Greetings, friends.
I was burning a DVD Video backup image (.iso file) to a DVD+R this evening, using Astroburn 1.0.5.0. Everything seemed to work perfectly until approximately 40-50% of the burning process was done - then suddenly astroburn.exe ate an outrageous amount of memory, I had no memory available, the computer went crazy with the pagefile (which is very obvious when you have the pagefile located on a WD Raptor disk - a whole lot of noise), and the burning process was interrupted several times because of buffer underruns. I was in reality unable to operate the computer because it was too busy to react on any user input within a reasonable amount of time.
The burning process completed, though, and the disc worked perfectly afterwards. Immediately after the burning process was completed, memory usage returned to normal.
I don't use any kind of security software, resident anti-virus protection or anything like that (I have ClamWin, but that has to be called manually). My OS is Windows Vista x64, I have a dual core AMD Ahtlon64 X2 4200+ CPU, and 2 GB of RAM. I've got an Nvidia nforce4-based motherboard from Asus (Nvidia's IDE drivers are *not* installed as they create conflicts with my Plextor SATA burner). I haven't seen anything like this since some bad Nvidia drivers in Windows XP a long time ago. That was not triggered by any disc burning though. I feel that it is rational to suspect Astroburn.
Am I the only one who has ever experienced this? I'll try to reproduce it tomorrow in order to learn more about it.
I was burning a DVD Video backup image (.iso file) to a DVD+R this evening, using Astroburn 1.0.5.0. Everything seemed to work perfectly until approximately 40-50% of the burning process was done - then suddenly astroburn.exe ate an outrageous amount of memory, I had no memory available, the computer went crazy with the pagefile (which is very obvious when you have the pagefile located on a WD Raptor disk - a whole lot of noise), and the burning process was interrupted several times because of buffer underruns. I was in reality unable to operate the computer because it was too busy to react on any user input within a reasonable amount of time.
The burning process completed, though, and the disc worked perfectly afterwards. Immediately after the burning process was completed, memory usage returned to normal.
I don't use any kind of security software, resident anti-virus protection or anything like that (I have ClamWin, but that has to be called manually). My OS is Windows Vista x64, I have a dual core AMD Ahtlon64 X2 4200+ CPU, and 2 GB of RAM. I've got an Nvidia nforce4-based motherboard from Asus (Nvidia's IDE drivers are *not* installed as they create conflicts with my Plextor SATA burner). I haven't seen anything like this since some bad Nvidia drivers in Windows XP a long time ago. That was not triggered by any disc burning though. I feel that it is rational to suspect Astroburn.
Am I the only one who has ever experienced this? I'll try to reproduce it tomorrow in order to learn more about it.
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