Don't use the PC during burn session?

[vice86]

I'm wondering if you'll get a better burn if you have no apps running except the program your burning your dvd with and NOT do anything else on your computer....just let it burn and thats all.

I feel if I surf, use photoshop or play some games while burning that I'll compromise the burn and will end up seeing those funky blocks go across the screen and get freezes.

Am I crazy? I'm on a 1.2Ghz rig with 512MB of ram.

[furball6969]

I have an identical system and quite often surf and do other things while burning and have not encountered any problems. I would stay away from doing things that use the HD's; loading large programs, large file copy/move operations etc.

[TonyDaTigger]

Well.. burn performance will ALWAYS be more reliable/faster if you don't do anything else with your computer.

Your benchmark on whether or not it's safe to do other things while burning is by looking at the buffer of your burning program. If it drops, then there is to much I/O activity. Otherwise your fine.

You can test this by using RW's, if you coaster who cares. =)

[Excellerator]

Isn't Burnproof supposted to help against having bad burns because of the buffer? I have had my drive stop before during burns and then start and never have noticed a single problem. I don't usually run anything at the time, but occassionaly something in the background is running.