I've got Silent hill 2 for the PC a little while ago and I seem to have no problems except for this one really annoying one! It seems that going between one room to the next or even opening the map or menu screen, the game stalls for about 5 seconds before finally loading into the next area or menu/ map screen. I've been looking for a solution to this problem for a while now but I can't seem to find any threads with a solution or even similar problem

Here are my laptop specs:
OS: Windows Vista (for some reason I think this is the problem )
Video Card: Geforce 9600M GT (512MB dedicated VRAM)
RAM: 4GB
Intel Centrino 2 - 2.53 dual core

I've tried running as administrator as well as switching to XP compatability and setting the affinity to just one core, but nothing seems to fix this! Any ideas? I can't be the only one with this problem right? Thanks for any help in advance!