Not noticing any slowness on my PC, it boots up the same but I'll keep an eye on it, thanks...
Here's the funny thing: It worked fine until just bit before a month ago i was going through the add/remove programs to clean house. Initially noticed 2 Aces high so began uninstalling one, it uninstalled both. I had to download from the site and install. After that, all textures slow to load. So, old game = fine, new game = not fine, all within the same day.
After that I left it as it was for all those AH sound/miles updates.. Today, decided to do a full uninstall, defrag drive which took forever because highly fragmented, did a fresh install but that did not resolve issues. Was hoping maybe fragmented PC was the issue.
Also, I changed AGP in setupmode (F2) to 256, 128, 64, and none seem to help. I"m going to put it back to defaults 128.