Hello community,
After being a bit fed up with getting no response and no explanation as to why it takes so long for the Adrenaline software to start up, I've started to investigate why it takes so long for the Adrenaline software to start and be available. I've found out a few things but I'd like your help to see if together we can find out why or get people from AMD (I know there are some on this forums) to clarify or let us know the problem.
After noticing that the Adrenaline software does not appear in the Windows start-up programs, I wondered how it could possibly start when Windows starts up. Searching for information on the internet, I found out that it can be done via the Windows registry. After poking around in the Windows registry, I found these two paths used by the AMD software:
The most interesting is the second one, where there is a variable that caught my attention after seeing its value: InitDelay. This variable had a decimal value of 60, which was the number of seconds it took for the icon to appear in the system tray after timing it during a normal start-up. After changing the value to 0 and restarting, when logging in with my user the icon appears almost instantly. Surprised I went to right click on it but I saw that it was not loaded at all, only these three options appeared (My system is not in English, so translations may not be accurate):
To display all options when right-clicking on the icon:
It takes five minutes timed from system start-up. When I saw that number, I looked at another variable in the above path, the one called UnloadDelay which has a decimal value of 300... which in seconds is five minutes. To test, I changed the value to 0 and restarted the computer to retime the time it takes to show the full menu. It came back to five minutes. I set the value back to 300, as the change had no effect, but I know that something happens after five minutes because when testing by right clicking on the icon, the three options come up quickly until something is 'done' to make the fourth one appear. The Windows cursor appears with the blue circle and the fans speed up a bit for a few seconds.
Still, when you click to open Adrenaline, it takes another 25 seconds for the screen with your games, metrics and everything else to appear. So on my system the original situation was (if you didn't open the software manually):
60 seconds (delay) + 5 minutes + 25 seconds = Almost 6 and a half minutes.
Now:
0 seconds + 5 minutes + 25 seconds = Almost 5 and a half minutes.
But if you manually open the Adrenaline software when the icon appears in the system tray when you log in with your user:
0 seconds + 25 seconds = Almost half a minute.
Since I don't know what else to try anymore, I come here to see if anyone can think of what else we can try (we can't get any worse) or share your values to see if we all have the same value or different values.
Best regards.
