TWO load times?

[CaptainC]

Edit: meant TWoS

Can someone explain what the bottleneck is here, what is going on that requires a 3 minute load time every time.
Is it the Steam version, or something with you play?


Running on a hard drive with 3.5 Gb's throughput on writes and even faster reads, anything else i throw at it loads in seconds.
Just want to understand... i am the curious sort, thanks.