I have Vista 64 bit home premium edition installed on my machine. I have 2gb of Geil PC6400, an Intel Core 2 6600 and a 300gb Hitachi Sata as my main drive. When I am installing any software like games etc or anything tbh it is painfully slow. Can any one help me with this its driving me nuts now.
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Slow software installation Vista 64
- Thread starter stavros
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You have a slow damned DVD drive to install software with.
Simple.
That would be the most likely culprit I'd say since that's the slowest part in the installation chain. Random seek times for optical drives has always been and will always be absolute shit compared to hard drives and other forms of storage, so it's just the nature of the beast.
Considering the sheer number of files that each of those games (and most of today's modern software installations) require, the times you quoted don't seem half bad in some respects.
Thousands of tiny small files = very long installation times because the DVD reader simply has that random access time on each and every read operation - if it's thousands of files, it just adds up to "slow."
Simple.
That would be the most likely culprit I'd say since that's the slowest part in the installation chain. Random seek times for optical drives has always been and will always be absolute shit compared to hard drives and other forms of storage, so it's just the nature of the beast.
Considering the sheer number of files that each of those games (and most of today's modern software installations) require, the times you quoted don't seem half bad in some respects.
Thousands of tiny small files = very long installation times because the DVD reader simply has that random access time on each and every read operation - if it's thousands of files, it just adds up to "slow."