Event Screen Slows Game

[Bent Periscope]

I have a problem with my Event Screen when an airplane attacks.

If I am notified that planes are attacking and I go to my flak position to shot, the screen runs normal. However, when the Event Screen comes up to show the attack from the airplane's point of view, my screen really shows down. Then I move the cursor to try to close the Event Screen, it moves really slow and is nearly impossible to click on the X to close that small screen.

When the screen finally closes, I can move quicker but when the Event Screen comes back on everything slows again.

Currently I'm running SH# Version 1.0 so hopefully it was fixed in a patch. I've recently increased my RAM to 2GB, I have a PCI video card (not Express) since my HP a720n is 5 years old. It is a EVGA GeForce 8400 GS and also says NVIDIA.

Tonight I increased my Power Source to 380W since the video card asked for at least 350W. I was hoping that the power source would do the trick. Actually, before increasing the Power Source, I only had 250W so I could not even move to the Flak screen since the Event Screen would just pop up when I was notified of the Airplanes. All I would do then is just try to dive but it was very slow and I could only hope that the planes would not sink me.

So would do you think. My first though is to just turn off the Event Screen though it works fine all the other times and I would love to keep it. Do I need more power, the upgrade was only $30 and with all other things I've done to my computer, I was hoping that this would be enough.

So has someone else had this problem or know a fix? What do you recommend? Once I get this working fine, I plan to re-install SH3, patch in 1.4b and play for a few weeks before I try adding GWX and possibly SHCom.

Thank you for your help & I'm so happy we have this site to ask questions,

BP