02-17-2008, 09:29 PM
Quote:Kp' date='Feb 17 2008, 02:28 PM' post='143989']
In the meantime, you could avoid that by leaving the music running. Music plays from the CD, so the CD will keep spinning as long as the music plays.
If you're on a multi-core system (and you probably are if it's a modern amd64 processor), you may be in for some trouble. I've seen claims that Diablo isn't properly thread safe, so true SMP boxes experience random crashes. You can work around it by changing Diablo's CPU affinity to keep all the threads on one CPU.
Somewhere along the line about 8 years ago, that CD stopped spinning for most people even when the music is on. Maybe it's when we got new computers with DVD-rom drives or CD burners. The music just gets cached or loaded at the start of the level and that's that. It is a shame that Blizzard never included a full install option, but that was another era.
Thanks for the heads up on the other issue. I hope one core will be able to handle Diablo. :lol: