I think you're looking for Re: Throttle CD-ROM drive speed in DOS? .

Thanks !

But the problem is that I'm playing windows games, and as far as I know starting oakcdrom.sys when using windows is useless, right ?

For Windows, there are other tools, such as DVDSpeedControl.

Well I found another program called "Nero DriveSpeed" wich I just tried on my 1998 gaming PC

However, puting the CD speed at 4x makes the issue less relevant, but it's still here ... I'd like to have it completely gone, making the CD drive slower is one thing, I think that the issue would be completely gone if the CD was already spinning when the game wants to access it.

Another approach would be to simply dump the CD to the hard drive, and mount the resulting image with Daemon Tools, or whatever optical drive emulation tool you prefer.

If you go for Daemon Tools, I believe version 3.47 is the latest non-bloated one. Should be available at oldversions.com.

Yeah, but it's kind of a shame when I already have original CDs. I must have more than one hundred games, and dumping all of them would take a lot of space and that would also take a lot of time to do (and some of them have copy protection)

And also, I'm not sure if the music will work

kaputnik wrote:

Another approach would be to simply dump the CD to the hard drive, and mount the resulting image with Daemon Tools, or whatever optical drive emulation tool you prefer.

If you go for Daemon Tools, I believe version 3.47 is the latest non-bloated one. Should be available at oldversions.com.

I thought that didn't work with CD-ROMs that have their music as Red Book Digital Audio (like on normal CDs)? Usually the music can't be played from the image.

Enable "Analog" Audio in DaemonTools Menu.

yawetaG wrote:

I thought that didn't work with CD-ROMs that have their music as Red Book Digital Audio (like on normal CDs)? Usually the music can't be played from the image.

Under XP this works great, under Windows 98 it usually doesn't. Box ticked, but it just doesn't work. There are some things you can try, I did a write up on this and asked for others to test it, but the thread fizzled out.

So there is no real solution for this issue ?

It reminds me how old console did this. For example the PS1 spins it's CD continuously in order to avoid that problem. It's a shame that we can't do the same on PC 😒

Doesn't one of the tools posted fix the problem? You specifically want to change the "spin down time", though there is probably a maximum value that cannot be exceeded.

If Nero doesn't do it, how about http://www.majorgeeks.com/files/details/cd_ro … _tool_aspi.html ?

yawetaG wrote:

kaputnik wrote:

Another approach would be to simply dump the CD to the hard drive, and mount the resulting image with Daemon Tools, or whatever optical drive emulation tool you prefer.

If you go for Daemon Tools, I believe version 3.47 is the latest non-bloated one. Should be available at oldversions.com.

I thought that didn't work with CD-ROMs that have their music as Red Book Digital Audio (like on normal CDs)? Usually the music can't be played from the image.

Daemon Tools emulation driver is a bit more than a just ISO mounter like in other solutions as ImDisk. It will handle anything a real SCSI CD/DVD can do. Alcohol 120% virtual drives have also the same property.

Digging up that thread because I still didn't find any good solution. I'm pretty sure that jorpho's solution could work (I still didn't try that 🤣, but I will now), but the problem is that I'll have to tweak that every time I want to start a specific game or that I want to install one.

I corrected the title which didn't sound quite right to me (and probably for you too 🤣) and that is probably closer to what I want. Like I said, slowing down the CD drive seems to work, but it has a major issue which I just explained earlier. The best solution would be to not have the interruption when the CD drive spins up, just leave the game running while the CD starts. I'm not sure if that's possible, but this seems to be an issue for windows 9x : I ran the demo of half life on my main computer running windows 7 and I did not experience that at all. No hiccup, nothing, just the game running and the music starting up, no interrupt ...