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| Do scratches on a disc actually effect gameplay? |
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| dreama1:
--- Quote from: badATchaos on June 21, 2015, 02:13:37 pm ---If a scratch is deep enough to damage the binary inscribed on the aluminum (or other medium depending on the disc format) information could be lost or corrupted to the point that the game system can't understand it anymore; thus causing errors. --- End quote --- But if the game is readable still? I've seen some awfully scratched up ps2/xbox game discs that you would think would never work, but work like a charm. |
| dreama1:
--- Quote from: burningdoom on June 21, 2015, 10:58:12 am ---Is this a serious question? Of course. You haven't ever had a game's framerate start skipping around or freeze altogether? --- End quote --- Can't say I have. And it would be hard to know if it was the disc or the game itself. Skyrim, and oblivion had those problems. |
| fazerco:
Buy a X-box, and scratches will come ;) |
| atarileaf:
Scratches can almost be completely avoided if people treated their discs properly. There will always be some superficial scratches on discs from time to time but I can't fathom why some people treat their discs so poorly that they look like they've been dragged down a gravely road behind a truck. |
| thecrypticodor:
A game disc would have to be pretty bad to not boot at all. What's more common would be skipping on files that need to be streamed off the disc in real time like CD audio or FMV where there is no time for the system to retry to read a damaged sector or use error correction. If the game is scratched bad enough it can cause the game not to boot at all or get stuck at a loading screen. |
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