Why do my games run slower off HDD than disc (Halo, Mechwarrior unplayable from HDD)
Posted: Thu Oct 07, 2021 11:44 pm
I bought an OG xbox, softmodded it with Rocky5, upgraded the HDD to a 2TB Seagate Barricuda, have an 80 pin IDE adapter connected to it.
I bought 10 games to start off with, to include Halo: CE (the original Halo) and Mechwarrior.
I ripped all 10 games to my hard drive.
I get horrible, unplayable lag when playing any game (Halo is the most noticeable). Any time I fire the weapon everything lags. I also notice that for every single game, the startup animations (The grey/white/black "Microsoft Game Studios" logo) also lags, so I don't think it's framerate dependent. Here's a link to the logo animation that I am talking about. The animation in this video is how it should look. It's smooth. On my screen (I can't upload a video, sorry), it stutters, lags, and is generally unsmooth. I'm showing the unlagging video for reference.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XFe4bm_2sA4#t=2m46s
Does this have something to do with HDMI? I am running the output to an hdmi adapter that plays on the monitor. I have tried multiple monitors and have the same problem. The only thing I haven't tried is the component to TV route, because I do not have a TV. I'm wondering if this was a waste of money. Games are unplayable from the HDD, which I thought was supposed to even speed things up.
Although, if I can get zero lag from games and startup animations from the DVD drive it shouldn't be the HDMI at all. It must have something to do with the HDD connection.
Any help would be appreciated, thank you.
-R
I bought 10 games to start off with, to include Halo: CE (the original Halo) and Mechwarrior.
I ripped all 10 games to my hard drive.
I get horrible, unplayable lag when playing any game (Halo is the most noticeable). Any time I fire the weapon everything lags. I also notice that for every single game, the startup animations (The grey/white/black "Microsoft Game Studios" logo) also lags, so I don't think it's framerate dependent. Here's a link to the logo animation that I am talking about. The animation in this video is how it should look. It's smooth. On my screen (I can't upload a video, sorry), it stutters, lags, and is generally unsmooth. I'm showing the unlagging video for reference.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XFe4bm_2sA4#t=2m46s
Does this have something to do with HDMI? I am running the output to an hdmi adapter that plays on the monitor. I have tried multiple monitors and have the same problem. The only thing I haven't tried is the component to TV route, because I do not have a TV. I'm wondering if this was a waste of money. Games are unplayable from the HDD, which I thought was supposed to even speed things up.
Although, if I can get zero lag from games and startup animations from the DVD drive it shouldn't be the HDMI at all. It must have something to do with the HDD connection.
Any help would be appreciated, thank you.
-R