I made the mistake of, admittedly accidently, throwing Starfield onto a spinning disk drive.

Load times were approximately 5-10 minutes from button click to start, any conversation that was initiated either ran through all of the audio dialogue and then ran the animations for said dialogue or did the reverse. Any time combat started the game would freeze completely and then start again.

I realized my mistake and moved Starfield over to my nvme and load times dropped to about 1 minute, and I never saw any of the other issues again. It was like I spent my whole life living in a cave staring at shadows and then found my self on the surface seeing the sun for the first time.