I've been burning Xbox 360 games for around a year now, with no troubles what-so-ever. No matter which brand of disks I use, I haven't had a single coaster - I haven't used Verbatims once, and like I said, no coasters, that is until recently.
I bought a new batch of discs, and burned around 3 games, which have worked 100%, perfectly every time. Now... ever since, each disk I burn is a coaster. I blamed it on a bad batch, but after six in a row, I figured something was wrong, but after much investigation, I haven't managed to find a solution.
Here's the weird thing, the burned games that DO work are slightly shinier on the data side, while the faulty ones are quite dull. Again, it can't be the brand of disks because the ones before worked perfectly - something must have changed on my PC to suddenly cause my burns to be coasters. I haven't changed the way I burn, I still use ImgBurn, and even gave CloneCD a try, but that didn't solve the problem.
I've checked through the logs on ImgBurn, and compared the successful one to a bad one, and the only noticeable different is in the 'Supported Write Speeds'.
Bare in mind these are the same brand, and from the same stack of disks... I don't understand why the speeds have suddenly changed, and that's the only noticeable difference I've found.
Again, this can't be blamed on bad media, or specifically not using Verbs, because I've had a 100% success rate before this occurred.
Thanks for reading, and I hope someone has an idea what might be the problem.
Just because you've gotten lucky up until now doesn't mean it can't be blamed on bad media. I'd say go buy another batch and try that. If it also doesn't work, look into replacing your burner.
could be bad batch, do your older burns still run & play fine? sounds like to me you have a bad batch of discs, or something is going on with your burner.
The older games run fine, nothing has changed there. It seems it must be something with the burner. I updated the firmware, but that hasn't changed anything, must just be buggered. Cheers for the replies.
It's not a Wave 3 related problem either, I've been running Wave 3 games I've burned before the problem with no difficulties. I think the best bet is to test my burner in another PC first, and then invest in a new burner if that's the cause of the problem.
no, the best bet is to try a different batch of cd's before buying a new burner, but for some reason after two people told you that advice you still refused to listen. why?
