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Update: I repaired my Steam Library folder and then uninstalled and reinstalled SC:O. Loading times are about 10 seconds now.

I just updated to v1.0.52822. With Windows Defender disabled, I am still seeing long load times, 1 min 30 seconds to load main menu and 3 minutes to load save game.

I have edited my previous post. By this , I meant load the game. Here is a summary of the issues when I launch Star Control Origins on a three different PCs: 10 second loading times . Dell XPS 8930 with 8th Gen i7, 32 GB RAM 512 PCIe storage and GTX 1080 graphics. This is the first computer I installed the game on. I even moved the game to a USB hard drive and it still loaded

I just tried launching Star Control: Origins on a third computer (Dell XPS 8930 with 8th Gen i7, 32 GB RAM and GTX 1080 graphics. Both loading times were about 10 seconds. I have made no changes to Windows Defender. Moving the install location to an external drive had a marginal effect on loading times, not even close to the 2-4 minutes I am seeing elsewhere.

I tried running in Offline Mode (my wi-fi adapter was completely turned off) and saw no change. 2m30s loading the intro, then 4m02s loading my game save.

Star Control Origins takes 2 minutes to load before displaying the AMD animation and then the intro movie. I will skip the movie to go to the Main menu. When I load a game save, I then have to wait 4 minutes before I can play. This occurs on multiple computers that exceed the system requirements: i5 7600 8 GB 2400 DDR4 RAM 128 GB SATA SSD (Windows Boot Drive) 1 TB 7200 RPM SATA storage drive (steam library stored here) Radeon Pro RX 570</