Anybody else having probs with slow loading at start up

When was the last time you guys defragged you content.ggpk? That can speed up load times significantly. Also, if you have had a lot of patches without doing so, you may want to delete your shadercache folder and let the game rebuild it.

You can also run the game with the --nopreload command line, start up time will be reduced by a lot but expect small freezes while playing, these can be deadly to your characters so the command line is not recommended to use, not even while playing on a RAMDRIVE.