Cover flow sluggish

So I updated to iTunes 10.4 this evening on my windows 7 64 bit machine. All working ok but noticed cover flow is now pretty laggy/sluggish. Anyone else get the same. It was fine on 10.3. To my really fussy eye I do think it's a bit sluggish especially as I have high end amd radeon 6970m card. Drivers are upto date using latest alienware stock drivers. It's not a big issue but is slightly irritating. I'm sure if I had a mac the cover flow would zip along and suspect lazy coding by apple towards windows computers. From what I have read online the changes in 10.4 were all primarily to geared to osx lion and so I am thinking I shouldn't of updated and stuck to my normal 'if it ain't broke don't fix it' policy!

Like I've posted elsewhere, I wish someone would post if their Coverflow is NOT sluggish, because mine and everyone I know (and many who post here) has the same problem.
I'm thinking that this application just runs that way, like it or not--especially if, as you say, you have an extensive collection.
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