DaveSimmons]

Kind of amusing to spend an extra few hundred dollars for dual-core just so you can make "free" copies of DVDs.

 

[JE78]

Another ethical/moral choice right Dave lol. I would say yes it would effect the DVD and would probably even cause lag in the game.

 

[DaveSimmons]

Yes, I am a hopeless Goody Two-shoes

Ignoring ethics, I understand people are P2Ping things they can't get at Blockbuster, like pr0n and recent TV shows, but for standard commercial movies it seems silly to make a copy (spending time and money) when you can always just rent the movie again.

But I have netflix with unlimited rentals, so it doesn't cost anything extra to watch the same movie again later. If you're paying $4 a disc I can see some attraction to spending $30-50 for a spindle of DVDs (and a big block of time) to potentially save $400 on re-renting 100 movies.

 

[Losty]

Well ... when i had my OLD scsi system (1ghz athlon) I burnt CDs while playing games like CS ... (OS = W2K)

I upgraded my computer last year ... got IDE ... athlon64 2800 and NEC 3500A/3520A
I can't even open folders as quickly while burning DVDs and CDs

Is this something fugly with my system or is it because I'm using IDE now?
New system is running XP. Almost all data and programs are identical in both systems.

I don't know what gives but it seems a lot slower ... if i'm system is F*ck'd up somehow .. please let me know. I can't even play a simple game like Brood War... or watch Anime ...
Ultra DMA is also enabled on the hdd and dma on the dvd burners...

any help would be appreciated...

 

[Hacp]

I'm not sure if burning cds uses the HD alot, but I know that its hard to play games while capturing video, because my HD isn't a raptor .

 

[IeraseU]

I think you'll be alright burning, that doesnt use so much cpu.....encoding while playing is a different story......unless you have a dual core of course.

 

[imported_Kensai]

DVD burning takes up to 20% of CPU clocks. And depending how you're burning, you're limited to cache speed. Usually it's the hard drive which holds the image and of course your games load from the same place.

 

[wetcoastguy]

Just run Task Manager and look at the CPU usage during BF2.
If it is a cpu intensive game, then you will get crappy burns.

 

[wetcoastguy]

To Losty:

If your HD and NEC 3500 are on the same IDE connector they will operate at the LOWEST speed of the two - 33mgz of the NEC.
When burning the NEC is using a high percentage of the available bandwidth.

Make sure that the two devices are on separate IDE channels.

 

[DaFinn]

I do that all the time! Then again, dual xeons and 2Gb of ram prolly have something to do with it...

 

[RadiclDreamer]

I do it all the time as well, AMD64 3500+ with 2 GB ram

 

[Jiggz]

There is an option on some burner software to allot so many CPU percentage to the software so you can multi task. It will slow the burn process but it can be done.

 

[Jeff7]

Generally, I try not to do anything else when burning a disc. Granted, I might be rendering video, but I can allocate that process to low priority mode - and I don't care if the fps goes down occasionally. In a game, you don't want sudden slowdowns of course, and measures to eliminate skips (changing process priority levels perhaps) might cause buffer underruns. Maybe.
Got a disc to burn? Get it ready to burn, and when you need a bathroom, food, or whatever kind of break, have the disc start burning then.

 

[corkyg]

I agree with Jeff7. But - every now and then I have to do something while burning - and that is a major reason why I have always used external burners - first SCSI, and now Firewire.

BTW - burnproof software caches the source material on the HD first - then copies it from there. So, yes - conflict is a possibility.

 

[Thor86]

Originally posted by: Losty
Well ... when i had my OLD scsi system (1ghz athlon) I burnt CDs while playing games like CS ... (OS = W2K)

I upgraded my computer last year ... got IDE ... athlon64 2800 and NEC 3500A/3520A
I can't even open folders as quickly while burning DVDs and CDs

Is this something fugly with my system or is it because I'm using IDE now?
New system is running XP. Almost all data and programs are identical in both systems.

I don't know what gives but it seems a lot slower ... if i'm system is F*ck'd up somehow .. please let me know. I can't even play a simple game like Brood War... or watch Anime ...
Ultra DMA is also enabled on the hdd and dma on the dvd burners...

any help would be appreciated...

Yep, it's IDE's interface gobbling up all your cpu cycles. SCSI off-loads most i/o cycle s from the CPU and onto the SCSI controller.

 

[corkyg]

Originally posted by: Thor86

Yep, it's IDE's interface gobbling up all your cpu cycles. SCSI off-loads most i/o cycle s from the CPU and onto the SCSI controller.

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And firewire is the son of SCSI.

 

[wchou]

why would you want to burn and play game at the same time? if you burn at 8x,12x or 16x your hd is heavily accessed and you will not be able to do anything else. It will cause the burn to slow down to a crawl or it is poorly burned.

 

[furballi]

Should work if you have a modern system. However, it's best NOT to muti-task when burning DVDs at high speed (>12x). A full burn at 4x will only take about 14 min.