Problems Importing Large wrl files?

[viz_kix]

hi..jus a quick beginner question here....

ive got a model created in 3ds max and exported as vrml file. The wrl is around 19.5mb and it takes forever to load in Vizard, sumtimes causing it to stop responding. is it jus a matter of upgrading my computer or are there ways to get the file to load a bit quicker? deleting objects or maybe compressing it(dunno if thats possible)?

thanks