Long loading times and crashes.

Hello!

In a recent Steam discussion thread i was wondering if there's anything i can do about long loading times. Sometimes they're just long (2-3 min), and other times they're ridiculously long (5+ min).

Especially when the game first boots, it takes up to 5 miniutes to load and the main menu to become responsive. Most of the times it's just few minutes, but that's still kind of a long time for a game to boot up. Then when i click anything on the menu it stutters as if loading before finally opening another menu. And i don't mind the long menu loads, but the game constantly stutters when in gameplay, most of the time when going from one end of the map to another (long pans), and today it crashed out of nowhere when playing My pet Dungeon.

After the level is complete (tested in MPD), it takes a few solid minutes to get to the debriefing screen and then when the narrator talks, the audio also stutters.

I was told to upload the output_log file to this email address by one of the developers, so i'm doing that now.

I'm also sending you a DxDiag output in case you need it.

If there's anything i can do to improve it short of buying new hardware, that would be great.

output_log.txt

DxDiag.txt