Load times: I don't see much of a difference here...took 41 seconds with me AMD 1800+ (1.53ghz)..in fact, it seems slower... AHHH....its the second time....9seconds...so if you have a crash and need to reload..it doesn't take as much frustration to get it back... But it is slow the first time you ever start up I guess..the faster after that...but I didn't even restart my system...why would it be slow again, unless it flushed the cache at some point ?????

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