Lightscribe

[Martin87]

Morning guys woundering if you can help me.

I have a liteon DVDRW which is lightscribe compatable but low and behold the supplied software wont run with my Vista Ultimate 64bit!

Any Suggestions on how i can make it work?

Cheers

Martin

[staffsMike]

http://www.lightscribe.com/downloads...ex.aspx?id=810

Try the driver here.

[Martin87]

ive seen that but how does it integrate with nero as thats what i use?

The drive originally came with nero 6 which had the lightscribe software built in, but it doesnt work with my copy of vista.

I have gopy of nero 7 version 7.0.0.0 which works but that has no lightscribe built in? so do i just install the driver you suggested after installing nero or before?

[Funkstar]

If you only have 7.0.0.0 installed, you really want to update it to the latest. the first bunch of released were horribly unstable, bloated and buggy.

I'm sure they aded lightscribe support back in, but i don't know which version it was.

[Martin87]

That was what i was afraid people would say :-(...more money lol

[staffsMike]

Check on that lightscribe site. Theres all sorts of other free software downloads.. you might find what you're looking for.

I've also seen something that suggested that you need to force windows xp compatabilty to the driver I linked to before. That might work.

I havn't installed vista on my pc, so I had to deal with this yet

[Martin87]

Check on that lightscribe site. Theres all sorts of other free software downloads.. you might find what you're looking for.

I've also seen something that suggested that you need to force windows xp compatabilty to the driver I linked to before. That might work.

I havn't installed vista on my pc, so I had to deal with this yet

Cheers i'll have to have a play.

I decided to take the plunge with vista as i was upgrading the whole pc cause it was all out of date and 64bit sounded to be no more problematical than 32bit vista

[staffsMike]

lol i thought that when i did a build for someone a few weeks back. Wireless drivers are a nightmare!

Had to give him a spare card I had lying round in the end.

But 64bit does seem to work very nicely.

[Martin87]

It is, the only thing is i tested 32 bit for a while and 64 bit seems to be a bit more memory hungry. Although that might be to do with the fact that only some of my processor is being used at the minute need to find out how to turn that off in the BIOS.

[Funkstar]

That was what i was afraid people would say :-(...more money lol

Not necesarily. You will be able to update 7.0.0.0 to a newer build for free. I don't know when they cut it off and force you to get a newer license. I think you can check it by entering your serial number here: http://www.nero.com//eng/Upgrade_InfoPage.php

[Martin87]

Anyone else got any ideas as the free upgrade isn't valid for me for some reason!

Im looking for some CD Authoring software that works in vista 64bit and has the Lightscribe functionality built in?

Not to much to ask for i no lol!!

[Funkstar]

Have you tried upgrading Nero from within the program itself?

6.5 and later would go and check for the latest version you could install without an upgrade.

[Martin87]

I thought about that but i can't get my version 6 to run at all in vista its just throws a big paddy and basically tells me to *****off!

excuse the expletives

[Martin87]

No more ideas then?

[bobbyzero]

This is not a recommendation for this specific one, but Nero is available pretty cheaply through ebay...
http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/Nero-premium-r...QQcmdZViewItem

[staffsMike]

I can think a few places it would be about £7.99 cheaper

Thats not bad though