Is it just me, or have loading times appear to have been massively improved on PC?

[Soge01]

I noticed it when jumping to Crystarium. Time was cut down by 2-3 seconds for me. It was really surprising, lol!

[Claire_Pendragon]

As a PS4 player, I dont notice anything in empty zones. Still roughly 40s to zone. I'll update with my loading into Limsa later. (To see if it at least loads in 40s like other zones)
Update: loading into Limsa took 18 seconds. Which is vastly quicker than it used to be on PS4. But it was also kinda empty compared to what im used to seeing, roughly only 25% of the number of players standing around. (My PC in the past took 8-10 seconds to load into Limsa with a 10k rpm HDD, no idea now, as I dont play on PC anymore)
update#2: loading into an inn only took 3 seconds on PS4 (i use the default HDD, not a SDD)

[KarstenS]

You need a fast drive, that is connected to a fast bus system, to really benefit from it.

In my PC I have a PCIe 4.0 Nvme SSD with 3,5GB/s read speed.
Not as fast as the PS5 one (5,5GB/s). But thats alot faster than anything that is connected via SATA or something similar (with some luck here you have some hundred MB/s).

With that the difference is huge.

[Stepjam]

PC loading times were bottlenecked on purpose me thinks.

Wouldn't go that far. I always loaded in faster than my fc mates on ps4 before now. I think they just optimized.

[Scott]

I dont even have the Game installed in my SDD. And its nearly instant now

[EorzeaHero69]

I think all load times have improved for pc because of the collision detection adjustment or something along the lines.

[SavishSalacious]

I play the game off an SSHD so I doubt Ill see any improvements.

[Johaandr]

cant tell the difference? mayby i havent played to much recently

[DiasFlacOg]

Feels exactly the same to me. No difference at all. This is on a samsung 970 pro. My loading has always been really fast though.