Cd-rom... '***Resolved***'

[VBD]

I have a game. Whenever it needs to load a bit of data it pauses for 5 seconds because when its not loading data, the cd-rom stops spinning. So, than it needs to get it up to speed. Finally it continues. Does anyone know how I could write a program that would keep it spinning?

[nemaroller]

what game? Perhaps you should search for a NO-CD patch....

I get these for mutiplayer games like AgeofEmpires, where it takes longer to get in a lobby, or start the game because you have to wait for the CD-authentification, and then other times, the CD to spin up.

[kinjalgp]

You got to search for the command required to send to CD ROM controller chip. Once you get the commands you can send them to the CD ROM drive. But let me tell you one thing, as far as I know VB lacks capability of directly interacting with any of the hardware. So you better use VC++ or C++ to do the job.

Other reason of CDrom stopping is lack of buffer memory in the CDROM which may be becoming full very fast. So try using latest and fast drives like 52X or Ultra Fast 72X from ASUS.


Kinjal

[VBD]

I figured out that if I have a drivelist and a dir control that every one second sets its dir to the next drive on drivelist and then once it goes through them all starts over again it works! Not the best way, but heck it works great!