Extreme loading times closing, opening, or disco when alt-tabbing the game

[Citabria]

quad core intel
6gb ram
dual ati radeon 4800's
current drivers
windows vista 64bit home edition

if i try to alt tab i disco as it takes a full min to tab out to desktop and another min to tab back in

when loading the game it takes a few minutes to load and the computer is locked up for the duration of this.

when closing the game same thing happens. game stops responding pc is locked up for a minute while game closes.


any ideas?

[Chalenge]

Im not saying this is it but it sounds the same to me. I updated video drivers and when I cleaned the system of the old drivers I failed to update driver cleaner and it didnt get all the files. Updating DC fixed it but I had to go through the whole update process again. That was with Nvidia though.   

[Skuzzy]

I have seen Vista do this.  The only way I have seen to fix it is to re-install the operating system.

[Citabria]

uninstalled old ati drivers and installed the new ones. still massive delay loading stuff

is there a way to uninstall and reinstall vista while leaving programs intact?

[skribetm]

if nothing else works, try this:

1. uninstall ALL AH2 files.
2. clean up your HDD of all TEMP files, uninstall old unused programs and clean up your registry. (i use ccleaner.)
3. defrag your HDD. i used jkdefrag the last time.
4. reinstall AH2 with all default files.
5. start it up.

thats what made mine work faster the last time. good luck!

[Citabria]

formatted hard drive installed vista from scratch.

ah still takes forever to load and I dc in a 5 min screen freeze if i try to alt tab still.

any ideas?

will windows 7 make this go away or do i have a hardware malfunction?

[fuzeman]

I have a long time for textures to fully load and get CNT=0. If I alt-tab and takeoff immediately, I can usually get to 10k before they fully load.
I'm at the other end of the computer spectrum with a dinosaur that lives at minimum specifications, running XP.
I had it loaded in Program files and it was suggested I reload and let it go into "C:\HiTech Creations\Aces High\aceshigh.exe" which I did and no different.