Preloader Problem

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Hello:
I have a preloader that doesn´t appear til 40%, I´ve taken a screen pic to show you what happens. If you´ll notice it´s on frame 0 and has a 39.4% loaded, after that it goes to frame 1 working OK. I´ve posted this before on some other forum and got this as answers.

http://www.flashkit.com/board/showthread.php?threadid=394714&goto=newpost

Here is the link to the problem
http://usuarios.lycos.es/spighita/webgraph.gif

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This will seem kinda odd, but its because its loading the preloader.

Is your preloader really heavy? (graphics wise?)

That might be the problem, and the preloader doesnt show right away because the movie was loading that first… =)

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Well I checked it out and my preloader is a percentaje preloader very simple, no graphics.

But your idea gave me some answers, I just calculated the first frame bar and divided it by the total and gave me an aprox. number of when the preloader starts appearing. I done 2 tests
One loading only the scene and the other loading the whole swf file. Both of them have the same amount on frame 1 but different size, anyway it coincidences when the preloader starts appearing, if I divide the first frame total, by the size amount it´ll give me around 40%, just when the preloader starts appearing. I don´t know what can be so heavy on the first frame but I believe you answered my question. Thanks

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Again,

This is what I did, I created a new scene and put the preloader in there, and when it was done sent it to play the menu scene, but It still has a huge amount of bytes on frame 1. The block, as you can see 145 kb in the first frame.

If I divide it by 145/380 it´s just when the preloader starts counting. In mine it´ll start counting when it reaches 38%.

How can i know for sure what´s preloading frame 1. I linked

http://usuarios.lycos.es/spighita/webgraph2.gif

so you can see what´s on block 1. Not much graphics as you can see. Well hope I get more ideas.