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[Feedback] HDD making noise while playing

anyone else ?

September 8, 2008 8:29:22 AM from Demigod ForumsDemigod Forums

Hello.

 

Not any problem encountered at this day, excepted some lags while playing, as some other users have reported.

Laptop configuration :

Turion 64 X2 TL-62 @ 2.1 GHz, 2 GB of DDR2

SATA HDD (with 10 GB free space on Windows XP Business - my 'Game OS')

ATI HD 2600  (512MB)

 

 

After about 8 games, something strange occured while playing : I've heard the HDD making some scratchy noises, as if he was dying. So, I've Alt-tabbed back to Windows, and the noises suddenly stopped. Alt-tab to the game, then the noises came back. The HDD has been making scratchy noises for about 5 minutes, stopping when I Alt-tabbed to Win XP, resuming when I Alt-tabbed to the game.

This occured withtout any other problem : no freeze/lag/crash, no HDD problem (I've used some linux utilities to check detailed SMART info).

It has occured only once, I have played 2 more games without any problem...

 

fenrhir

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Oakwarrior
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Reply #1 September 8, 2008 8:48:24 AM
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Try it with other games. I'm sure it'll do the same there as well, because one game shouldn't cause death of an HDD (unless it uses Starforce or something...)

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Reply #2 September 8, 2008 10:09:00 AM
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it was probably windows update

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Reply #3 September 8, 2008 12:03:02 PM
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If you check on Demigod in task manager, is it digging into the virtual memory? That'd be my first guess.

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Reply #4 September 8, 2008 3:49:18 PM
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Hey kryo, does Demigod still use XACT as its sound system? IIRC, XACT caused alot of problems with hard drive usage and surround.

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TheLovelyBones
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Reply #5 September 8, 2008 4:31:40 PM
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Did you refer to your HDD as he?

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Reply #6 September 8, 2008 4:42:39 PM
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Quoting TheLovelyBones,
reply 5
Did you refer to your HDD as he?

L2 Romance language. EVERYTHING HAS A GENDER.

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Reply #7 September 8, 2008 4:44:56 PM
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Quoting NwExilon,
reply 6

Quoting TheLovelyBones, reply 5Did you refer to your HDD as he?
L2 Romance language. EVERYTHING HAS A GENDER.

 

Not in the english language

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Reply #8 September 8, 2008 5:32:20 PM
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Sounds like it's page faulting a lot, not dying.  I don't have this problem with Demigods, but I do with Chrome  .

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Reply #9 September 8, 2008 11:24:28 PM
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L2 Romance language. EVERYTHING HAS A GENDER.

Let's just get over the fact that we can't properly express that maps are intrinsically female in English.

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