Long load times when loading game resources

Im having a very annoying issue; whenever the game has to load resources for new ships/portraits/textures etc... the game freezes something like 5-20 seconds before i can do anything again.... this happens ALL THE TIME! It happens even when i choose race. It is making the game extremely frustrating to play to the point of just quitting.

  For information my specs are:

Intel I5 2500K

8G Ram

Nvidia 580 GTX

Windows 7 x64

 

Its the Ultimate Edition on Steam if that makes any difference.

 

Edit: Damn it, this was supposed to be in the Bug report section...

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Reply #1 Top

What sort of hard disk do you have? Has it been defragmented lately?

Reply #2 Top

I have a Hitachi 500 GB 7200 RPM for my Steam games and a Western Digital 600 GB 7200 RPM for system. Both are 0% fragmented according to windows.