/vr/ - Retro Games

Long shot, but, I figured if anyone else has had this issue it's probably another anon here. I've been having issues with Half-Life 2's loading times when I go into a new map. It takes regularly a minute to two minutes for the game to move forward and just kills the flow. This doesn't happen woth saves, only map transitions. I recall load times being long back in 2010 when I last played, but, never this long. I've tried all the normal fixes I've found online for it, such as disabling auto-saves, setting a FPS cap, and anything else mentioned here: https://steamcommunity.com/app/220/discussions/0/846958223077274345/, however, nothing has really helped. Would any of you have any other suggestions for me to try? The only other thing I could think of doing is just using an older build, but, I wanted to see if anyone else had any other suggestions first. Thanks.