this should not be happening... i mean well first is this on a home computer, is it dedicated to attract mode or what? second you might have other stuff running in the background. i spent over a year building my 4 player cab using win 7 and i have 0 issues. if your machine is dedicated to attract mode ill gladly share the info i have. (arcade,daphne,nes,snes,atari2600. is what im running.) also whats your hardware specs?
Nothing running on my background, I'm a msconfig maniac. Intel Core 2 Duo E6850 (Best Dual Core on the Market), it's running pretty much everything nowadays., 4 gb of 800Mhz ddr2, a Nvidia GPU special edition OC 2GB GDDR5 and two brand new components, a SSD of 120GB, and a 2 Tetra HHD.
I suppose you're using the Windows Xp version of Attract Mode, which has the mmal option (Hardware video decoder). Problem is, I don't have that option. DO I need to download and install ffmpeg to have this option show up in the video decoder setting?
By checking the forums, several people are having the same problem. Some of them solved it without mentioning the process, others simply left the front end.