I have never seen P5 take that long to load, except for when my harddrive took a crapper. Putting the swap on mirrored drives, I would think may not be the best idea. 404MB mem usage seems a little high for P5, is anything else running besides the bare neccessities? No screen saver, right? Is this total usage or just what P5 is using? First time I start Poser, it is about 20 seconds. P5 runs pretty quick for me, the only time it is obviously slow is when something is confusing it, or the drive needs to be defragged. AthalonXP 2600 1.5GB PC3200