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Posted by spidermanloco on 06-08-2005 04:59 AM:

WHY IS WINRAR SO SLOW NOW????

ok... i have a 2005 dell dimension 8400 p4 3.2 with 2gb of ram 533mhz and when i would first start to unrar a movie " a couple of months ago" it would take like 46 seconds mabe a 1 minute and a half at the most and now for some reason it takes like 4min 30 sec no matter what i do {and im not running any other programs or doing anything els on the pc at all, all though with 2 gb of ram i should be able to}.... 5 min or just 4 minutes its not realy a big deal i see people on this forum have a lot more trouble than my little unraring nag but it is just bugging me and i was wondering if any of you know why? also ill mention my hard "c drive"drive is a sata 160gb and i have 145gb free...i defrag my c drive all the time.... i have norton anti virus going and have no know virus that i know of.... and i allso have a spyware remover and no spyware on my pc either...besides unraring my pc runs like a dream..... any ideas???? thanks...

Posted by dwayne on 06-08-2005 05:46 PM:

abusing your pc with all the high resource's

also could be the dell ...dell's are piles of shit

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Originally posted by lolobo21
Like typing too much in too little.

it's to then too

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Posted by LOLobo on 06-08-2005 08:04 PM:

quote:
Originally posted by dwayne
abusing your pc with all the high resource's

Like typing too much in too little.

Posted by Neversoft on 06-08-2005 08:08 PM:

When it slows down, go into Task Manager/Processes and see where all your CPU time is going. Either that or dump Winrar and try WinZip or WinAce - afaik they all support each others archive formats.

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Posted by pHo on 06-08-2005 10:54 PM:

Might just be the fact you're trying to unpack rar sets with higher compression now....

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Posted by antihero on 06-08-2005 11:04 PM:

think everythings been said...could be a high compression ratio, could be Norton or something else hogging your resources, if not, set it going and go and have a nice poo...

Posted by geoffbob30 on 06-08-2005 11:09 PM:

you can`t beat a nice poo

Posted by spidermanloco on 06-09-2005 12:20 AM:

hey thanks guys for even taking the time to answer my questions.... ill try what Neversoft said but other than that mabe ill just go take a dump then while its going...thanks...

Posted by hoozdapimp on 06-09-2005 01:26 AM:

First and foremost, the thing that is going to make the biggest difference is whether you're reading/writing to the same hard drive...if you are, then it's going to be slow (when I do on mine, it takes about 4-6 minutes)....however, if i extract the files from one drive and write them to a different drive, it will go much quicker (somewhere between 45-90 seconds)....this sounds like your problem.

you might also check and see if your disk needs defragmented although I don't see this being the problem.

Posted by valentine on 06-09-2005 08:38 AM:

i have norton anti virus going
^^^ I'd start there

Also as Neversoft said, open task manager and look at the WinRar's usage. Typically WinRar only uses about 38% of my processor and ~7500 RAM.

The hdd is the bottleneck in most cases.

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Posted by spidermanloco on 06-09-2005 03:34 PM:

well i tryed what hoozdapimp said and it works alot faster now it takes about 75 sec or so...when extracting from one drive then wrighting to another...damn how wierd.....also valentine i check the % when extracting and wrighting on the same drive and it was like at 69%..wow thats crazy.....but when i tryed what hoozdapimp said it went to 22% and it was faster...... thanks guys....

Posted by Neversoft on 06-09-2005 09:16 PM:

quote:
Originally posted by hoozdapimp
First and foremost, the thing that is going to make the biggest difference is whether you're reading/writing to the same hard drive...if you are, then it's going to be slow (when I do on mine, it takes about 4-6 minutes)....however, if i extract the files from one drive and write them to a different drive, it will go much quicker (somewhere between 45-90 seconds)....this sounds like your problem.

You know, that's sooooo fucking obvious yet I never thought about it until you've just posted it - now I'm extracting files faster! Thanks

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Posted by hoozdapimp on 06-10-2005 03:21 AM:

quote:
Originally posted by Neversoft
You know, that's sooooo fucking obvious yet I never thought about it until you've just posted it - now I'm extracting files faster! Thanks

Yep! The biggest reason why I'd much rather have 2 120GB drives rather than 1 250 GB drive.

Posted by kiddsilk69 on 06-10-2005 04:49 AM:

Had the same problem a week ago. HDD happen to decided to set itself to PIO mode instead of DMA.Google DMA. should solve ur problem.

Posted by hoozdapimp on 06-10-2005 11:17 PM:

quote:
Originally posted by kiddsilk69
Had the same problem a week ago. HDD happen to decided to set itself to PIO mode instead of DMA.Google DMA. should solve ur problem.

read the thread, the problem has been fixed.

Posted by ZootedLooter on 06-10-2005 11:39 PM:

quote:
Originally posted by hoozdapimp
First and foremost, the thing that is going to make the biggest difference is whether you're reading/writing to the same hard drive

im assuming that partitioning off youre c drive into other smaller drives wouldnt make a difference right?...its still for all matters the same hdd

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Posted by punzada on 06-11-2005 03:28 AM:

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Originally posted by zootedlooter
im assuming that partitioning off youre c drive into other smaller drives wouldnt make a difference right?...its still for all matters the same hdd

looter

yeah def not, that'll just be a way to trick yourself into thinking it will work

Posted by hoozdapimp on 06-11-2005 03:29 AM:

quote:
Originally posted by zootedlooter
im assuming that partitioning off youre c drive into other smaller drives wouldnt make a difference right?...its still for all matters the same hdd

looter

right, they must be seperate physical drives, not just a different partition....

it's a fairly easy concept to grasp...it's much easier for one hard drive to do all the reading and another to do the writing, as opposed to one drive doing all of both.

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