System Resource Grinding

I'm wondering if the sole cause of this XP system resource grinding is the idlepc value issue.

I'm wondering if my running the program off of the .bin file as opposed to running it off of the uncompressed .image file might also be contributing to this XP resource grinding.

So I have two issues.

The idlepc value issue.

And the uncompressing of the .bin file to .image file issue.

Investigating further at this time.