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Originally Posted by bedoig

There are some programs that simply refuse to work with the native WM GPS intermediate driver. It's not just a matter of feedback on the progress toward a lock. Some will absolutely, positively not work, which is why a program like GPSGate is sometimes necessary. I was using priming in the sense that it initiates and controls access to the GPS chip. Maybe that is an incorrect usage, I don't know, but in that sense there absolutely are programs that require "priming."

Any program that support WM GPS API will probably work fine. Anything that is restricted to COM only ports and uses COM4 directly will probably run iffy. Not a priming issue.

Maybe early GPS DLL's running some apps depending if you need kickstart or not (running Secured or not) started some of the DLL's and "primed things". If that was the case you probably didn't have to "wait" if you know what I mean.