Dead Space takes a long time to load

I just downloaded Dead Space from steam (a game I have played through many times - on PC and PS3). This is the first time I have played it from steam, and it is on my gaming laptop.

The game is taking a very long time to load when I open doors, use the turbo lift, and load the game. I am running the game from a Vertex 4 SSD and the laptop has a 3.7GHz i7, 32 GB of RAM, and a GTX 470... The game run just fine and the only time it slows down is when it loads.

Is there some way, a setting or something, that I can change to make the game load faster.

Although it pertains a different kind of loading length issue, try turning off VSYNC. Other than that, I can't really say myself. Some people say it's the game with the absolutely fastest load times from 2008. Some people complain about minute-long loading times. Either way, like 5pike suggested, checking for driver updates is a panacea for fixing any kind of slowness (whether it be loading, stuttering or lag) in computers, most of the time.