Launcher takes *forever* to load

[king_spoon_ian]

Hi guys,

I recently picked up Cliffs of Dover in a sale from Ubisoft's digital store, but I've been having a bit of trouble getting the game working. I'm running XP, a GeForce 8800 GTS and a six core AMD FX-6100, yet when I come to load the game from Steam, it takes, almost literally, forever. From clicking to launch, to even the crosshair icon appearing on screen can take upwards of five minutes. As an example, I clicked load before coming to the site, logging in, and typing this up - and there's still no sign of the crosshair logo. Launcher's happily sitting in my task manager, taking up 37mb of RAM, but it's getting nowhere fast. I know if I leave it, it'll eventually work - but why is it taking so long to actually get anywhere?

Any ideas/help would be much appreciated!