"Technical Difficulty"

**Hannibal222** · Joined: 05 Feb 2006 Posts: 15

I can't play infected or iron man anymore. Whenever I do, the game pauses every few seconds, waits, then starts again like everything has really, really bad lag. During the pauses it looks like the fret board is moving up.

Anyone know what this about? It might have something to do with a scratch on my disk.

**discgolferpro** · Joined: 05 Feb 2006 Posts: 861 Location: Kansas City, Mo

Play a few other FMV-heavy games on your console first to make sure it's not your PS2 that's going bad. If you say it's got a scratch in it though, it's probably your disc.

To accurately cut off each particular note and phrase, the audio is cut in and out real-time because of the short lag needed to make it sound as good as it does. This game actually feeds out the audio as a stream and the game logic runs in parallel to pick up the timing of every note struck. When the song starts, the gameplay and audio are synched together. Someone played through an entire song with the audio lagging behind by 2 seconds and only completed the song by timing the visual cues. Also, I've read in a few places that once the disc's audio output gets de-synched it's the beginning of bad things to come for other songs.

I would give one of those cheap Office Max CD polishers a try, but if that doesn't work I'm afraid you're out of luck.
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**OtherBill** · Joined: 12 Feb 2006 Posts: 65

When my son knocked the PS2 off its shelf and our GH disc was scratched to the point that Spanish Castle Magic was rendered completely unplayable, we found a better solution.

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If you can stand to live without your GH disc for a few weeks, it's a far better solution than those Disc Doctor things.
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**discgolferpro** · Joined: 05 Feb 2006 Posts: 861 Location: Kansas City, Mo

Excellent site! I think I'll send in one of my Sabbath CDs to give them a try.
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**Hannibal222** · Joined: 05 Feb 2006 Posts: 15

great site other bill...but I don't think I can live without it for a few weeks...

T_T

**IWillKickU** · Joined: 06 Dec 2007 Posts: 2830 Location: In the Undertow

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