nitekilla

No, I haven't. I just set it to AUTO. Verbatim DL DVDs aren't that cheap so I can't experiment much with speeds. I need to know what exact speed I should put for it to work. And I'm pretty sure my drive is clean since the laptop is fairly new (only got it a few months ago) and I haven't really used the drive much. Thanks for the help, by the way.

But I've been using these discs before (8x) and it has worked fine.

What was that for? I read that before posting my topic and I already have 8x DVD+R DL Verbatim ones, made in Singapore.

Can't do that. Don't feel like spending 50$ on a new drive just cause one game isn't burning. So, any alternative solutions?

Yeah, I figured I might need to update my firmware and I tried to do it, but with this TSSTCorp (Samsung/Toshiba) drive, it's a real pain in the ass. I went to their website and got this software called Firmware LiveUpdate which supposedly updated it automatically but then I got a "This drive is not supported, search for the firmware manually in the website" message. I searched their website and I couldn't find my model in the English version of the site, but I was able to find it on the Korean one. I thought this was pretty much it, but as soon as I downloaded it I was greeted with this message: This Firmware is not compatible with the selected drive. Contact your system manufacturer for information on firmware updates available for this drive. I really don't know what to do anymore. I've always known these TSSTCorp drives are shitty but it's not that I could choose; that's how my laptop came with. And yes, they're made in Singapore.

Normally this has worked good before, I was able to burn two backups but this time it keeps failing me with this one game in particular. I tried it once, a week ago and it stuck at 11% and failed. It pissed me off since the disc went in vain, but I decided to try it once more today and it went up to 89% and then it failed. Here's the log file (the second time I tried) I 13:28:38 ImgBurn Version 2.4.2.0 started!I 13:28:38 Microsoft Windows Vista Home Premium Edition (6.0, Build 6001 : Service Pack 1) I 13:28:38 Total Physical Memory: 3,135,164 KB - Available: 1,430,056 KB I 13:28:38 Initialising SPTI... I 13:28:38 Searching for SCSI / ATAPI devices... I 13:28:48 Found 1 DVD