Inconsistant burn speed with Nero

[kyun7128]

I am re-authoring with DVD Shrink 3.0 Beta 5, burning with Nero 6 and using Ritek G04. I have a Pentium P4 with 256 MB Ram and 120 GB hard drive.

If I am using my computer for everyday stuff (emails and surfing the net) and I decide to burn a DVD, it usually burns at 4x without any problem. The funny thing is that if I reboot the computer first, Nero seems to only be able to burn at 2x. I set Nero to determine the maximum burn speed and after it does a speed check, this is the message I get, "Can only write at 2x instead of 4x, because speed of source data is too slow."

What I don't understand is that this seems to happen mainly after I reboot the computer but I should think that rebooting should free up resources on my computer and give it better performance. It seems to be the opposite.

Any thoughts would be appreciated. Thanks.

[deeguy]

Nero 5.5.10.5.4 here... I have a similar issue on a Sony DRU-510A. I could write at 4X with Pinnacle Instant CD/DVD with memorex 4x dvd-r. Using the same discs I can only write at 2X. I had this same problem with Nero 6.0.

"I set Nero to determine the maximum burn speed and after it does a speed check, this is the message I get, "Can only write at 2x instead of 4x, because speed of source data is too slow.""

I have the same problem. No solutions though.... anyone?