What is the "load more option" you are talking about? Maybe its the key to fix my issue
Smoother load, but that's set in options ingame, so if you can't get it started I'm not sure how to switch it, I have both on.
Ram could be an issue I guess, I have 32gb (ddr3 was cheap, but was never able to justify it
), but during game load it caps out at around 400mb so it doesn't seem that likely - takes a couple seconds to load from my 7200 rpm disk, but I remember older versions being very slow, how long have you waited for it to startup? try giving it a couple minutes at least.
Edit: Disregard most things I've said, just had a look in perfmon and most off the disk activity is in temp files on my ssd, so apart from initial asset load it's probably not doing much on my slower disk.