Game grinding to halt when viewing 'portrait' pictures.

Heya guys,

Whenever the game needs to load a portrait picture of someone, it grinds to a halt, when i manage to remove this need, its back to normal again. This is quite annoying when i want to do my own mission.

Also it very rarely stays like this after applying the 'hot fix', but loading up a portrait image (like clicking on contacts) and then removing it fixes the problem again.

Affected parts of the game:
Contacts (the list as well as individual contacts)
Personal info (own and other players)
I.D.
Costumes

Things i've done:
1. verify all files (even did a complete redownload)
2. updated graphics drivers to the newest.

Further more, my pc specs:
MB: Asus P5b deluxe
CPU: E6600 2.4Ghz
GFX: Asus 8800GTS 320MB
MEM: 2 x 1 GB Twinmos PC-6400
OS: Windows 7 Professional

Even though its not a monster pc, it couldnt be the problem, as the rest of the game runs smoothly. It almost looks like there's something wrong with the way 2D representations are rendered.


EDIT---
Also remembered that at ICON, the actualy picking of the costume lags, but the editing doesnt, which is consistent with the 2D rendering theory.

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I have this issue too actually. It doesn't lag, but the 2d images will load gray, or halfloaded half gray, or pixelated out. It gets quite annoying loading an old toon and picking a costume, or picking a costume where 2 are close to identical except for the blurred part of the image.

My computer is pretty old, it's a gateway laptop with an ATI card and 4gigs of ram if I remember right.

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