and 8 GB of installed RAM
That's probably explanation enough of the poor loading times. I had the same thing until I added more RAM.
The difference in general game performance from adding RAM was less noticeable. As I mentioned in my above post from the summer, I did have awful framerates with DX11 but they were better with Vulkan. I eventually tracked that issue down to some Windows 11 functionality that enabled game streaming and disabling it sorted the problem. Can't recall the exact details, but if you're using Windows 11 and think that may be the problem I'll dig out the details.
