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PS3 musings
Jul. 8th, 2007 12:04 pmReading the literature it appears more and more obvious that Sony have shot themselves in the foot with the Playstation 3.
Computers, grrr
Dec. 28th, 2005 11:23 amOkay, so I bought Civ IV for ![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
pennski for Christmas. She managed to get it loaded, updated to the first patch and so on okay yesterday and then it all went horribly wrong.
For some reason, at this point, the DVD player decided it didn't want to read the disk. It just sat there and clicked to itself. The disk ran okay on my PC and other DVDs ran okay on's.
So an hour was spent last night playing around with the disk drive, reinstalling drivers, etc. Nothing.
Finally today I had some success. I had a read through the technical stuff on Civ IV forums and found that someone else had the same problem and managed to fix it by updating the firmware on the DVD driver. After another hour or so of struggling to get the firmware installed (not something I've done very often before and rather harder on WindowsXP than it was on Windows98) and everything seems to be happy again! So I've just phonedpennski at work to give her the good news.
Reading between the lines it seems that the particular DVD drive installed, unless you have updated the firmware, is particularly sensitive to any scratches on the disks. Heigh ho.
This does remind me of why I more often play console games than PC games these days...
pennski for Christmas. She managed to get it loaded, updated to the first patch and so on okay yesterday and then it all went horribly wrong.For some reason, at this point, the DVD player decided it didn't want to read the disk. It just sat there and clicked to itself. The disk ran okay on my PC and other DVDs ran okay on
So an hour was spent last night playing around with the disk drive, reinstalling drivers, etc. Nothing.
Finally today I had some success. I had a read through the technical stuff on Civ IV forums and found that someone else had the same problem and managed to fix it by updating the firmware on the DVD driver. After another hour or so of struggling to get the firmware installed (not something I've done very often before and rather harder on WindowsXP than it was on Windows98) and everything seems to be happy again! So I've just phoned
pennski at work to give her the good news.Reading between the lines it seems that the particular DVD drive installed, unless you have updated the firmware, is particularly sensitive to any scratches on the disks. Heigh ho.
This does remind me of why I more often play console games than PC games these days...
