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1. I launched the game through the steam launcher
2. Game is loading for 3 minutes before actually starting. I might be miss remembering, but 1.1 took much less time to load even with a lot of mods
3. Game loading in around minute or less
4. Only happens after the first boot, later boots take around 20 seconds

You can check the cache-prototype-data setting in the config.ini file. Instructions here: https://www.reddit.com/r/factorio/comme ... ter_maybe/

If you're on the Beta version, with versions being released each week, this setting won't help a lot because the sprites, etc, need to be recreated after each update.