[Captain_McCusker]

Another tid-bit that might help you greatly. I hear this a lot lately from the regulars on my server, to which I follow-up with one question:

When was the last time you defragmented?

If you run your swap-file on the same drive as your OS/Game, then your drive can easily turn into chaos in no time. I discovered MOH was great at doing this to me when I first started playing (and my wife had my only spare drive).

Also, if you remove anything from your HD you will begin the fragmentation process. If you like to add/remove stuff on a regular basis (some people enjoy looking at diff. shareware apps, etc.), then you really aught to run defrag often.

Oh, and XP defrag is for the birds. Consider finding something better. Personally I use Diskeeper which rocks.

Just a thought. Not everyone is conflicted with this, but it's a good thing to keep an eye out for.