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The new catalist drivers for the radeon came out this month, those are the ones you should use.

Leave graphic acceleration at full.
Lower resolution and no music(turned off in Victoria Settings/config program) should help atleast somewhat.

Other than that there is really not much you can do.
 
Run dxdiag from the run prompt. save the results then post them here.
 
Check to see if there is an update for your audio driver.

You could also try updating your DirectX to 9.0b
 
If you do a fresh boot of your system and hit Ctrl-Alt-Del, and look at processes tab, Copy and paste the results here.
 
I was afraid that might be the case. :(
Just tell me what is running under aplications then.
 
Reformatting is a little extreme if the delay is not a big deal.
But you should defrag your drive every once and a while.
 
Note that if you have two HD's and enough space on the 2nd one and your disk is highly fragmented it is much quicker to cut and paste everything (Except the windows file) onto the 2nd HD and back again.
 
And just hope you do not get a power outage half way between. :)
 
Well looking over the thread lets sort a few things first.
Have you upgraded to 1.03?
Have you upgraded directX to 9.0B?
 
I hate to say it but the best thing for you to do is a reformat.
I do it myself every once in a while. It cleans the system out and gets rid of everything you are not using, and gets rid of old drivers, registry entries, ...

Back up evrything you want to keep, like Word pro documents, save games, downloaded things... then reformat the drive and put a fresh copy of the operating system on. Then update it and the drivers.
Then install Vic and see how it runs.
 
Well since you had viruses I would definately do it. Never trust those AV programs to get everything.
 
Well I just don't know, If your other programs run fine and it is just Paradox games then I truley do not know what to tell you. If your other programs are not as fast as they should be it could be you have problems with your CMOS settings. But if other things are working fine. Well ...
 
CMOS is the operating system for the operating system so to speak.
Usually accessed by hiting the delete key while booting up.

There are several brands of BIOS such as AWARD.
It is where you tell your computer info about what type of Harddrives you have how much memory and the timing of that memory, stuff like that.

If you are having other troubles, I would get someone that knows what they are doing to take a look.
 
Just have the settings checked to make sure they are correct, as I said things like memory timing are very important.
Without knowing what memory chips you have in your sytem it is impossible for me to tell you what the optimal setting are for you. That is just one example.
 
I assumed he had installed it since he said he upgraded all his stuff after the reformat.
SP1 is part of the WinXp upgrade site stuff.
 
Ya I figured you had, I am afraid my only advice is as I mentioned about having your CMOS settings checked out.
 
That link I gave is actually pretty interesting, even if there is nothing wrong, you can still tweek your system.
 
Well I have almost the same system as you and have no trouble.
I usually don't play on the faster speeds though.

As for Paradox and it's minsystem specs, well, you have said a few times that it is not only Paradox stuff that is slow so I don't think it is entirely Paradoxs fault here.