rec.autos.simulators

> .
> > i've got a p4/1.7ghz/512mb/w98se/gf3.  once the game is running, it is
> > great.  however, it is amazingly slow in places.  particularly, it
> > takes forever (like 3+ minutes) for it to switch from the screen that
> > shows up *after* you select a track.  it's the screen that pops up
> > with the spinning circle animation around the f1cs2000 logo in the
> > top-left.  (i dunno what the program is doing during this time, but
> > i'm guessing it's doing something like building the 3d model of the
> > track.)  is 3+ minutes normal?  i experience the same delay when
> > loading replays.  again, it seems like it's when the program could be
> > building the model of the track.  i'd appreciate any suggestions.

> >I am running F1CS2K on a 1 ghz Celeron and it doesn't take that long
to
> >come up.  Do you have DMA enabled on your hard drive?  Do you have
> >anything else running in the background?  That's about all I can
think
> >of that would cause that.

> yah, i've got my anti-virus stuff, the lwff profiler.  that's about
> it.  maybe i should turn the anti-virus off since it's probably
> checking everything that is pulled off the disk.  hmmm.

> oh my gosh!!  i just turned my antivirus checker off and the delay was
> like 10-15 seconds.  much better!!!  thanks for pointing me in the
> right direction.