# SWF taking a LOOOONG time to initiate

**URL:** <https://forum.kirupa.com/t/swf-taking-a-loooong-time-to-initiate/52704>\
**Category:** flash\
**Created:** [May 26, 2004, 3:57pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/swf-taking-a-loooong-time-to-initiate/52704 "2004-05-26T15:57:19Z")\
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**Author:** ![Kaveh](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/9fc348/32.png) [@Kaveh](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/Kaveh)\
**Post date:** [May 26, 2004, 3:57pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/swf-taking-a-loooong-time-to-initiate/52704/1 "2004-05-26T15:57:19Z")

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Hi everybody!

I have a product demo in Flash that’s roughly 1MB in size. When people access a page that this demo lives on, the demo doesn’t visibly “appear” until over half of the total bytes have already been loaded…

You can see this by clicking [here](http://www.kavehmedia.com/flashProjects/1.htm), and seeing that by the time the swf materializes on the screen, the preloader progress bar is already over 50% (or so)…

How can I fix it so that at least something shows up right away, so that the user isn’t staring at a blank screen for 30 seconds? The preloader seems to work ok… Any suggestions?

- THANKS! :puzzled: