I think that was a valid post, Because I have the same problem and I have 88% of my resources free... so I am not running resource heavy prog\'s in the background, nor am I unplugging my HD.     Mycomputereither freezes or the game will not load further than \" loading world\" part of initialization process. My system performs as follows: 533Mhz processer, 192 megs of ram, Matrox video card, DSL connection (close to T1 connection speed, fast!) directx 9.0.