** Edit: SOLUTION FOUND. 24 March 2010, scroll down to post on that date **
Lo people.
I'm not new to CoD5. I've played it hard for 13 months now.. but I have installed it on Sair's PC now and it is taking an ETERNITY to load.. an eternity.
I have a quad core 2.67 with 4 gig and have run both XP and Vista 64 on it. Intel mobo (old 965 chipset) with an X1900 XT, and then a 4870 Toxic. Hard drives varied from WD AAKS 400gig to Samsung F1 750 gig to Hitachi 1tb
But Sair's rig is
XP Pro, ATI motherboard, AMD X64 3700, 2 gig ram, and an X1600 XT, with a Barracuda 160 HD and a WD 320
I have installed the game on both drives and it's fully patched. I have tried installing the very latest DX from MS website and it made a good difference to game performance but not to boot time.
Lets put it this way... from clicking the Icon to being in game menu is 45 seconds...not great but do-able.. but to choose a game (previous save or new game) to playing... is 3 minutes!!!
I spent sme time in Google and it's quite common... mainly with ATI cards.
The thing is, the game ITSELF plays ok... quite acceptable at 1024 x768 on this card, with medium eye candy.....
(she's killing stuff right now to my side.....)
but the game LOAD times are crazy.
So... anyone know the solution.
It's NOT a quick PC, BUT my mate saofg here on HEXUS had an X4200 twin core, same clock speed as this X64 3700 and it's fine....
so... why so slooooooow to boot?


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