Some Games Not Starting Fix

W

William

Some games, not necessarily old old games, don't always
start when you go to play them. The game start screen or
logo screen will just hang when you try to open it and
the CDROM drive will act as if it is attempting to every
few seconds load whatever it needs from the CD before
handing over to the hard drive. To fix this, go into your
hardware device manager and click on your IDE ATA/ATAPI
Controllers and open the properties of your primary or
secondary IDE channel (whichever is tied to your CDROM or
DVD drive)and under Advanced Settings set your Transfer
Mode to "DMA if available". By default, WindowsXP when
installed will select PIO for your secondary IDE
controller and this typically causes the problems with
older games hanging when you try yo start them.
 
J

Jimmy S.

Great post William. That's going to help a few folks out
when they search for solutions when games don't startup.

If they don't see a DMA section in the properties of their
controllers, they most likely would have IAA Installed. IAA
is the Intel Application Accelerator software, which is used
of course on motherboards using Intel Chipsets. :)

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Cheers,
Jimmy S.

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| Some games, not necessarily old old games, don't always
| start when you go to play them. The game start screen or
| logo screen will just hang when you try to open it and
| the CDROM drive will act as if it is attempting to every
| few seconds load whatever it needs from the CD before
| handing over to the hard drive. To fix this, go into your
| hardware device manager and click on your IDE ATA/ATAPI
| Controllers and open the properties of your primary or
| secondary IDE channel (whichever is tied to your CDROM or
| DVD drive)and under Advanced Settings set your Transfer
| Mode to "DMA if available". By default, WindowsXP when
| installed will select PIO for your secondary IDE
| controller and this typically causes the problems with
| older games hanging when you try yo start them.
 

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