burning slower and eratic then told to

i just set up a que of 6 movies to burn for me and for some reason the speed is eratic and slow i've told it to burn at 4x which is the slowest speed the burner is suports with these disc but the speed is going anywere from 2x-3.5x usually sitting around 3.1x... it's never done this before to just now it's a pioneer 108 burner with 1.20 firmware i donno whats going on

Hi! What is the brand, manufacturer's ID, and speed rating of the media you are now using? Are you using a new batch of media for the first time? What burning software are you using?

Burn one, show us the log, show us the write speed graph (exported from ImgBurn to DVDInfoPro). Either your drive is doing some very heavy WOPC stuff or you have DMA issues. Using some decent 'known' media might be an idea too. i.e. TY, MCC etc.

i can't was the last of them discs

Oh well, fingers crossed the next lot will be ok for you.

umm just did some more with a new type of disc and all was good to i opened up rs to start playing again while burning then stright away the speed died buffer is still fine though.... checked dma and it's still enabled "ultra dma mode 4" only thing i can think of which is probably the problem i had the drive out in another system and changed it to slave while in other system and when i put back into mine i put it on cable select think it was on master before so maybe it being on cable select is the issue it's the only drive on the cable hell it's the only pata drive hdd is sata

ok just put jumper back to master speed still playing up when cpu is being used might be time to do that format

Hard to tell how your system is configured. If you try and access another IDE device on the same chain as your burner, the speed will suffer. Always try to have the hdd with the image on one channel and the burner on the other. Avoid using CS at all. Always use Master or Slave. Try uninstalling your main IDE controller entry within Device Manager and reboot when prompted. Regardless of what it quotes for DMA values, they're not always what's actually being used - blame some bug in Windows. Your buffers should always be on 100%. If they're not, you have problems.

as i said earlier the drive is on it's own cable there arn't any other devices to access at the same time dvd rom is the only device thats even on a pata cable and it's not cs i was accessing i wouldn't play something that full on it was rs (runescape) it's a web page based thing runs thru a java applet but i'll try uninstalling the controller like you said though

I meant cable select (cs), not counter strike ;)