Really slow snap video load times

[JohnnyG]

Hi all,

I'm having serious trouble now with the speed (or lack of) the video snaps loading in GameEx. I've been through the FAQ, I'm using a 2400+ Athlon, 1Gb RAM and GeForce 6800GT. I have an average wait of about 5 seconds now for the snap videos to load, but Mame itself runs fine. I'm using the FFShow codec, and I'm kind of stumped. Picture browsing is fine, but even the menu transitions are very slow.

Anyone any ideas what might speed me up a bit (or a lot)? My drives are quite old, would a defrag make any difference?

Cheers all,

Johnny

[Michael]

Hi all,

I'm having serious trouble now with the speed (or lack of) the video snaps loading in GameEx. I've been through the FAQ, I'm using a 2400+ Athlon, 1Gb RAM and GeForce 6800GT. I have an average wait of about 5 seconds now for the snap videos to load, but Mame itself runs fine. I'm using the FFShow codec, and I'm kind of stumped. Picture browsing is fine, but even the menu transitions are very slow.

Anyone any ideas what might speed me up a bit (or a lot)? My drives are quite old, would a defrag make any difference?

Cheers all,

Johnny

i had a problem with menus being slow and jumping, I fixed it by geting latest video card drivers worth

checking my pc spec is simaler to yours 2800+ semptron 64bit 6600GT gfx card and 1gb ram

also check mother board driver and other sound card etc

worth doing with defrag might help a bit and

under tweak/proformance check "snap best match is set to NO

hope this helps

[Tom Speirs]

Hi all,

I'm having serious trouble now with the speed (or lack of) the video snaps loading in GameEx. I've been through the FAQ, I'm using a 2400+ Athlon, 1Gb RAM and GeForce 6800GT. I have an average wait of about 5 seconds now for the snap videos to load, but Mame itself runs fine. I'm using the FFShow codec, and I'm kind of stumped. Picture browsing is fine, but even the menu transitions are very slow.

Anyone any ideas what might speed me up a bit (or a lot)? My drives are quite old, would a defrag make any difference?

Cheers all,

Johnny

Hi Johny, can you confirm this is not something that used to work fine. I would also check video drivers, a defrag probably won't make a huge difference unless there incredibly fragged. Its odd as you say the menu transitions are slow too. This may be because GameEx is still playing the video although not displaying it (it does this until another item is selected). So I would check your FFDSHOW version, are you using the Sourceforge version from 2004 or a newer daily build. Try the latest daily build. Either that or your video drivers.

[JohnnyG]

Hi Johny, can you confirm this is not something that used to work fine. I would also check video drivers, a defrag probably won't make a huge difference unless there incredibly fragged. Its odd as you say the menu transitions are slow too. This may be because GameEx is still playing the video although not displaying it (it does this until another item is selected). So I would check your FFDSHOW version, are you using the Sourceforge version from 2004 or a newer daily build. Try the latest daily build. Either that or your video drivers.

Hi guys,

Just got a daily build of the FFDShow (never knew that what I was using was about 4 years old!), and the menu transitions are flying now, but it still takes about 5 seconds or so for the video snap to appear. It plays perfectly when it does, just slow to get to that point. Is it because I have so many video snaps (ie, pretty much all of 'em!).

All help still greatly appreciated!

Cheers,

Johnny

[JohnnyG]

Just some bumpage and additional info.

The video snaps are slower to load now than before: I've got the newest drivers for my graphics card and FDSHOW, which has made a big difference in the menu transitions (text scrolling into place).

Just to be sure, I got a newer version of WMP10 as well, and I'm using the v2 .NET (I think it's called).

Actually, that might have been when I first noticed the slowdown, but it's definitely worse now.

I don't know: I'm waiting until I have the cash to buy my new PC and I'm going to strip this back to barebones to make the cab, so hopefully it will improve things.

Thanks all,

Johnny

[headkaze]

Under Tweaks/Performance check out the Snap/Video delay option.

[JohnnyG]

Under Tweaks/Performance check out the Snap/Video delay option.

Hi HK,

Yeah, I've been through the whole setup, makes no difference.

After a bit of checking around, I'm sure it's not GameEx at all. I tried different themes at different resolutions to make sure, and I noticed when I used the Blue Ex Arcade 640x480, when you select a game the selection bar kind of scans up and down on the text. While loading the snap, it slowed to a crawl: once loaded, the "scanning" goes back up to full speed. The snaps themselves, GameEx and Mame all run at full speed perfectly.

I've added my snaps to the WMP library, and when I click on them inside WMP, they take the same time to load as they do in GameEx, so I'm sure that my WMP is the problem. It's better now I've done that, as when I go from game to game in the lists, GameEx doesn't freeze up (I can just skip to the second game, instead of having to wait while the video for the first game loads before I could scroll down to the second in the list).

I really think it's just my PC is getting old, needs a good format and reinstall. Or if anyone has any tips on how to improve responsiveness in WMP, I'm all ears!

Thanks for all your help, everyone.

Johnny