[RESOLVED] Gameex all of a sudden loads slowly on 1st startup

[processedmeat]

Hi all, I noticed the other day that my arcade cabinet is loading Gameex very slowly on the 1st startup.

I did search the forums and it came up with this old and locked post:

http://www.gameex.info/forums/topic/13903-gameex-very-slow-to-load-on-first-launch/

It seems like the consensus from the post was that Gameex takes time to load stuff into the cache and on the second restart the stuff is already in RAM and the post was locked.

However the weird thing is that my setup for the past few years loads very quickly and the only thing that I've tried to do is to install the USB controller setup program on my WinXP machine by installing various dot net frameworks.

It was so unusual that I thought I had borked something in my setup (looked like Gameex was hanging) but when I went away to check on something else, it loaded up about 1 min later.

Checking out my log.txt file it seems that it hangs around this part of the startup:

14:49:19.2 8/4/2015: Creating Font Black Small

14:49:19.2 8/4/2015: Fonts Created Succesfully

14:49:19.2 8/4/2015: Loading News Feed: http://www.gameex.net/gameexnews.xml

14:50:43.0 8/4/2015: 15MB Video Memory Used

14:50:43.1 8/4/2015: Attempting to load game list

14:50:43.5 8/4/2015: MAME CMD options: -nowindow -joy -skip_gameinfo -multimouse

But when I load it up for the second time there is no pause:

15:14:50.3 8/4/2015: Creating Font Black Small

15:14:50.3 8/4/2015: Fonts Created Succesfully

15:14:50.4 8/4/2015: Loading News Feed: http://www.gameex.net/gameexnews.xml

15:14:52.0 8/4/2015: 15MB Video Memory Used

15:14:52.2 8/4/2015: Attempting to load game list

15:14:52.2 8/4/2015: MAME CMD options: -nowindow -joy -skip_gameinfo -multimouse

Any thoughts? I would accept it as Gameex loading something but the fact that it never happened before makes me wonder.

Thanks.

log.txt

[Tom Speirs]

I think it might be because the url is dead and its waiting for it to time out. I will take a look. But it looks like the delay is downloading that. The news feed is part of the theme you are using. You could disable it in the theme editor.

[processedmeat]

Thanks. That was the ticket. I had hidden the feed scroll bar in theme.ini by giving it a 0,0,0,0 value instead of deleting it.

[tthurman]

Thanks for letting us know!