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External Harddrive and gameplay
I recently had to get a new external hard drive for my laptop because the old one doesn't work any more. It was an 80 GB ION drive. I decided to get an external hard drive that didn't require an external power source, so I got an 80 GB western Digital Drive. It works fine with playing video clips and game movies, but for some reason on certain games, I get a slight skip or delay. The mouse will even stutter. It is VERY annoying, and have tried everything from turning indexing off on the drive to disable the quick remove feature of the drive. It is an 5400 RPM, the same speed as my ION drive. The ION drive never skipped. At first I thought maybe it had something to do with the external power supply, but then this new drive also has the option of plugging an AC adapter to it, which I did. Games still skipped. I have Splinter Cell Chaos Theory on the drive, and it works fine with no skipping. Yet Command and Conquer- Generals skips real bad, and Sacred does it too.
What could this be?? How can I fix this?? Any ideas would be appreciated.
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