GameEx Very Slow To Load On First Launch

[gamepimp]

Hi all. GameEx seems to take a very long time to load the first time that it's started. The program launches another program (Marquee Magician) pretty quickly when it is first fired up. And a faint view of GameEx can be seen on the screen in the background. So it's clear that GameEx is running. But it probably takes 2-3 minutes before the program is fully visible and ready to use. On subsequent starts, GameEx will take only about 30 seconds to fully load. The computer has an Intel Core 2 quad core processor running at 2.4 gHz. It also has 3 GB of ram. I'm running Win XP for the OS. The specs seem pretty decent. Any thoughts on why the load time is so great? Or thoughts on configurations that might speed up the load time? I'm attaching my config file in case that might help.GameEx.txt

[nullPointer]

Hi Gamepimp!

When you have a moment would you mind uploading a copy of your log as well. The reason being that your log will have time stamps which might enable us to see what part of the start up process seems to be taking longer than usual. Thanks man!

[gamepimp]

Hi nullPointer. Thx for the reply! I will post that log tonight.

[gamepimp]

So here are two log files: one from the first launch of GameEx and one from the second launch of the program. I noticed that this process takes 25s on the first launch:

17:36:35.1 12/19/2013: Testing Main Loop Once: Main Loop ran successfully
17:37:00.0 12/19/2013: Validating: Emulator_1: Snap Path: C:\Emulators\Fusion\Snaps

But takes less than 1s on subsequent launches:

17:40:33.6 12/19/2013: Testing Main Loop Once: Main Loop ran successfully
17:40:34.3 12/19/2013: Validating: Emulator_1: Snap Path: C:\Emulators\Fusion\Snaps

Is there a reason for this? BTW, I was wrong. Even on a slow first launch, GameEx only takes about a minute to fire up. But subsequent launches are like 5s so it seems like an eternity. LOL!

first launch.txt

second launch.txt

[gamepimp]

Bumping to keep this issue visible. Wondering if this is something that Tom might need to weigh in on?

[Draco1962]

I would hazard a guess that the first launch is after you have turned the PC on, so it has to read the cache files and place them into RAM. Subsequent launches during the same session do not have to read those cached files. I don't see anything out of the ordinary and given your system specs, it would be expected.

[gamepimp]

I figured that caching might be to blame for the delay. I guess GameEx does a big cache on the first launch that it doesn't do on subsequent launches?