Hmm. I will look into -nopause.

Persistent=1 is better for the launch slowness I found, if you join a server then ask it to load a mission it creates as you join and thus you get this whopping wait where it feels like it hangs. If you have a persistent server it will load then you can JIP and it will be a lot faster. I need to test to see if the pause from ALiVE reduces my CPU when no one is joined a lot more. Not sure if it works that way.

It appears as if my issue may be related to the current MALLOC issue with the 1.58 patch. I switched to TBB4 Malloc in my parameters and it seems to have alleviated the problems.