Extended Hideout/Town load screens

when zoning in and out of town from other zones through portals or way points, the load screens last anywhere from 45s-80s+, audio comes in from other players around me after ~5s

going from direct x12 to direct x11 or vulkan shows no difference nor does changing realm from washington dc -> texas

edit: going into system properties and changing the virtual memory under performance also doesnt help, dying in a map and loading back into a hideout(tried multiple hideouts) result in an abnormal loading time
Last edited by Honeyclaws#2230 on Mar 7, 2026, 2:03:51 AM
Last bumped on Mar 8, 2026, 10:49:18 AM
Same experience. 80+ seconds.

Bug Report ID: #3,670,595,186

Specs:
Device Name DESKTOP-V98IH9E
Processor Intel(R) Core(TM) i7-9700K CPU @ 3.60GHz 3.60 GHz
Installed RAM 32.0 GB
Storage 466 GB SSD Samsung SSD 970 EVO Plus 500GB
Graphics Card NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2080 SUPER (8 GB)
Device ID 4AE64149-8428-4136-950E-714199F9725D
Product ID 00326-10000-00000-AA107
System Type 64-bit operating system, x64-based processor
Pen and touch No pen or touch input is available for this display

Similarly, no graphics settings combinations I've found seem to help.
Same issues with mine. The sounds start up after roughly 1-2 seconds, seems it has loaded. Then it just stays on the loading screen for another minute before I can actually interact.
Same issue, town load times range from 45 seconds to four minutes.

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