Help, my burning speed has dropped

[Skiprat]

Some1 plz help. I am an avid burner of DVD's using nero. 3 days ago I noticed instead of the normal 4 minutes to burn a dvd it now takes over 15 minutes. I have tried many things and am now really stuck. It use to burn at 4x but will now only let me burn at 1x. I am using the same discs as always so I'm really stuck. Many thanx for some real help in anticipation. Ps, is it possible to update drivers for this.

[Scobo]

Firstly, are you sure you were burning a full DVD at 4x as it would normally take around 15 minutes for this.
Secondly, if you were burning a full disc at 1x that would normally take around an hour so something doesn't add up.
Sounds to me maybe you're only filling around 25% of a disc i.e, about 1Gb of video/data.
As to why it's only burning at 1x, have you recently bought new discs and if so have you checked the rating ?