This has probably happened to someone else here, but I'll explain. When I first got this game I tried going to every British port out of pure curiousity, after visiting a few ports I'd shut the game down, but when I booted up the game the next time, the loading screen was normal but the 'initializing' screen was a little too long. Then when I get passed that, into the game itself, things seem fine then they slow waaaayy down(for at least a minute), it's like watching a slide show, then things go back to normal. For the rest of my patrol, whenever I shut the game down and reloaded at a different date, the same thing happened, even if I had saved in open waters. It's now my second career and I've been sticking to open waters and have had no problems. Then I decide to tour the Caribbean in my IXD2. Things go fine, I visit the first few ports then go to bed, upon restarting, the same thing happens. After I went through all of the Carribean's ports, I decide to head home but I'm shocked to find that, even in open water, away from any ships, 512 TC is ok but 1024 TC is really slow, suffice it to say, I made my journey back to France at 512 TC
The next patrol, while in open waters and without visiting any enemy ports, I saved and exited then booted it back up, no problems. I'm thinking memory leak but would love anyone else's ideas/fixes because if I go to an enemy port once it seams I'm tainted with bad(up to five minutes total) load times.