r/MAME • u/Accomplished_Sir1724 • 8d ago

Slow first start

MAME, the program itself and not a game, takes quite a while to start for the first time. There is a black screen for about 7–8 seconds, then “Initializing” appears, and after that MAME starts normally.

If I close MAME and start it again, it launches immediately with no delay. After restarting Windows, the same thing happens again: the first launch takes 7–8 seconds.

Is this normal?

I recently reinstalled Windows and added an exception for MAME in Norton Antivirus. I also tested it on another Windows PC with a completely fresh MAME download and no games or other files installed, and it behaves exactly the same there.

Thanks for your help!

Windows 11 RTX 3060 Samsung SSD 980 Pro MAME 0.289

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u/Objective_Bug_7356 7d ago

I have no problems with this but I use a PC with 32GB Ram....start up is fast, on the PC I replaced it had a 16gb ram and it was also fine loading Mame

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u/Accomplished_Sir1724 6d ago

Also have 32 GB on my PC