Chong Li

Yeah. That changes the responsiveness but does not make the images load any faster.

The "Snap Best Match" feature under "Tweaks/Performance" is set to "No I'm using slow Drives". I have the latest version of the software as well, so I don't have that other feature.

Another follow-up: If I use the MAME front-end "AdvanceMENU" it is able to display all of the images instantly and scroll through them at high speed with no noticeable delay. I think it preloads all images into memory to accomplish this. I'd use AdvanceMENU but it is nowhere near as feature-rich as GameEx.

The entire directory containing all snaps for NES (for example) is 17MB. They are single PNG images. No movies. Latency on my network is around 0.2ms. In other words, totally negligible.

Hi, I have what you might call an unusual GameEx setup. I have all of my ROMs, snap files etc stored on a server. The computer running GameEx is connected to this server with gigabit ethernet. The directory containing all of this stuff is mapped as a network drive letter and always available. When I browse the game list, GameEx takes 1-3 seconds to load the snap for each game. The size of one of my snap folders (for NES) is 17MB. It is literally possible to copy this entire folder across the network in less than 1 second. Howcome GameEx has such a considerable delay for displaying these? Couldn't GameEx simply load all of the snaps into memory and display instantly? I have plenty of RAM to do so. Thanks, Chong Li P.S. I've sent Tom a donation for my copy of GameEx. I do love the program a lot since it is so flexible and powerful.