Anyone else experience a major slowdown on loading of Mame games.

[Aevans0001]

For the past 4 months or so i have noticed a steep incline in the amount of time it takes to load a mame game.  I first thought it was rocketlauncher.  So i turned it off, but now I just tried to change all of the commands for mame in launchbox and it still takes 30 seconds or so to load.  I created a shortcut using mame.exe "Path\To\Rom" and it loads within 12 seconds.  I have also tried turning off high scores, startup, shutdown screens, pause screens, etc 

Any help?

 

[neil9000]

2 hours ago, Aevans0001 said:

For the past 4 months or so i have noticed a steep incline in the amount of time it takes to load a mame game.  I first thought it was rocketlauncher.  So i turned it off, but now I just tried to change all of the commands for mame in launchbox and it still takes 30 seconds or so to load.  I created a shortcut using mame.exe "Path\To\Rom" and it loads within 12 seconds.  I have also tried turning off high scores, startup, shutdown screens, pause screens, etc 

Any help?

 

Even 12 seconds sounds way to long, sounds like you have something else going on here. I can launch both Robocop and R-Type from launchbox in 7 seconds, even Street Fighter 3 Third Strike launches in 8 seconds and that also loads a CHD. MAME 0.240, Launchbox on a SATA SSD, but roms on a Laptop style 5400rpm HDD, so as slow a HDD as you can get.

[dreamy]

On 3/5/2022 at 10:14 AM, Aevans0001 said:

For the past 4 months or so i have noticed a steep incline in the amount of time it takes to load a mame game.  I first thought it was rocketlauncher.  So i turned it off, but now I just tried to change all of the commands for mame in launchbox and it still takes 30 seconds or so to load.  I created a shortcut using mame.exe "Path\To\Rom" and it loads within 12 seconds.  I have also tried turning off high scores, startup, shutdown screens, pause screens, etc 

Any help?

 

Do you  have by any chance sonic studio or sonic radar installed on your setup? Or is Nahimic running (service tab in the task manager)? They all cause problems and apps tend to take a long time to start. I experienced it myself.

[Aevans0001]

On 3/5/2022 at 5:40 AM, neil9000 said:

Even 12 seconds sounds way to long, sounds like you have something else going on here. I can launch both Robocop and R-Type from launchbox in 7 seconds, even Street Fighter 3 Third Strike launches in 8 seconds and that also loads a CHD. MAME 0.240, Launchbox on a SATA SSD, but roms on a Laptop style 5400rpm HDD, so as slow a HDD as you can get.

Not as slow... I am using my games on a NAS, so I expect it to be slower.  In fact I have everything on my nas except executable files for emulators(for the most part) and images.

I think i fixed the problem by deleting the mame section in launchbox and importing again.

 

Thanks for everyones help