Freezing and Dts sound problems in Vice City

[maxxxpain]

Its a V5 board.
Used Verbatim dvdr to back it up.
I used ritek on everything else so far.

Im not sure if its just the fact that alot of lasers can find it hard to read this game or maybe the read errors when copying it have something to do with it?

I have the first Max Payne game on verbatim dvdr and it worked perfect the whole way through. I used to have max payne on a cheaper dvdr and it gave me hell. On verbatim no problems but yet vice city keeps freezing at random , no glitching though.

Do you think it would be better to stop playing a game when its freezing all the time in case it damages the laser?