Dawn of War Campaign, Vista

[Renok]

Ok, so I'm running a fresh install of Soulstorm on my 32 bit vista laptop, she has....
1024 Ram,
128 Radeon video card,
dual core 2.0 processor

Now, the problem im experiencing, is that when I try to play campaign, every time the meta map loads... an excruciatingly long period passes before eventually, the load is successful. This time period is between 5 and 12 minutes. Naturally this interferes with my campaign play time.

On the THQ official support thread, they mention an issue where if virtual ram is disabled, then a similar problem may occur. Vista isn't directly supported, and I'm aware that it tends to... use a bit more RAM than a 'normal' OS so I increased my virtual ram page file to a manually set 2 gigs, and tried again.. no success, then 3 gigs, still no success. I have a roomate also running vista, albeit 64 bit, with something along the lines of a super computer, and hes not experiencing any issues at all. So I'm just asking if anyone else had encountered this issue or a solution to the problem.

EDIT:: UPDATE
After upping the virtual ram to 3 gigs, ive at least managed to make it a rather short process to alt tab from the load screen. During the loading process soulstorm.exe is using about 550 mb of ram, which, isn't as high as I expected, and barely 1% of my processor power. So I'm out of guesses at solutions to the problem either than the cynical, use XP.

[Kellenk]

The processor used is only 1% because you are alt tabbed out of it, and the application is sort of on hold. When you are in game, your processor is being cranked.

[Renok]

Regardless of how much CPU its using, the issue doesn't seem to be one of meeting the hardware requirements. I know that the game doesn't actually support vista, but the problem should still be something thats correctable. Also, I forgot to include that I've also tried running the executable in XP compatibility mode, <sarcasm> for the plentiful help that frequently provides </sarcasm>

[King Twilight]

I have the same problem: in campign after every battle or loading up the map or starting campign from the main menu I get a 1-2 minute long loading time. Oddly enough the people that I have asked say they have the same problem and the only people that dont have this problem are vista users. Although it may just be coincidence out of the people I asked.

[Talonfire]

I'm a Vista user, and I only get a 30 or so second loading time which IS a bit too long, but definitely not as long as some people. From what I've seen so far, Soulstorm is fairly unstable; I've encountered ridiculously long campaign map loading times, and occasional freezing during the loading of the campaign menu, or heck sometimes even when quitting the game. I'm guessing that there's a memory leak somewhere.

[Renok]

Mm.. I just hope its something that gets corrected in the first patch, because right now, for me at least, the campaign is definitely unplayable.