DangerKitten

This made a big difference. I was at full screen, then I switched to windowed mode. Now my loading times are ~ 10 - 15 seconds. I should note that when it was taking time to zone, it was the COX splash screen that was the big part. It was taking ~25secs on the splash screen then 5 more on the zone, but now it is about 5 seconds on each. Thanks everyone for the help. You guys are great!

I'm doing all of this. My OS, system page and the game folder are all on SSD. I have 16G ram in system. Task monitor shows about 9G of ram in use, 6.5G available, cpu at 10% and gpu (1660 super 6G GDDR6) at 40% when playing the game. When zoning, the gpu and cpu drop down to ~5%, the drives show no activity. The network spikes for a tiny bit but not for the duration of the zone load, more like a 1 second spike in traffic. I am loading by using tequila.exe v 1.0.0.20 and starting Homecoming 64 bit. I can play modern games at ~80 fps / 4k so hardware works pretty good. I do have some usb external drives plugged in, but they don't have anything to do with the game. Things I might try soon - fiddling with bios stuff, changing resolution of game and/or desktop, network trace. Thanks for all the suggestions. Edit/typo

I feel that my zoning time is causing me to miss out on teaming. When on a TF with missions spread out on all zones, I wait to see what the mission target area is, then to go SG, then to new mission zone. The problem is, the mission is usually over before I can get to it. My SG base room has all the zones on a wall, from porting in to clicking on zone is about 1-2 seconds. When the zone loading screen appears with the progress bar, this takes about 30 - 45 seconds. When I watch the team window and see my mates zoning, it seems like it takes them 10-15 seconds between SG/Ouro/ mission zones. What is all your experiences?

Didn't get the ring. This is my first time playing and this arc was recommended to me. I leveled during the course of the arc. Heracles boss was white and LTs blue,