F1RS- Menu Speed

Does anyone know how to speed up the menus? I just spent an hour playing the game and a good 30 minutes was spent moving around the menus. This is going to kill this game for me. Going from track to garage is agonizingly slow. And while in the garage it takes forever. This makes it really hard to work on setups. Does anyone know how I can reach Ubisoft and tell them I would like them to try to speed up the menus? Otherwise I love this game, even on my old P-83 overdrive, with a Pure 3d card. ZZ Busch -- Busch Carpentry Plans??? Architects sure can draw nice pictures Busch Motorsports Remember, racecar is racecar spelled backward

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>Does anyone know how to speed up the menus? I just spent an hour playing >the game and a good 30 minutes was spent moving around the menus. This >is going to kill this game for me. Going from track to garage is >agonizingly slow. And while in the garage it takes forever. This makes >it really hard to work on setups. >Does anyone know how I can reach Ubisoft and tell them I would like them >to try to speed up the menus? >Otherwise I love this game, even on my old P-83 overdrive, with a Pure >3d card. >ZZ Busch

What size install have you done? During installation, it says that if you use the smallest installation, the menus aren't copied to the hard drive but left on the cdrom. Hence, if this is the case, you can bet that switching between the menus will be quite slow. On my machine with the largest install you just click on a button and the next menu appear automatically (except when the track has to be loaded, for example). Hope this helps, Dennis

The only thing that helped mine a bunch was 32 more MBs of Sdram total 64 now on a 233MMX PII. Aloha ,Mike

Thanks guys. I did a full install and I have 44 MB's RAM. Still a very slow menu.Very,very ,very slow. -- Busch Carpentry Plans??? Architects sure can draw nice pictures Busch Motorsports Remember, racecar is racecar spelled backward

Install CD QUICK (cdq95v30.zip), a CD-ROM cache utility for W95! This will solve your problems. The cache can either be located in RAM (up to 16MB), or as a kind of "swapfile" on your harddisk (standard 32MB). I'm using an 8MB cache (in RAM), and it decreases load times considerably on my old 280ms 4-spin drive. H.M.Haga

Do a full install. -- Bruce. (At home)