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    Installation going slow?

    Discussion in 'Gateway and eMachines' started by Misconduct, Dec 30, 2008.

  1. Misconduct

    Misconduct Notebook Consultant

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    Today was installing a game Sacred 2 for the laptop, and my old trusty Warcraft 3, both were horrible slow in the background - I mean I could not even open websites it would take a few minutes waiting for them.

    Im running a bare minimum 64bit Vista, due note, I have PowerISO running in the background since most my CD's are on an external harddrive.
    Is it possible the loading of warcraft via ISO cause the computer to be terribly sluggish when installing something?

    Also note: its for everything I install.
     
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  2. Mickbt26

    Mickbt26 Notebook Evangelist

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    Yes, Ive had this before when using a dirty and scratched disc. The lens could be dirty aswell and might have trouble reading discs. Get hold of a CD lens cleaner and give it a try.
     
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    Misconduct Notebook Consultant

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    Im not using Cd's - all my CD's were burned to Bin files on an external harddrive because of all the patches and updates - I keep all the updates, mods in a bin file with the origional Cd so I don't have to install cd, and go hunt 400 patches/mods.
     
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    That's pretty smart, I've recently switched to Steam although I still have a lot of games on optical media and I might try this. REP +
     
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    Misconduct Notebook Consultant

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    I just got tired long ago when Quake 2 came out and had 15 patches and mods, and it sucked getting a new PC and having to hunt everything down, since change to DVD I simply re-burn games, even programs this way.

    With external drives getting bigger i'm leaning towards double backing up these days, having them on both just in case the major "what if" happens.

    /Have lost external drives with all backed up data on it
    //Have lost it twice (2nd time in a house fire)

    So yeah, never hurts to have 2 backups =)
     
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