# GLFW has long delay when creating a window

**URL:** <https://discourse.glfw.org/t/glfw-has-long-delay-when-creating-a-window/1072>\
**Category:** support\
**Created:** [January 22, 2018, 12:07pm UTC](https://discourse.glfw.org/t/glfw-has-long-delay-when-creating-a-window/1072 "2018-01-22T12:07:50Z")\
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**Author:** ![robertjdac](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/5fc32e/32.png) [@robertjdac](https://discourse.glfw.org/u/robertjdac)\
**Post date:** [October 11, 2018, 7:36pm UTC](https://discourse.glfw.org/t/glfw-has-long-delay-when-creating-a-window/1072/9 "2018-10-11T19:36:38Z")

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Quick update: I just ran the same executable on another machine that has NVidia drivers 148.92 and the window opened immediately. So it’s certainly something specific to my laptop.

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