game load times

[hdhawg1340]

I bought a new computer for gaming about two months ago, it is a duo processer 64 bit athlon with 2 gigs of ram and have a gforce 7600 256 video card. all of a sudden it takes 10 minutes to load even a short chapter. once loaded the game plays fine. what is the problem?

[Neil]

You could have a slow harddisk, or CD-Drive, depending where it is loading from. Since you've not told us the game you are having problems with, or if it affects all of your games, we cannot give any more specific advice. Have you made any system changes when this started happening?

[Calum]

Did you do anything before this started happening?  Check for viruses, spyware etc
Also, defrag your hard drive if you haven't already done so, a fragmented HDD can cause slow loading times
Get the latest patch for your game and the latest graphics drivers