system slows down to a crawl

hi there, not a big pain, but rather puzzling. when i play heretic on 4.2 stable (no sound) after i get killed couple of times and reload the previously saved game system gets slower and slower (pIII, 128 RAM). just wandering if there is some memory leak in heretis, since when i kill the game

gimp not opening neither *.jpg nor *.gif files

hi there, just wandering if anyone can help. installed gimp1 from the ports, all required components like mpeg, tif, jpeg etc..., still gimp does not open/save the file in either jpeg or gif format. help! p. _