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Tweaking your CD-Rom
drive
Can
you tweak a Cd-Rom? Well, a little... Follow
these few steps to gain some performance.
Results may vary, and I make no guarantee that
you will succeed or gain ANYTHING from this. Use
these tweaks at your own risk. These tweaks are
for Windows . It works for windows 98 too.
Drivers
The first step to successfully tweaking
anything is downloading the newest drivers. For
the ones you need, check out the drivers
headquarters.
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Enabling DMA
Enabling DMA (direct memory access) will not
give you a huge increase in speed, but will take
load off your CPU. Not all Cd-Roms can enable
this, or use it successfully, so results will
differ. After enabling it try some games out. If
it seems to take less time to start reading and
the games seem to be running faster then it is
working fine. If the Cd-Rom is not working
correctly then you should disable it.
To enable DMA on your Cd-Rom drive:
Right click My Computer on your desktop, choose
Properties. Click the Device Manager tab. Click
the + next to CDROM. Double click on your Cd-Rom
(which should be shown next to CDROM). Click the
Settings tab at the top. Check the box that says
DMA. Now reboot. If it didn't work like you
thought then you can disable it.
Cd-Rom Cache
Some people set their cache small (for who
knows what reason) but I like to set it high.
Your Cd-Rom may already have a big cache set, so
check and make sure.
Right click My Computer on your desktop, choose
Properties. Click the Performance tab. Click the
File System button below. Click the Cd-Rom tab at
the top. Make sure your Cd-Rom is set to Quad-speed
or higher, even if it's not. This will just let
you use an extra big cache. Now, make sure your
Supplemental cache size is the largest it can be.
It should be 1238 KB.
Optimize your memory cache even more by
downloading Tweakall that increases
memory cache. Get the file from ME, and just double
click it.
CdExpress
is a great program for optimizing cache of
your Cd-Rom. At first I doubted it, but after
trying I was amazed. Making changes to your cache
is faster than ever because the program resides
in your system tray.
Check this program out.. it is well worth your
time. Do some benchmarks yourself if you don't
believe me, this program is great.download it
from main page
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