Very slow loading on XP

[Captain Kwok]

That's not too strange. Autosave will go up to 10 Versions and if you have player stats active then you get .txt files for each player for each save so that can add up very quickly. There are only 3 important files really to the savegame.

You turn off the logs in the settings.txt about 3/4s of the way down.

Slow load ups on the intro screen are usually due to another CD in the drive when CD music for the game is turned on. If it's a data CD then the game starts going putt-putt looking for the music tracks...