mamewah slow to exit emu and return to mamewah

[biscoradio]

Hi-

I realize I won't get much help without posting my ini files, but I'm at work and wondering if you can suggest some ways to fix my issue...

When I exit a mame game in mamewah 1.51, it takes an unusually long time to return to the mamewah menu. If I wait a long time, it'll eventually return (like 3-4 minutes). I'm using the command line windows mame v.86, have a beast of a machine (Pentium 4, gig of ram, etc) running windows XP Pro (directx9), all at 640x480 (monitor limitation). I've tried messing with the dos box settings, but it didn't help. I am not using mamewah as my windows shell - just running it like a regular app. My roms are stored outside the main Mame executable directory, and my mamewah is in a different directory also. My NES emu in mamewah returns me to mamewah quickly.

Any things that you think I can take a look at? I'll post my ini files tonight. I love the front-end, love the skins, just need to get this little kink worked out before I can use it exclusively.

thanks,
rob

[Minwah]

Not heard of this before...you have a similar setup to me (P4, XP Home, DX9) so it should work OK...

What happens if you run MAME from a commandline?  Does it take a long time to quit also?

Also can you see it doing anything while it it 'trying' to close?

[biscoradio]

I have not run mame directly from the command line without being in mamewah yet. I will do this tonight.

When it takes awhile to get back to mamewah, the screen is black. If I ctrl-alt-del and take a look at the running processes, mame is not present, nor is there a cmd or anything that looks like it is mame related (besides mamewah). I read on another post that when mamewah stops responding it is usually waiting for input from the running emu, but in this case my emu seems to have exited properly. I will troubleshoot this more tonight - thanks for the quick response.

[biscoradio]

I'm not sure what the issue was that plagued me for two nights, but last night the return to mamewah was quick after exiting a game. It could have been that I had been messing with the emu set-ups and something got hosed along the way with mamewah and it didn't clean up well. Last night, though, I had no problems. Great program. Thanks!

[Minwah]

I'm not sure what the issue was that plagued me for two nights, but last night the return to mamewah was quick after exiting a game. It could have been that I had been messing with the emu set-ups and something got hosed along the way with mamewah and it didn't clean up well. Last night, though, I had no problems. Great program. Thanks!

Who knows, glad it's ok now

Just try to avoid running programs in the background (inc. system tray), like virus scanners.  They can cause all sorts of wierd things to happen...