Len, so your installation runs off a removable disk? That... looks suspiciously like your reason for slowdown. BTW, if you use a firewall and an antivirus, SP1 is pretty secure. I used that for quite a while and never got infected. I also use SP2 now and the system works normally. For my processor, P4 1.7, that is. :-) AS, the interiors are incredible, but the snake is not. Also, it almost looks like Maxwell doesn't use diffusion/ specularity/ and so on maps, because everything is so shiny and new.

-- erlik