Buffer Underruns...

[Loserboy]

Ok, I followed Big Poppa's advice to a T, but I continue to get buffer underruns. I have a burner that I have never had this problem before. I have used it several times to burn "other things" but never done dreamcast backups. I closed all programs, slowed down to 1x and all that. I tried to two advanced settings he had for the mode, etc. No luck. Oh yeah, one more thing....The version of DJ that I am using is V2.00.419-FTU. Hopefully, this is not a problem. Any ideas of what else to try. I use a HP Internal 8250 or something to that effect, you know a pretty good drive. Thanks Big Poppa for everything!!

Loserboy

[i2mental]

One very important thing to consider that I have not seen mentioned in this forum is disk space. You need to make sure that you have plenty of disk space that will allow DJ to make an image of the CD on your HD and then copy it to your burner. I would recommend 1 gig at the least. Also, make sure that your c:\windows\temp directory is empty. I've fixed several buffer underruns with this method. Another thing to consider is the size of the cache you have set in DJ. I'm not sure exactly where the setting is in the options of DJ because I'm at work and don't have it installed. However, I was able to avoid some buffer underruns by increasing the cache size. A buffer underrun occurs when the cache (buffer) dumps all of its information into the CD before more is written into the buffer. Increasing the size of the buffer allows more leniancy to the amount and length of possible (hiccups) while burning the CD. I suppose..... theoretically.... just now thinking about it..... if you raise the cache setting all the way up to 800 megs or so (outrageous thought) then I don't see how you could get a buffer underrun. Of course this high of a setting is probably not allowed in DJ and would take forever.... ANYWAYS, enough rambling. The first suggestion is the best suggestion.

[i2mental]

Oh yeah, and fair warning, Don't increase the size too much if you don't have lots of ram available because this "buffer" that I speak of is actually RAM. So if you make the buffer to big, your system might not have enough RAM left to perform the normal operations. And that would be bad. I was lucky enough to play with this on a machine with 1 gig RAM so I really didn't have to worry about that much.