Speed differences between disk/ HDD?

[Hungry Man]

If I use my hard drive as opposed to the actual DVD drive will I notice any speed differences? Or bugs?

I have a 5400RPM HDD and no idea what my DVD drive is since I never use it.

Sony Vaio VPCEC if that helps.

[jesalvein]

If your HDD is sowmething like 15 years old, it may be slower than your DVD drive.
else, your HDD will be at least 10 times faster for data transfer

[Hungry Man]

That's what I figured. So I could actually see a significant increase in speed running from my HDD?

And just so I don't make another topic for a silly question:

Do you think my computer can run Onimusha 4?

i5 520m
ATI 5650 (overclocked to 700 and 900)

[Rezard]

With Speedhacks, I'm sure it will be playable. Don't be too surprised if you get some slow downs when there's a lot happening on-screen. Also, I think Onimusha 4 became "broken" in more recent versions of PCSX2. I played it on beta-1888 I believe.

[Hungry Man]

Ah, good to know. Thanks.

Will hyperthreading affect gameplay?

[Rezard]

Not directly. When HT is "disabled" in favor of a higher clock rate with just 2 threads, for the first stage of Turbo Boost, you could kinda think of it helping.

[Hungry Man]

Well with hyperthreading on I still achieve 2.66ghz on each core, I didn't think it went any higher than that for multiple threaded applications.

[Saiki]

Do you think my computer can run Onimusha 4?

i5 520m
ATI 5650 (overclocked to 700 and 900)

At the moment, no. Onimusha 4 is broken. typically, most likely, I play it but it's not great for me. I know that i5 is over 2.2ghz but how much I'm unsure.

at 2.2 it's bearable, but my tollerance is very different from most peoples'

[Rezard]

The 520m is actually a base of 2.4Ghz, and it's 2 core boost is 2.66Ghz. Considering the improved architecture, I wouldn't expect any less from an i5 at 2.66Ghz than my Core2Duo at 2.8Ghz.

Needless to say, the game ran good for me on r1888. Not always at full 60fps, but I guarantee anyone would've considered it tolerable at the very least.

[Hungry Man]

The 520m is actually a base of 2.4Ghz, and it's 2 core boost is 2.66Ghz. Considering the improved architecture, I wouldn't expect any less from an i5 at 2.66Ghz than my Core2Duo at 2.8Ghz.

Needless to say, the game ran good for me on r1888. Not always at full 60fps, but I guarantee anyone would've considered it tolerable at the very least.

Good to know. How exactly is it broken? Garbled graphics or jsut won't play?

It's such a nice looking game.