I have a P3 256 Ram PC. I couple months ago DVD Decryptor and DVD Shrink were working fine, all of a sudden both are working very slow. Decryptor is now taking on average 50 minutes to do what it did in 15 min. Well Shrink I dont think you want to know the times I am getting from that. Was working at the rate of 15 minutes to shrink, now some movies up to 3 hours. Is there a post in the FORUMS that discusses this problem at length? If so can someone please direct me there. Thank You All.............. Key63
key63-- It could be a number of things--have you defragmented your hard drive lately?--if not--do that first---Also, you might want to uninstall both Shrink and Decrypter, then re-install--I would try those couple things first--see if that works--let us know--Good Luck Whitfield
The quality settings in dvd shrink can sometimes cause those slow times. You should also check to make sure your data transfer is in DMA, and not PIO,check out this thread. http://forums.afterdawn.com/thread_view.cfm/76265
Well I have uninstalled and reinstalled both DVD Decrypter and Shrink with the same resolts. I don't think it is the read devices, I have uesde 4 different devices with the same resolts. Even reformatted my system so nothing would be on it to make sure it wasn't some other device. But just had a thought while writing this. Can Nero have this affect on your system? XP mainly? Had a problem with an old motherboard where Nero(INCD) was stopping me from going to SAFE MODE. OR can it be BIOS? Just don't know what to try next. Like I said it should sound like what you said because it was working fine for many months and I know I had more than 6 errors in that time. All of a sudden one day nothing was running write with them both(decrypter/shrink).
key63 -- I don't have personal experience with this but the answer is YES--the program In CD in Nero is supposed to conflict with more than a couple other programs--including Decrypter and Shrink---and you did check to make sure the quality settings in Shrink were Not checked?- and that you are in fact in DMA mode and Not PIO---as jim_dandy mentioned. I think you should UNinstall Nero, then re-install without IN CD-- that may well make the difference--sounds like it anyway and sure beats re-formatting--that was kind of drastic (although I have done it to!) Good Luck and let us know how you make out. Whitfield
check in the task manager,that nothing is eating up your ram,.....>>> [bold]have you got any virus's etc?[/bold] do a full scan,and shut down everything that looks dodgy
OK, tried all of that and still the same. Where can I find the settings for DVD Decrypter? maybe they are not setting to default when I load the program. DVD Decrypter runs slower than usual then DVD Shrink really take hours for a movie. Can a outdated motherboard or BIOS chip be the cause for some of this?
