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Game Maker Games Loading Very Slow On Windows 7

Started by blackhawkrobbo, Dec 28 2009 01:33 PM

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#21 ragarnak

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Posted 10 October 2010 - 02:00 PM

If you want to know what is going on that site: There are ~130 reports and only ~7 of them have recieved any visible attention from the developers

Actually, I just wanted to be able to read that list to see which quirks I might expect from GM / check if a certain problematic behaviour is caused by a known issue.

Have no idea why they need to make things this complicated. Every friciking thing on the net seems to need registering these days.

Neither do I. In case of GM I allready have the product, otherwise I would not be interrested in the bugs.

Such a "must register" for simple reading is to me a reason to leave and never come back.
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#22 57E

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Posted 28 October 2010 - 02:54 PM

My windows xp comp's monitor broke.
So I made a bug report for this since Im' stuck with this problem with my laptop machine for a while.

For those who can't and or do not want to register on that bugtracker site here's the report:

0000497: Game maker games loading very slow

Loading works as it should until about 80% is done then it pauses for 1 to 3 minutes and continues to load normaly.

Runing on debug mode shows it's stuck on "Preparing sounds" part.
If the game actualy has any sound resources or not does not matter.
Even empty game with no objects, resources or rooms has this ~3 minute loading time.


I probably don't even have to mention how frustrating this is.


Has been suggested to be soundcard or sound driver issue so I have included a dxdiag output in this report.

Attached Files:

Spoiler


It's priority is set to "urgent", but don't hold your breath for a fix.
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#23 OzzyEx

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Posted 04 November 2010 - 08:41 PM

Hello,

i was wondering - im using windows 7 32 bit Ultimate now. When i start a GM game, it loads all normal, except for when the loading bar is at 80%. Then it hangs for,, like 3 minutes and then continues normally.
Whats wrong?


Try to run it in compatibility mode,as XP sp2.
Best of luck!
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#24 57E

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Posted 05 November 2010 - 08:26 AM


Hello,

i was wondering - im using windows 7 32 bit Ultimate now. When i start a GM game, it loads all normal, except for when the loading bar is at 80%. Then it hangs for,, like 3 minutes and then continues normally.
Whats wrong?


Try to run it in compatibility mode,as XP sp2.
Best of luck!

Using compatibility modes does not help. Tested on both game maker 8 itself and actual game executables.
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#25 YellowAfterlife

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Posted 05 November 2010 - 09:27 AM

You can try plugging out your audio system. If it will stop loading slow (but instead notify you that no sound device was detected), you just need to reinstall the drivers.
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#26 Manuel777

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Posted 05 November 2010 - 05:30 PM

Old topic, does anyone know if the guy who posted this topic is even alive??
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#27 YellowAfterlife

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Posted 05 November 2010 - 05:47 PM

Old topic, does anyone know if the guy who posted this topic is even alive??

Well, according to his profile, he was checking forum in october :P
I guess he does not use game maker too much, if games still do take 3 minutes to load.
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#28 57E

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Posted 13 March 2011 - 03:11 PM

Bump just for the heck of it.

Hopefuly they could fix this in the patch that was promised last year.
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#29 Druid TC

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Posted 13 March 2011 - 07:33 PM

Bump just for the heck of it.


That's got to be one of the worst bumps I've ever seen, and I am not smiling as I type this post. Please, you have only summed up the obvious, and demonstrated a massive lack of maturity with that.
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#30 blackhawkrobbo

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Posted 19 May 2011 - 05:16 PM

Oh lol. Gravedigging yay. (I blew the dust off my GMK's and i fell in love again)

It wasn't my sound card, im sure of that. Turns out i had 32bit drivers on a 64bit machine. It wasn't GM, but a buggy Windows 7.
I'm using windows XP now anyway. Thanks for the support.
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#31 ThrawnMBG

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Posted 19 May 2011 - 07:33 PM

Windows 7 - Control Panel - device manager - sound section

If there is lots of High Definition Sound Device, remove all these except the last one.

Your sound in windows will still be working, and now GM only takes 3 seconds to load a game (ex: empty only one room). Before these you had to wait 7 seconds minimum.

But when you reboot windows, all the drivers will be auto installed again. So repeat the process...

It works for me.
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#32 Israphel

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Posted 01 January 2012 - 08:53 AM

Windows 7 - Control Panel - device manager - sound section

If there is lots of High Definition Sound Device, remove all these except the last one.

Your sound in windows will still be working, and now GM only takes 3 seconds to load a game (ex: empty only one room). Before these you had to wait 7 seconds minimum.

But when you reboot windows, all the drivers will be auto installed again. So repeat the process...

It works for me.


Found a slightly easier, though still temporary, solution to this problem that does not involve opening up the device manager and messing around with things

For those of you like me, who are running GM8 in windows 7 on a laptop or PC, and are having problems with loading games, head down to the 'Volume Control' Icon in the bottom-right hand side of the screen and right-click it.
Click on playback devices.
Right-click the 'Realtek Digital Output' and 'Speakers' icons, and press disable. Make sure you have 'Show Disabled Devices' enabled, so that you can see them when you need them enabled again!

These settings will stay put every time you boot up the PC too!

-Israphel
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#33 MasterOfKings

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Posted 04 January 2012 - 08:47 AM

For those of you like me, who are running GM8 in windows 7 on a laptop or PC, and are having problems with loading games, head down to the 'Volume Control' Icon in the bottom-right hand side of the screen and right-click it.
Click on playback devices.
Right-click the 'Realtek Digital Output' and 'Speakers' icons, and press disable. Make sure you have 'Show Disabled Devices' enabled, so that you can see them when you need them enabled again!

That'll kill your speakers. Plus, not everyone has Realtek.
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