It does if it comes on multiple disks like WoW. Could wonder off and have it stuck at waiting for next disk for 20 mins
Gears of War takes over an hour to install.
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It does if it comes on multiple disks like WoW. Could wonder off and have it stuck at waiting for next disk for 20 mins
i would think so as well. however the only similarities between our rig's was vista and we both have SATA hard drives. all fully up to date. and others were installing fine on Vista. its a weird one i never worked out
and yep 12GB isnt that bad now a days, i doubt it will take a hour. but we can all race when it gets released
it could be a new HD benchmark.
It does if it comes on multiple disks like WoW. Could wonder off and have it stuck at waiting for next disk for 20 mins
but in that case, your wasting it's time, not it wasting yours.
i would think so as well. however the only similarities between our rig's was vista and we both have SATA hard drives. all fully up to date. and others were installing fine on Vista. its a weird one i never worked out
and yep 12GB isnt that bad now a days, i doubt it will take a hour. but we can all race when it gets released
badly fragmented drive? or one that's dying.
that to me? hehe i dont run AV, i dont have defender either. system restore is a point though i'll keep it in mind if i ever have to reinstall it.
still we should be outraged at this travesty of a fact which may or not be true!
i'll keep it in mind if i ever have to reinstall it. still we should be outraged at this travesty of a fact which may or not be true!
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Office 2007 installed pretty swiftly on my machine, but I've never seen CS3 take less than 45 minutes.
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sounds like a faulty dvd drive to me, laser failing to read harder part of the disc's and needing multiple retrys, only real possibility except maybe a pata drive and dvd drive on same cable and maybe a 40pin cable causing everything to be very slow, read few bytes, go to mem send back up to hd, back to reading drive etc.
no reason for it to take that long. theres no real issue with i/o on vista at all, also no real problem with hd drives. as much as people will tell you going from one drive to raid 0, which for me gave about a 80-90% sustained transfer increase, decreases load times of games by very very little. almost all benchmarks for game loading show next to no difference in most games with a raptor/1tb hitachi vs either in raid 0.
dvd's transfer a lot slower than hd's can write at, but thats a one off thing, and still won't take an hour unless something is faulty and lots of errors and retransmitting is being done. but the limit for dvd's is the material, if then spin much faster, they shatter. unless we start getting games on fast flash cards then we're not looking at too much of an increase. not sure what kind of transfer speeds blu ray might give over dvd. if there was a noticable difference and a few devs released small numbers of bluray copies of games it would increase blu ray pc drives sales a little, getting their prices down quicker so we can all get them easily. they've gone from £500-1000 for a plan pc reader to £120 in less than a year though, and writers aren't hugely hugely more, another few months and a bluray burner should be £150-200.
no reason for it to take that long. theres no real issue with i/o on vista at all, also no real problem with hd drives. as much as people will tell you going from one drive to raid 0, which for me gave about a 80-90% sustained transfer increase, decreases load times of games by very very little. almost all benchmarks for game loading show next to no difference in most games with a raptor/1tb hitachi vs either in raid 0.
dvd's transfer a lot slower than hd's can write at, but thats a one off thing, and still won't take an hour unless something is faulty and lots of errors and retransmitting is being done. but the limit for dvd's is the material, if then spin much faster, they shatter. unless we start getting games on fast flash cards then we're not looking at too much of an increase. not sure what kind of transfer speeds blu ray might give over dvd. if there was a noticable difference and a few devs released small numbers of bluray copies of games it would increase blu ray pc drives sales a little, getting their prices down quicker so we can all get them easily. they've gone from £500-1000 for a plan pc reader to £120 in less than a year though, and writers aren't hugely hugely more, another few months and a bluray burner should be £150-200.
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Id imagine its either the DVD drive or some software in the background screwing with it.
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My last XP install was like that. Quake Wars took a good 20 minutes or more to install :\
Back to normal speed after my reformat. Drive is a bit odd though, sometimes halts the boot process while it sits there making grinding noises
Back to normal speed after my reformat. Drive is a bit odd though, sometimes halts the boot process while it sits there making grinding noises
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Just a badly setup hard drive I think. The BF2 patches were a bit like this, it could take an hour just because it was updating 10000 files. The average bf2 file is only 120k big, so its all about seek time.
Add in a drive thats fragmented or running out of space and even the larger files will have to be split up, more seeking.
Add in a drive thats fragmented or running out of space and even the larger files will have to be split up, more seeking.
that too
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If it wasnt a proper compiled install but a serious of patches as you might expect from a work in progress or recently ported game, it'd make more sense.
Seek time off a dvd is terrible usually, if they hadnt bothered putting all the files into 1 large rar then it'd suck
If you've ever written a directory of pictures to a cd then tried to view it in thumbnail mode you know what I mean
Seek time off a dvd is terrible usually, if they hadnt bothered putting all the files into 1 large rar then it'd suck
If you've ever written a directory of pictures to a cd then tried to view it in thumbnail mode you know what I mean
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Not necessarily. The abysmally slow CS3 installations I mentioned were all done from a downloaded version and were stored on a hard drive. IIRC the bulk of the time it wasn't accessing the drive. They were run on about 10 different machines, with different virus checkers (Norton/NOD32) and different OS's (XP/Vista).
hmmm if it was a badly set up drive wouldnt it happen to every other game i installed?
i dunno, if it ever happens again i'll look into it more looking back it was actually 3 hours
http://www.phpbbplanet.com/letitall...postorder=asc&start=60&mforum=letitallhangout
the thread on our old site.
i dunno, if it ever happens again i'll look into it more
looking back it was actually 3 hourshttp://www.phpbbplanet.com/letitall...postorder=asc&start=60&mforum=letitallhangout
the thread on our old site.
Sounds to me like DMA isn't enabled - I've had Windows report it as on when in fact it isn't, and installs would take ages as well as interrupting other processes. A quick google search for 'dma enable script' or similar should do the trick.