extremely slow zone loading since 5/05 patch

[Child]

<p>as the title says. it's now taking me 8 minutes to get past the "Loading Zone Resources" part, then a good 5 minutes on the entity loading part, wheras on may 4th, it was maybe 5 seconds for each. no exageration, i just timed it.</p><p>can any red-named possibly help me? anyone else have this issue?</p><p>EDIT: the only zone i can test is Frostfang Sea, as that's where i logged off my character last time.</p><p>EDIT 2: i just tested it on live server, it's the usual few seconds to load. this is only happening on test copy for me.</p>

[Child]

<p>bump.</p><p><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="text-decoration: underline;"><strong>PLEASE</strong>  </span></span>, someone, i REALLY need help here, even if you're just guessing at what the problem might be. if the live gu56 patch comes and i STILL am having these horrible load times, i simply will not be able to play.</p>

[Deklorn]

<p>Same here, also switching to windowed mode isn't working. Could this be shader 3 related? Xuphor, do you have shader 3 on?</p>

[Child]

<p>yes, always. it's the main thing i test on test copy. but that makes me questions why this only starts 5/05, and not any of the other days before hand that shader 3.0 was on test. even on 5/04 i had my usual 8ish seconds of loading. that makes me think it's not shader 3.0 related, but rather, something to do with the 5/05 patch that "prevents zone crashing".</p>