I have frequently been running into a bug where audio and textures take an abnormal amount of time to load. I am playing the game on an SSD. Here are some clips of the bug:
 

https://clips.twitch.tv/LaconicPuzzledGrassWOOP

 

My system specifications are an 15-6600 CPU, NVIDIA GTX 1070, 8GB of ram, and a 500gb Samsung SSD.

Im not sure if my first post went through, so this is a repost.  Sorry!

OuterWorldsBug.zip

Something to add: If you pause and unpause while it's stuck, the audio will start to play even if the other things have loaded. It still waits until everything is loaded to move on after the first line though.

It is gamebreaking. Sometimes dialogues can freeze entirely with no way out. And for me that happens so often that the game is literally unplayable. It desyncs even worse if you skip lines of dialogue.

Edited October 26, 20196 yr by Silverdragon

Yes! This happens to me, sometimes; textures seem delayed and dialogue doesn't trigger right away. It's usually a 5-10 second delay. I've yet to discern a real pattern for when this occurs, but I think it's more common for me when I've been playing for several hours already, or when I am running through settlements very fast and load and reload areas repeatedly and quickly, while also tabbing out and back in a lot. I don't know what this might suggest, but it could be some form of memory leak, I suppose.