15 minutes to start the game from a 3.8Ghz P4, 2 gig ram, and an x850 XT PE video card.

User Rating: 7 | SWAT 4: The Stetchkov Syndicate PC
The load is so terrible, that I can't even join an online game. By the looks of the number of people in each game, it looks like many others are having this same problem.

I've also purchased this game for a friend of mine who has a much older computer with only 512 meg ram. His actually load times are about the same as mine. So I'm wondering what can be done to improve the performance of this game prior to Irrational Games actually releasing a patch? Does anyone have a registry tweak or a beta performance patch? The game is a lot of fun once it loads up, but you better have a lot of patients if you want to try this game out.