Weird Mame Startup

#1 AtariDude OFFLINE

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Posted Tue Aug 26, 2003 3:11 PM

I got the recent version of Mame and I am experiencing a weird problem where it seems to take Mame forever to start. It takes so long that I thought my computer had hung. If I wait long enough (about 3 or 4 minutes) the game that I ask for starts.

I never experienced this problem with older versions of Mame (I am using the Windows version). Is the new version more processor intensive?

#2 liquid_sky OFFLINE

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Posted Tue Aug 26, 2003 3:30 PM

do you have it set to search for new roms on startup? if so, and you have a corrupt zipfile rom, then ittl catch and hang up, at least in my case

#3 AtariDude OFFLINE

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Posted Wed Aug 27, 2003 5:34 AM

How do I change it not to look up roms on startup? maybe that is the problem.

#4 liquid_sky OFFLINE

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Posted Wed Aug 27, 2003 12:15 PM

Go to options, then click on interface options.. when the screen comes up, if "search for new games" is checked, uncheck it. this SHOULD be what is causing the problems

#5 AtariDude OFFLINE

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Posted Wed Aug 27, 2003 1:08 PM

The Mame version I have runs from the DOS prompt even though it is the windows version. I take it that there is another version that has a gui. If so, where can I obtain it because I never see it on the main mame page.