Larian Studios Forums Baldur's Gate III Baldur's Gate III - Technical & Gameplay Problems Extremely long initial load 10+ mins, stumped!

Appreciate the link, However I started with that first thing first and went through it already
- the drive is an NVME 500GB Samsung 970 EVO in good health - Note I tried this on 1 other SSD and 1 other NVME in my machine as well with the same results.