I've been playing for a good long wile now (about 9 hours) and everything was great. But for some reason loading times became painfully slow (like a good 5 - 10 min).
The problem doesn’t seem to occur if I start a new game or if I load a save from a few hours ago.
Looking at my autosaves, it seems that the issue only became noticeable after (possible minor, early game spoiler) I escaped from Fort Joy.
Does anyone know what might be causing this or how to fix it?

EDIT:
From what I can tell, this issue seems to have been fixed (for me at least) in the latest patch along with the crash when loading a save!

same thing and crash

I get long loading times when i Quickload, and sometimes the game crashes, I send the report and reboot the game. Pressing continue gives me a very long loading time. 4-5min. Started happening yesterday after latest update, (dont know if its that)

The game was just patched, and it's working for me again!