Annoying pause as new levels load - HELP!!!

[silvercue]

Game looks great (running a 6800gt) but the realism and fun are spoiled somewhat by the horrible stutter/pause, that often happens. I assume this is extra levels/textures being loaded into memory??
Is there any way to resolve this problem? Game tweaks, Windows XP Professional tweaks? etc
I remember with Doom3 you could simply unlock the .pak files to speed loading up with a very similar problem.

Help would be gratefully received :)

[Mess]

If you're talking about juttering at the start of a new map, then this is a common problem. As far as I'm aware the only way to solve this is to lower your gfx settings or simply be patient and wait a while after the level intiates.

[StardogChampion]

A defrag couldn't hurt either.

[silvercue]

Thanks for the replies. No I am talking about the fact that every 20 steps you get a message saying LOADING while it loads more of the map/level - this is seriously rubbish - anyway to sort this?

PS I have a very fast PC - see sig:

ASUS P4P800-SE 800FSB
3.3 Intel @ 3.6 with HT
Geforce 6800GT
1 GIG DDR400 CL2 Ram
ANTEC TruePower430