A minor but interesting bit of new information: I have two internal hard drives on my Dell 435MT, and I installed Windows 7 RC on one of them a while ago. Today I booted from Windows 7 and installed MA3 beta10d on that drive . The fish swam in just under 3 seconds after the splash screen appeared. Interestingly, Windows 7 uses the new WDDM 1.1 driver architecture, so I'm sure Jim is right that the 10 second delay in Vista is video driver-related.
Another thing I noticed is that in Windows 7, even though I ticked the box in the installer to create a Quick Launch shortcut, it didn't happen.
Bob N.
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