
Im running:
Windows XP (Service Pack 2)
3200+ AMD Athlon(tm) 64 Processor
2.00GHz. 1.00GB Ram
64bit ATI Radeon Grafics card (I think) its very small and very old.
I used to have the exact same problem with the blue screen and hour glass before i installed OFB. I uninstalled my grafics drivers and installed very old drivers, this seemed to work.
I do know that if you have heaps of custom content (yes it takes ages to load) but also when you click on something whilst playing which is custom your computer has to search through all of your custom content and find it (like people it needs thinking/loading time).
Im not too sure as to whether reducing your custom content will work or not, try it and see if it works. It worked for me.
