Since this is in Visual Basic, It's probably really slow. Nevertheless, congratulations on the effort.
Cheers.
I am running an i5 2500k and there is no noticeable slow down for me
, but I have tried on an older AMD laptop and it is rather slow like you say. 
The benchmark type configuration test, hopes to solve any timeout errors in the script on lesser PC's etc.
One day I'll teach myself a decent language to program with.
