Quote Originally Posted by Teleklos Archelaou
25 minutes to "start a game"? That's very strange. Even the slowest of all EB development computers was never anywhere near that. Take a look:

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

I will just politely say that your numbers sound like either (1) you have an incredible number of other things running simultaneously, (2) you have a computer much much worse than the ones whose specs we listed above, or (3) there is something else at work here.
The only thing running in the backround is zhotkey that operates my keyboard...
I dont know what might eb the reason...