CD AutoRun and Unreal 2

[gravioli]

I did a forum search and didn't see this posted, so sorry if it has been.

The other day I was having absolutely terrible performance (2-10 FPS!?! :confused: ), on the living planet level, Acheron, whereas previous levels were smooth as a baby's butt with all detail settings on "high"and EAX enabled at 1024x768x32 (old 17" monitor :() w/ 2xAA and 16xAniso. I tried lowering some of the settings, but this had no effect on performance. I decided to check the Windows Task Manager, and found that "AutoRun" was eating up about 40-50% of the CPU. I disabled it, rebooted, and things were once again smooth as a baby's butt. I have also heard people say that no-CD cracks solve this problem too, but IMO that's not the best option. Good luck!

[sebazve]

this may be cause by the cd proteccions that check the cd several times when youre playing...and sometimes these things get really **** up

[Smokey]

Originally posted by sebazve
this may be cause by the cd proteccions that check the cd several times when youre playing...and sometimes these things get really **** up

I hate them :mad: Worst case was when I bought Rune, brought it home and couldnt even install the damn thing :lame: :argh: :fu:

[stncttr908]

You should bring that to the attention of the developers, I know that the BF1942 1.3 patch removed a lot of the unncessary CD checks. Also, just try disabling autoplay of data cds, although that doesn't sound like an option if you want your other ones to autorun.