> Oh BTW Mappy and New Zealand Story is slooow too - guess they had sound enhancements > too....
Mappy doesn't seem slow here (about 300% unthrottled on a Athlon X2 4400) .. it might be on a p3 though. New Zealand Story and others in that driver require a prefect sync between it's main/sub/audio processors in order to run properly which slows overall performance down.