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I've always steered clear of both Daemon-Tools and Alcohol 120% because of going through the hassle of seeing how it affects my performance. Now, I love to benchmark my games, and always try to get them to run the best I can. I overclock, tweak my drivers, and tweak my games. Recently I started playing Battlefield 2. Well, when it starts up it has a conflict with my CD/DVD-RW drive and takes a *really* long time to start up. Around two minutes. As you might have imagined, I got sick of this. I decided going for a mini-image and Daemon-Tools (I heard Alcohol uses up more system resources). The game starts up instantly, and without a CD too. That's a fair tradeoff, considering I can simply shut down Daemon Tools when running other games. But would this affect my performance in any way - with it directly connecting to my OS convincing it I have another drive and with it in the background with a mounted image? I always try to keep my background processes to a bare minimal (Normally I keep it around ~19 processes, but with Daemon Tools it's at 20). Would this affect anything? Or am I just being too worried?
XFX Geforce 7800GT (Overclocked)
AMD Athlon 3700+ 64 Bit (Overclocked)
2048 PC3200 RAM @ DDR333
XFX Geforce 7800GT (Overclocked)
AMD Athlon 3700+ 64 Bit (Overclocked)
2048 PC3200 RAM @ DDR333
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