I try on two other laptops with my two other accounts and the problem is the same. For me this means that the game is not playable any more and we need to wait for month or two and then to try again. I see no new patches or updates last 3-4 days and no suggestion for how to fix this issue.
Same problem and the only way to resolve it is to force check all files of the game, which takes 10-30 min or to restart the PC. This is not ok, I need to wait between 5 and 30 min to play. I`m thinking for choosing different game if this is not fixed soon. P.S. before the Elemental Evil upgrade this issue is was not…