Make project run smoother

Hello all,
A general question on a finished project. I'm using Captivate 5 on an "average" PC running XP.
I have a project of around 90 slides, most with audio but with simple animations. Pictures fade in and out and some instructions on how to use a system in general. Nothing advanced so to speak.
I feel the project runs a bit slow when I have published it and click through it. When I click a button it takes a while for it to jump to the disired slide and so on.
I set the preloader to 100% and also added a "loading-slide", that doesn't do anything, in the beginning of the project to let it set.
Any ideas on how I can make it run better?
Thanks in advance.
Kind regards,
Patrik

Thanks for the replies.
On the "home screen" of the presentation which is also the first slide, you have a lot of different options on what you would like to click on, so it's more branching than linnear.
One thing I noticed is that the option in the top left corner, which most people are probably gonna click first is in the very end of the project in Captivate. So you reckon it would flow better if I perhaps moved that to the first couple of slides in Captivate?
I'm mosty using "jump to slide", is that an issue as well?
The project has a coupel of text animations, but mostly png.-files fading in and out.
Thanks for the help.
Kind regards
/Patrik

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