it's taking me about 3 minutes to get into a game after a map change...
i have a feeling my installation must be screwed because I don't have any of the db speech either.
before anyone asks: yes I use the deathball.cmd thingy to start the game.
Actually, the slow mapchanges showed up with 2.0 on the UT2004 server I think. The UT2003 version ran well. I converted that 2003 server to 2004 and that one started slowing down too. I wish I could monitor the server a bit more closely to see where the slowdown is.