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I have some questions. When I get in MCM2 and go to the singleplayer screen, the screen takes about 1-2 minutes to load. I added all of the MXunleased sx and nats tracks. And when I'm racing at one of these tracks, the game seems to slow down alittle.
PC SPECS
2.1g AMD xp2600
Geforce 6800
512 mb RAM
30 gig hard drive.

The game runs fine stock, but when I added these tracks and the res files, it slowed down. Any suggestions?

Do you mean it slows down loading up the SX tracks slection page?  If so, that's because you have a bunch more tracks.  I have 100's and it does take a while. 

yeah. it takes awhile to load the sx and nats tracks. but in the game, the new tracks seem to be alittle choppy. I turned the res down to 800*600. but it still seems to be choppy. anyhelp?

Hmm when i was totally in MCM2 i used the No-CD crack to speed it up a bit..

Turn on or off the vertical sync settings in your video cards advanced control panel.

Off worked best with MCM2, ALOT of people had that problem in the past .. but thats for when you are riding? It doesn't speed up loading the menu's...

Two other possibilities-

What O/S are you running (XP)?

How full is your HD (my computer/right click on the HD and click properties)?

XP has a known bug which might not have reared it's ugly head until you added enough tracks. If you are getting the XP bug then you'll notice the LAG a lot more when racing online. If that's the problem then you can probably get rid of it by simply starting up Windows Media Player (doesn't have to actually play anything...just open it up and minimize it before you start MCM2).

If you're HD is getting more than 70-75% full then you can expect a normal slow-down. This means it's either time to give up some of the stuff you've got on it. OR it's time to upgrade to a bigger or secondary HD.

One last thing you might try is making sure that you are running the latest Video Card and Direct X drivers. I believe Direct X is in version 9.0c and can be gotten from http://www.microsoft.com/windows/directx/default.aspx.

Hopefully some of this will help solve or at least identify your problem. 

when they comming out with direct X 10?

Actually vsync turned on in MCM2 with a fast PC actually works better

If you can have MCM2 always run at your monitors refresh rate say 85-100hz then the gameplay wont change and you wont get slight skips and screen tearing. Otherwise with vsync off on a faster PC the FPS can jump all over the place and it does effect the way MCM2 plays, including bike physics.

So it's why I have vsync on at 85 FPS the whole time and the gameplay is always the same which makes for more consistant laptimes.

Also about video card drivers, latest is usualy worse in MCM2.