Could a knackered 360 dvd drive cause this problem?

Barno · 30 May 2008 at 10:09

When I bought GTA IV my 360 starting giving the odd unreadable disc message and the game would freeze at the first screen. So I cleaned the disc and, as the 360 is out of warranty, I opened up and cleaned the DVD drive and adjusted the laser (POT tweak) and it fixed the problem.

However, as I haven't had the chance to see the game in action on another 360 I was wondering if the jerky framerate and popup I'm getting could be to do with the drive not reading the game fast enough? I know the game suffers from this a bit anyway but it looks worse on mine than some of the videos I've seen of the game.

It could have course be due to playing on a 1680x1050 WS LCD as the 360 doesn't support 16:10 resolutions so the closest match is to play at 1280×768 .

I can get a new drive and swap them over but its a pain in the arse to do so I'd rather know if its definitely the drive first.

Cheers.

Kreeeee · 30 May 2008 at 10:22

Is your console a modded BENQ?

Barno · 30 May 2008 at 10:35

No mate, the drive is a hitachi gdr-3120l

Nismo · 30 May 2008 at 10:38

Kreeeee said:
Is your console a modded BENQ?

Doesn't have to be modded, my stock BenQ doesn't always keep up with GTAIV anyway.

Samsung at 8x is fine though :/

Kreeeee · 30 May 2008 at 12:26

Nismo said:
Doesn't have to be modded, my stock BenQ doesn't always keep up with GTAIV anyway.

Samsung at 8x is fine though :/

My BENQ at stock performs identically to my Samsung drive.

Nismo · 30 May 2008 at 12:28

Kreeeee said:
My BENQ at stock performs identically to my Samsung drive.

Meh

Saying that I'm not too bothered, no other game seems to have an issue with the BENQ, and I'm coming towards the end of my interest with GTA anyway, at least until DLC appears.

Nor · 30 May 2008 at 17:25

I was wondering whether my low framerate in GTA4 as due to my DVD reading slowly. I watched it in the shop and it looked dead smooth. Got it home, laggy as hell.