After searching the forum on how to improve the burn time, I saw the recommendation from Olli to disable the animation of the sheep eating popcorn by right-clicking and unchecking the "Enable animation" option. By doing this simple thing, my burn time improved from 57 minutes to 34 minutes. Why the heck isn't this defaulted "off" in the download?

... why was i not informed sooner

Wow, I should have looked here sooner!
Thanks for the great time saving tip!
I get tired of watching that sheep eat.

But it is funny!
Great tip, I was not aware of the time savings.

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BeLooken

@BeLooken
I agree with u
I don't think disabling the animation of the sheep will inrcrease the speed of burn significantly
It will increase the resources available to PC
and on a lower end PC, may prevent burn failures
Ine could probably free up more resources by turning off anti-virus other resource hogs

I rather enjoy the animation
Ensures me all is going well

Also who first used the nice sucessful burn tune? Olli or LightningUK? And who is the 'Oh No' voice????

i'm not sure of your question....but i do know that my sons watch a cartoon called jimmy newtron and part of the theme song is the sucessful burn tune...it drove me crazy as i thought the program was running when it wasn't...lol

may be instead ofsuccesfull burn tune, could have the option of "oh yesss!" voice

Um, can't you just change it to whatever you want in the preferenes?

I think you are right SamuriHL but you might need an .wav file and it will what you want.

I just wanted to reiterate that for my 4 year old, low-end, POS, Costco-purchased computer, disabling the animation did make a significant difference in the burn time. I was averaging 57 per burn and as soon as the animation was disabled, I got 34 minutes per burn. I'm not really willing to find out what happens if I disable my anti-virus protection.

bueller555
You quote out of context
is not cool

btw
could you please fix me typo in yore quote
Thanks

I like that popcorn eating sheep thinking about get me one for my backyard.