Had 32 x rom have a 56 x and its slower why

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WillielovesJesus

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I had a pentium 3 at 500 Mhz W/Win98 and 384 megs of pc 100, it loaded MOHAA faster than my new system that you can see below.....Why?

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I am sorry I should have been more clear, by load I do mean install, I mat be wrong but I believe when the game loads a level its loading from the HDD.

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MuFu

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Yeah, it loads from the HDD. I was just wondering because a new graphics card would explain an increase in level loading times (because of texture compresion).

I have no idea, then. A 56x won't be that much quicker than a 32x drive. Have you checked that DMA is enabled for the newer drive?

MuFu.

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WillielovesJesus

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No or maybe, I hate being so stupid but what is DMA, I suppose this is a setting in Bios? I will go to my Bios and check,Thank you Mutha Funker, I dont care for the name but I respect your Knowledge and willingness to help.

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Okay, DMA has to do with Data transfer, mine is disabled and the option are 0,1,2,3,4,5 and 6, so what do you think? I dont have a clue, my first reaction is MAX IT! tell me what is the best for my System?

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MuFu

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Look in device manager.

If you are using Windows XP then click the IDE/ATAPI controllers tab and go into the properties for each of the two channels. In the Advanced Settings tab select "Use DMA if possible" for everything.

If you are using Windows 9x/ME then go into device manager and enable DMA in the Properties section for the disk drive.

DMA is "Direct Memory Access" and essentially takes the load of the CPU when using an IDE/ATAPI device.

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You can enable it by going to devise manager,cd rom,settings and checking the box next to dma.You can also do this to harddrive also....

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WillielovesJesus

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Okay, my HDD says DMA 5 and I selected DMA on my CD rom as well, however in my bios there is "ultra DMA" and it is disaled, and it has selections 1-6 what do i do here?

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MuFu

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Where are you seeing those options, 0, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5 and 6? Sounds like the different DMA modes available. Is that in the BIOS?

Usually the BIOS sets DMA modes for the hard disk drives automatically, but you may need to check whether it is enabled for CD-ROM/DVD-ROM's in Windows


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In Bios I have a selection for "Ultra DMA" it is disabled at the moment, when I highlight the"Disabled" it opens a window with:
0
1
2
3
4
5
6
Disable

Do you think setting it a 5 like my setting in IDE/ATAPI properties would be a good choice?
Is it normal to have an "Ultra Dma" setting in Bios?

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Just to be clear my windows setting is Primary "Ultra DMA mode 5" thats what it says under properties in windows.

for secondary IDE Channel it says
"Multi-word DMA 2"

these are the settings in Windows under Device Manager/IDE ATA/ATAPI/properties

BUT

in bios it has "Ultra DMA" DISABLED with the possible selections of 1 thru 6.


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MuFu

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Ok, the primary being "UDMA mode 5" is ok... that's your HDD at ATA100 so that's fine. The secondary being "Multi-Word DMA Mode 2" is UDMA mode 0 (probably PIO mode 4). So your CD-ROM has 16.6MB/s max transfer rate available to it on the IDE bus. That's ok too.

As for DMA in the BIOS, if it wasn't enabled on your drives then you'd have noticed a huge performance decrease by now. I am not sure what that setting refers to. Which part of the BIOS setup is it in? I'd set it at "5" and see what happens!


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WillielovesJesus

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A huge preformance drop is what I have noticed, my old P 3 500 Mhz W/32X cd rom loaded(installed) Way faster, MOHAA on the old Sys took maybe 2 minutes, this system takes 5 to 6 minutes it is slower on all disc reading, I changed my setting in bios for the CD rom to 5, Ill test it and post in about an hour, Thanks MUFU your the best.

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It's no faster.


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