Loading times between zones very high

Loading times between zones are very high, almost always >10s, usually above ~25s. This is true even for zones I have just visited, or even the same zone I am in (e.g.: when jumping between checkpoints within a zone).

Overall this delays are manageable, the real issue is some cases (more and more often as the acts progress), where loading times between zones increase to over 1-2 mins sometimes, and in some cases more than 5 minutes. Some examples in Act 2, (which I am playing now and prompted this bug report):

- Act 2 Mawdun mines is more than 5 minutes the first time you enter it per character, and subsequent entries often take time to load.

- The Ardura caravan is commonly above 1 min loading time.

I had this problem last league as well, and I couldn't get past act 4 because every zone was above 5 min loading times, with a very egregious case of >15min, where I just gave up and stopped playing for the league.

Sometimes the zone loads, and I can move my character, but I cannot see anything other than the GGG logo and the text boxes (find image attached).


Here are my system specs:
System:
Kernel: 6.8.0-86-generic arch: x86_64 bits: 64 compiler: gcc v: 13.3.0
Desktop: Cinnamon v: 6.4.8 Distro: Linux Mint 22.1 Xia
base: Ubuntu 24.04 noble
CPU:
Info: 6-core model: Intel Core i5-8400 bits: 64 type: MCP arch: Coffee Lake
rev: A cache: L1: 384 KiB L2: 1.5 MiB L3: 9 MiB
Speed (MHz): avg: 800 min/max: 800/4000 cores: 1: 800 2: 800 3: 800 4: 800
5: 800 6: 800 bogomips: 33599
Flags: avx avx2 ht lm nx pae sse sse2 sse3 sse4_1 sse4_2 ssse3 vmx
Graphics:
Device-1: NVIDIA GA106 [Geforce RTX 3050] vendor: Gigabyte driver: nvidia
v: 580.95.05 arch: Ampere bus-ID: 01:00.0
Display: x11 server: X.Org v: 21.1.11 with: Xwayland v: 23.2.6 driver: X:
loaded: nvidia unloaded: fbdev,modesetting,nouveau,vesa
gpu: nvidia,nvidia-nvswitch resolution: 1920x1080~60Hz
API: EGL v: 1.5 drivers: nouveau,nvidia,swrast platforms:
active: gbm,x11,surfaceless,device inactive: wayland
API: OpenGL v: 4.6.0 compat-v: 4.5 vendor: nvidia mesa v: 580.95.05
glx-v: 1.4 direct-render: yes renderer: NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3050/PCIe/SSE2
API: Vulkan v: 1.3.275 drivers: N/A surfaces: xcb,xlib devices: 2
Drives:
Local Storage: total: 447.13 GiB used: 387.99 GiB (86.8%)
ID-1: /dev/sda vendor: 2-Power model: SSD2043A 480GB size: 447.13 GiB
Info:
Memory: total: 16 GiB available: 15.54 GiB used: 3.37 GiB (21.7%)

Here are my Graphic settings in the game: