Slowdown of DVD-writer

[Kazuaki Shimazaki II]

In the past week or so, my DVD-writer has mysteriously undergone a slowdown. Before, it takes ~20 minutes to burn a full capacity (4.4GB) DVD. Now it takes over an hour. Same programs and all that. Judging from the drive's operation light and its acoustics, the DVD drive either refuses the go beyond low speed, or when it does, the burning takes place intermittently.

I already tried defragmentating my disk drive. What could be causing this problem. Help appreciated. Thank you.

[jumpy]

Starforce?

http://www.glop.org/starforce/

[Jimbuna]

How old is it ?

Could the laser be losing its strength ?

I changed my Pioneer 20x DVD writer about 3 months ago (£15ish in the UK)

[kiwi_2005]

Originally Posted by jumpy

Starforce?

[goldorak]

Yep the symptoms point at 98% to starforce.

[AVGWarhawk]

It may not be starforce. I had a DVD that one day would spin normally and other days when loading a game took 20 minutes or would not spin at all. Some sort of motor issue. I replaced it and had no issues. This driver was probably 3 years old wheh it started doing this.

[goldorak]

Originally Posted by AVGWarhawk

It may not be starforce. I had a DVD that one day would spin normally and other days when loading a game took 20 minutes or would not spin at all. Some sort of motor issue. I replaced it and had no issues. This driver was probably 3 years old wheh it started doing this.

The OP was talking about writing to dvd media.
He can find out pretty easily, My computer->properties->hardware->device manager->view menu->show hidden devices and show devices by connection.
Voila', just scan the list and if he finds a starforce.drv or something like this then you can bet thats the culprit.
Deinstall starforce drivers and the burner should work ok.

Originally Posted by goldorak

The OP was talking about writing to dvd media.
He can find out pretty easily, My computer->properties->hardware->device manager->view menu->show hidden devices and show devices by connection.
Voila', just scan the list and if he finds a starforce.drv or something like this then you can bet thats the culprit.
Deinstall starforce drivers and the burner should work ok.

Hope "they" aren't reading this forum:
http://www.boingboing.net/2006/01/31...hreatens-.html

Of course, it's an old article, but I'm checking google by "sort by date" and even up to Jan 17 2008, there's complaints about starforce.

[AVGWarhawk]

Originally Posted by Zayphod

Hope "they" aren't reading this forum:
http://www.boingboing.net/2006/01/31...hreatens-.html

Of course, it's an old article, but I'm checking google by "sort by date" and even up to Jan 17 2008, there's complaints about starforce.

Here is my problem, we can not assume he has played SH3 that contained Starforce and Starforce is on his drive.

[goldorak]

Originally Posted by AVGWarhawk

Here is my problem, we can not assume he has played SH3 that contained Starforce and Starforce is on his drive.

Who said that he played with SH III ?
Starforce is used in lots of games, he could have played some ancient version of Splinter Cell for instance and bingo starforce on your system.
Or Trackmania, or "put you favorite game by ubisoft of the last 3 years".
I have SH III but no starforce since the budget edition in italy doesn't have it. :p

[AVGWarhawk]

Originally Posted by goldorak

Who said that he played with SH III ?
Starforce is used in lots of games, he could have played some ancient version of Splinter Cell for instance and bingo starforce on your system.
Or Trackmania, or "put you favorite game by ubisoft of the last 3 years".
I have SH III but no starforce since the budget edition in italy doesn't have it. :p

OK, were does he say he is playing a game at all? He said he was burning to a disc Therefore we can not assume it is Starforce

[goldorak]

Originally Posted by AVGWarhawk

OK, were does he say he is playing a game at all? He said he was burning to a disc Therefore we can not assume it is Starforce

What I meant was this : he could have played a game that used starforce many moths ago then deinstalled the game but the starforce drivers would have been left behind on his system.
So sooner or later he would have had problems with dvd/cd burning.
Dvd/Cd burners acting in wierd ways, loosing performace in starnge ways are almost always symptoms of a straforce driver in your system.
Sure its not 100% sure thats why I said 98%.

[goldorak]

Originally Posted by AVGWarhawk

OK, were does he say he is playing a game at all? He said he was burning to a disc Therefore we can not assume it is Starforce

What I meant was this : he could have played a game that used starforce many months ago then deinstalled the game but the starforce drivers would have been left behind on his system.
So sooner or later he would have had problems with dvd/cd burning.
Dvd/Cd burners acting in wierd ways, loosing performace in strange ways are almost always symptoms of a starforce driver in your system.
Sure its not 100% sure thats why I said 98%.

[AVGWarhawk]

Originally Posted by goldorak

What I meant was this : he could have played a game that used starforce many months ago then deinstalled the game but the starforce drivers would have been left behind on his system.
So sooner or later he would have had problems with dvd/cd burning.
Dvd/Cd burners acting in wierd ways, loosing performace in strange ways are almost always symptoms of a starforce driver in your system.
Sure its not 100% sure thats why I said 98%.

I think it is the DVD motor going. It was the same sympton I had with a dying DVD. No starforce on the machine. Just another avenue to look at. Knock on wood, I never did have an issue with Starforce and my drives.

[Jimbuna]

Originally Posted by AVGWarhawk

I think it is the DVD motor going. It was the same sympton I had with a dying DVD. No starforce on the machine. Just another avenue to look at. Knock on wood, I never did have an issue with Starforce and my drives.

Me neither