1-2 hours for games installs?!?

[doeboy]

As the title says, ever since i built the pc this has been the case.The mouse movement on screen also slows, almost like lag or a drop in frame rate.

Any ideas?

[tucool]

Spec?

[doeboy]

Knew i'd forgotten something.

E6600
8800GTX
4gb 800mhz
450gb storeage
XP pro

[Freelance]

take a look at this guide if you've got any PATA stuff: http://users.bigpond.net.au/ninjaduck/itserviceduck/udma_fix/ (tip of the hat to zenith)

[spraduke]

yes ensure nothing is running in pio mode (under ide controllers in device manager) that really fubars things up.

[doeboy]

Thats interesting: Secondary device was runnning in pio. Time for a reboot me thinks.

Rebooted: Still pio currently, despite being set to DMA as preference. Can't seem to change it!?!?

[Freelance]

read the article, there's a 'feature' of windows that after X failed attempts it stops trying to increase the interface speed. you need the registry hack to make it go try again

[[IOA]Madcat]

get a sata 2 or raptor hard disk

[Quietus]

It's not the hard disk, it's his optical drive being slow from what he seems to have written.

[Neon]

Yep, sounds like a read/write problem at least.

[Semajal]

Agreed. Also 4 gig ram? Using 64bit xp pro?

[Squaddie]

My dad had a similar problem when he built his PC a month or so ago. The games wouldn't install at all in his case, and after much testing, it was his Hard Drive that was faulty.

[Ch3m1c4L]

its going to be the pio thing, sinc eyou have said its in pio mode. read the bottom of the article and do what it says. PIO mode reduces transfers to something around 3.3MB/s compared to a normal 50-85MB/S depending on your HDD/health of hdd etc

(i believe, the 3.3mb/s was a read/write speed i got when it happened to me)

[ez64]

also dodgy cables should be checked and proper connections, and check in device manager what mode the HDD is running in.

[AdamR]

Yeah make sure your ATA cables aren't up in smoke like mine were once without noticing.

[bigc90210]

check in your nvidia settings for memory speed, and also in properties of my computer for your memory speed, iv seen crysis set a comps gpu and ram / either to 0mhz for some bizarre reason, the only way to make it work was to reinstall drivers. new crysis patch doesnt cause this in the few machines which did suffer if anyones interested. anyways, i doubt very much its the cause, but worth looking at

[Cabe]

its also good practice to ensure your Optical Drive is on a seperate chain from the drive you are isntalling to (assuming you are still using IDE hard drives...) as the required reading and writing at the same time to an IDE channel is detrimental to the overall speed.

[Switch`]

also for your information, afaik 32bit operating systems can support a maximum of 3gig of ram, so unless your running 64bit windows then that would be wasting a gig.

[RocketKnight]

Thats interesting: Secondary device was runnning in pio. Time for a reboot me thinks.

Rebooted: Still pio currently, despite being set to DMA as preference. Can't seem to change it!?!?
Might be worth checking the BIOS for DMA settings as well.