Launcher takes *forever* to load

[Bounder!]

Never had problems loading the game even on my old system and I don't know to be honest what could be causing the problem. It would be very useful for others if you post full system specs, including what hard drive you are running and how much RAM you have.

Might be worth checking your RAM load on idle and then what it is when loading the game. Do you have many programs running in the background? Also, how clean is your hard drive (is it near capacity, has it been defragged)?

[EDIT] I know your pain regarding Vista/Windows 7 layout, I run my Windows 7 in XP mode which helps as I too hate what they did with the layout!

[king_spoon_ian]

Originally Posted by Bounder!

Never had problems loading the game even on my old system and I don't know to be honest what could be causing the problem. It would be very useful for others if you post full system specs, including what hard drive you are running and how much RAM you have.

Might be worth checking your RAM load on idle and then what it is when loading the game. Do you have many programs running in the background? Also, how clean is your hard drive (is it near capacity, has it been defragged)?

Whoops, sorry - forgot to post them. Being thick, not rude.

CPU - AMD FX-6100
GPU - GeForce 8800 GTS 320mb
RAM - 4 GB (3.25GB usable) DDR-something, not sure what speed it is, and I'm not sure how to check?
Hard Drive - 250 GB Maxtor SATA the game's installed on - XP's on a separate disk. There's not too much free space left, but enough breathing room. Might try switching it to my terabyte HDD to see what happens.

Let me know if there's anything else important I've missed out!

It'd odd. Plenty of ram seems to be free when the program's starting - it's not like it's having to clear things out to put CoD in, as nothing else is running.

[MadBlaster]

you can try booting your pc using the 3 gb switch in the boot.ini. it will change the ram allocation more for the game and less for the operating system. i kinda forgot how to do it. something like run msconfi in the run box of the start icon in the lower left corner. then select modified boot.ini. then you gotta copy the original boot.ini and modifiy it with the 3 gb switch and save it and...blah. just google it. anyway you get it set up, then reboot your computer and it will prompt you how you want to boot up, either standard way or the 3gb switch way. so you select the latter and off you go.