Not to be a pr1ck or anything, but what does not reporting mission status or refitting have to do with load times. I waa running SH4 on an old AMD machine with 512 mb ram and a 256 mb ATI 9600 card. had 2-4 minute load times. Now have a Dual core Intel machine, 2GB ram, NVIDIA 8800 GTX, SB X-FI extreme, and have load times of 15-30 seconds.
Load times are Hardware related. Period.