Load times have always felt kind of lengthy to me from patch to patch, so I haven't noticed a real difference there. I will say that after the latest driver update by NVIDIA my GPU has started running crazy hot while playing the game (94 degrees +). It's gotten so bad that I finally gave up the ghost and just took the cover off my case to let it breath better and that seems to have helped. I've never had this issue in previous patches and my GTX 1080 has always run BG3 like a champ on the highest settings. I've fooled around with lowering the graphics way down to see if it helps, and all that happens is that the game is more responsive but the card still runs super hot.