They are longer certainly, but none of our members has ever had load times that long. Here are some samples from our current build (mine is first ). The slowest one is at the end. It is about as slow as you could possibly think about playing EB on.

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Equipment
AMD Athlon 1.3 GHZ
1.0 GB DDRAM
Nvidia GEForce4 MX 4000 128MB (Dual Monitor - this is one of those that can't show our campaign map trees, but uses sprites for them instead)

Loading times
EB Total Load Up(from double click to Main Menu): 1m 58s
EB Campaign Load Up: 1m 39s
EB Campaign End Turn: approx 1m 47s
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Equipment
Pentium IV 3.2 GHZ with HT
512MB DDRAM
250GB HDD
ATI RADEON X700 256MB

Loading times
EB Total Load Up(from double click to Main Menu): 1m 11s
EB Load Up: 7s
EB Campaign Load Up: approx 1m 10s
EB Campaign End Turn: approx 35s

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Equipment
AMD Athlon 1.84 GHZ
1.0 GB DDRAM
Nvidia GEForce4 Ti 4600 128MB

Loading times
EB Total Load Up(from double click to Main Menu): 1m 17s
EB Campaign Load Up: 53s
EB Campaign End Turn: approx 28s
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Equipment
AMD Athlon 2.6 GHZ
1.0 GB DDRAM
ATI Radeon 9600

Loading times
EB Total Load Up(from double click to Main Menu): 1m 18s
EB Campaign Load Up: 40s
EB Campaign End Turn: 10s (without script on)
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CPU : 1,70 GHz
RAM : 512 MB
GFX : ATI RADEON 9600 64 Mb

EB Load-up : 1:40
EB Campaign Load : 2:10
EB Campaign Turn : 40s (15 turns as Pontos)
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AMD Athlon 756 MHz
320 MB RAM
Radeon 9200

Total Load: 3 min 40 sec
Camapaign Load: 3 min 35 sec
End Turn: 2 min 43 sec
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