Extended Hideout/Town load screens since the release of 3.28

Loading into a town or Hideout results in a load screen lasting anywhere from 30 seconds up to roughly 2 minutes, same thing occurs when going from a town to a hideout or from a map back into a hideout, does not matter what hideout, there was also occasionally some effects not showing up in game, and character models not being loaded.

Attempted to play on Dx11, Dx12 and Vulkan and all present the same issue.

Deleted the Shader Cache from the games files and that did not work, deleting the shader files from nvidia also did not work.

Performed a clean installation of my drivers for my gpu, did not fix the issue, I also performed a repair on the game and then a fresh uninstall/reinstall.

Went into the System Properties and changed the virtual memory to not automatically page file size and it did not change anything.

Also tinkering with other misc. settings along the lines of multithreading, buffering etc. did not change anything

CPU: Intel i9-10900k
GPU: Nvidia GeForce RTX 3070
32gb of Ram
PoE is on an NVMe SSD

Hijacking a bit but can confirm huge loading times on wife's PC; it is running lower specs causing it to have even worse loading times though.

5-10minutes to towns

and the more egregious... 2-5minutes in Mirages

between zones in the campaign it was anywhere between 10 seconds and a minute or so


CPU: i5-7600K (huge bottleneck here we know but this is ridiculous...)
GPU: RTX 4060ti
M.2 970PRO Samsung
16Gb RAM

same, my load times into towns or hideout is anywhere between 2 to 8 MINUTES!
Please help us

Can also confirm, have tried all of the steps mentioned here and facing MINUTES long loads into common towns, 20-45 seconds to get to hideout every time. USUALLY, loading into maps is relatively fast (but still slower than usual).

Having similar problems as well. Tested loading times in standard are normal (2-4 seconds), but minutes in Mirage league.

Same. Ggg fix pls

Same problem. Standart league is good, but mirage is not.

Also suffering this issue.

As the other poster stated, no loading time in Standard. In Mirage it's egregious to the point I don't want to play :(

"Shader" is maxed out in performance metrics on every zone change, but I don't even have a Shader Cache folder to clear in the Program Files. (When I patched the new league it was a millisecond long "clearing cache" message and usually it's much longer.)

Hope it gets sorted, sending good vibes :)

You might want to try lowering your resolution or texture settings. Some of the areas seem to generate a very large shader cache, which can cause the GPU to run out of memory and lead to very long loading times.

Same issue.... Loading into towns takes 2-3 minutes...