Vista Tutorial - Europa Universalis 3 Long Loading Times

Hi Everyone this is my first thread here and I am hoping to get some answers here that I couldn't get anywhere else.

Ok So I installed the game fine without any troubles or problems and I thought I cant wait to play this so I booted up the game and the loading screens game up so I sat there and waited for it to work. Well I waited and every once and a while it would change screens until finally it hit one scree that literally took 15 minutes to load then I got into the game and from there I started a singleplayer game and it took another 15 minuetes to load. Im thinking that Vista has somehting to do with this becasue I know alot of other people who work it fine on XP and they have slower computers then I do thanks for any help you can give me
-Fattsanta

I just got the game too, and am having the exact same problem. The game has huge loading times even though I have 2.4GHz CPU when the game requires 1.9GHz.
Any help on this topic would be great, cuz I can't wait to actually play this game normally.