Hi Guys,

I'm back (again) after what seems like a century (probably half a year or so, at max...). Anyway, my life sorta did a 180 on me (moving, playing semi-pro sports, exams) and I didn't play any games until at all.
Untill -and I know you people are going to scold me for this- I saw 300. The movie is ridiculous, but I got that EB vibe (exams are done, sport season is over, free time all over )
so, back again, to a new version, a problem and a shitload of questions.

the problem: I lend my RTW version to a cousin (blesphemy!) and do not have a DVD player (my version was a 3CD one). Now I can't find any RTW copy's in CD, just DVD's, But I can find a "gold editition".
Now, is it possible for me to install just RTW, patch it to 1.5 and run EB with the gold version? or am I automatically stuck with BI?
Or is it possible for me to run EB with BI?

now the questions:
-my (slow) comp took about 3mins to 'load' when I end my turn (only with EB, with vanilla it was pretty speedy) has that gotten any better with EB 0.8x?

...sorry, it was just one I guess

have a nice one,
Jerby