Firstly your in the wrong forum buddy
(mabey general gaming probs will serve you better and weild more results). Am i correct in asuming you are
not using a crack for this game ?. (your running it from your original disk?). Your PC superceeds the required specs as im sure you know. What drivers are you using for your GPU ? (newest?). Have you any other games installed that play ok or is this the only game installed @ the moment ?. Are you running your rig with on-board sound ? (this can "sometimes" effect game performance big time but not to the extent it takes 23 mins to load a saved game
. What size is your HDD and do you/have you defragged recently ?. You could D/L a free utill called "free mem" to check your 1G of memory isnt knacked and is working correctly. (google will find it). Mind you many of the above questions can be answerd if you have any other high spec demanding games on your PC that run OK. Have you recently bought a new CPU ? Is it reconised in DirectX as a Pentium 4 2.54 ?. The official game tech support
will be able to help you with this. (send them DirectX readings). Have you looked on the official sites tech support forum to see if there are others experiencing the same probs as yourself and if so there may be a solution. (Im sorry if you think i have stated the obvious in my above text but obviously i dont know your understanding level so i have tried to keep it simple). If you are able to answer my questions (and add anything else you think relevent) then we may be able to help you but i strongly suggest you use the official game tech support if your running this game from original disk without using a crack.