DVD vs CD

[Hassat Hunter]

And some info for the people here who seem to throw around and jump on their DVD's...

 

DVD en dan?

Een DVD is een mooi medium, maar er zijn geen ervaringscijfers over de houdbaarheid ervan. Een paar regels:

- pak het plaatje altijd aan de buitenste rand vast

- ga niet krassen in het plaatje

- buig het plaatje NOOIT

- stel het plaatje niet bloot aal extreme licht bronnen zoals zon

- stel het plaatje niet bloot aan extreme temperaturen

- een beschadigd plaats kan als verloren worden beschouwd

- bewaar het plaatje in het daartoe bestemde doosje

 

DVD and then?

The DVD is a beautifull medium, but there are no numbers available about the longitivity of a disk. A frw rules:

- Always pick up the disk on the outer ring

- Do not scratch the disk

- Never bend the disk

- Never expose the disk to extreme lightsources like the sun

- Never expose the disk to extreme tempratures

- A damaged (location on the) disk can be considered lost

- Keep the disk in the box

 

Sounds all pretty d

Edited May 21, 2006 by Hassat Hunter

[alanschu]

Doesn't change that they exist.  One of the reasons why I stopped playing Planescape Torment is because of the lame arse disk swaping.

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Good game > trivial issue of swapping a disc

[kalimeeri]

Good game > trivial issue of swapping a disc

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I don't care which media the game is on. Sure, I'll cuss a little bit when I have to restore back to a save that requires the previous CD, but 5 minutes later I've forgotten all about it. 'Most' publishers minimized disc-swapping in multi-CD sets--although I do seem to remember one that was divided into 'areas' of the continent. And yes, that was a major pain. But it didn't keep me from playing.

Edited May 22, 2006 by kalimeeri

[Spider]

Doesn't change that they exist.  One of the reasons why I stopped playing Planescape Torment is because of the lame arse disk swaping.

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Good game > trivial issue of swapping a disc

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Besides, it's perfectly possible to just copy the cds to the HD and edit the .ini so that the game loads the file needed from there instead. That way you only need to keep one CD (any CD) in the drive for the copy-protection. It does take up a lot of room on the HD though.

[Dark_Raven]

Doesn't change that they exist.  One of the reasons why I stopped playing Planescape Torment is because of the lame arse disk swaping.

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You would have the same problem with BG1 unless you did a full install.

[Hassat Hunter]

And that is the reason why DVD's own...

 

No need for it on the Harddisk, since it is all on the disk...

[Judge Hades]

I always do a full install.

[Darque]

No you don't.

[Judge Hades]

Yes I do.

[Darque]

Nu-uh

[Judge Hades]

Yeppers.

[Darque]

Yeppers.

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Nopers

[Dark_Raven]

Everyone should do a full install, that is what large hard drives are for.

[alanschu]

I remember squeezing in games like Quake II in for a full install on my 1.2 GB HD.

 

I think I had a 4 GB HD when I played BG. Tight fit for that one too.

[Haitoku]

I can't remember the last time I didn't do a Full-Install.

[alanschu]

Most games don't even give you the option anymore.

[Judge Hades]

True. Like I said I always do a full install.

[Calax]

stupid question from the back: why don't game dvds do the whole flippy over thingy that movie dvds do?

[Deraldin]

stupid question from the back: why don't game dvds do the whole flippy over thingy that movie dvds do?

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Because game DVD's have a fancy sticker on the front?

[Judge Hades]

And uualy games aren't that big. I haven't seen a game, condensed on disc, larger than 4.7 gig yet.

[Hassat Hunter]

That is cause the disk is only that big. And so far as I know there haven't been multi-DVD games yet. A second DVD has so far always been used for additional extra fluff...

[Judge Hades]

Like a "Making of <insert game title>" documentary.

[LadyCrimson]

This is a bit off-topic, but has anyone else had problems with their DVD-rom RW drive not even noticing that some game CD-roms are inserted? ie, the drive spins the disc a while then falls silent, no error message, no nothing...just doesn't see the disc. If I re-insert it several times it'll eventually notice.

 

It's not the disc itself, cause I can put in the plain vanilla CD-rom drive in the older PC and it runs just fine. Sometimes I think DVD drives are a bit more...picky.

[alanschu]

I would think it would be a problem with the drive itself. I vaguely remember having that happen with an old DVD drive (not RW). I haven't had any problems with any DVD drive since.

[LadyCrimson]

Cheap rickety parts in expensive yet disposable hardware, perhaps?

Maybe we're unlucky, but I've also noticed it in DVD-theater players lately.