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You could try a program called MemTurbo.
But before you go down this path, what brand of cd media are you using? Your writer seems fine at 12x, but not at 16x..this seems to tell me you could have a media problem. I use verbatim 16x and have never had a dud; but you can experiment as some brands always work best with your own particular writer.
MemTurbo will optimise your Windows Disc cache, and allow you to examine different settings for different purposes i.e. power user, cd-writer, games machine etc.
Basically MemTurbo goes a little further than what you can do manually, without the aggro of editing files etc.
But if you do decide to use your own manual settings, there's a couple of things you can try:
1) Make sure you use a permanent sawp file: generally 2.5x your system RAM. Ideally just after you've formatted your drive as this will allow a continous and unfragmented amount of swap file.
2) Edit you windows disc cache. Your need to run sysedit.exe and find the field called "Vcache" in the System.ini file. For 128MB (what I have), I use these settings:
[vcache]
MinFileCache=4096
MaxFileCache=16384 or 32768
Basically MemTurbo does all this for you, but it's nice to know what's going on behind the scenes so to speak.
Hope this helps ya out a bit.
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