Entering towns or hideouts where there are characters with MTX, shader makes load time over a minute

I have been on the loading screen for over 3 minutes earlier, because town had multiple characters with heavy MTX. When there is nobody with MTX area loads instantly. This never used to be like this before 3.23.1.

After many times of trying different things, reinstalling and whatnot, it looks like this was caused by some strange interaction with certain proton versions. Now that I manually manage every aspect, it finally seems to have been resolved. It was a strange few months where I completely gave up trading due to not being able to join other hideouts in a timely manner. Still, it would be nice if we could do some verbose logging from the game client, like if there were warnings about something timing out over and over, it would be some trace. Then again, from the game client's view this might have been completely normal, just waiting for some driver related call to finish and not move on to the next action. The frustrating part was that I could hear people sending messages, but all I was seeing is the load screen and then they dropped group and went back to whatever they were doing while I was still loading.